Howard Mankoff

Senior Counsel

    Over more than 30 years, Howard has built a successful legal practice which focuses on professional liability defense, employment litigation and public entity liability defense. He has represented lawyers, accountants, real estate professionals, directors and officers. A respected trial lawyer, Howard has handled hundreds of professional malpractice claims and has tried over 100 of them to verdict, a majority of which sided with the defense. In a precedent-setting decision before the Third Circuit, Howard successfully argued that a municipality can exclude houses of worship in order to facilitate economic redevelopment. He also has extensive experience defending cases brought under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act. 

    In 1978 Howard received his undergraduate degree from American University, with honors. He then received his law degree from Rutgers University in 1981.

    Classes/Seminars Taught

    What Insurance Claims Professionals Need in Order to Make the Process More Effective, December 2011

    Risk Management Seminar, CNA, 2003

    School Bully Laws

    Trends in Directors and Officers Litigation

    Counsel Fee Exposure in Employment Litigation

    Electronic Discovery Issues

    Mock Trial of Employment Suit

    Published Works

     “Land Use Litigation – Trends, Exposures and Moral Hazards,” Defense Digest, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 2016

    "Electronic Discovery: The Final Frontier," Defense Digest, Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2005

    "Revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Create New Problems for Defendants," Defense Digest, Fall 1994

    Legal Teaching Position

    Guest lecturer at Hofstra University Law School, 2012

    Admissions
    New Jersey
    1981
    U.S. District Court of New Jersey
    1981
    U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
    1985
    Education
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law-Camden (J.D., 1981)
    American University (B.A., cum laude, 1978)
    Honors & awards

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    New Jersey Super Lawyer
    2006, 2008

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    Associations & memberships
    American Bar Association
    New Jersey State Bar Association
    Professional Liability Underwriters Society
    Richard J. Hughes Inn of Court
    Ethics Committee, Essex County
    Year joined
    1992