William M. Tambussi is a partner with the firm.  He concentrates his practice in labor and employment litigation, professional liability, governmental affairs and complex litigation.  He has an active trial practice in the federal and state courts in New Jersey.

Mr. Tambussi is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.  He has also been certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey since 1991.

He has served as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Expedited Civil Actions, as a member of the United States Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Camden Vicinage and as a Commissioner of the Camden County Board of Elections from 1990 to 1991.

He serves as General Counsel, Special Litigation Counsel and Special Labor and Employment Counsel to a number of bi-state governmental entities, counties, municipalities and independent governmental authorities in Southern New Jersey. He also represents clients in the private sector, including TD Bank, Cooper Health System, Conner Strong & Buckelew and Fortune 500 companies periodically engaged in litigation in New Jersey. He has been counsel to the Camden County Democratic Committee since 1989.

Mr. Tambussi has tried numerous cases in the State and Federal Courts in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. He has argued many cases before the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals including landmark employment cases involving whistleblowers, disability discrimination and hostile work environments. He has also argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court and Third Circuit Court of Appeals on the issue of the eligibility of candidates to run for public office and other election law issues. He has appeared before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, and the U.S House of Representatives Committee on Ethics, and the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights, Public Employment Relations Commission, Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards and Election Law Enforcement Commission.

After receiving his undergraduate degree in 1980 from Dickinson College, Mr. Tambussi received his law degree from the New England School of Law in 1983. He is the co-author of “Too Strict Liability: Making Local Government Entities Pay For Waste Disposal Site Cleanup,” which was published in the 1990 Villanova Environmental Law Journal.

Mr. Tambussi was admitted to practice in New Jersey in 1983. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the American, New Jersey, and Camden County Bar Associations.

In 2015, he was the recipient of the James J. McLaughlin Award, an award presented annually by the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Civil Trial Bar Section to an attorney and/or judge recognized for demonstrating civility, legal competence and professionalism in the practice of civil trial law.

In 2024, he was the recipient of the Honorable Jerome B. Simandle Award, an award presented annually by the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey to a lawyer or jurist who has exemplified exceptional service to the bench and bar of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

He also is a regular lecturer for ICLE and the Camden County Bar Association on a number of topics, including election law, public employment law and trial advocacy.

Mr. Tambussi served on the Board of Governors of Rutgers University having first been appointed by Governor Chris Christie in 2014 and reappointed by Governor Phil Murphy in 2020.

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