Maurice J. Gallipoli

Maurice J. Gallipoli is Of Counsel to Porzio, Bromberg & Newman P.C. At Porzio, he continues his legal career in litigation and dispute resolution, providing third-party neutral service as an arbitrator, mediator, discovery master, confidential investigator and/or trustee, as well as assistance with settlement negotiations and/or case management of complex cases.

Prior to Porzio, Judge Gallipoli was a certified civil trial attorney and active in the Essex and Hudson County bar associations before being appointed to the bench in 1987. He served as a trial Judge in Hudson County until his appointment as Assignment Judge for that vicinage in 2004. He retired from the bench at the end of 2012.

• Member of New Jersey Supreme Court Committee charged with studying alternatives to permanent disbarment for misappropriation of client funds
• Supreme Court Disciplinary Review Board, Chair
• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• New Jersey State Bar Association, member
• Hudson County Bar Association, member (President 1985)
• North Hudson Lawyers' Club, member
• Essex County Bar Association, member
• Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey, member
• Judicial Council, former member
• Supreme Court Committee on Electronic Filing, former member
• Judiciary IT Steering Committee, former Chair
• Conference of Civil Presiding Judges, former Chair
• Supreme Court Civil Practice Committee, former member
• Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Salaries and Pensions, former Vice Chair
• Supreme Court Arbitration Advisory Committee, former member
• Supreme Court Committee on Trial Attorney Certification, former member
• Supreme Court Committee on Character, former member
• District VI Ethics Committee, former member

• "Let’s “Judge” For Ourselves," Porzio Employment Law Forum, October 20, 2021.
• American College of Trial Lawyers/NJICLE Trial Advocacy Summer Institute, "Trial Ethics", July 17th, 2020.
• Civil Trial Advocacy Summer Institute, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey, July 12-13, 2018.
• "Mediation Advice from 100 Years of Judicial Experience," NJSBA Senior Lawyers Special Committee, NJICLE Seminar, New Brunswick, NJ, January 12, 2017.
• Civil Trial Advocacy Summer Institute, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey, July 11-12, 2016.

• Superior Court of New Jersey, Hudson Vicinage
  • Assignment Judge, 2004-2012
  • Law Division Civil Part Presiding Judge, 1988-2004
  • Law Division Civil Part Judge, 1987-1988