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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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

McCarter lawyers provided critical pro bono assistance to seven refugee clients of the International Rescue Committee who are trying to reunite with children, parents, and loved ones – many of whom are living in refugee camps.  We completed the federal government paperwork necessary to initiate the Continue Reading