NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger
By Ben Horowitz/The Star-Ledger
on November 15, 2012
MORRIS TOWNSHIP — The Delbarton School in Morris Township is suing an attorney it says violated a confidentiality agreement by publicly disclosing terms of a 1988 settlement of a lawsuit filed by a teenager who was a victim of sexual misconduct by a monk at the school.
The suit, filed in Superior Court in Morristown by the Order of St. Benedict of New Jersey, says attorney Gregory Gianforcaro of Phillipsburg “breached the agreement” made with a previous attorney when, among other things, he “trumpeted a seven-figure settlement” during a news conference June 29 outside the Morris County Courthouse in Morristown.
The suit filed by Delbarton accuses Gianforcaro of trying to “advance (his) own financial interests by attempting to improperly inflate the value of cases (he) has pending” against Delbarton and by trying to attract additional clients.
Gianforcaro also represents six other men who joined a lawsuit earlier this year alleging decades-old sexual abuse and/or sexual misconduct by Delbarton monks.
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