Russell Curley
OF COUNSEL
Russell J. Curley joined Phillips & Paolicelli as of Counsel in 2023, focusing his practice on mass tort litigation. Prior to joining Phillips & Paolicelli, Russell was a state prosecutor for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office and the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office, where he oversaw complex financial fraud investigations, public corruption investigations and prosecuted a wide variety of cases including murder, racketeering, money laundering, theft, tax evasion, drug trafficking, bribery and mortgage fraud. Russell served as Section Chief of the Special Prosecutions unit and the Gang & Drug Trafficking unit, where he oversaw a variety of complex investigative techniques including wiretaps, undercover operations, cooperating informants, and the use of GPS tracking devices. Russell tried numerous jury trials to verdict, and handled appeals before the New Jersey Supreme Court, and the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division.
Russell is a 1994 graduate of Brown University and 1997 graduate of Rutgers University School of Law – Newark, and is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the United States Supreme Court.