Greenberg Traurig LLP

Litigation

Co-Managing Shareholder

Philip R. Sellinger is Co-Managing Shareholder of the firm's New Jersey office and recently served as co-Chair of the firm’s Global Litigation Practice. A former Assistant U.S. Attorney and New Jersey federal clerk, Philip has more than 30 years of trial experience and has led litigation teams in a wide variety of class actions and other complex cases in state and federal trial courts and appellate courts, including the New Jersey Supreme Court, around the country. He has served as Chair of the Lawyers Advisory Committee to the New Jersey federal judiciary and as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Practice Rules Committee. He served as the founding chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Class Action Committee. He has represented the American Corporate Counsel Association and the New Jersey Corporate Counsel Association in litigation challenging the right of in-house counsel to appear in court. He has appeared as amicus counsel in the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of 29 top-ranking former senior U.S. military officers and civilian Department of Defense officials.

CapabilitiesLitigation Class Action Litigation Financial Services LitigationTrial Practice Arbitration & Mediation

Admission to PracticeNew JerseyNew YorkCaliforniaU.S. District Court for the District of New JerseyU.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New YorkU.S. District Court for the Southern District of New YorkU.S. Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitSupreme Court of the United States

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J.D., New York University School of Law, 1979 Articles Editor, Annual Survey of American Law B.A., summa cum laude, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1976