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Robert E. Spitzer

Partner

  • location icon Newark, NJ
    One Riverfront Plaza
    Suite 800
    Newark, NJ 07102

Robert E. Spitzer is a partner in the Newark office of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the Healthcare, Medical Malpractice and Long-Term Care Practices. Mr. Spitzer is a highly experienced litigator whose practice now focuses on defending nursing homes, hospitals, other health care facilities and individual medical providers in professional negligence actions. During his career, Mr. Spitzer has served clients in a vast array of legal landscapes, including personal/catastrophic injury, wrongful death, premises liability, civil rights litigation, construction defect, insurance defense, landlord-tenant matters, commercial disputes and has defended governmental entities and their agents. 

Mr. Spitzer has extensive experience in all stages of litigation in both state and federal courts from pre-suit investigations through trial and when necessary, appellate practice. He has briefed and argued numerous cases before New Jersey’s Appellate Division. He has also obtained many favorable settlements through mediation and has successfully prevailed on a number of dispositive motions. 

Mr. Spitzer has served as a Member of the District VC Fee Arbitration Committee, District XA Ethics Committee, Seton Hall University School of Law’s Alumni Council and Maxwell Place Condominium Association’s Judiciary and ADR Committee. He also has served on the Board of Editors for Medical Malpractice Law & Strategy and Panelist for the Annual New Jersey Medical Malpractice Law Seminar. Mr. Spitzer is a graduate of the Justice Morris Pashman American Inn of Court.

Admissions

  • State Bar Admissions
    • New Jersey
    • New York
  • United States District Courts
    • United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • United States Courts of Appeals
    • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Awards & Honors

  • Super Lawyers, Super Lawyer, 2021-2026
  • Super Lawyers, Rising Star, 2011-2020

Education

Seton Hall University School of Law

Juris Doctor, 2006

Drew University

Bachelor of Arts, English, 2003

Representative Matters

  • Spille v. Virtua Health, Inc., 2025 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 17, 2025 WL 21526 (App. Div. 2025)
  • Shakur v. N.J. State Prison Med. Dep't, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 164664, 2021 WL 3879097 (D.N.J. 2021)
  • Blair v. Care Point Health, 2021 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 993, 2021 WL 2068943 (App. Div. 2021)
  • Huckaby v. Bradley, 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 36472, *2, 2020 WL 6778452 (3d Circ. 2020)
  • Peters v. John, 2020 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2346, 2020 WL 7136318 (App. Div. 2020)
  • Eid v. Health, 2020 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2400, 2020 WL 7350842 (App. Div. 2020)
  • Huckaby v. Bradley, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 71635, 2018 WL 2002790 (D.N.J. 2018)
  • Canlar v. Estate of Yacoub, 2018 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1764, , 2018 WL 3543157 (App. Div. 2018)
  • Onyekaomelu v. University of Med. & Dentistry, 2017 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 28, 2017 WL 104586 (App. Div. 2017)
  • Kang v. Yang, 2016 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1056, 2016 WL 2618496 (App. Div. 2016)
  • Hayes v. Nestor, 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 130259 (D.N.J. 2013)
  • J. Fletcher Creamer & Son, Inc. v. Pennsylvania Mfrs. Ass'n Ins. Co., 2009 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2106, 2009 WL 2365884 (App. Div. 2009)
  • Van v. Borough of North Haledon, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 52221, 2009 WL 1811727 (D.N.J. 2009)
  • Saracino v. Toms River Reg'l High Sch. East, 2009 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2623, 2009 WL 3460680 (App. Div. 2009)
  • Integrated Health Res., LLC v. Rossi Psychological Group, P.A., 537 F. Supp. 2d 672, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7351 (D.N.J. 2008)
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