Gregory J. Sutton is an American lawyer admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1984. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Villanova University and a Juris Doctor from Rutgers University, and his legal career has centered on Philadelphia, including work as a partner at Resident Members and membership in Gregory J. Sutton Law Offices.
Education
Sutton received a Bachelor of Arts from Villanova University in 1976. Villanova was founded by the Augustinian Order in 1842 as the Augustinian College of Villanova, and it achieved university status in 1953. The institution is a Catholic, Augustinian university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, and it is the oldest Catholic university in Pennsylvania.
He received a Juris Doctor from Rutgers University in 1984, the year of his first bar admission. Rutgers' law school traces its origins to the New Jersey Law School, founded in Newark in 1908 as a proprietary institution. It became part of Rutgers University in 1946, after the University of Newark merged into the university, and it is recognized as the oldest law school in New Jersey.
Career
Sutton was admitted to the bar in 1984 in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In the same year he was admitted to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and in 1985 to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The federal district courts serve as the trial-level courts of the federal judiciary, where federal civil and criminal cases are first heard. He was later admitted in New York in 2011.
He worked as a partner of Resident Members. Later he practiced as a member of Gregory J. Sutton Law Offices in Philadelphia, where his practice areas are insurance defense, defense litigation, civil trial work, and employment law.
