• Thomas N. Gamarello joined the Firm's Litigation Department in 2015. Recognized as a Rising Star, Super Lawyer since 2018 in Business Litigation and more recently as The Best Lawyers in America: One to Watch since 2022 in Commercial Litigation. Tom regularly represents multi-million-dollar companies in several of the Firm’s largest and most sophisticated cases, both in the trial and appellate courts of New Jersey and New York, and in federal court. An experienced trial lawyer, Tom is skilled in defending companies in construction defect, commercial and residential real estate, condominium litigation, insurance defense, professional malpractice and business litigation lawsuits at all phases of the trial and appeals process. Tom also manages massive e-discovery projects and utilizes new technologies to provide cost-efficient solutions and services to his clients.

    Tom is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, where he is the co-vice chairman of the Construction Law Section, and the New York State Bar Association. He has also lectured on construction contracts, including indemnification, limitation of liability and arbitration clauses, and on a wide array of topics such as construction lien law and post-judgment collections. 

    Tom received his law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law while attending school at night and working full-time. He was a Chancellor’s Scholar, an Associate Editor of the Seton Hall Law Review, and graduated ranked sixth in his class. During law school, Tom interned at the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General in the Appellate Bureau of the Division of Criminal Justice and authored briefs and an extensive legal research project on developments in Fourth Amendment search-and-seizure law. 

    Prior to joining the Firm, Tom worked in the legal department of ADP for over ten years as a corporate paralegal, focusing on commercial real estate, real property tax appeals, corporate governance and general litigation. 

    Tom graduated, magna cum laude, from Lehigh University with a B.A. in both Political Science and Music, and, as a Presidential Scholar, graduated, magna cum laude from Lehigh with an M.A. in Political Science one-year later. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor fraternity. Tom is also an active professional musician.


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    • Listed among the "Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch" by The Best Lawyers in America® in the fields of Commercial Litigation and Litigation - Construction (2022-2025)*
    • Selected to the 2018-2024 New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Stars®* list, published by Thomson Reuters

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    • Co-Vice Chairman, New Jersey State Bar Association Construction Law Section
    • Member, New Jersey State Bar Association 
    • Member, New York State Bar Association 
    • Represented a medical service provider before the Appellate Division and succeeded in overturning a trial court decision denying its motion to quash the production of confidential medical records.
    • Represented a commercial property owner in a bench trial and successfully defended claims for violations of the New Jersey Prompt Payment Act.
    • Represented a commercial landowner in a real property dispute and won summary judgment availing the landowner's property rights and defeating the claims of its commercial neighbor, including a claim of adverse possession
    • Represented multi-million-dollar construction management company in a complex construction defect case in New York.
    • Represented a landlord in a jury trial in which the plaintiff-tenant asserted class action claims for breach of contract and consumer fraud, and successfully had all class claims and consumer fraud claims dismissed, and won his client an award attorneys' fees and costs
    • Represented a commercial landlord in a jury trial and won a directed verdict granting client’s claim for breach of contract and dismissing all of the commercial tenant’s claims for property damages and trespass
    • Represented a construction material supplier in a bench trial and won client’s full claim for damages, including statutory attorneys’ fees for adversary’s violation of the Construction Lien Law and a judgment in foreclosure of the adversary’s real property.
    • Represented a commercial landowner in a successful appeal before the New Jersey Appellate Division upholding its summary judgment verdict dismissing a potential seven-figure personal injury lawsuit.
    • Represented a school district in a million-dollar inverse condemnation action.
    • Represented a medical transportation provider against class certification in a multi-million dollar complex commercial lawsuit
    • Represented a multi-billion dollar non-profit corporation in a real property dispute in the trial court, and on appeal before the Appellate Division and the New Jersey Supreme Court
    • Represented a gas and oil company in a commercial contract dispute where we obtained a $500,000 summary judgment
    • Represented a radiologist in a professional malpractice matter where we obtained summary judgment
    • Represented a property management company in a real property dispute involving a large senior citizen facility where we obtained summary judgment
    • Represented an insurance carrier in a large multi-state complex contract dispute involving medical services and health insurance coverage
    • Represented a contractor in large construction defect case involving condominium construction
    • Represented an insurance agency accused of failing to obtain flood insurance before Hurricane Sandy
    • Represented a contractor in multi-million dollar class-action lawsuit involving defective drywall products
    • Represented a commercial construction firm in multi-million dollar complex construction defect case
    • Represented an insurance provider in multi-million dollar Hurricane Sandy-related construction lawsuit
    • Represented beneficiaries in a multi-million dollar trust dispute

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