The Newark office serves a number of Fortune 500 companies locally, nationally,
and abroad. Several of the office’s lawyers and practices are recognized
by Chambers USA and Best Lawyers®,
including environmental, insurance coverage, intellectual property, and labor
and employment. Lawyers in the office include former presidents of the New
Jersey federal and county bar associations; a Fellow of the American College of
Environmental Lawyers; chair of New Jersey Law Journal’s Editorial Board;
and adjunct professors of law for Seton Hall University School of Law.
Newark’s Environment, Land, and Natural Resources team has been at the
center of emerging issues, including brownfields restoration, natural resource
damages, and environmental justice, as well as in developing community outreach
projects to gain local support for manufacturing operations and related
environmental permitting. Representative experience includes favorably settling
a complex environmental matter for a multibillion-dollar global company that
resulted in a full recovery of the government’s share of responsibility at
15 plants around the country that the government commandeered for military
purposes.
The Commercial Disputes team handles “must win” business disputes for
plaintiffs and defendants across diverse industries. The Insurance Recovery and
Counseling team handles a wide range of claims against insurance companies,
including matters related to data privacy, environmental site remediation,
construction accidents and manufacturing events, employment practices, and
directors’ and officers’ liability coverage. The Mass Tort and
Product Liability teams are experienced in litigating all stages of product
liability and toxic tort cases from pleadings through trial and appeal,
including single defendant cases; litigation involving dozens of plaintiffs and
hundreds of defendants; nationwide class actions; and matters where they have
served as regional or national coordination counsel of mass tort litigation. The
Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety team counsels management on workplace
policies and practices. The team also represents employers in litigation,
including class action litigation, concerning a wide variety of issues from
discrimination to wrongful termination and wage and hour claims.
The Intellectual Property (IP) team advises clients in clearing, obtaining,
licensing, and assigning IP; performing due diligence with respect to IP rights
involved in merger and acquisition transactions; and litigating matters in
federal and state court. Our Healthcare and FDA team advises clients on
regulatory compliance, entity formation and restructuring, Medicare and Medicaid
reimbursement, fraud and abuse issues, corporate governance, and legal and
ethical issues associated with religiously based healthcare services, among
others.
The Real Estate practice focuses on land use, commercial and retail leasing,
conveyance and financing transactions, real estate tax appeals, and real
estate-related litigation. The team routinely appears before the planning and
zoning boards of municipalities throughout the state, has tried numerous land
use cases in the New Jersey Superior Court, and regularly argues tax appeal
cases before the New Jersey Tax Court and numerous county tax boards. Similarly,
our Policy and Regulatory lawyers understand the legal landscape in New Jersey
and advise clients on policies, proposed legislation, or regulations that might
affect them.
The Restructuring and Insolvency practice group represents franchisors, resort
owners, real estate developers, automobile lessors, and financial institutions
in all phases of debtor and creditor relations. They regularly represent
franchisors in out-of-court workouts with distressed franchisees, as well as
collection and enforcement litigation, and appear on behalf of franchisors in
bankruptcy cases throughout the United States.
