Attorney Profiles

ELLEN NUNNO CORBO, is a partner with Taylor, Colicchio & Silverman, LLP. She specializes in insurance defense litigation, insurance coverage litigation, premises liability, products liability, retail owner/operator liability, corporate litigation and oppressed minority shareholder litigation. Admitted to the practice of law in 1985, Ms. Corbo began her legal career as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Harry A. Margolis, Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, 1984-1985, where she conceived and wrote the original draft of the New Jersey Chancery Law Clerk Handbook. She practiced with the law firm of Tompkins, McGuire, Wachenfeld & Barry in Newark until 2001, when she joined Taylor, Colicchio & Silverman. She has held the position of Adjunct Professor at Montclair State University, where she taught Legal Research and Legal Writing, and at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she taught English Writing Workshops. Ms. Corbo received her law degree from Seton Hall University Law School (J.D., 1984), and was a member of the Seton Hall National Appellate Moot Court Team. She received her undergraduate degree from Seton Hall University (B.A., Magna Cum Laude, 1981), where she was a member of Phi Alpha Theta, Historical Honor Society. She has an extensive record as a community activist, including as Trustee, and later Chairperson, of the Human Resources Committee of the Clifton Against Substance Abuse Foundation, Co-Chair of the Clifton Community Advisory Committee, and member of the Clifton Strategic Planning Council, the Clifton Early Childhood Development Committee, and the Clifton Parents Council. She is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, as well as of the NJSBA Litigation Section, and former Co-Chair of the NJSBA Alternative Work Arrangements Committee.

Areas of Practice

• Litigation & Appeals
• Contracts
• Business Organizations
• Personal Injury -- Defense
• Personal Injury -- Plaintiff
• Estate Planning
• Trusts
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Real Estate Law

Bar Admissions

• New Jersey, 1985
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1985

Education

• Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey, 1984
  Doctor of Jurisprudence
  Honors: Seton Hall National Appellate Moot Court Team, Centennial
  Honors: Scholarship
  
  
• Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey, 1981
  Bachelor of Science
  Honors: Magna Cum Laude
  Honors: Dean's List, Phi Alpha Theta