George W. Fisher, Attorney

Mr. Fisher was born in Tampa, Florida in 1948. He graduated from St. Joseph'sUniversity with a Bachelor of Science in History in 1971. In 1974, he receivedhis Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law in ChapelHill, North Carolina.

Mr. Fisher has practiced law continuously since 1974. He began his careerwith the New Jersey Attorney General's Office and spent eleven years there. As aDeputy Attorney General, he served the State in wide-ranging fashion. Heprovided advice to the Department of Labor, Division of Unemployment Insuranceand to the Board of Public Utilities. He supervised different sections of theOffice's Division of Law.  He handled substantial appeals on behalf of theState at all levels, including the United States Supreme Court (and has inexcess of 30 published opinions to his credit). Most importantly, he representedthe State and State officials - - from members of the Judiciary to cabinetofficers to troopers in the Division of State Police - - in complex litigationsin the areas of construction, civil rights, constitutional rights,discrimination, insurance, and inter-and-intra-state solid waste regulation.

Eleven years of his career were spent in private practice with a respectedfirm in Princeton, New Jersey.  There, as partner, Mr. Fisher handledlitigations for a variety of clients in a variety of substantive areas,including employment law. He provided advice to local government agencies.Administratively,  he led the firm's Litigation Practice Group. During thisperiod, Mr. Fisher continued his association with the State of New Jersey,serving as special counsel to the State (and State employees) in litigationsinvolving Division of State Police matters and budget disputes between theJudiciary and various New Jersey counties. He also enjoyed the privilege ofserving as special counsel to the State of North Carolina and itsjudiciary  in a federal matter litigated in New Jersey.

In 1997, Mr. Fisher co-founded Zuckerman & Fisher. Since starting thefirm, he has devoted his practice to representation of wronged employees in allareas of employment law. His clients have run the gamut from upper-levelmanagement in Fortune Five Hundred corporations to blue-collar workers in smallbusinesses; and his cases have covered age, race, gender and disabilitydiscrimination, wrongful termination in violation of public policy,whistle-blowing, sexual harassment, and more. Because of his work in theemployment setting, Mr. Fisher has also developed an interest and competence inmatters involving church and canon law. In this area, in both church and secularforums, he has represented clergy accused of sexual improprieties, misconduct,and violation of ordination vows. He has also defended them against efforts todissolve the pastor-congregation relationship and, where dissolution occurs, to secure their professional and financial interests.

Mr. Fisher has been married since 1971, and he and his wife, an educator,have two grown children. Over the years, he has been active in his community,having served on a redevelopment authority, local school board, and utilityadvisory board. He has also been deeply involved in the Episcopal Church in NewJersey, both at local and diocesan levels. And, he has committed substantialtime to the arts, serving six years as a trustee of the Princeton Ballet Societyand continuing to provide that body pro bono legal advice.