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Edward G. Sponzilli, a Member of the firm, is a New Jersey Supreme Court Certified Civil Trial Attorney with 50 years of experience in complex corporate and commercial litigation, employment and education matters, as well as criminal matters.He has litigated cases in many different jurisdictions, including Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, in addition to the states where he is admitted. He primarily handles complex corporate and commercial matters, as well as employment litigation relating to restrictive covenants, wrongful termination, CEPA, employment discrimination, and sexual harassment. He has defended public entities, primarily educational institutions, and has represented parties in products liability, toxic tort, and professional malpractice. Additionally, Ed has handled matters involving franchise practices, intellectual property, trademark, health care, estate, real estate, construction, antitrust, commodities, civil RICO, defamation, Fair Credit Reporting Act, consumer fraud, shareholder disputes, civil rights, constitutional law, sports law, personal injury, insurance and reinsurance coverage matters, dram shop, alcohol, defamation, business tort, criminal, and education law matters.In higher education, Ed has not only litigated matters for colleges and universities but has been consulted for advice on numerous issues, and he has authored opinion letters on a variety of topics. He has been a member of and lecturer for the National Association of College and University Attorneys for over 35 years.Ed is a 2008 recipient of the Professionalism Award. In 1999 he was awarded the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Fund for Client Protection’s “Client Protection” Award for his outstanding service on behalf of the public and the Bar of New Jersey in his role as Chancery Court-appointed Receiver in the case of Montano v. Cohen & Cohen.Ed is a past president of the C. Willard Heckel Inn of Court and the Rutgers—Newark Law School Alumni Association. He has been a Trustee of the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey for over 35 years. He has been on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for over 30 years and, for nearly 25 years, was one of only two non-government faculty members in the New Jersey Attorney General’s Trial Advocacy Institute. Ed is currently a master of the New York American Inn of Court and the Lifland (federal practice) American Inn of Court. He has served as a federal arbitrator, and state court certified mediator. He has also been an adjunct professor at Rutgers College and guest speaker for numerous educational institutions and professional organizations, including the Wharton graduate School of Business.Ed was a Judicial Law Clerk for The Honorable James A. Coolahan, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (D.N.J.) from 1975-77. During the two-year clerkship, Judge Coolahan held a temporary assignment to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.He was a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee, Bench, Bar, and Media. He served five years as Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Higher Education Committee.Ed has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in Commercial Litigation since 2008. He has been recognized in the New Jersey Super Lawyers® list every year since 2005.Bar AdmissionsNew JerseyNew YorkDistrict of ColumbiaU.S. District Court- District of New Jersey- Southern District of New York- Eastern District of New York- Western District of New York- Northern District of New York- District of ColumbiaU.S. Court of Appeals- Second Circuit- Third Circuit- District of Columbia CircuitsU.S. Supreme CourtAreas of PracticeAlternative Dispute ResolutionConstruction LawHigher EducationLabor & EmploymentLitigationProfessional AffiliationFellow of American Bar AssociationNational Association of College and University AttorneysNew Jersey State Bar Association- Chair, Higher Education CommitteeNew York State Bar AssociationNew York City Bar AssociationBergen County Bar AssociationEssex County Bar AssociationMiddlesex County Bar AssociationAssociation of the Federal Bar of New JerseyAssociation of Criminal Defense AttorneysNew Jersey Defense AssociationTrial Attorneys of New Jersey- Board of TrusteesMaster, New York Inn of CourtMaster, Liftland (Intellectual Property) Inn of CourtFormer President, and Master in Heckel Inn of CourtPast President, Rutgers Law School, Newark Alumni AssociationFaculty, National Institute of Trial AdvocacyEducation Rutgers School of Law – Newark- J.D., 1975Columbia University- M.A., 1972Institut Catholique de Paris- Diploma, 1971Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey- B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1971- Henry Rutgers Scholar Award- Nancy Higginson Dorr Award
Edward G. Sponzilli, a Member of the firm, is a New Jersey Supreme Court Certified Civil Trial Attorney with 50 years of experience in complex corporate and commercial litigation, employment and education matters, as well as criminal matters.He has litigated cases in many different jurisdictions, including Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, in addition to the states where he is admitted. He primarily handles complex corporate and commercial matters, as well as employment litigation relating to restrictive covenants, wrongful termination, CEPA, employment discrimination, and sexual harassment. He has defended public entities, primarily educational institutions, and has represented parties in products liability, toxic tort, and professional malpractice. Additionally, Ed has handled matters involving franchise practices, intellectual property, trademark, health care, estate, real estate, construction, antitrust, commodities, civil RICO, defamation, Fair Credit Reporting Act, consumer fraud, shareholder disputes, civil rights, constitutional law, sports law, personal injury, insurance and reinsurance coverage matters, dram shop, alcohol, defamation, business tort, criminal, and education law matters.In higher education, Ed has not only litigated matters for colleges and universities but has been consulted for advice on numerous issues, and he has authored opinion letters on a variety of topics. He has been a member of and lecturer for the National Association of College and University Attorneys for over 35 years.Ed is a 2008 recipient of the Professionalism Award. In 1999 he was awarded the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Fund for