Ellen Nunno Corbo

Ellen Nunno Corbo is Of Counsel to Burns White. She specializes in litigation in New Jersey and New York, with concentrations in insurance defense, corporate/complex commercial, premises liability, mass tort, and retail owner/operator liability defense, professional malpractice and long-term care litigation.

Ms. Corbo currently serves as Co-Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Insurance Defense Special Committee, of which she is an original member. She is also a member of the NJSBA’s Insurance Law, Business Law, Civil Trial Bar, and Women in the Profession Sections. Previously, she served as Co-Chair of the NJSBA Alternative Work Arrangements Committee, and as a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Attorney Working Group of the Advisory Committee on Information Technology’s E-Filing and Access Subcommittee.

Admitted to the practice of law in 1985, Ms. Corbo began her legal career as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Harry A. Margolis, Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, 1984-1985, where she conceived and wrote the original draft of the New Jersey Chancery Law Clerk Handbook. She practiced with several notable law firms in New Jersey and New York, joining Burns White in an Of Counsel role in August 2019. In addition, Ms. Corbo has held the position of Adjunct Professor at Montclair State University, where she taught Legal Research and Legal Writing, and at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she taught English Writing Workshops.

Ms. Corbo received her law degree from Seton Hall University Law School (1984), and her undergraduate degree from Seton Hall University (1981). She also has an extensive record as a community activist.

Ms. Corbo is admitted to practice law in New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C.