GORDON & GORDON - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Senior Partner
- Super Lawyer Reception November, 2016 at the Manor
Harrison J. Gordon is the senior partner of Gordon & Gordon and is recognized as one of the nation's foremost legal authorities in the area of brain injury and personal injury litigation. Mr. Gordon concentrates his practice in Brain Injury litigation, Wrongful Death, Serious Personal Injuries, Mass Disaster, Legal Malpractice and Professional Negligence. He is considered to be a pioneer in brain injury litigation and has been practicing in the area of brain injury litigation for over twenty years. He is known for his dedication and professional integrity in helping accident victims who have been hurt by the carelessness and wrongdoing of others.
Harrison J. Gordon, has recently been selected to the Top 100 Trial Lawyers list by The National Trial Lawyers Association, a professional organization of America's top trial lawyers. For Method of selection, see thenationaltriallawyers.org. He was selected to the Super Lawyers list and a top 100 lawyer list for the year 2007 by Law and Politics and the Publishers of New Jersey Monthly Magazine in recognition of his achievement as one of the pre-eminent lawyers in his field. Mr. Gordon was also selected to the Super Lawyer's list for the years 2006 to the present. The Super Lawyers list is issued by Thomson Reuters. A description of the selection methodology can be found at www.superlawyers.com. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Mr. Gordon served as president of the New Jersey Association for Justice (formerly ATLA-NJ) for the years 1996 and 1997 and served as Past chairman of the American Association for Justice Motor Vehicle and Premises Liability Section. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Trial Lawyer's of America - Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group. Mr. Gordon served as Chair of the Supreme Court of New Jersey Ethics Committee, District VC and, for his service as Chair of the Ethics Committee, he received a Certificate of Appreciation from the New Jersey Supreme Court in recognition of his meritorious service to the legal profession and citizens of the State of New Jersey. Harrison J. Gordon was 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.
Harrison Gordon has been involved in many precedent setting cases involving Pan Am 103, the Dupont Hotel Plaza fire in Puerto Rico 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 in a landmark case against the tobacco industry which resulted in a $7.6* billion dollar settlement for the State of New Jersey.
Harrison J. Gordon practices in the areas of drug litigation and other Mass Tort cases solely on behalf of injured people. His experience in mass tort matters includes handling prescription drug cases that have caused serious injury or death such as Propulsid, Rezulin and other prescription drugs. He has also served on the New Jersey Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in the Propulsid and Rezulin litigation. Mr. Gordon also took the deposition of the drug company's CEO on behalf his clients and the New Jersey Plaintiff's Steering Committee.
He has lectured extensively in the field of trial tactics, personal injury and Traumatic Brain Injuries throughout New Jersey, the United States and Canada and has been included in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Law from 1987 to the present and in Who's Who in the World 1997 to the present.
Harrison Gordon has lectured extensively in the field of traumatic brain injuries for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America - New Jersey, the Institute for Continuing Legal Education (I.C.L.E.) and the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, Inc. where he was a featured speaker and moderator of the legal track on numerous times from 1993 to the present, at the annual convention of the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, Inc.
Mr. Gordon has also lectured at seminars on trial tactics and personal injury throughout the United State and Canada. He also participated as a Lecturer and Moderator at numerous Seminars on Brain Injury Litigation in San Diego, New Orleans, Chicago, and throughout New Jersey and the United States from 1993 to the present. He is a professional member of the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey, Inc. and the Brain Injury Association, Inc. and is the author of numerous articles and written materials on trial preparation in the areas of Personal Injury, Wrongful Death and Traumatic Brain Injury. Mr. Gordon is also the author of an article in New Jersey Medicine, March, 1997, entitled "Point-CounterPoint" - Should Insurance Companies be Held Liable For Not Paying Claims? and several other articles as well. Mr. Gordon has appeared before the New Jersey State Legislature to testify on important bills affecting the citizens and consumers of New Jersey.
Mr. Gordon has been interviewed by and appeared in the following print publications and media: New York Times; Parade Magazine; Newark Star Ledger; Lawyers Weekly USA; The Record, Hackensack, New Jersey; Asbury Park Press, New Jersey; Trenton Times, New Jersey; Passaic Herald News, New Jersey; New Jersey Law Journal, New Jersey Lawyer; WCBS (Channel 2); WNBC (Channel 4); Fox (Channel 5); WABC (Channel 7); New Jersey Network; CBS Radio, New York, New York; 1010 Wins, New York, New York and WWOR, Secaucus, New Jersey (Channel 9) as well as numerous other publications and television and radio stations.
Samuel J. Vacchiano is a senior attorney with Gordon & Gordon and has been practicing law for over twenty-five years. He practices in the fields of automobile crashes, slip and fall, liquor liability, product liability and all serious personal injury and wrongful death cases. Mr. Vacchiano always demonstrates a very high level of skill in handling complex cases. He has been very successful in numerous jury trials in the Superior Court of New Jersey and very successful in arbitrations and Mediations. Mr. Vacchiano provides aggressive representation for his clients throughout New Jersey as well as in Monmouth, Union, Middlesex, Ocean and Essex Counties.
Mr. Vacchiano is admitted to practice law in the State of New Jersey. He graduated from Fordham University and Rutgers University Law School. Sam had the high honor of achieving academic excellence and was selected for the Law Review by Rutgers.