DUNICAN ELECTED TREASURER OF STATE BAR FOUNDATION

Patrick C. Dunican, Jr., Chairman and Managing Director of Gibbons P.C., Newark, has been elected treasurer of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting law-related education and giving all New Jersey residents a basic understanding of the legal system. Previously, he served as secretary for two years and before that was a trustee for two years.

Mr. Dunican is a nationally recognized law firm innovator who was highlighted by Law360 in 2010 as one of the country's most innovative law firm managing partners. He has also been named one of the 100 most powerful people in New Jersey business by NJBIZ magazine, an "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst & Young in the category of Professional Services, and the Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 2011 by Seton Hall University School of Law.

In 2004, at the age of 36, Patrick C. Dunican, Jr., was elected managing director of Gibbons, which today is a 230-lawyer firm with five offices in three states. Over the past six years, he has led the growth of the firm into a major Mid-Atlantic regional powerhouse by establishing a corporate management model and defining the firm's future by achieving significant overhead cost reductions. As a result, he has increased the firm's revenues by 64% and profits by 134%, while organically growing the firm by 80 lawyers, expanding the New York office to 60 lawyers, and opening offices in Philadelphia (which now boasts 40 lawyers) and Wilmington.

Mr. Dunican led the firm in 2007, when it shortened its name from Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., to Gibbons P.C. (the firm had previously been known as Crummy, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, and changed that name in 1997). After this, he helped to develop the firm's new logo to increase focus on the firm's brand and even put the Gibbons name in lights on top of its new headquarters building in Newark in 2007.

As a result of his work, the firm has earned many honors, including joining the Am Law 200 for the first time in its 80+ year history, being named to the National Law Journal's "Midsize Hot List" (one of only 20 firms nationwide, and the only NJ-headquartered firm, to be featured), and earning ranking as number 18 nationwide, and 7 among the Am Law Second Hundred firms for associate satisfaction by the American Lawyer.

He also has focused on increasing gender and ethnic diversity in the profession. Mr. Dunican has served as a driving force behind the continued growth and achievement of the Gibbons Women's Initiative, and promoted the firm's first ever class of only women directors and counsel in 2006. As a result of this work, the firm has received numerous awards including the prestigious Catalyst Award (becoming only the third law firm to ever win this award) and earning a place on Working Mother's best law firms for women list.

Under Mr. Dunican's leadership, Gibbons also appointed its first Chief Diversity Officer, and has expanded its Diversity Initiative to include a Supplier Diversity component, an innovation for law firms. The firm has been recognized as a leader for diversity nationwide.

Gibbons has been named among the Best Places to Work in America, New Jersey and Pennsylvania by various organizations over the past five years, in part due to the firm's unique suite of programs, developed by Mr. Dunican. These include the "Gibbons Experience," an extensive and generous benefits package to all employees; "Gibbons Cares," which donates more than $1 million annually to worthy organizations and thousands of hours of pro bono service through the John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest and Constitutional Law; and "Gibbons Goes Green," the firm's sustainability and environmental program.

Dunican received his undergraduate degree from Iona College and his law degree cum laude from Seton Hall University School of Law. He resides in Ridgewood, NJ.