Legal  & Firm News

 

• Top U.S. environmental Litigator, Attorney Michael Gordon, invited to confer with Chinese experts and lawyers on environmental law in China.
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• Harrison J. Gordon served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Ethics Committee for four years culminating his service as Chair of the District VC Essex Committee and is now available to represent attorneys who have alleged ethical violations and/or charges against them. Mr. Gordon is also the Past President of ATLA-NJ and was selected in 2007 to NJ Super Lawyers by their peers and Top 100 Attorneys in New Jersey. To view the Certificate Click Here
   
• The New Jersey Work Environment Council (WEC) honored Michael Gordon at an Awards Reception which took place on April 27, 2007. This reception and award was for Michael's outstanding life long commitment to defending the public health of residents of Newark's Ironbound section and the environment and the people of New Jersey.  (Click Photo to see photos of event)
   
• Harrison J. Gordon and Michael Gordon named to top 100 New Jersey Super Lawyers for 2007
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• Harrison J. Gordon Co-Chairs the 25th Anniversary of the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey. 
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• Hear Michael Gordon of Gordon and Gordon Representing the City of Newark and other public entities present the lead paint Argument to the New Jersey Supreme Court. 
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• Harrison J. Gordon and Michael Gordon named New Jersey Super Lawyers for 2006
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• Harrison J. Gordon was an invited speaker at the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey’s  Seminar entitled "Understanding New Jersey Law, " The Peoples Bar Exam" at its 25th Annual Seminar on May 17, 2007. The Seminar was held at the Sheraton Eatontown Hotel and Conference Center in Eatontown, New Jersey.
  
  Mr. Gordon presented an interactive presentation where the audience participated in a question and answer session providing them with information on their legal rights and issues and other interesting topics in New Jersey law. The presentation was very well received. Attending this seminar were people with brain injuries, family members, professionals working in the field of brain injury, medical doctors, neuropsychologists, psychiatrists, neuropsychiatrists, rehabilitation nurses, social workers and those in brain injuries.  
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• Harrison J. Gordon Named One of the Ten Leaders of Northern New Jersey Personal Injury & Trial attorneys by Digital Press International. 
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• Gordon & Gordon hired by the State of New Jersey as Special Counsel for Environmental Litigation. The State of New Jersey, through Governor James E. McGreevey and Attorney General, Peter C. Harvey have hired Gordon & Gordon as Special Environmental Counsel to pursue polluters who have damaged the environment and natural resources of the State of New Jersey.
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• Harrison J. Gordon was recently elected to the Board of Trustees of the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, Inc. The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, Inc. is a statewide membership organization dedicated to providing education, outreach, prevention, advocacy and support services to all persons affected by brain injury and to the general public.
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• See Digital Press International profile of Michael Gordan
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• Michael Gordon named leading environmental attorney in the Item of Milburn and Short Hills
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• See Digital Press International profile of Harrison J. Gordon
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• Harrison J. Gordon Named Among 10 Leading NJ Attorneys
   
• Harrison J. Gordon, Senior Partner of the law firm of Gordon & Gordon, P.C., 80 Main Street, Springfield, New Jersey was an invited speaker at the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey’s seminar entitled “Brain Injury: Hope, Beliefs and Empowerment” at its 23rd Annual Seminar on May 19, 2005. Mr. Gordon spoke on brain injuries and legal issues. The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, Inc., is a statewide membership organization dedicated to providing education, outreach, prevention, advocacy and support services to all persons affected by brain injury and to the general public. Also speaking at this seminar was the “Central Park Jogger, Trisha Meili”.
  
  Harrison is a nationally known leading attorney in representing persons with brain injuries for over 20 years. He has educated both attorneys and the public by lecturing throughout the United States and he is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey.
  
  Mr. Gordon resides in Livingston, New Jersey and is the Senior Partner of Gordon & Gordon, Attorneys at Law, founded in 1976, located at 80 Main Street, Springfield, New Jersey. Mr. Gordon is the Past President of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America of New Jersey and was the former Chairman of the Automobile and Premises Liability Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (National). He was involved in many precedent setting cases including Pan Am 103, the Dupont Hotel Plaza fire in Puerto Rico, the Seton Hall fire of 2000 and was chosen by the Attorney General of New Jersey to be a member of the Tobacco Litigation Team representing the State of New Jersey against the tobacco industry which resulted in a precedent setting 7.6 billion dollar award to the State of New Jersey.
  
  Gordon has been featured in Who’s Who in America, is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and practices in the fields of brain injury, wrongful death, personal injury, products liability, and prescription drug litigation. He is also a member of the Association of Trial Lawyer’s Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group and has been named to “The Ten Leaders of Personal Injury and Trial Law” of North Jersey for 2003-2004 by Digital Press International.