The International Academy of Trial Lawyers (IATL) recently inducted Brown & Connery, LLP partner William M. Tambussi as a Fellow. The ceremony took place on April 8, 2017, in San Diego, California. Fellowship in IATL is one of the highest honors a trial lawyer can receive as IATL limits membership to 500 Fellows in the United States. Tambussi is one of twenty-two Fellows from New Jersey. Chartered in 1954 to facilitate the administration of justice, promote the rule of law internationally and elevate the standards of integrity, honor and courtesy in the legal profession, IATL selects only those lawyers who have demonstrated excellence in courtroom advocacy throughout their careers. Each Fellow is meticulously and extensively evaluated by judges and other trial lawyers in his jurisdiction and has been highly recommended by them as possessing the qualifications for induction into the IATL.
Tambussi is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has been certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. He has served as a member of the N.J. Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Expedited Civil Actions, a member of the U.S. Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel for the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (2002, 2017), Camden Vicinage and a Commissioner of the Camden County Board of Elections. 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. Tambussi presently serves on the Rutgers University Board of Governors having been appointed in 2014.
Tambussi concentrates his practice in labor and employment law, complex civil litigation, professional liability litigation and governmental affairs. He has an active trial and appellate practice in the federal and state courts in New Jersey.