Attorney Profile

Anthony J. Cincotta is the founder of Anthony J. Cincotta, P.C. Mr. Cincotta concentrates his practice in the areas traditional labor & employment, employee benefits, contract, commercial and general business, shareholder disputes, public contracts and insurance matters. Mr. Cincotta represents clients in counseling, litigation, mediation and arbitration. Mr. Cincotta was admitted to practice law in New Jersey and New York in 1985. Mr. Cincotta also serves as a Mediator.

Please refer to Areas of Practice for a more detailed description of Mr. Cincotta’s practice.

BAR ADMISSIONS & QUALIFICATIONS

New Jersey State Courts (1985).

District Court of New Jersey (1986).

Third Circuit Court of Appeals (1992).

New York State Courts (1985).

District Court for the Eastern District of New York (1986).

District Court for the Southern District of New York. (1986).

Second Circuit Court of Appeals (2009).

New Jersey, Rule 1:40 qualified mediator on the Roster of New Jersey Court approved mediators in the Counties of Bergen, Burlington, Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset and Union (2012).

American Arbitration Association Panel of Mediators for the NJ Storm Sandy Mediation Program (2013)

EDUCATION

1981- Bachelor of Science degree (summa cum laude) in Business Administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

1984- Juris Doctor degree (cum laude) from Brooklyn Law School.

EXPERIENCE

Prior to opening his own practice, Mr. Cincotta was a shareholder of a prominent national labor and employment law firm. Mr. Cincotta has also been associated with other prominent law firms in New Jersey and New York. Mr. Cincotta was a student law clerk for the Honorable Edward J. Ryan, United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York and a legal intern for the New York County District Attorney’s Office.

ASSOCIATIONS

-New Jersey State Bar Association.

-New Jersey State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section.

-Editor of the New Jersey State Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Quarterly.

- Monmouth Bar Association.

-Member of the Sidney Reitman Employment Law Inn of Court’s Program serving as a    Master/Bencher.

-Member of the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators.

-Member of the New Jersey State Bar Association Alternate Dispute Resolution Section.

-Served on the Monmouth Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Committee.

- Past Lecturer for New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Lorman Education Services and Garden State Council of Society of Human Resource Managers.

PUBLICATIONS

-The Fifth Element:  Responding to a Sexual Harassment Allegation, New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, Vol. 196 (April 1999);

-Sexual Harassment Claims in the 90’s; Balancing the Rights of the Accused Harasser and the Alleged Victim, New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly (1996);

-The Arbitrability of Statutory ERISA Claims Under the Federal Arbitration Act is Revisited by the Third Circuit, New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly (1994);

-The Anatomy of a Severance Pay Claim, New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly (1993);

-Privacy Issues in the Non-Union Private Sector Workplace/An Overview of the Rights of Employers and Employees, New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly (1992);

-New Jersey Enacts Smokers’ Rights Statute, New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly (1992). 

-While in law school, Mr. Cincotta prepared the chapter on New York State in the publication Termination of Employment, Employer - Employee Rights, Prentice Hall, 1984.

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