Gary V. Gittleman is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Naulty, Scaricamazza & McDevitt, LLC where he has focused his career defending dentists and physicians in professional liability matters. As one of the foremost authorities on the liability of dentists, Gary is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of the Dental Care Systems in the School of Dental Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a lecturer at Temple University School of Dental Medicine.

Gary’s expertise as a skilled litigator has resulted in numerous distinctions and honors: he has twice been awarded with the OMSNIC National Insurance Attorney of the Year, and he has been recognized with the OMSNIC Continuing Excellence Award on multiple occasions. Gary is ranked among Super Lawyers in Philadelphia Magazine’s yearly listing of “Pennsylvania Super Lawyers”.

As a renowned expert in dental liability and litigation, Gary is frequently asked to lecture to practicing dentists and oral surgeons. He has served as a faculty member in the
Ortho-McNeil Top Scholar Fellow Symposium. His speaking engagements have included: the Montgomery-Bucks Dental Society, the Oral Surgeon Honor Society of Temple University School of Dentistry, Jefferson University Hospital Department of Oral Surgery, the Philadelphia Society of Oral Surgery, the Delaware Valley Oral Surgery Society, the Pennsylvania Society of Oral Surgeons, the Academy of Stomatology, the Delaware County Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, the American Association of Orthodontists Annual Conference and the Pennsylvania Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

A graduate of Villanova University, Gary earned his Bachelor of Science degree in 1967 and received his Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law in 1970. He is a member of the American, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, the Pennsylvania Defense Research Institute, and the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel. He is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and before the U.S. District Court’s Eastern District of Pennsylvania.