Mt. Laurel law firm Capehart Scatchard’s Gina M. Zippilli, is a recipient of the New Jersey Law Journal’s 2015 New Leaders of the Bar award.
The New Jersey Law Journal presents the prestigious New Leaders of the Bar Award on an annual basis to a select group of New Jersey attorneys under the age of 40. Criteria for the selection of these rising stars include demonstrated leadership qualities, expertise in litigation, charitable volunteer work and other factors that exemplify the ways that these attorneys stand out among their peers. A seven-judge panel reviews all nominations from the state and narrows their list down to reflect only those attorneys that exhibited the qualities and experience that make each of them a 2015 New Leader.
Presently, Zippilli’s clients have retained her to provide a defense in personal injury, premises and tort defense liability cases. However, her background is one of versatility, having litigated cases involving complex commercial disputes, professional liability and intellectual property matters. Her client base is mainly devoted to national corporations as well as liability and property insurance carriers.
Zippilli is also well known for her litigation blog “Legally Speaking.” It provides readers with informative and well-written summaries of relevant changes in case law and legislation pertaining to litigation defense. On the lighter side, her blog is usually accompanied by a hand-drawn cartoon entitled “falsely accused.” It is created and drawn by Zippilli and is a spoof of situations all trial attorneys will recognize.
She is admitted in the State of New Jersey, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court, the District of New Jersey, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She is also in the process of obtaining her law license in New York.
Zippilli attended and graduated from Rutgers School of Law in Camden, where she was the case law editor of the Rutgers Law Review. Afterwards, she was selected as the law clerk to Sylvia B. Pressler, presiding judge of administration for the New Jersey Superior Court, appellate division, from 2002 to 2003. She earned her undergraduate degree in psychology at Rutgers University in Camden, where she was selected to join “Psi Chi,” the National Honors Society in psychology.
She is a certified chaplin for disaster relief counseling and received her training through Billy Graham Ministries. In her earlier years, she was employed through the Moorestown public school system as a counselor teaching behavioral techniques to children with autism.
