Biography

Prof. 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, Prof. Gulino was an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he taught Legal Writing and Research from 1983 to 1988. In 1986, 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 and actively engaged in trials and appeals for the Authority in federal and state courts.

From 1989 to 2001, Prof. Gulino was a partner in an insurance defense firm that bore his name for much of that time; there, he concentrated his practice in complex motions and appeals and supervised the work of the firm’s trial lawyers. 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, Prof. 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 in 2006.

Prof. Gulino is a member of the ABA’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. In 2008, Prof. Gulino authored two entries – on the Taft Court and the Twenty-third Amendment – in a new, multi-volume Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was also selected to be a Technical Brief Grader and Judge of Regional Round Oral Arguments in the ABA’s 2008-09 National Appellate Advocacy Competition.

Since 2007, Prof. Gulino has been Hofstra’s Faculty Liaison to the Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court. In 2009, he was named “Professor of the Year” by the Hofstra Law Review. In the same year, he was appointed Faculty Advisor to the Hofstra Moot Court Association and Director of Moot Court Programs at the Law School and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Legal Writing. Prof. Gulino currently teaches courses in Legal Writing, Appellate Advocacy and Advanced Appellate Advocacy.