ATTORNEY PROFILE

Mr. Gruccio is a founding member of the law firm, joining the firm in 1963 following his graduation from Villanova Law School. Mr. Gruccio earned his undergraduate degree in International Politics and Philosophy in 1960 from St. Joseph's University.

Mr. Gruccio is a Board Certified Civil Trial Attorney and a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has served as counsel to numerous private and public companies, including lending institutions, insurance companies and physician IPA groups, and regularly acts as trial counsel or general counsel in business disputes, shareholder disputes, corporate dissolutions, oppressed shareholder litigation and personal injury litigation. Mr. Gruccio has also represented judges, attorneys and physicians in malpractice and disciplinary proceedings before various professional review boards. Mr. Gruccio has held numerous municipal attorney and solicitor positions in the City of Vineland, including his tenure as Solicitor and Director of the Department of Law of the City of Vineland from 1972 to 1988. He has also served on the Federal Magistrate Appointment Committee and the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law.

Mr. Gruccio is a member of the Board of Trustees of Rowan University, and Chairman of the Board’s Legal Committee and Budget & Finance Committees. He has also been a guest lecturer in Civil Trial Practice at the Delaware Law School and in the paralegal course at Cumberland County College. He has served as President and a Trustee of the Cumberland County Bar Association and in numerous other capacities in the County and State Bar Associations. He has also been active in a number of other professional organizations and in a wide range of civic, charitable and community activities.