Richard A. Gantner, Partner

Richard Gantner is a highly skilled attorney who specializes in employment law, representing both plaintiffs and management, and in representing claimants in cases of medical malpractice, personal injury, automobile accidents, and workers’ compensation. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney, and has been recognized as a New Jersey Super Lawyer from 2005 to 2007 and from 2010 to the present. He has also served as a Municipal Court Judge, and is a former member of the Supreme Court Committee on Municipal Court Practice and the District XIII Ethics Committee.

Richard has a wealth of legal experience, having been an Editor of the Seton Hall University Law Review, law clerk to Honorable G. Donald Haneke, U.S. Magistrate Judge, and an author of several publications on legal topics listed below. He is also the recipient of many awards and recognition, including the AV Preeminent Peer Rating from Martindale-Hubbell and the 2022 Special Edition Judicial Award.

Publications:
– Co-Author, with John P. Greenberg, M.D., “Recognizing and Preparing Closed Head Injury Cases in the Absence of Initial Diagnosis,” Trial Excellence, Volume 13, Number 9, September 2001
– Author: “Absent Bad Faith, Fraud, or Overreaching, A Reasonable Forum Selection Clause in a Commercial Cruise Form Contract is Enforceable,” 22 Seton Hall L. Rev. 505 (1992)

Email: [email protected]

Education
Rutgers – The State University of New Jersey, B.A, 1989
Seton Hall Law School, J.D., 1993
Diploma, Trial Advocacy, National Institute for Trial Advocacy Robert F. Hanley Advanced Advocates Program, June 2005

Admissions
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
United States District Court, District of New Jersey
New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
District of Columbia
United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania