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Richard E. Brennan is primarily involved in civil litigation. He has tried a large variety of cases ranging from medical malpractice matters to products liability cases. He has been involved in significant appeals in New Jersey involving issues such as wrongful life and the liability of a psychiatrist to a third party.
Prior to joining the firm, Richard accepted a clerkship with the Honorable Mark A. Sullivan, Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division of Superior Court. He then became an associate of Drinker Biddle and was made a partner in 1976.
Richard is a frequent lecturer for the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education (ICLE) and over the years has had an abiding interest in the law of evidence. He was a member of the original New Jersey State Rules of Court Review Commission which prepared the first annotations to the bound volume of the New Jersey Rules of Evidence.
Richard is a Master of the Worrall F. Mountain Inn of Court and an Adjunct Professor of Civil Trial Practice at Seton Hall University School of Law. He is the author of A Practice Guide to Wrongful Death Actions, published by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education in 1994. Richard is also a fellow of The American College of Trial Lawyers and a recipient of The Trial Attorneys of New Jersey 1997 Trial Bar Award for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Justice. | 