Client Protection’s “Client Protection” Award for his outstanding service on behalf of the public and the Bar of New Jersey in his role as Chancery Court-appointed Receiver in the case of Montano v. Cohen & Cohen.Ed is a past president of the C. Willard Heckel Inn of Court and the Rutgers—Newark Law School Alumni Association. He has been a Trustee of the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey for over 35 years. He has been on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for over 30 years and, for nearly 25 years, was one of only two non-government faculty members in the New Jersey Attorney General’s Trial Advocacy Institute. Ed is currently a master of the New York American Inn of Court and the Lifland (federal practice) American Inn of Court. He has served as a federal arbitrator, and state court certified mediator. He has also been an adjunct professor at Rutgers College and guest speaker for numerous educational institutions and professional organizations, including the Wharton graduate School of Business.Ed was a Judicial Law Clerk for The Honorable James A. Coolahan, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (D.N.J.) from 1975-77. During the two-year clerkship, Judge Coolahan held a temporary assignment to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.He was a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee, Bench, Bar, and Media. He served five years as Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Higher Education Committee.Ed has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in Commercial Litigation since 2008. He has been recognized in the New Jersey Super Lawyers® list every year since 2005.Bar AdmissionsNew JerseyNew YorkDistrict of ColumbiaU.S. District Court- District of New Jersey- Southern District of New York- Eastern District of New York- Western District of New York- Northern District of New York- District of ColumbiaU.S. Court of Appeals- Second Circuit- Third Circuit- District of Columbia CircuitsU.S. Supreme CourtAreas of PracticeAlternative Dispute ResolutionConstruction LawHigher EducationLabor & EmploymentLitigationProfessional AffiliationFellow of American Bar AssociationNational Association of College and University AttorneysNew Jersey State Bar Association- Chair, Higher Education CommitteeNew York State Bar AssociationNew York City Bar AssociationBergen County Bar AssociationEssex County Bar AssociationMiddlesex County Bar AssociationAssociation of the Federal Bar of New JerseyAssociation of Criminal Defense AttorneysNew Jersey Defense AssociationTrial Attorneys of New Jersey- Board of TrusteesMaster, New York Inn of CourtMaster, Liftland (Intellectual Property) Inn of CourtFormer President, and Master in Heckel Inn of CourtPast President, Rutgers Law School, Newark Alumni AssociationFaculty, National Institute of Trial AdvocacyEducation Rutgers School of Law – Newark- J.D., 1975Columbia University- M.A., 1972Institut Catholique de Paris- Diploma, 1971Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey- B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1971- Henry Rutgers Scholar Award- Nancy Higginson Dorr Award
Edward G. Sponzilli, a Member of the firm, is a New Jersey Supreme Court Certified Civil Trial Attorney with 50 years of experience in complex corporate and commercial litigation, employment and education matters, as well as criminal matters.
He has litigated cases in many different jurisdictions, including Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, in addition to the states where he is admitted. He primarily handles complex corporate and commercial matters, as well as employment litigation relating to restrictive covenants, wrongful termination, CEPA, employment discrimination, and sexual harassment. He has defended public entities, primarily educational institutions, and has represented parties in products liability, toxic tort, and professional malpractice. Additionally, Ed has handled matters involving franchise practices, intellectual property, trademark, health care, estate, real estate, construction, antitrust, commodities, civil RICO, defamation, Fair Credit Reporting Act, consumer fraud, shareholder disputes, civil rights, constitutional law, sports law, personal injury, insurance and reinsurance coverage matters, dram shop, alcohol, defamation, business tort, criminal, and education law matters.
In higher education, Ed has not only litigated matters for colleges and universities but has been consulted for advice on numerous issues, and he has authored opinion letters on a variety of topics. He has been a member of and lecturer for the National Association of College and University Attorneys for over 35 years.
Ed is a 2008 recipient of the Professionalism Award. In 1999 he was awarded the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Fund for Client Protection’s “Client Protection” Award for his outstanding service on behalf of the public and the Bar of New Jersey in his role as Chancery Court-appointed Receiver in the case of Montano v. Cohen & Cohen.
Ed is a past president of the C. Willard Heckel Inn of Court and the Rutgers—Newark Law School Alumni Association. He has been a Trustee of the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey for over 35 years. He has been on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy for over 30 years and, for nearly 25 years, was one of only two non-government faculty members in the New Jersey Attorney General’s Trial Advocacy Institute. Ed is currently a master of the New York American Inn of Court and the Lifland (federal practice) American Inn of Court. He has served as a federal arbitrator, and state court certified mediator. He has also been an adjunct professor at Rutgers College and guest speaker for numerous educational institutions and professional organizations, including the Wharton graduate School of Business.
Ed was a Judicial Law Clerk for The Honorable James A. Coolahan, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (D.N.J.) from 1975-77. During the two-year clerkship, Judge Coolahan held a temporary assignment to the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
He was a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee, Bench, Bar, and Media. He served five years as Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Higher Education Committee.
Ed has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in Commercial Litigation since 2008. He has been recognized in the New Jersey Super Lawyers® list every year since 2005.
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