Littleton Joyce Opens New York City Office
After decades of working together at a large liability defense firm, partners Bob Littleton, Rob Joyce, Jim Ughetta and Jin Park have opened a boutique litigation firm with a national practice and an international clientele, specializing in complex litigation. They are joined by three other partners from their former firm: Bryon Friedman, Bruce Ainbinder and Michael Bai; along with associates Joe Lipari and Romelia Leach.

Littleton Joyce Partners Express Appreciation for Client Support
The partners of Littleton Joyce expressed their deep appreciation to the clients who have retained the new firm to represent them. Representative manufacturers who have entrusted assignments to Littleton Joyce include manufacturers ABB, BASF, Bell Sports, Harley-Davidson, Siemens, SIG Arms and many others. Pre-eminent US, European and Asian insurers have also retained Littleton Joyce for liability and coverage defense actions. Korean manufacturers and insurers have been especially supportive of Jin Park and Michael Bai in their move to the new firm.

Littleton Joyce Opens Westchester County Office
Littleton Joyce opens its second office in Purchase, NY, in Westchester County, twenty miles north of New York City. Jim Ughetta is the managing parter and is joined by partners Rob Joyce, Bruce Ainbinder and Bryon Friedman.

Associate Sarah Edwards Joins Littleton Joyce
Senior Associate Sarah Edwards, who worked closely with Rob Joyce on coverage and product liability matters at their prior firm, joined the New York office. Among her other accomplishments, Sarah, who is originally from the United Kingdom, was an English Barrister before relocating to the United States to complete
her legal education.

New Partner Bob Kelly Joins Littleton Joyce
Littleton Joyce is pleased to announce that Bob Kelly, who practiced for over two decades with the founding partners at their former firm, has joined the firm. Bob is a seasoned trial lawyer and has been entrusted with the continuing representation of clients including ExxonMobil and Yamaha. Bob will head the New Jersey office. His name will be added to the firm's effective July 1, 2007.

Associate Jason Schmitz Joins Littleton Joyce
Senior associate Jason Schmitz joins Bob Kelly in the New Jersey office.

Littleton Joyce Opens New Jersey Office
Littleton Joyce is pleased to announce the opening of its New Jersey office, managed by liability defense trial lawyer Bob Kelly. The office, centrally located in Red Bank, NJ, serves all of the Garden State. Bob is joined by senior associate Jason Schmitz and paralegal Jennifer Rowley. The New Jersey office is supported, as needed, by New Jersey-admitted lawyers Joseph Lipari and Romelia Leach in the New York City office, and New Jersey-admitted Jim Ughetta in the Purchase, NY office.

Bob Littleton Presents at Product Liability Advisory Counsel Spring Meeting
Bob Littleton chaired a panel discussion on "Globilization of Product Liability" at the Spring Meeting of the Product Liability Advisory Counsel in Chicago.

Bob Kelly Presents to the Harris Martin Benzene Litigation Conference
Bob Kelly, lead counsel for ExxonMobil in the NY court case "Parker v. Mobil Oil Corporation" which dismissed a Benzene suit and established the new New York standard for admissibility of expert evidence in toxic tort litigation, lectured on the impact of the Parker decision at the Harris Martin Benzene Litigation Conference in Las Vegas on May 18, 2007.

Bryon Friedman Presents on Collecting Judgments for the NYS Bar Association
Creditors' Rights and Commercial Litigation partner Bryon Friedman presented as part of a panel at a day long seminar by the NYS Bar Association in New York City on the topic of collecting debt and enforcing judgments. Bryon spoke on two topics -- judgment enforcement devices and strategies for collecting secured debt -- and contributed on other agenda items, including settlement strategies, bankruptcy implications, and ethical considerations. This was the third time that Bryon has participated as a presenter in this NYSBA program.

Littleton Joyce Has Become Littleton Joyce Ughetta Park & Kelly LLP
The firm has changed its name to reflect the contributions of NJ partner Bob Kelly to the firm's reputation in the legal community.

2007 Emory Law School Graduate Amanda Kim Joins the Firm in
the New York City Office
Amanda is a California native and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley where she majored in political science.

Littleton Joyce Hosts Its First New York Symposium, a Week-long Series of Lectures and Tours to Assist Overseas Claims Professionals in Understanding
United States Litigation
This year's attendees represented many leading Korean companies. Among other things, they learned how to defend US claims and how to get from downtown Manhattan to Yankee Stadium on the #4 Train.

2006 Seton Hall Law University School of Law Graduate Kevin Arias Joins the Firm in the Purchase, New York Office
Kevin is admitted in New York and New Jersey. He recently completed a clerkship with Hon. Stephen J. Bernstein in the Superior Court of New Jersey. Kevin received his undergraduate degree from Colgate University, where he
majored in political science.

Summary Judgment Win in New York Product Liability Case
Jin Park, Jim Ughetta, Michael Bai and Romelia Leach won dismissal in a case involving serious personal injuries and a death filed in New York Supreme Court, Putnam County. Plaintiffs alleged defects in our client's automotive restraint system. The Court accepted the argument that our client did not have sufficient contact with New York State to justify forcing them to defend a lawsuit there.

Summary Judgment Win in Alabama Product Liability Case
Working with our Alabama local counsel, we moved for and were granted dismissal of an Alabama house fire case. The court accepted our position that there was insufficient evidence that the product alleged to have started the fire was manufactured by our client.

Defense Win in Wisconsin Product Liability Arbitration
Jim Ughetta, along with local counsel Mark Kircher of Quarles & Brady in Milwaukee, received a unanimous decision in favor of our client from a three-arbitrator panel in Wausau, Wisconsin, after hearing the testimony of several witnesses and the arguments of counsel. Our client, a helmet manufacturer, was sued by a woman who sustained multiple facial fractures requiring three surgeries and the implantation of four plates after a rock thrown by a snowmobile struck her helmet’s face shield. The arbitrators accepted the testimony of the defense expert that there was no defect in the helmet’s design that was causally related to her injuries. The case had been removed from the court system to arbitration to save litigation
expenses for our client.

Chapter on International Crisis Management Co-authored by Bob Littleton Published
The Practicing Law Institute has published a new treatise, International Corporate Practice, A Practitioner’s Guide to Global Success, including a chapter entitled International Crisis Management co-authored by Bob Littleton. Mr. Littleton has lectured on this topic for the treatise editor’s “Corporate Lawyering” class on at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for many years.