Law clerk to the Honorable Naomi G. Eichen, Appellate Division, Superior Court of New Jersey, 1998 – 1999
Intern to the Honorable Nicholas H. Politan, US District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1997
Intern to the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Consumer Affairs, 1996
Awards
New Jersey Super Lawyers “Rising Star” 2007
New Jersey Super Lawyers “Rising Star” 2006
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1999
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 2004
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, 2004
U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, 2009
U.S. Tax Court, 1999
Highlighted Matters
Defend and advise an international testing services provider in a lawsuit in which the plaintiff, a major North American toy distributor, is seeking more than $100 million in damages for a nationwide recall of a product that sickened several children in 2007
Defended an international testing services provider and secured pre-answer dismissals of two lawsuits involving fatal injuries resulting from garments catching fire
Defended a leading US pharmaceutical manufacturer in nationwide litigation involving a prescription drug, in part by helping to coordinate and analyze the affirmative discovery of approximately 60,000 claimants
Successfully defended a large pharmaceutical manufacturer by co-authoring the brief in In re Vioxx Litigation, 928 A.2d 935 N.J. (2007), a seminal case clarifying the doctrine of forum non conveniens, in which New Jersey’s Appellate Division affirmed the client-defendant’s right to litigate the claims of foreign plaintiffs in their country of residence
Successfully defended one of the largest law firms in New Jersey by co-authoring the brief in Borteck v. Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP, 844 A.2d 521 (N.J. 2004), in which the New Jersey Supreme Court held that the defendant law firm’s retirement plan was enforceable under Rule of Professional Conduct 5.6
Successfully defended the corporate trustee of a charitable testamentary trust in In re Estate of Katz, 2004 WL 104578 (N.J. App. Div. 2004), which protected trust funds from a challenge by the testator’s daughter
Rutgers University School of Law, J.D., 1998, Managing Articles Editor, Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal, West Publishing Company Prize for Criminal Law Studies, Finalist, David Cohn Appellate Moot Court Competition
