From left: Peter Torcicollo, Gibbons PC managing director, and Ricardo Solano Jr. and Lawrence Lustberg, co-chairs of the firm’s White Collar & Investigations Group – GIBBONS PC
By Kimberly Redmond/June 2, 2023
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney and First Assistant Attorney General of New Jersey Ricardo Solano Jr. is rejoining Gibbons PC to help launch, lead and build the Newark-based firm’s standalone White Collar & Investigations Group.
In a June 1 press release, Solano, who began his legal career as an associate in Gibbons’ criminal defense practice and later returned as a director for the unit, described his return as “a real homecoming.”
“At various points over the past two decades, I have worked at Gibbons as a summer associate, associate, and director, and I have worked with Gibbons attorneys as colleagues, adversaries, and co-counsel,” said Solano.
He went on to say that co-chairing the new practice with longtime Gibbons attorney Lawrence Lustberg “feels like a natural next step, and I look forward to helping direct the White Collar & Investigations Group and ensure its continued growth.”
Until recently, Gibbons’ white collar criminal and investigations practice operated under the administrative umbrella of the Commercial & Criminal Litigation Group. However, the firm decided to establish a separate group to better support and grow what is currently one of its most vibrant practices.
“By spinning off the practice into a full-fledged legal department, Gibbons is providing its white collar defense attorneys the administrative infrastructure and management resources they need to support a practice that is expanding in size and significance to the firm and its clients,” said Gibbons, noting that many of these cases are “often high-profile and precedent setting matters…not only in New Jersey, but throughout the region and nationally.”
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