PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY
OF
DEBORAH B. ROSENTHAL

PRIMARY AREA OF PRACTICE

Ms. Rosenthal's practice principally focuses on litigation where she has been responsible for all phases of litigation in State and Federal Courts, including the following areas: civil rights, employment law, malicious prosecution, public entity/employee liability, premises liability, motor vehicle liability, construction, insurance coverage, commercial litigation, and insurance fraud. Ms. Rosenthal's practice also includes public entity representation where she is responsible for appearing at municipal meetings, drafting ordinances, resolutions, bylaws and contracts, and providing opinion letters for various municipalities and Joint Insurance Funds.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Ms. Rosenthal has handled a wide variety of litigated matters. Recently, she successfully represented at trial, an owner of a small business who merged his company with another, and then was terminated, leaving behind all of his inventory. She was successful in obtaining a judgment in the amount of $161,000 in favor of her client for his claim that the other side was unjustly enriched by keeping her client's inventory after he was terminated. Moreover, Ms. Rosenthal successfully defended the appeal of volunteer firefighters who brought suit against a municipality for severe injuries they sustained while engaged in a training drill on municipal property. She also successfully defended a commercial property owner in a jury trial in New Jersey State Court against a citizen who claimed she fell on a defective sidewalk outside her dentist's office. Ms. Rosenthal also recently successfully defeated the counterclaim of a chiropractor, serving prison time for insurance fraud, who was seeking payment of approximately $287,000 from an insurance company for medical services rendered to various insureds and was awarded a judgment for her client in excess of $110,000. Ms. Rosenthal successfully dismissed, via summary judgment motion, the claim of inadequate security by an exterminator against a pizza parlor owner, when the exterminator was injured diving to the floor to avoid gun-shots fired by an armed robber.

In addition, representing both employees and employers, she has successfully resolved numerous employment matters involving claims of discrimination and sexual harassment.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ms. Rosenthal graduated from Duke University in Durham, N.C. in 1989 with a B.A. in Political Science. In 1992, Ms. Rosenthal graduated from the Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey, where she was the managing editor of the Women's Rights Law Reporter and a Legal Research and Writing Instructor. She was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar and Pennsylvania State Bar in 1992. Ms. Rosenthal was also admitted to the bar of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1997.

From 1992-1993, Ms. Rosenthal served as a law clerk for the Honorable William R. Albrecht, J.S.C. in Warren County New Jersey. She has been an associate with Gebhardt & Kiefer since 1993.

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY AFFILIATIONS

Ms. Rosenthal is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Hunterdon County Bar Association, and the Warren County Bar Association. She has provided training regarding discrimination and harassment to both teachers and students.