Gibbons Ranked Top Lawyer-Lobbying Firm in New Jersey

April 10, 2009
In the New Jersey Law Journal’s annual rankings of the state’s top lawyer-lobbying firms, Gibbons P.C. landed in the #1 position, just six years after launching its lobbying practice.

The Gibbons Government Affairs Department overtook Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti of Morristown, which had held the top spot for the two previous years, according to the Election Law Enforcement Commission’s annual report. Gibbons increased its lobbying revenues by nearly $250,000 in 2008, an even more impressive feat considering that revenues for all lobbyists fell 1.5 percent last year, and lobbying revenues for the top 10 lawyer-lobbyist firms slipped 5.5 percent.

“In 2008, Gibbons relocated our Government Affair practice to offices in the heart of the state capital,” says Patrick C. Dunican, Jr., Chairman and Managing Director of the firm, “and we added a talented new attorney with an extensive public sector background to the team. It is no wonder that Gibbons is playing such a key role in shaping critical legislation and raising our profile as the state’s preeminent lawyer-lobbying practice.”

About the Gibbons Government Affairs Department
The Government Affairs Department at Gibbons provides comprehensive state and federal government relations counseling for entities in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including legislative lobbying, regulatory counseling, strategic communications, and interaction with state agencies. Gibbons attorneys have successfully provided governmental relations services to clients in the key industry sectors in the state, including the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare, financial services, and telecommunications, among others. The Department was at the forefront of the legislative initiative that abolished the death penalty in New Jersey, signed into law by Governor Jon Corzine in December 2007. Gibbons represented New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (NJADP), the statewide grassroots organization behind the movement to abolish New Jersey’s death penalty law, in the multi-year, and multi-faceted, legislative and media strategy behind the repeal statute.