Gina Mendola Longarzo

Member: Essex County and American (Member, Litigation Committee, Employee Rights Division, 2001-) Bar Associations; New Jersey Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Member, Board of Trustees); National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

Biography: Member, Seton Hall Law Review. Author: A.C.D.L. Amicus Petitions to United States and New Jersey Supreme Courts. Seminar Lecturer, Television Commentator and Adjunct Professor of Law, Seton Hall University, 1999-2000. Law Clerk, 1995-1996. Judicial Clerk, Hon. R. Benjamin Cohen, J.S.C., Essex County Superior Court. Former Associate, Pope, Bergrin, Toscano & Verdesco and at the Law Offices of Alan L. Zegas. Former Member, Hack, Piro, O'Day, Merklinger, Wallace & McKenna. With New Jersey Evidentiary Foundations, 1995. Legal Commentator, Criminal and Civil Matters, Fox 5 News Channel. City of Clifton Labor Counsel. Approved PBA Legal Protection Plan Attorney.

Cases: State v. Bruton; State v. Crawley; State v. Romero, In the Matter of Richard Davis, State v. Cooper.

Languages: Italian.

Gina Mendola Longarzo is a member of Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Morris County Bar Association. Additionally, she is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell, a rating bestowed on those attorneys who have earned an exemplary reputation in the legal community. She was voted the Italian American Woman of the Year and Parade Grand Marshall by the Town of Orange in 2003, received the "Lady Ingenuity" Magazine Award in 2006, and was honored by receiving the Seton Hall Law Rodino Society Outstanding Achievement Award in 2009.