Christopher Cerullo

ABOUT

Christopher Cerullo is an associate at Cruser, Mitchell, Novitz, Sanchez, Gaston & Zimet, LLP. His practice primarily focuses in the areas of civil litigation, including transportation, employment liability, construction defect, premises liability, and professional liability claims.

Christopher has substantial experience defending clients in transportation, premises liability, construction, civil rights, products liability, and other general civil liability matters in both New York and New Jersey state and federal courts. His experience includes conducting depositions, drafting and arguing dispositive and pre-trial motions, drafting appeals, participating in alternative dispute resolution, and defending a product seller at trial. He also served as a law clerk to Honorable Thomas F. Brogan, Presiding Judge of the Civil Division in the Passaic County Superior Court.

Christopher earned his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where he served as an Associate Editor of the Fordham Law Review and published a Note on the impact of implicit bias in employment discrimination claims. He also participated in Fordham’s Low Income Taxpayer Clinic, where he represented clients in front of the Internal Revenue Service and New York Tax Court.

Education

Fordham University School of Law
University of Delaware

Areas of practice

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Litigation Percentage

100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

State of New Jersey
State of New York
United States District Court, District of New Jersey
United States District Court, Southern District of New York
United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
Second Circuit Court of Appeals
Third Circuit Court of Appeals

Associations

New Jersey State Bar Association

PUBLICATIONS

“Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist? Reconciling Implicit Bias and Title VII,” 82 Fordham L. Rev. 127 (2013)