Angelo A Stio III

Career

Clients rely on Angelo to handle their most complex commercial, privacy, and governance litigation matters. He helps clients achieve their objectives through creativity, focused attention to detail, and building a meticulous factual record. Angelo is an experienced trial attorney who has handled matters in courts and before arbitration tribunals throughout the U.S. He focuses his practice on data privacy and security, consumer financial services, and higher education. Angelo has a long track record of defending clients in class actions, litigating complex business to business disputes, and handling corporate governance disputes.

In the data privacy and security space, Angelo has defended clients in class actions and assisted businesses in disputes with other businesses and individuals involving privacy and technology issues. Angelo is accredited by the International Association of Privacy Professionals as a Certified Information Privacy Professional / United States (CIPP/US), and currently serves as the co-chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Privacy Law Committee. Pursuant to New Jersey Rule of Professional Conduct 7.4, the designation as a Certified Information Privacy Professional has not been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Angelo also is an adjunct professor at Rider University, where he teaches a course on Cyber Ethics and Societal Impacts.

In the higher education space, Angelo has handled some of the firm’s most high-profile litigations, including: (i) defending a university and its board of trustees in a lawsuit alleging breaches of fiduciary duty arising from a decision to change the university’s tuition scholarship program; (ii) defending a university’s board of trustees in an investigation into allegations of breach of fiduciary duty and corporate waste being pursued by a state attorney general; (iii) obtaining the dismissal of complaints filed by students and separately by alumni, faculty, and donors challenging a board’s decision to relocate a college campus; (iv) defending a college in a wrongful death action involving allegations of hazing; (v) defending numerous educational institutions in Title IX litigations; and (vi) obtaining summary judgment dismissing a traumatic brain injury case seeking to recover $40 million in damages from a university. In addition to his trial work, Angelo routinely counsels college and university administrators on corporate governance, risk mitigation, Title IX, the Clery Act, FERPA, and student conduct matters.