Gregory E. Reid is Of Counsel to the Sills Cummis &
Gross Litigation Practice Group. He represents Fortune 500
corporations, financial institutions and mid-sized businesses in litigation
involving complex commercial issues, including business tort and lender
liability, in federal and state courts. Mr. Reid prides himself on being
an efficient and effective problem solver. He recognizes that each case
is unique and that costly and disruptive litigation is not the answer to every
commercial dispute. He works closely with his clients to advance their
business objectives through efficient and cost-effective representation.
Mr. Reid is also passionate about community service and
social justice. He is a volunteer attorney with the District of New
Jersey’s federal re-entry program, ReNew, for individuals who are on federal
supervised release. As part of the ReNew team, Mr. Reid collaborates with
the Honorable Madeline Cox Arleo, U.S. District Court Judge, the Honorable
Michael A. Hammer, U.S. Magistrate Judge, the United States Attorney’s Office,
the Federal Public Defender’s Office and the United States Probation Office to
assist recently released federally convicted offenders transition into society
with job searches, job training, re-establishing valid identification, access
to healthcare and numerous other issues that affect successful re-entry into
society. Mr. Reid is also co-chair of the Board of Associates for the
Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children, a Newark, NJ based non-profit that
provides partial-tuition scholarships to economically disadvantaged children attending
private and parochial schools within Bergen, Essex, Hudson and Union
counties. Mr. Reid was appointed to the District VA Ethics Committee by
the New Jersey Supreme Court for a four-year term beginning September 2016.
Before joining the Firm, Mr. Reid was a Law Clerk to the
Honorable Kevin McNulty, United States District Court for the District of New
Jersey. Prior to that he was an Associate in the New York office of
Willkie Farr & Gallagher. During law school, he served as Senior
Articles Editor of the Seton Hall Law Review and interned for the Honorable
Barry T. Albin of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Mr. Reid was Seton Hall University School of Law’s 2008
recipient of the ALI-ABA Scholarship and Leadership Award, an award presented
to one student in each eligible school’s graduating class who best represents a
combination of scholarship and leadership.