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Robert Brigantic
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Mr. Brigantic's practice focuses on personal injury and property damage litigation, business tort litigation and insurance coverage litigation in federal and state courts in New Jersey and New York on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. Mr. Brigantic also specializes in representing Social Security disability and Supplemental Security Income claimants.

Prior to joining Maloof, Lebowitz, Connahan & Oleske, Mr. Brigantic was counsel to St. John & Wayne, L.L.C. in Newark, New Jersey, and the nationally known Social Security firm of Binder & Binder, where he handled hundreds of administrative hearings and cases in the United States district courts.

Mr. Brigantic is an experienced appellate attorney, and during the course of his distinguished career, he has won numerous appeals on behalf of his clients. Many of his appeals have resulted in reported opinions in official reports and opinions picked up and reported by Westlaw. Most recently, Mr. Brigantic successfully petitioned the New Jersey Supreme Court to hear an appeal in an indemnity case arising out of an accident at a Best Buy store. Mr. Brigantic argued the appeal and secured a unanimous decision from the New Jersey Supreme Court reversing the lower courts' decision to impose defense costs on his cilent. The case is reported as Kieffer v. Best Buy, 205 N.J. 213 (2011).

Mr. Brigantic's other successful appeals include the following:

Mayorga v. Russo Family Ltd. Partnership, 2010 WL 2471419 (N.J. App. Div. 2010)(successfully petitioned New Jersey's Appellate Division to grant interlocutory review and reverse the trial court's refusal to dismiss a co-defendant's claims for contribution and indemnification)

Zamora v. Paris-Currais, 2009 WL 1324026 (N.J. App. Div. 2009)(successful in having New Jersey's Appellate Division affirm summary judgment in favor of an employer dismissing an employee's claim based on deliberate intent to injure and the dual capacity doctrine)

Watson v. Watson, 2009 WL 901921 (N.J. App. Div. 2009)(successful in having New Jersey's Appellate Division reverse the trial court's refusal to grant summary judgment to State Farm Insurance Company based on the non-owned vehicle provisions of its auto policy)

Foxtons, Inc. v. Cirri Germain Realty, 2008 WL 465653 (N.J. App. Div. 2008)(successful in having New Jersey's Appellate Division affirm the dismissal of defamation, tortious interference and product disparagement claims asserted by an internationally known real estate broker against a local real estate agent)

Vargas v. Quinones, 2007 WL 4462330 (N.J. App. Div. 2007), certif. denied, 194 N.J. 445 (2008)(successful in having New Jersey's Appellate Division affirm summary judgment in the defendant driver's favor dismissing a bystander's emotional distress claim arising out of a car accident)

Hamilton v. Academy Bus Tours, Inc., 2007 WL 92393 (N.J. App. Div. 2006), certif. denied, 190 N.J. 257 (2007)(successful in having New Jersey's Appellate Division affirm the denial of plaintiff's motion for a new trial based on alleged errors of the trial court when instructing the jury on the duties of a common carrier and concepts of superseding and intervening causes)

Woodford v. Apfel, 93 F. Supp.2d 521 (S.D.N.Y. 2000)(successful in reversing the Social Security Administration's denial of disability benefits based, in part, on the Appeals Council's improper refusal to consider new evidence)

Pratts v. Chater, 94 F.3d 34 (2nd Cir. 1996)(successful in reversing the Social Security Administration's denial of disability benefits to an AIDS patient based on the Administrative Law Judge's failure to develop the record, and her misapplication of the treating physician rule and the GRID rules in view of the claimant's non-exertional impairment) The Pratts decision is a leading Social Security case in the Second Circuit, and has been cited hundreds of times on various Social Security issues.

Lugo v. Chater, 932 F. Supp. 497 (S.D.N.Y. 1996)(successfully persuaded future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor to reverse the Social Security Administration's denial of disability benefits to an illiterate claimant who did not speak English based on the Administrative Law Judge's misapplication of the GRID rules, which require an initial determination as to whether a claimant is conversant and literate in English)

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Education

B.S. in Economics, New York University's College of Business and Pulic Administration, with honors (1983)
J.D., Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William & Mary, Law Review (1986)

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Bar Admissions

New Jersey
New York
U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of New Jersey
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

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