McCarter & English announced the following changes in leadership, effective March 1, 2018: Cynthia Keliher and Simone Wilson-Brito will serve as co-chairs of the Real Estate Practice GroupMoy Ogilvie will serve as the Hartford Office Managing Partner “Cynthia, Simone,and Moy served as Continue Reading
The NJ Supreme Court Argument That Lawsuits Must Have Actual Injury
New Jersey businesses should not have to defend themselves against class action lawsuits where no one has been seriously harmed. That was the argument recently made before the NJ State Supreme Court by attorney David R. Kott of McCarter & English. Earlier this year, the court ruled that class Continue Reading
The Biggest New Jersey Cases of 2017
Law360 has listed Debra Dugan et al. v. TGI Friday's Inc. et al., and Ernest Bozzi v. OSI Restaurant Partners LLC as one of the "biggest" New Jersey cases of 2017. McCarter submitted a brief and argued in the New Jersey Supreme Court that the case should not be certified as a class Continue Reading
New Jersey Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Expert Admissibility Question in Multi-County Litigation In re: Accutane
On behalf of amici curiae HealthCare Institute of New Jersey, New Jersey Business & Industry Association, Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, McCarter partners Edward J. Fanning, Jr. and David R. Kott successfully petitioned the New Jersey Continue Reading
David Kott argues in NJ Supreme Court in TCCWNA Class Action
McCarter partner David Kott argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court as an amicus on behalf of the New Jersey Business and Industry Association in Wenger v. Bob’s Discount Furniture, LLC and Spade v. Select Comfort Corp. In McCarter's brief, found here, authors Mr. Kott and Edward J. Continue Reading
St. Joseph’s Nurses Get Initial OK For $42M ERISA Deal
Our client St. Joseph's Healthcare System has reached a tentative, undisclosed settlement with nurses in a putative consolidated class action alleging the hospital violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by underfunding an employee pension plan. The settlement is expected to be executed Continue Reading
McCarter Adds Two Prominent Product Liability Partners
Amy Vanni Brings Life Sciences, Healthcare Experience to Philadelphia Office; Wilfred Coronato, 1st Chair in Successful Fen-Phen Defense, Joins In Newark Two prominent products liability defense litigators – one from Reed Smith and one from Hughes Hubbard & Reed, and both with significant Continue Reading
McCarter Promotes 9 to Partnership in 5 Offices
Nine McCarter & English attorneys, resident in five of the firm’s offices and six of its practice groups, have been elevated to partnership. Attorneys from the Boston, Newark, East Brunswick, Wilmington and Washington, D.C. offices have become partners. The new partners practice in intellectual Continue Reading
McCarter & English Assisted Naturalization Applicants in Partnership with the American Friends Service Committee
McCarter & English assisted with naturalization applications for low-income clients of our partner organization, the American Friends Service Committee. McCarter & English attorneys working with naturalization applicants included: Joseph Boccassini, Sheila Calello, Mary Gabriel, Michael Continue Reading
David Kott argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of amicus New Jersey Business & Industry Association
Restaurant patrons who allege TGI Friday's and Carrabba's Italian Grill violated state consumer protection laws by omitting drink prices from their menus made a case for class certification during oral arguments before the New Jersey Supreme Court, reasoning that all of the allegedly affected Continue Reading