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Robert J. Gilson, Director
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Robert Gilson, 50, has served as Director of the Division of Law since November 13, 2006. Gilson has over 20 years of experience in civil litigation, including extensive courtroom experience. He has handled a wide variety of matters at both the trial and appellate levels. Before joining the Division of Law, Gilson was a partner in the law firm Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland and Perretti, LLP, where he concentrated primarily in the area of commercial litigation, handling matters involving employment, construction, environmental damages, contracts, product liability, and corporate acquisitions. At Riker Danzig, Gilson served as chairman of the firm’s Appellate Practice, as well as chairman of its Pro Bono Committee. Gilson is a former member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics, and he is a former chairman and trustee of the Supreme Court’s New Jersey Lawyer’s Fund for Client Protection Committee. He also served on the New Jersey Supreme Court’s 1990 Task Force on Drugs and the Courts.

Gilson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., in 1980, graduating cum laude with honors in history. He received his J.D. with magna cum laude honors from the Boston College Law School in Newton, Mass. in 1985. That same year he was admitted to the New Jersey bar, as well as the U.S. District Court-New Jersey bar. He served as law clerk to Judge John J. Gibbons of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from September 1985 through August 1986. Gilson joined Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland and Perretti in September 1986, and became a partner at the firm in 1994.

Director Gilson is a member of the American Bar Association and the New Jersey Federal Bar Association. While still in private practice, he was involved with a broad array of pro bono matters, including serving as a trustee or pro bono legal counsel to such non-profit organizations as the Morris Area YMCA, Children on the Green, Inc. and the former Morristown School of the Arts.

Director Gilson, resides in Sparta, Sussex County, with his wife and four children.

 
     
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