Kevin M. Costello

Kevin Costello concentrates his state-wide employment rights, school harassment rights and civil rights practice exclusively on behalf of working people of all economic strata and on behalf of their families. Kevin has been a plaintiffs’ trial lawyer for the entirety of his career. He is the founding partner of Costello & Mains, P.C. in Mount Laurel, a full state employment, school rights and civil rights plaintiffs’ law firm.

Kevin is Certified by the Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney – one of only approximately 5% of lawyers who earn this Certification – and was one of the amicus counsel in the Lewis v. Harris equal marriage rights case. He is also the holder of a fifteen year old record for the highest verdict in Cape May County history in the Piersante v. Belvedere Condominium Association matter. He has obtained other multi-million dollar verdicts before juries. He is an officer of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of the New Jersey Association for Justice, as well as the Chair for the Employment and Labor Committee of that body and Chair of the Civil Practice Committee. He is also a past Chairman of the “Boardwalk Seminar” and “Meadowlands Seminar” Employment programs and now a Chair of the Boardwalk Seminar Program overall. He is an officer of the Board of Trustees of the NJAJ Educational Foundation.

He is a past Chair of the Camden County Bar Association Labor and Employment Committee and Personal Injury Committee. Kevin is also a past Treasurer and Vice Chair of the GLBT Rights section for the New Jersey State Bar Association. Kevin is also a member of the Hispanic Bar Association. He is a member of the American Association for Justice and a member of the Leaders’ Forum of that body, as well as a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association, NJ Chapter.

Kevin has also for years served as a faculty member for trial attorney continuing education, lecturing on behalf NJAJ, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Camden and Burlington County Bar Associations, the NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the Lorman Institute, the National Business Institute and for Garden State Equality. He has also taught extensively in the areas of employment law, civil rights and education civil rights. He has spoken to civic groups, trade groups, public school student bodies and to higher education classes.

He has also testified before Senate and Assembly Committees in support of Employment and Civil Rights legislation.

Kevin has been since 2007 a Board member for the Garden State Equality organization. He is a past member of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law.

He has appeared on TV and Radio, both locally and nationally, to discuss employment and civil rights, pending legislation, and cases handled by the firm. He has been published in his field in periodicals, educational materials and treatises.

Kevin was awarded the “Champion of Equality” award by Garden State Equality, on which he serves as a current board member, in 2006. He was awarded the Roosevelt Nesmith Civil Rights Award by the Southern Burlington County NAACP in 2014. He has been included in the list of “Super Lawyers” published by Thomas Reuters in one capacity or another for the past nine years running (2006-2015). (A description of the standard or methodology on which the accolade is based can be found here SuperLawyers). He has been included in the list of “Top One Hundred Trial Lawyers” by the National Trial Lawyers from 2010-2014. (A description of the standard or methodology on which the accolade is based can be found here National Trial Lawyers). He has been included in the list of those who’ve received a “10-Year” “BV Distinguished Peer Rating” by Martindale-Hubbell (A description of the standard or methodology on which the accolade is based can be found here Martindale-Hubbell). He has also obtained membership in the “Million Dollar Advocates Forum.” (A description of the standard or methodology on which the accolade is based can be found here Million Dollar Advocates).

Kevin lives in South Jersey with his wife and son.

(Certified Civil Trial Attorney, Supreme Court of New Jersey, Board on Trial Attorney Certification)