Joseph Buckley

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About Joseph Buckley

Joseph L. Buckley is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee and Chair of the Litigation Department. He has over 35 years of first chair trial experience in a wide variety of complex cases in federal and state courts in New Jersey and New York. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney. As Chair of the Firm’s Litigation Department, Mr. Buckley accepted the Benchmark Litigation award for “New Jersey Firm of the Year” for nine consecutive years (2025-2017) and, in 2023, 2020, 2019 and 2016 accepted the award for “General Litigation Department of the Year – Midsize” from the New Jersey Law Journal. In 2021, Mr. Buckley was included on the New Jersey Super Lawyers “Top 100” list published by Thomson Reuters. See Award Methodology - No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Mr. Buckley serves as leader of the Firm’s Banking Litigation Group. He has handled many large litigations for nationally prominent banks, overseeing the process from inception to trial and appeal. He has served as lead counsel to major national banks and their subsidiaries in the defense of putative class action lawsuits venued in state and federal courts in New Jersey and elsewhere, relating to subjects as diverse as equipment leasing, credit insurance, information security, credit cards, ATM fees and an alleged conspiracy to fix interest rates. He has successfully defended large national banks in lawsuits in which tens of millions of dollars in damages were at issue, and has also assisted banks in the recovery in excess of $100 million from borrowers and others. The information contained in this LinkedIn profile is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Transmission and/or receipt of these materials do not constitute an attorney-client relationship between the sender and receiver. This LinkedIn profile may be considered attorney advertising under the rules of some states. Prior results are based on the merits of the case and do not guarantee a similar outcome. ATTORNEY ADVERTISING.