Stephen J. DeFeo
Stephen J. DeFeo is a partner with the firm. He concentrates his practice in complex litigation including commercial litigation, product liability claims, asbestos actions, and personal injury matters.
Mr. DeFeo represents organizations such as AAF-McQuay Inc., Glen-Gery Corporation, and SAP America, Inc., United States Surgical Corporation and Fulton Bank of New Jersey.
Mr. DeFeo graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1982. He earned his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law in 1985. After law school, Mr. DeFeo served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable James D. Clyne and the Honorable Peter J. Giovine of the Superior Court of New Jersey in Ocean County.
Mr. DeFeo was admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 1985. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He has also served as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Character since 1996. He is a member of the American, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Camden County, and Ocean County Bar Associations.
Mr. DeFeo was born in Kingsville, Texas in 1960.
Areas of Practice
- Complex Litigation
- Tobacco Related Products Liability Claims Defense
- Commercial Litigation
- Personal Injury
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey, 1985
- Pennsylvania, 1985
- U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law - Camden, Camden, New Jersey - 1985
- Harvard University - 1982
- Honors: Cum Laude
Representative Clients
- AAF-McQuay Inc.
- Glen-Gery Corporation
- Heard Communications, Inc.
- ITT Corporation
- ITT Sheraton Corporation
- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.
- Philip Morris Incorporated
- SAP America, Inc.
Professional Associations and Memberships
- New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Charter, Member, 1996 - Present
- American Bar Association, Member
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member
- New Jersey Bar Association, Member
- Camden County Bar Association, Member
- Ocean County Bar Association, Member
Past Employment Positions
- Hon. James D. Clyne, Superior Court of New Jersey, Ocean County, Judicial Law Clerk
- Hon. Peter J. Giovine, Superior Court of New Jersey, Ocean County, Judicial Law Clerk






