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Ronald J. Riccio
General Counsel
Undergraduate
B.A., Seton Hall University, 1968
Law School
J.D., Seton Hall Law School, 1971
RONALD J. RICCIO received his B.A. degree cum laude from Seton Hall University in 1968 and Juris Doctorate degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1971, where he was a member of the school’s first public Law Review. Following a judicial clerkship with The Honorable Lawrence A. Whipple, United States District Court Judge, he began a sixteen year career in private practice as an active litigator, during which time he successfully represented plaintiffs and defendants in a number of major trial and appellate matters. He returned to his alma mater in 1988 when he was appointed Dean of Seton Hall University School of Law. He successfully served as Dean for eleven years, during which time he also taught Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law.
Dean Riccio is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York as well as before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits and before the United States Supreme Court. He is currently the Firm’s General Counsel. He also litigates, mediates, and arbitrates cases in a variety of contexts, such as class actions, constitutional matters, securities, the Court-appointed Settlement Master of the Oneida Indian Nation Land Claim dispute, and Court-appointed Special Mediator in the Middletown New Jersey teacher jailings.
Dean Riccio is a member and former Chair of the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism, a former member of the New Jersey Domestic Security Preparedness Task Force, a member of the board of directors of Enterprise Holding Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of Horizon Blue Cross), and a member of the board of Trustees of Monmouth Medical Center. He is a Lifetime Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He has received numerous awards, including the New Jersey State Bar Foundation Medal of Honor, the Essex County Bar Foundation Person of the Year, top 100 New Jersey Business People by New Jersey Business News, Ann Klein Advocate Award for the Disabled, B’nai Birth Humanitarian Award of Excellence, Saint Thomas More Medal of Honor, ACLU of New Jersey Roger N. Baldwin Civil Liberties Award, and the Columbian Foundation’s Achievement and Humanitarian Award. He has also been named as a Super Lawyer in New Jersey since inception and to the 25th anniversary edition of Best Lawyers in America in the area of Appellate Law.
Dean Riccio is currently a tenured Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, and Business Associations. He has been voted Professor of the Year four times by the student body and is a past recipient of the Andrea Catania Fellowship for Excellence In Teaching. He has been a lecturer for the New Jersey Law Journal’s annual review of New Jersey Civil Law.
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