Biography

Frank Gulino is a graduate of New York University (B.A. 1976) and Fordham University School of Law (J.D. 1979). At Fordham, he was Managing Editor of the Fordham Urban Law Journal and the author of “Legal Duty to the Unborn Plaintiff: Is There A Limit?”, 6 Fordham Urb. L.J. 217 (1978).

Following law school, he served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Kent Sinclair, Jr., United States Magistrate, United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Trained as a litigator at the prestigious firm of Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine, Mr. Gulino was an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he taught Legal Writing and Research for five years. At the age of 31, he was appointed Deputy General Counsel to the New York City Housing Authority, where he was in charge of the Authority’s wide-ranging litigation practice.

From 1989 to 2001, Mr. Gulino was a partner in an insurance defense firm, where he concentrated his practice in complex motions and appeals. In 2001, he joined Brecher Fishman Pasternack Popish Heller Rubin & Reiff, as Counsel in charge of the firm’s complex legal issues and appeals practice. Elected to the Brecher Fishman partnership in 2003, Mr. Gulino was named administrative partner of the Firm’s litigation practice in 2004, in which capacity he served until his appointment to the Hofstra Law School faculty.

Prof. Gulino is a member of the American Bar Association’s Council of Appellate Lawyers and has lectured members of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association on appellate practice. In addition, he has been a contributing author to the New York State Bar Association’s reference work, Federal Civil Practice, and its supplements since publication of the work’s first edition in 1989.

He joined the Hofstra faculty in 2006, serving in quick succession as an adjunct Special Professor of Law for the summer session that year and as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Legal Research and Writing for the 2006-07 school year before his appointment as Assistant Professor of Legal Writing beginning in 2007. Prof. Gulino teaches courses in Legal Writing, Appellate Advocacy and Advanced Appellate Advocacy at Hofstra.