Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP

Title: Partner
Primary Office: Murray Hill, NJ
Other Office: Philadelphia, PA
Practice Area/s: Environmental Law and Litigation, Toxic Tort Litigation, General Liability, Product Liability, Transportation Litigation, Civil Rights and Municipal Liability
Telephone: 973.242.2230 | Fax: 973.242.1945
Email: rranieri@wglaw.com

Click for PDF version
Download VCard

Professional Experience:

Mr. Ranieri is Chair of the Environmental Law and Litigation Practice. He also practices in the areas of general liability, construction and product liability matters on behalf of self-insured entities, insurance companies and third-party administrators. Some of his significant achievements include:

- Certified Nationally as a Civil Trial Advocate;

- Certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court;

- Recently argued before New Jersey Supreme Court on issue of Statutory Construction for lawsuit bars (statutes of repose)

- Successfully argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court, causing a change in the law for municipal liability and conditions of public property;

- Successfully argued an appeal that changed New Jersey state law on Dram Shop liability for foreseeability;

- Personally tried to verdict as first chair over 50 jury and 15 non-jury trials;

- Lectures throughout the United States on various mass tort/toxic tort issues

- Named a Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America Society (National Honorary Society of Senior Trial Attorneys)

- From 2005 through 2011, recognized by the publisher of the New Jersey edition of Super Lawyers magazine as being among the top 5 percent of practitioners in his practice specialty within the State of New Jersey

Education:

Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1985.

Drexel University, B.S. cum laude, 1982.

Professional Memberships and Activities:

- Certified Member, Council on Litigation Management

- Admitted to practice in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey

- Member of the New York Bar Association, Trial Attorneys of New Jersey, and Defense Research Institute (DRI), Indoor Air Quality Subcommittee

Selected Reported Cases:

Voss v. Tranquillo, A-110-09 (N.J. 2011)

Duckett v. Wawa, Inc., 3405 EDA 2009 (PA App. Ct. 2011)

Krzyzanski v. Swepco Tube, A006309-06T5 (N.J. App. Div. 2008)

Civalier v. Estate of Trancucci, 648 A.2d 705 (N.J. 1994)