Michael R. Noveck Returns to Gibbons as Executive Director of the Gibbons Fellowship and a Director in the White Collar & Investigations Group

Gibbons P.C. is pleased to welcome back to the firm Michael R. Noveck as the new Executive Director of the John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law, replacing Lawrence S. Lustberg, who has headed that nationally renowned program for the last 35 years. Mr. Lustberg will remain as Executive Director Emeritus of the Fellowship Program. As Executive Director, Mr. Noveck will carry forward the Gibbons Fellowship’s legacy of pro bono representation involving cutting-edge cases implicating constitutional and individual rights and freedoms. He brings significant litigation experience in an array of areas, including criminal justice, Megan’s Law registration, police accountability, and education.

Mr. Noveck will also serve as a Director in the White Collar & Investigations Group, resident in the Newark office. In that capacity, he will represent clients in criminal and civil litigation and enforcement matters.

Mr. Noveck rejoins Gibbons from the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender, where he was a Deputy Public Defender and managed and led the agency’s new Civil Rights practice within the Special Litigation Unit. In that role, Mr. Noveck litigated cases affecting clients throughout the criminal legal system on issues such as discovery, conditions of confinement, sex offender registration, and expungement. He also briefed and argued matters in the New Jersey Supreme Court, Appellate Division, and trial courts.

Just prior to this position, Mr. Noveck spent two years at Gibbons with the John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest & Constitutional Law, providing pro bono legal representation to nonprofit organizations and low-income individuals. His background also includes serving as a housing staff attorney at Northeast New Jersey Legal Services, advocating for clients in administrative proceedings, settlement negotiations, trials, and appeals. Additionally, he was an associate at a law firm in New York City and completed two clerkships: for the Honorable Victor Marrero, Southern District of New York, and the Honorable Stuart J. Rabner, Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Mr. Noveck earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where he was Executive Editor for Article Selection for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and his A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University. He is admitted to practice in the states of New Jersey and New York, the United States District Courts for the District of New Jersey and the Southern District of New York, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits.