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Robert B. Hille is a Partner in the law firm of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith and Davis, LLP, Roseland, New Jersey. Concentrating on Professional Liability, Ethics, Insurance and Healthcare Law, Mr. Hille has extensive trial experience and has litigated a number of insurance coverage, healthcare, professional liability defense and ethics matters, dispute resolution, fraud and abuse, and regulatory matters.

Mr. Hille has lectured widely in the areas of Insurance and Healthcare Law. He has also published articles covering such topics as Duty to Non-Clients: Banco Popular Raises “Double Exposure”, New Jersey Law Journal (January 2003); The Coming Storm (The Changing Nature of Risk), Journal of Reinsurance Intermediaries and Underwriters (June 2003); GATS’ Threat to the Legal Profession is Worth a Serious Look, New Jersey Law Journal (Summer 2003); Professional Liability Insurance: What’s Changed and Why?, New Jersey Law Journal (January 2004); The HIPAA Minefield: Navigating Med-Mal Discovery Requests, New Jersey Law Journal (May 2004); State, Insurers Step Up Fight Against Insurance Fraud, New Jersey Law Journal (December 2005); and Health Care Law, Lowered Burden for Fraud Claims, New Jersey Law Journal (July 2006).

Mr. Hille has also participated as counsel in a number of published decisions, including: State v. Clark, 162 N.J. 201 (N.J. 2000); Christie v. Jeney, 167 N.J. 509 (N.J. 2001); Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Land, 186 N.J. 163, 892 A.2d 1240 (2006); Mansour v. Leviton Mfg. Co., Inc. , 382 N.J. Super. 594, 890 A.2d 336 (App. Div. 2006); Aftab v. N.J. Property Liability Insurance Guaranty Association, 386 N.J. Super. 41 (App. Div. 2006); Curiae in Guido v. Duane Morris, LLP, 202 N.J. 79 (2010); Gere v. Louis, 209 N.J. 486 (2012); State of New Jersey v. Buckner, 223 N.J. 1 (2015); Dunbar Homes, Inc. v. Zoning Bd. of Adjustment of Twp. of Franklin, 223 N.J. 546 (2018); MTK Food Servs., Inc. v. Sirius Am. Ins. Co., 455 N.J. Super. 307 (2018); Kernahan v. Home Warranty Adm’r of Fla., Inc., 236 N.J. 301 (2019); Dimitrakopoulos v. Borrus, Goldin, Foley, Vignuolo, Hyman and Stahl., P.C. , 237 N.J. 91 (2019).

Mr. Hille is a graduate of Bucknell University and received his law degree from Seton Hall University. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a civil trial attorney and is a Past President of the New Jersey State Bar Association and Bergen County Bar Association. He also served as chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Amicus Committee where he continues to serve as a member. Mr. Hille is also a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Practice Committee. Mr. Hille is admitted to the New Jersey and New York Bars and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.

Mark R. Vespole is a partner in the Florham Park, New Jersey office of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP, a national law firm. The author has successfully prosecuted and defended claims of construction defect and professional liability in a variety of construction defect and structure cases in state and federal courts, and before arbitration panels throughout the country. Mr. Vespole's practice also includes insurance coverage litigation arising out of first-party and third-party property and casualty, life and health, professional liability, employment practices, and directors' and officers' liability policies, as well as corporate raiding, securities arbitrations and compliance matters for broker-dealers and registered representatives.

Mr. Vespole is an Honors graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Seton Hall Law School. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Third Circuit, United States District Court of New Jersey and the United States District Court for the Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Districts of New York. He has been certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney since 1988. He frequently gives presentations and writes articles on issues pertaining to insurance coverage, trial practice, corporate raiding and significant cases argued before or decided by the United States Supreme Court and other courts.