Anthony C. Gunst IV, Esq.

As the head of the Nissenbaum Law Group’s professional responsibility and ethics defense practice, Anthony C. Gunst, IV, Esq. oversees a team of attorneys and paralegals that handles ethics matters at virtually every stage of the process. This includes representing clients who are going through random attorney trust account audits, as well as ethics investigations, pre-trial hearings, trials and appeals.

Mr. Gunst is also a seasoned civil trial lawyer. He has handled numerous contested trials to verdict and has appeared both before the highest court of New Jersey (the Supreme Court of New Jersey) and the highest court of New York (the New York Court of Appeals). Likewise, he has represented clients before the Disciplinary Review Board of New Jersey and the New York Attorney Grievance Committee.

Mr. Gunst also oversees the firm’s commercial litigation practice in both the federal and state courts. In that regard, he has handled federal court matters in the District of New Jersey, Southern District of New York and Northern District of Oklahoma. He has also handled a host of state cases in New Jersey and New York, as well as a matter before the Illinois Circuit Court.

Mr. Gunst is a graduate of Washington and Lee School of Law (Lexington, Virginia). During law school, Mr. Gunst worked at the Federal Bureau of Investigation; LeClairRyan and the Supreme Court of Virginia Office of Chief Staff Attorney. During his time with the FBI, Mr. Gunst focused primarily on white-collar crime such as corporate fraud. In that regard, he worked closely with forensic accountants to audit business records.

After law school, Mr. Gunst served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Samuel J. Ragonese, J.S.C. in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division: Gloucester County. He is currently admitted in the New Jersey and New York Bars.

Mr. Gunst’s honors include being a semifinalist in The Robert J. Grey, Jr. Negotiations Competition; serving as an Editor of the Journal of Civil Rights & Social Justice; and being selected for the Devils Backbone Brewing Company’s Heartland Initiative.