Top Rated Criminal Defense Attorney in Verona, NJ

Attorney Lorraine Gauli-Rufo is the founder and owner of LGR Law LLC, which has law offices in New York, New York, and Verona, New Jersey. A nationally ranked and award-winning trial lawyer, Ms. Gauli-Rufo focuses her practice solely on criminal defense, and she provides unmatched counsel and support to clients throughout the greater New York City metropolitan region and surrounding areas of Newark and New Jersey who stand accused or are under investigation for any type of white collar crime or any other felony or misdemeanor offense.

Certified as a criminal trial attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court, Ms. Gauli-Rufo has successfully handled dozens of jury trials in state and federal courts over the course of her career, along with more than 1,000 criminal cases. As such, she possesses the extensive knowledge and experience necessary to help her clients achieve the favorable results they seek as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, and she has achieved a long record of securing dismissals, acquittals and reductions of charges for her clients.

Honored for her remarkable success, Ms. Gauli-Rufo has earned a Top 100 Trial Lawyer designation from The National Trial Lawyers along with the Federal Criminal Defense Attorney of the Year in New Jersey from Corporate INTL in 2016. Recognized for her superior client service, she has also received the 10 Best in Client Satisfaction Award from the American Institute of Criminal Law Attorneys as well as 10 out of 10 client ratings on Avvo and the site's Clients' Choice Award.

Licensed to practice since 1992, Ms. Gauli-Rufo obtained her Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1991, and she is a 1984 graduate of Rutgers University. Upon receiving admission to the New Jersey State Bar Association, she worked as an associate at a prominent area law firm before joining the Federal Public Defender's Office as an assistant public defender in 1996. She served in that role until 2013 when she left to establish her own private practice.

Ms. Gauli-Rufo is a trustee with the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey and a member of the U.S. Attorney's Defense Counsel Advisory Committee, the Lawyers in Transition Committee and the Cedar Grove Municipal Alliance Committee. She is also a master of the Heckel Inn of Court, and she is an active member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Essex County Bar Association, among her other professional affiliations.