HON. MATTHEW J. TITONE, Of Counsel.

Matthew J. Titone is the Assemblyman of the 61^st Assembly District in Staten Island. He was elected in 2007.  He is the son of Margaret Titone and the Hon. Vito J. Titone, Staten Island's only New York State Court of Appeals Judge.  Mr. Titone is now associated with the law firm of Gabor & Marotta LLC, a commercial litigation, real estate, tax and entertainment firm in New York City.

While attending St. John's University School of Law, Matthew worked full time as a law clerk for the late John S. Zachary, Esq.  Upon his admission to the New York State Bar in 1992, Matthew immediately began doing pro bono work for the Staten Island AIDS Task Force and Project Hospitality. In late 1993, he was named the Senior Trial Associate for the prestigious Wall Street firm of Morgan, Melhuish, Monahan, Arvidson, Abrutyn & Lisowski, and managed the firm's complex Labor Law litigation department, and litigated Insurance Law and Professional Malpractice Liability cases.  He left the firm in 1998 to open his own private law practice on Staten Island.  Mr. Titone, an accomplished trial attorney, balances his public life as assemblyman with his legal career in civil litigation, which includes negligence defense and personal injury.  While in private practice, Mr. Titone handled the landmark case of Ligreci v. New York Foundling Hospital, involving a claim for “fraudulent adoption,” the first of its kind in the United States.

Throughout his career, Mr. Titone has also consistently provided pro bono services to those who cannot afford legal representation. His efforts aided Project Hospitality in creating a full-time professionally staffed legal service department. Matthew served on the Board of Directors of Community Health Action of Staten Island (f/k/a the Staten Island AIDS Task Force), and has also served on the Board of Trustees for Legal Services of New York, providing oversight on the Legal Aid Society, amongst others.

Matthew's civic participation includes his history of leadership at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center.  In 1998, Matthew joined the Board of Trustees and served on a number of its committees, including briefly serving as Interim President & C.E.O.  Until his election to public office in 2007, he chaired the Merger Committee, overseeing the merger of Snug Harbor Cultural Center with the Staten Island Botanical Garden.

Matthew Titone is an active member of the Richmond County Bar Association, Federal Club Member of the Human Rights Campaign, Wagner College's DaVinci Society, the Loughlin Society of St. John's University, and St. John's University School of Law Alumni Society. Matthew was instrumental in enabling St. John's University to endow a scholarship in his late father's name to benefit Staten Island residents attending the school.

In 2004, he was the recipient of the Community Health Action of Staten Island's Philanthropic Leadership Award.

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