New Jersey Injury lawyers attorneys, Essex County, Middlesex County, Union County and Monmouth County practing personal injury, civil rights, and employment discrimination, wrongful termination

David J Gruber

David J. Gruber is a partner of Gruber, Schwartz & Posnock, LLP. Mr. Gruber has been an attorney in New Jersey since 1983. Since that time he has been a licensed and practicing member of the New Jersey State Bar as well as the District Courts of New Jersey and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Gruber has been licensed and practicing in New York since 1986 and is a member of the New York State Bar as well as the Southern and Eastern Federal District Courts of New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Gruber is also licensed to appear before the United States Supreme Court. From 1992-2004 Mr. Gruber was a partner of Lehman, Lehman & Gruber and “of counsel” to the firm of Schwartz & Posnock. Prior to that he had his own firm in Livingston, New Jersey for a number of years after he was an Associate at Stern, Dubrow & Marcus in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Mr. Gruber is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College and Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of New Jersey (ATLA-NJ) as well as the Essex County Bar Association and the Union County Bar Association. Mr. Gruber has litigated, tried and/or handled numerous cases in the following areas: Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice, Wrongful Death; Commercial/Business Litigation, Various types of Civil Litigation, Matrimonial/Family/Custody/DYFS Litigation; Real Estate Litigation, Employment/Civil Rights and Wrongful Termination Litigation; ERISA Disability Litigation; and Appellate Practice in both State and Federal Courts.

Throughout the years Mr. Gruber has handled a wide variety of personal injury litigation from routine rear-end cases to complex cases involving multiple parties, avenues of recovery and insurance policies including Underinsured and Uninsured Motorist claims. Other kinds of personal injury cases he has handled include recreational/sports injuries; slip and falls on ice, in the supermarket or because of defective walking or other surfaces. Mr. Gruber has litigated medical malpractice cases involving, among others, negligent laparoscopy, sterilization and other OB-GYN procedures; wrongful death; fetal death; failure to monitor and cases involving negligent infusion therapy and IV-line administration. He has also handled complex ERISA/disability litigation (See Lasser v. Reliance Std. Life Ins. Co., 130 F. Supp. 2d 616 (D.N.J. 2001); 146 F. Supp. 2d 619 (D.N.J. 2001)) as well as various kinds of wrongful termination, discrimination and Civil Rights claims (See Holmin v. TRW, Inc., 330 N.J. Super. 30 (App. Div. 2000) and Holmin v. TRW, Inc., 167 N.J. 205 (2001). Holmin involved the Court’s construction of the date on which the statute of limitation begins to run for a discharged employee. There, both the Appellate Division and the Supreme Court agreed with Mr. Gruber’s arguments that a plaintiff's cause of action (for fraud) accrues on the effective date of his or her discharge rather than the date the employee receives notice of termination from the employer. Mr. Gruber was trial counsel in State v. Smith, 295 N.J. Super. 399 (Law Div. 1996) which involved issues of first impression under the Vicious and Potentially Dangerous Dog Act , N.J.S.A. 4:19-22 and its construction. A portion of that trial appeared on a major television News channel. Mr. Gruber was also trial counsel for a group of neighbors in the matter of Davis v. Morristown Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses which resulted in the Court’s enforcement of a restrictive covenant that prohibited the building of anything other than a residence on lands purchased by the defendant. Together with David A. Schwartz, Mr. Gruber has handled litigation of oppressed minority shareholder claims and complex claims of multi-national companies involving issues of breach of contract, fraud and investment capital/financing.

David Schwartz

David A. Schwartz is a partner in the law firm of Gruber, Schwartz & Posnock. Mr. Schwartz, an attorney since 1983, is licensed in the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and California, as
well as before the United States Supreme Court. Member- Executive Committee of the Criminal Law Section of the State Bar of California.

From 2001 through 2003 Mr. Schwartz acted as Special Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York in the Special Federal Litigation Division, where he received the Division Chief's Award for Outstanding Legal Service to The City. In this role he was responsible for handling the case of Estate of Patrick Dorismond v. Rudolph Guliani, et. al. and cases resulting from the Mollen Commission Investigation of the Thirtieth Precinct ("The Dirty 30").

Presentations: August, 2001, The Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors Annual Conference (Outside counsel's cooperation with health care provider's counsel to uncover potential fraud and abuse);. March, 1999, Surviving Health Care Fraud Investigations - the Federal Health Care Acquisition Conference sponsored by the United States Department of Defense and Department of Veteran's Affairs; 1996, the University of California the State Bar of California "Business Crimes: Their Collateral Consequences for Employers;" and for the State Bar of California: "Into the Modern Age: Using Computers, the Internet and Demonstrative Techniques in the Courtroom."

Testimony: 1994, before the Advisory Committee on Criminal Rules of the Judicial Conference of the United States regarding proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

Publications: "The Role of Internal Auditors and Provider Attorneys in Investigations, "New Perspectives on Healthcare Auditing, Vol. 20, No. 3, Summer 2001; "The Digital Telephony Legislation of 1994: Law Enforcement Hitches a Ride on the Information Superhighway, "Criminal Law Bulletin, Vol. 31, No. 3, May-June 1995; "Corporate Compliance Programs Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: From Theoretical to Effective Implementation," California Business Law Reporter, Vol. 16, No. 1, July 1994; "Using the Amendments to the Domestic Violence Act Offensively," New Jersey Lawyer (1 NJL 1057) July 1992; and "Defending the Driving Under the Influence of Drugs Case," New Jersey Lawyer (1 NJL 369) March 1992. Contributing author,
California Criminal Law Forms Manual (CEB, University of California, 1994), and Prescription Drug Abuse and Dependence, Ch. 9, "Legal Dispositions and Interventions" (with Daniel P. Greenfield, M.D.), Charles C. Thomas Company, 1994.

Leslie Posnock

Leslie B. Posnock is a partner in the law firm of Schwartz & Posnock. Ms. Posnock, an attorney since 1984, is licensed in the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and California. Ms. Posnock is a former public defender in Philadelphia and New Jersey. Ms. Posnock has handled or tried hundreds of cases, including murder, drugs, sexual assault, mail fraud, wire fraud, embezzlement, forgery, kidnapping, robbery, assault, burglary, Municipal Court matters, and driving under the influence cases.
She has also represented witnesses before Federal and State Grand Juries, and has obtained expungements for her clients. Ms. Posnock has lectured on criminal law topics to the Bar Association of San Francisco young lawyers division, and has written articles on criminal law topics, including "A Model Code of Conduct," Business Crimes Bulletin, Compliance and Litigation, Vol. 1, No. 3, April 1994. While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Posnock worked for the Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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