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Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. offers exceptional career opportunities to lawyers, aspiring graduates and business support professionals in an environment that is challenging and rewarding. Our continued success depends on our most important asset – our people – which is why we take care in recruiting and retaining the best. We look for candidates with academic excellence, proven commitment and self-motivation.

As a forward-thinking and client-oriented law firm, Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla is continually seeking out new talent to join our team. We look for team players possessing the ability to work individually and as a part of our departmental teams.

If interested, we encourage you to submit a cover letter and resume directly to James D'Arcy, via email to info@ghclaw.com or via fax to (732) 224-6599.

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    Michael J. Canning
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    Mike is the chair of the Litigation Practice Area and co-chair of the Mediation Practice Area.  For forty years he has practiced in the area of commercial litigation and has been certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a civil trial attorney.  He has appeared before the New Jersey Supreme Court and Appellate Division, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and in state and federal trial courts throughout New Jersey.  He devotes his practice primarily to commercial litigation with emphasis in the following areas:  professional liability, in which he has defended over 100 attorneys and accountants in malpractice cases, general civil and commercial litigation, insurance litigation, contract and corporate litigation and trust and estate litigation.

    He represents policyholders seeking declaratory judgments for insurance coverage under comprehensive general liability, product liability, directors' and officers' liability, professional liability, fire, employee dishonesty, life, health, disability, credit and other insurance policies. The coverage litigation includes claims arising from environmental contamination, wrongful employment termination, construction of multifamily residential homes, workers compensation, professional liability and other claims. He also represents professionals in professional liability actions under their professional liability policies and insureds in premium disputes with insurers.  He has been ranked in Chambers USA as a Band 3 and Recognized Practitioner in Insurance Litigation. 

    He counsels both plaintiffs and defendants in contractual and corporate disputes including real estate, employment, business, construction and franchise contracts, partnership dissolution, corporate "divorces", minority shareholder actions and trust and estate matters.

    He has extensive practice in the chancery courts in New Jersey involving temporary restraining orders, preliminary injunctions, enforcement of restrictive covenants, challenging and upholding Wills, removing fiduciaries, compelling accountings, imposing constructive trusts and other forms of equitable relief.  He has received several judicial appointments by the chancery courts as an administrator of estates, special fiscal agent and special counsel to evaluate litigation matters.  He has served as a speaker on chancery practice.  Most litigation matters are resolved by way of settlement and often through mediation.  Mike has successfully resolved numerous cases through mediation as a practitioner.  He is qualified as a private mediator, having completed a private mediation program through the Administrative Office of the Court, and has been appointed to serve as a mediator in civil litigation matters.  

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    • Member of the New Jersey State Bar Association
    • Member of the Monmouth County Bar Association
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    Mike has spoken before trade and professional organizations on topics relating to professional liability, insurance coverage, commercial litigation and chancery practice.

    Admissions
    • New Jersey
    • Federal District Court, District of New Jersey
    • U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
    Education
    • Fordham University School of Law, J.D. (1984)
    • Union College - New York, B.A., cum laude (1981)
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