Bob Bonney is a partner in the Firm's Criminal and Government Agency Defense Department and Business Law and Litigation Department. He has been designated by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Criminal Trial Attorney since 1988. His 40 years of experience includes extensive work in Criminal Defense in Federal and State Courts, Corporate Criminal Law, Internal Corporate Investigations, Shareholder/Partner Dispute Litigation, Health Care, Tax Fraud and representation before State governmental agencies and professional boards. Bob served as law clerk to the Honorable Clarkson S. Fisher, United States District Judge from 1975-1976. He was a Deputy Public Defender for the New Jersey Office of the Public Advocate in 1977 and an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1977-1981. Bob has been listed in the 2008 through 2018 editions of America's and The New York Area's Best Lawyers. In 2006, he received the Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law. Bob formerly served on the U.S. Attorney's Defense Counsel Advisory Committee. He was the President of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers - New Jersey in 2005-2006. He was a member of the Criminal Advisory Board for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey; the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Model Jury Instructions - Criminal, and served as the Chairman of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Criminal Law Section in 1989-1990. He has been a guest lecturer at Rutgers University School of Law - Camden on Forfeiture Law and Health Care Fraud. He has also lectured for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE) on Health Care Fraud, Forfeiture Law, and Criminal Law and Procedure. Bob is an active member of the United Way of Monmouth County, having served as Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2011-2013. Bob received his B.A. from Roanoke College, cum laude, in 1971 and his J.D. from Washington and Lee University in 1975, where he was Captain of a National Moot Court Team.
