Ernest P. Fronzuto

Mr. Fronzuto received a B.A. from Susquehanna University and his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal. He served a one-year judicial clerkship with the Honorable John E. Keefe, in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey.

Following his clerkship, he joined the firm of Shanley & Fisher, P.C. in Morristown (now Drinker Biddle & Reath), one of New Jersey’s largest law firms, where he specialized in the area product liability and toxic tort defense. He later joined Piro Zinna Cifelli Paris & Genitempo in Nutley, where his practice was concentrated in handling complex civil litigation, product liability and medical malpractice matters.

Mr. Fronzuto is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney. In 2006, he co-founded the firm of Wellinghorst & Fronzuto L.L.C. and continues to concentrate his practice in the area of complex civil litigation, product liability and medical malpractice matters.

He is a member of the bar in the State of New Jersey and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and is also a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the American Association of Trial Lawyers-NJ. He has frequently lectured and published in the area of product liability law. Among his trial and appellate accomplishments, Mr. Fronzuto successfully argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court in the seminal “discovery rule” case of Guichardo v. DeLisi , 177 N.J. 45 (2003).