Roseland, NJ

Dennis M. Donnelly

Dennis M. Donnelly is a Senior Partner at The Donnelly Law Firm, a vastly experienced New Jersey personal injury attorney with over 35 years in practice. He has secured numerous multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements, particularly in medical malpractice and birth injury cases. Recognized as a leading plaintiff's attorney, he is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates and a past president of the Northern New Jersey chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).

Gerald Jay Resnick

Gerald Jay Resnick is the founder of Resnick Law Group, a New York and New Jersey employment law firm. He has practiced law since 1979, and has focused on employment and discrimination cases since 1985. He has significant experience in all aspects of employment law, including discrimination, harassment, employment contracts and severance agreements, wage and hour cases, retaliation and whistleblower claims, and family and medical leave claims. Mr. Resnick is one of a small group of NJ employment attorneys who is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Trial Attorney. Certified Attorneys are a group with demonstrated proficiency: fewer than 2% of active attorneys in New Jersey hold a Board certification. A Certified Trial Attorney must meet a number of requirements to obtain certification, including having primary responsibility for at least ten contested actions in New Jersey that were substantially submitted to the trier of fact, being a member in good standing of the New Jersey Bar for at least five years, taking a specific number of continuing legal education courses, passing a written examination, and receiving favorable evaluations from judges and fellow attorneys. Mr. Resnick has successfully tried numerous employment cases to a verdict in both state and federal courts. He has also argued before appellate courts, including the Appellate Division of the State of New Jersey, the New Jersey Supreme Court, and the Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeal in the federal court system. He has been involved in a number of published decisions that have advanced the rights of workers, including Dow v. L&M Security, Inc., Entrot v. BASF Corp., Klein v. UMDNJ, Conoshenti v. PSE&G, Cahill v. City of New Brunswick, Molin v. Shapiro, Craig v. Suburban Cablevision, and Wiley v. Hughes Capital Corp. Mr. Resnick has been selected as “Seriously Outstanding” by SuperLawyers.com, representing the top 5% of attorneys each year. Mr. Resnick has written numerous articles in the New Jersey Law Journal, and contributes to a legal blog as a resource for the public. He is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association, the National Employment Lawyers’ Association, the National Employment Lawyers’ Association of New Jersey, and the New Jersey State Bar Association. He is also a Bencher with the Sidney Reitman Labor and Employment Inn of Court, and a member of the highly selective International Network of Boutique Law Firms.

Phillip C. Wiskow

Phillip C. Wiskow is the managing partner of Gelman Gelman Wiskow & McCarthy LLC. He has 40 years of experience handling cases involving medical malpractice, products liability and personal injury. During his career, Phil has successfully litigated more than 15 cases that resulted in settlements or verdicts over a million dollars and tried over 125 jury trials. He is licensed in New Jersey and Florida. He is certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney, a distinction held by less than two percent of New Jersey trial attorneys. He has been repeatedly selected to the Super Lawyers’ list since 2009, including the Blue Ribbon Panel in 2014 and 2018. In 2011, he was named one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in New Jersey by The National Trial Lawyers Association. He successfully argued his third case before the NJ Supreme Court in 2013 and was named one of the Top 10 Trial Attorneys in New Jersey by the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorney’s this year (2025).

