Notable cases litigated by Gelman include Whritenour v. West Milford Board of Education (N.J. Sup. Ct. App. Div. 1996), Fiore v. Consolidated Freightways (N.J. 1995), and UNR Industries, Inc. v. Paterson Factory Workers (N.D. Ill. 1994).

He is admitted to the bars of New Jersey, New York, Nebraska, and the District of Columbia, and is licensed to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Tax Court. He received his juris doctor from John Marshall Law School in Chicago and his bachelor of arts degree from Rutgers University. Recent writing credits include “Supreme Court Sets High Judicial Threshold for Evaluating Scientific Evidence,” New Jersey Law Journal, Nov. 3, 2003, and “Does the Workers’ Compensation System Need a Prescription Change?,” American Association for Justice (formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America) Workers’ Compensation and Workplace Injury section newsletter, Spring 2004.

Gelman is a President’s Club member of the American Association for Justice, a sustaining member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants Representatives, and a trustee for the Workplace Injuries Studies Institute. He also is a member of the New Jersey Trial Lawyers Association, the Passaic County Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar Association, the New Jersey Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. His most recent speaking credits include the second annual Hot Topics in Workers Compensation, New Brunswick, N.J., March 8, 2005, and Maximizing and Expediting Workers’ Compensation Recoveries While Navigating the Treacherous Waters of the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 12, 2004.

Gelman is named in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. He also is named in Best Lawyers in America, as well as in "Best Lawyers in New Jersey" by the New Jersey Monthly magazine.