Ronald A. Berutti

Ron@MNBLawFirm.com

Professional headshot of a smiling middle-aged man with a bald head, gray beard, wearing a navy suit, white shirt, and striped tie, against a gray gradient background.

Active Professional Affiliations:

Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM);

Federalist Society.

BACKGROUND:

After 30 years of practice wherein I represented clients in an array of complex litigation, on January 1, 2022, my partner and I left our positions as equity partners in a well-known midsized law firm to open our own law firm specializing in constitutional law claims, individual liberty, employment disputes, and complex commercial litigation. Since opening our firm, I have filed suits and administrative claims, primarily in New Jersey and New York federal courts, against some of the largest multinational corporations, high ranking government officials, educational institutions, and local government entities alleging violations of civil rights associated with issues such as vaccine mandates, DE&I discrimination, ESG investing, critical race theory/anti-racism curriculum, transgenderism, religious liberty, mandatory masking, parents’ rights, and other such liberty issues. Among the parties I have filed suit against are the following:

  • Judge Juan Merchan, J.S.C. (Presiding Judge in the Trump criminal trial)

  • BlackRock (DEI, ESG investing, vaccine mandate discrimination);

  • Jerome Powell, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank (DEI & religious discrimination)

  • New York Governor Kathy Hochul (religious liberty, vaccine mandate);

  • New York City Mayors Bill DeBlasio and Eric Adams (vaccine mandates);

  • New York Presbyterian Hospital (vaccine mandate, religious liberty);

  • Mt. Sinai Medical Center (vaccine mandate, religious liberty);

  • National Dance Institute (vaccine mandate, parents’ rights);

  • Several school districts (transgenderism, CRT, masking, parents’ rights);

  • Union College (vaccine mandate);

  • Meta Platforms, Inc. (DE&I; local counsel for America First Legal);

  • New York University (DE&I; local counsel for America First Legal).

LEGAL EMPLOYMENT:

MURRAY-NOLAN BERUTTI LLC
(January 1, 2022 – Present)

Co-founding member and Co-Managing Partner of a litigation firm specializing in complex litigation including constitutional law, employment litigation, civil rights, and commercial litigation. Offices are in New Jersey and New York.

WEINER LAW GROUP LLP (formerly Weiner Lesniak LLP)
(March 2005- January 2022)

Equity partner litigating complex commercial litigation and high dollar defense claim. Representative cases included successfully defeating the Republic of Turkey’s efforts to obtain jurisdiction of a Turkish citizen granted political asylum in the United States in a complex federal action, “no cause” jury verdicts in two complex, high dollar utilities defense litigations; successful defense of a $40 million legal malpractice claim against a patent attorney; successful defense of non-legal professionals, including accountants, insurance producers, and architects; successful defense of employment discrimination claims; and providing insurance coverage opinions for insurance carriers. Conducted hundreds of depositions, including the deposition of Donald J. Trump in 2011, tried numerous jury and non-jury cases; argued hundreds of motions; and filed and/or argued multiple appeals in state and federal courts, including the New Jersey Supreme Court, and the Second, Third and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeal.

VERDE, STEINBERG & PONTELL LLC
(October 1994-March 2005)

Associate in a small New Jersey and New York law firm performing diverse litigation including complex commercial trial work, real estate litigation, business litigation, and construction litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts of New Jersey and New York.

KAUFMAN, GOLDSTEIN, GARTNER & TAUB (formerly Taub & Fasciana)
Associate (October 1993-October 1994)

General practice associate aiding partnersin a small Manhattan firm in all manners of litigation and transactional work.

SUPERIOR COURT OF NEW JERSEY
Law Clerk to Honorable Conrad N. Koch, J.S.C. (September 1992-August 1993)

Performed all manners of legal research, took and maintained trial notes, coordinated motion schedules, reviewed motion papers, prepared for oral argument and trials, and drafted decisions subject to review and approval in Essex County, New Jersey.

PROFESSIONAL:

Moderator and Panelist:
Constitutional and Legal Issues Arising from the COVID-19 Pandemic, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. June 1, 2020.

Panelist:
Contracts that Get the Job Done: Drafting Contracts that Stop Litigation and Stand the Test of Time, and the Risks if you Don’t, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
April 22, 2020; March 12, 2019; April 30, 2019.

Critical Issues to Prevent or Win Contract Litigation, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, June 22, 2017.

Representative Cases:

  • Warman v. Mount St. Joseph Univ., 144 F.4th 880 (6th Cir. 2025);

  • People v. Trump, 237 N.Y.S.3d 443 (1st Dept. 2025);

  • Dixon v. De Blasio, 566 F. Supp. 3d 171 (E.D.NY, 2022) vacated 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 8785 (2d. Cir.);

  • Republic of Turkey v. Cicek, No. CV1920107ESSCM, 2020 WL 8073613 (D.N.J. June 4, 2020);

  • Laudien v. Caudill, 92 F. Supp.3d 614 (E.D. Ky. 2015);

  • Seals v. County of Morris, et als., 210 N.J. 157 (2012); 417 N.J. Super. 74 (App. Div. 2010);

  • BMW Bank v. G&B Collision Center, 46 A.D.3d 875, 850 N.Y.S.2d 470 (2nd Dept., 2007).

Author:

Our Lives, Our Fortunes, Our Sacred Honor, 222 N.J.L.J. 2087 (July 4, 2016);

Abraham Lincoln’s Advice for Lawyers, 187 N.J.L.J. 475 (February 12, 2007);

The Cherokee Cases: The Fight to Save the Supreme Court and the Cherokee Indians, 17 American Indian Law Review 291 (1992).

Bar Admissions:

New Jersey, New York, Kentucky; U.S. Supreme Court; Second, Third, and Sixth Circuit Courts of Appeals; U.S. District of New Jersey; Southern, Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of New York, Eastern District of Kentucky.