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TRENTON – Acting Attorney
General Paula T. Dow swore in Robert M. Hanna
as Director of the Division of Law yesterday
during a ceremony at the Hughes Justice Complex.
Hanna, 51, of Madison, served
for 16 years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney
in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the
District of New Jersey. Most recently, he
was a director in the Newark-based law firm
of Gibbons P.C., where he began working in
2006.
Gov. Chris Christie announced
Hanna’s appointment as Director of the
Division of Law on Jan. 8. Acting Attorney
General Dow described Hanna as an excellent
choice.
“The Division of Law
has an important function -- to defend our
state laws, protect New Jersey’s citizens
and safeguard the State’s financial
and other assets,” said Acting Attorney
General Dow. “Bob Hanna is an ideal
selection to lead this mission, because of
his outstanding track record as an attorney,
his leadership skills and his demonstrated
commitment to public service.”
“I appreciate the faith
shown in me by Gov. Christie and Acting Attorney
General Dow, and look forward to working on
behalf of New Jersey’s citizens to protect
our laws and improve the quality of life in
our state,” said Hanna.
Hanna joined the Civil Division
of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District
of New Jersey in May 1990. There he handled
a wide array of affirmative and defensive
civil matters, including appeals, on behalf
of the federal government. His affirmative
civil matters included, among others, a successful
civil RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
Organizations) action to rid Local 54 of the
Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union
in Atlantic City of organized crime influence.
Hanna’s defensive civil
matters included defending the U.S. Attorney,
federal judges and other federal officials
in civil rights actions, handling significant
Freedom of Information Act litigation and
opposing the municipality of Secaucus's attempt
to halt major federal rail transportation
project.
In 1997 Hanna joined the Frauds
Division at the U.S. Attorney’s Office,
and later served in a variety of roles, including
as Chief of the Securities and Health Care
Fraud Unit and Criminal Health Care Fraud
Coordinator. Among his many white-collar criminal
cases, Hanna was lead prosecutor in the prosecutions
of the University of Medicine and Dentistry
of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and major pharmaceutical
concern Bristol-Myers Squibb. As a federal
prosecutor, Hanna also tried complex, lengthy
securities and health care fraud criminal
cases. He joined the Gibbons firm in May 2006.
In private practice, he has represented clients
in a wide variety of complex white-collar
criminal matters, civil matters and attorney
ethics matters. He also has served as a court-appointed
receiver.
Hanna graduated from Manhattan
College in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science
in Business Administration degree. After working
for a year at a national public accounting
firm, he attended Fordham University School
of Law School in New York, serving on the
Fordham Law Review staff and graduating in
1984 with a Juris Doctor degree. Following
law school, Hanna was a litigation associate
at the Cahill Gordon & Reindel law firm
in New York, working on a broad range of commercial
litigation matters. He is admitted to the
practice of law in New Jersey and New York.
Born in Teaneck and raised in New City, Hanna
has lived in Madison for 20 years.
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