Thomas M. Gambardella

Tom Gambardella is a member of Wilson Elser’s Executive Committee and co-chair of the firm’s Architects and Engineers Liability practice. In a career spanning more than three decades exclusively at Wilson Elser, he has built an enviable track record involving the defense of professional liability matters with a focus on architects and engineers, employment practices, insurance coverage, agents and brokers, and health care and managed care issues. Accomplished in several areas of law, Tom also handles general liability matters, including the defense of national youth sports programs.

Throughout his career, Tom has managed a wide variety of national defense programs in connection with architects and engineers, employment practices liability, insurance/annuity and youth sports. His experience litigating thousands of complex professional liability disputes significantly strengthens his roles as litigation counsel and as coverage/monitoring counsel for a number of national professional liability programs. Tom’s knowledge of his craft combined with his familiarity with firm resources allow him to assemble attorney teams with the right skill sets nationwide to meet each client’s individual needs. Clients have come to appreciate Tom’s responsiveness, tenacity and commitment as he manages their legal issues so that they can appropriately focus on advancing their organization’s business objectives.

Tom has published articles on topics such as “Construction Claims under New York Law” and has lectured at outside seminars as well as clients’ in-house training programs.

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Areas of Practice 1) Architects & Engineers, 2) e-Discovery, 3) Employment & Labor, 4) General Liability & Casualty, 5) Insurance & Reinsurance Coverage, 6) Life, 7) Health, 8) Disability & ERISA and 9) Professional Liability & Services
Law School St. John's University School of Law, J.D., 1979
Education St. John's University, B.A., 1976
Most recent firm Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
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