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Anthony J. Rella is a Partner in the Firm. Mr. Rella has worked on matters for a varying array of clients including commercial landlords, state and local governments, record companies, rocks bands, web-designers, filmmakers, directors, actors, writers, transportation and logistics companies, drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, and quilt makers. His work has encompassed a wide spectrum of practice before all levels of New York State Courts, Federal District Courts and Courts of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Rella is a founding member of the Firm. He received his B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and received his J.D. from Columbia University. Prior to the inception of Lawlor & Rella, Mr. Rella worked as an associate in the litigation department of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in Manhattan and served as law clerk to the Honorable Eduardo C. Robreno, United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Mr. Rella is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.

In addition to being an attorney, Mr. Rella is an actor, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who plays drums, guitar, upright bass, piano and banjo.

Publications
"Ellipsis...Anyone?" Lish v. Harpers Magazine

Admissions
New York 1995
New Jersey 1995

Education
Columbia University, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, J.D. 1994
University of Pennsylvania, Phi Beta Kappa, B.S. 1991