Chief Justice Stuart Rabner and U.S. District Court Chief Judge Freda L. Wolfson will be part of an esteemed panel of judges as well as leading practitioners to review some of the most recent developments and address the in’s and out’s of handling multi-county and multi-district litigation cases in state and federal courts.
New Jersey recognizes several mass tort and non-mass tort centrally managed cases that are handled by the Multicounty Litigation Section. There are currently 25 multicounty litigations in New Jersey (MCLs), including: Abilify, Accutane, Benicar, Bristol-Myers-Squibb Environmental, Firefighter Hearing Loss, Physiomesh, Proceed Surgical Mesh/Proceed Ventral Patch, Prolene Hernia System Mesh, Proton-Pump Inhibitors, Singulair, Strattice Hernia Mesh, Talc-Powder, Allergan Biocell Textured Breast Implants, DePuy ASR Hip Implant, Elmiron, HealthPlus Surgery Center, Pelvic Mesh, Stryker Hip/ABG II, Stryker LFIT CoCr V40 Femoral Heads, Stryker Trident Hip Implants, Tasigna, Asbestos, Fosamax, Taxotere/Docetaxel and Zostavax. Certain Superior Court Judges have been assigned by the Chief Justice to exclusively manage these cases. New Jersey Federal Court also serves as the Multi District Litigation Court for Elmiron, J&J Talcum, Allergen, Plavix, as well as numerous other state and national class actions.
Christopher M. