Greenberg Traurig

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.

Capabilities
Litigation
Class Action Litigation
Financial Services Litigation
Trial Practice
Arbitration & Mediation

Admission to Practice
New Jersey
New York
California
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Supreme Court of the United States

English

• 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