Capehart & Scatchard is pleased to announce that Gina Zippilli, Esq. was nominated and then selected as one of 50 attorneys that were designated as “New Leaders of the Bar” state-wide. A seven-judge panel reviewed all nominations throughout New Jersey and narrowed their list down to reflect only those attorneys that exhibited the qualities and experience that make each of them a 2015 New Leader.
Gina is the first attorney from Capehart to be selected as a New Leader of the Bar. She is a shareholder of the firm and practices in its Litigation Department. Presently, her clients have retained her to provide a defense in personal injury, premises and tort defense liability cases. However, her background is one of versatility, having litigated cases involving complex commercial disputes, legal malpractice and intellectual property retention. Her client base is mainly devoted to national corporations as well as liability and property insurance carriers.
Gina is also well known for her litigation blog “Legally Speaking.” It provides readers with informative and well-written summaries of relevant changes in case law and legislation pertaining to litigation defense. On the lighter side, her blog is usually accompanied by a hand-drawn cartoon entitled “falsely accused,” created and drawn by Gina, and is a spoof of situations all trial attorneys will recognize.
Gina is admitted in the State of New Jersey; the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the United States District Court the District of New Jersey; the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She is also in the process of obtaining her law license in New York.
Gina attended and graduated from Rutgers School of Law in Camden, New Jersey, where she was the Case Law Editor of the Rutgers Law Review. She earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Rutgers University in Camden, NJ where she selected to join “Psi Chi,” the National Honors Society in Psychology. Afterwards, she was selected as the Law Clerk to the Honorable Sylvia B. Pressler, Presiding Judge of Administration, New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, from 2002-2003.
Gina is also a Certified Chaplin for Disaster Relief Counseling and received her training through Billy Graham Ministries. In her earlier years, she was employed through the Moorestown, New Jersey public school system as a counselor teaching behavioral techniques to children with autism.
The selected New Leaders of the Bar will be profiled in a magazine article in July of this year, and will gather to be honored in person on September 17, 2015 at the Brooklake Country Club, 130 Brooklake Road, Florham Park, NJ.
