Of Counsel Wendy Shepps made the front
page of the law journal (above the fold) with her summary
judgment win in an attorney malpractice case. The trial court
held that the plaintiff couldn't sue her court appointed guardian
without permission of the court that appointed the guardian
and dismissed the case against our client with prejudice.
After several days of hearings, Bryon
Friedman won an award of $582,000 for our client in a dispute
arising out of several aspects of our client's purchase of
business lines pursuant to an asset purchase agreement.
Sarah began her legal career as an
English barrister and has become a recognized expert in Insurance
Coverage. She has counseled both liability insurers and corporations
in resolving complex coverage problems and has been active
at all stages of the claims resolution and coverage litigation
process. Sarah has also provided claims supervisory and handling
services in a number of jurisdictions throughout the U.S.
and in the U.K., and acted as a supervising and coordinating
counsel in a number of mass-tort litigation situations. She
is a co-author of the "General Liability Coverage for
Bodily Injury and Property Damage" chapter in the New
York State Bar Association's Insurance Law Practice treatise.
Sarah also litigates Product Liability and complex Commerical
matters in New York and nationally.
After a distributor reported a product
issue concerning our client's product to the CPSC, Bob Littleton
negotiated with the CPSC to reconsider the CPSC's initial
position that the product was a regulated "Consumer Product".
Ultimately, the CPSC General Counsel's Office accepted the
position we advocated in our briefing, reversed the Compliance
Department's initial finding of jurisdiction, and determined
that our client's product fell outside the CPSC's jurisdiction.
James was a magna cum laude graduate
of Lafayette College and editor of the Emory Law School law
journal. He is licensed in NY, GA, FL and CA. For almost 30
years, James has successfully resolved business disputes through
negotiations, ADR, motions, trials and appeals. James is fluent
in Spanish and French, and has litigated in both languages
in foreign tribunals. Mr. Sheinbaum has represented clients
in complex contract disputes, UCC Article 2 sale of goods
claims, UCC Article 3 commercial paper actions, broker commission
claims, securities claims (especially involving fraud, lack
of supervision and improper broker conduct), complex accountings,
copyright actions, trademark proceedings, domain name actions,
cases involving covenants not to compete and not to solicit,
intellectual property, unfair competition, adversary proceedings
in Bankruptcy and obtaining and defending against preliminary
injunctions. Mr. Sheinbaum has tried cases and successfully
defended the results on appeal.
A Federal District Court accepted our
argument that the third-party plaintiff in a personal injury
suit arising out of a wrecker component failed to adequately
support his claims against our client, a component manufacturer,
with expert testimony. The Court dismissed the claims against
our client with prejudice.
Jin Park and Michael Bai in concert
with our local counsel Tracy Tomlin of Nelson Mullins in North
Carolina appealed a trial court's denial of our clients' motions
to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. Our clients,
alleged to be component part suppliers to vinyl siding, moved
to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction since all of
the alleged transactions occurred in the Republic of Korea
and since all unrelated contacts with the State of North Carolina
occurred after the alleged loss and after the complaint was
filed. The trial court denied our clients' motions. On appeal,
the North Carolina Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's
order and remanded the case with orders to dismiss our clients
for lack of personal jurisdiction.
Jason represents clients in trial and
appellate courts throughout the United States, with a special
emphasis on class actions, product liability defense, mass
torts, real estate and business disputes. He has successfully
defended companies in lawsuits in state and federal class
actions including unfair competition, breach of warranty,
product-related issues, employment discrimination, civil rights,
overtime wages, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and
consumer protection statutes of nearly all 50 states. Jason
has extensive trial and appellate experience. He recently
won a multi-million dollar recovery on behalf of a real estate
developer in a breach of contract action involving the development
of waterfront property in New York City. Prior to joining
Littleton Joyce Ughetta Park & Kelly LLP, Mr. Sultzer
was a partner at a national law firm where he served as the
co-chairman of its class action practice group. Earlier in
his career, Mr. Sultzer was in-house counsel for Owens Corning,
a Fortune 500 Company, where he was involved in defending
the company against thousands of asbestos lawsuits throughout
the country.
Christine, a 2006 Rutgers University
Law School graduate, is the author of "Comprehensive
Study of the Formation & Reaction of a Tethered N-Hydroxysulfosuccinimidyl
Ester Used to Covalently Tether Proteins to Surfaces",
J.Phys.Chem.B. 108 (2004) 15808-15814 , with which you are
undoubtedly familiar. Christine joins our NJ office from a
Philadelphia firm and is also licensed in PA.
In a result achieved by Jin Park and
Michael Bai in concert with our local counsel Bobby Miller
of Butler Snow in Mississippi, a trial court's grant of summary
judgment to our client was affirmed by the Mississippi Court
of Appeals. The Court found that the trial court was justified
in holding that plaintiff expert's opinions concerning alleged
defects in our client's forklift were not adequately supported.
The trial court barred the expert and dismissed the case against
our client. The Court of Appeals affirmed.
Miranda is a 2006 honors graduate of
the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a journal
editor. A Michigan native, Miranda also received her BA with
distinction from the University of Michigan. Miranda comes
to us from McDermott Will & Emery. She will be assisting
us in commercial, insurance coverage and product liability
litigation.
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