Bruce H. Nagel

Bruce H. Nagel is widely regarded as one of the leading trial attorneys in the New York metropolitan area. A graduate of Cornell University and New York University School of law, Bruce has devoted his practice to complex litigation including serious personal injury, class actions, medical and legal malpractice, business and partnership disputes, and estate litigation. He has tried over 200 cases to verdict, the vast majority of which were jury trials. His clients include the State of New Jersey, Fortune 500 companies, Hollywood celebrities, sports figures, prominent families throughout the world, and the guy next door. Bruce prides himself in representing many of the leading law firms in New York and New Jersey, as well as numerous Judges in a variety of matters. His many high profile cases have been featured on Nightline, Good Morning America, Today Show, CNN, CNBC and every major network. Among his headline cases are the Short Hills Mall carjacking death case, the cyberbullying suicide of a middle schooler, sexual abuse cases against the Boy Scouts of America, Catholic Church, Rockefeller University Hospital, and many other institutions, Paramus Bus crash, cyber-bullying suicide case, class actions against leading insurance companies establishing eating disorder medical coverage for 3.5 million insureds, Amtrak 33 train derailment and the current challenge to congestion pricing in New York City. The New Jersey Law Journal have listed his settlements and verdicts as the highest in New Jersey for many years, including many which are the highest in New Jersey history. These include $225 million settlement in natural resource damage litigation; $200 million class action settlement against Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey for out of network insurance reimbursement; $49 million jury verdict in auto/motorcycle accident; $ 31 Million settlement/verdict in commercial disparagement action involving short-selling hedge funds ; $24 million jury verdict in medical malpractice case; $21 million settlement in workplace accident case; $ 20.5 million settlement in bus accident case; $14.2 million jury verdict in breach of fiduciary duty case; $13 million settlement in premises liability case; $10.25 million settlement in sexual abuse case and $ 9.1 million settlement in cyberbullying suicide case. Bruce has the distinction of garnering nearly $2 billion in settlements and verdicts. In addition to his trial accomplishment, Bruce has appeared before the New Jersey Supreme Court 16 times and the Delaware Supreme court, en banc, and has significantly molded the law of trial practice, class action, consumer fraud, and medical malpractice. Bruce has appeared numerous times as amicus counsel for the leading New Jersey trial association and has successfully argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court in the areas of trial practice, medical malpractice, and class action. Bruce has received many accolades for his significant impact on the legal profession including being named a Top 10 Super Lawyers in New Jersey many years, and named in Best Lawyers in America, Best Lawyers in New York City, and Best Lawyers in New York Metropolitan area. His litigation prowess has been publicly noted by a former White House counsel, the national legal correspondent for a major network, and the chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

Stewart M. Leviss

Stewart M. Leviss is a Partner and a Civil Trial Attorney certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He has extensive experience in professional malpractice, product defect, personal injury, business torts, commercial litigation, and employment litigation.

Andrew L. O’Connor

Andrew O’Connor is a partner at Nagel Rice and focuses his practice on serious personal injury, mass tort litigation, and business litigation. Andrew has successfully tried and resolved numerous catastrophic injury cases, including automobile accident, slip and falls, and premises liability cases. Andrew recently successfully tried an automobile accident case resulting in a $7 million jury verdict. He also successfully resolved a case against a contractor for the New Jersey Turnpike authority for $9.75 million, which was featured on NBC. The New Jersey Law Journal named Andrew one of the “New Leaders of the Bar” in 2013, an honor awarded to only 50 attorneys in the State of New Jersey. Andrew was also named by the National Trial Lawyers Association to its list of the top 40 attorneys under the age of 40 for the year 2012 and 2013 as well as named to the Super Lawyers Rising Star list for 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. Andrew is a graduate of Lafayette College and Seton Hall University School of Law. He is also actively involved doing pro bono volunteer work for the NJSBA Military Legal Assistance Program, providing pro bono legal services for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Alex R. Malino

Mr. Malino is well versed in all areas of product liability, construction defect, toxic tort, and personal injury litigation. He has developed his practice with a focus on New York State Labor Law litigation, including complex indemnity and insurance issues often associated with these cases. He regularly advises and speaks to personal corporate clients on various topics, such as New York Labor Law, federal preemption, indemnity and insurance coverage issues. Mr. Malino is a Certified Litigation Management Professional (CLMP). This designation is awarded by the Claims & Litigation Management Alliance (CLM) after successful completion of the program hosted at Loyola University Chicago School of Law. The designation recognizes comprehensive knowledge and insight between legal theory and litigation strategy and the business aspects of litigation management.