FRANCESCO TADDEO
Telephone: (908) 526-1088
Fax: (908) 526-1099
e-mail: ft@taddeolaw.com

Francesco Taddeo concentrates his practice in the general practice of law including Litigation, Municipal Court, Small Business, Collection Matters, Wills, Living Wills, Trusts and Estates, Real Estate, Guardianship Matters, Personal Injury and Family Law.

He also specializes in the areas of labor and employment law representing management and individual parties in the private and public sector; non-compete /restrictive covenant litigation; commercial litigation and business disputes. His practice involves litigation of all types of labor and employment matters in state and federal court, as well as administrative agencies, including discrimination claims, sexual harassment claims, breach of contract, whistleblower, public policy and employment-at-will claims, restrictive covenant and trade secret matters, business torts, labor collective bargaining contract negotiations, grievance arbitrations, organizing campaigns and NLRB claims.

He has served as a Judicial Law Clerk in Somerset County, and serves as a Trustee of the Somerset County Bar Association as well as the Somerset County Bar Foundation.  He is also an active member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, having served as a Member of the Executive Committee of its Young Lawyers Division as well as on the NJSBA Labor and Employment Section Executive Committee.  He is also a member of the Sidney Reitman Labor and Employment Law American Inn of Court.  He is also an editor for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education’s Labor and Employment Law publication as well as an editor research assistant for a chapter on "Employment Torts" in the Desk Reference Book, Business Torts Litigation published by the American Bar Association.
   
Bar Admissions:
New Jersey, 2001
U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 2001
District of Columbia, 2002
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2008
New York, admission pending, 2008

Education:
Quinnipiac University School of Law, Hamden, Connecticut
Juris Doctor

Rutgers University, Livingston College, Piscataway, New Jersey
Bachelor of Arts
Major:  Political Science
Professional Associations and Memberships:

• New Jersey State Bar Association, Labor and Employment, Litigation Sections, Member of Young Lawyers Division Executive Committee Board (2002-2007)
• Somerset County Bar Association, Member of the Board of Trustees, Member Young Lawyers Division Executive Board
• American Bar Association, Litigation and Labor and Employment Sections, Member
• Member, NJSBA Sidney Reitman Labor and Employment Law American Inn of Court, Barrister

Languages:
Italian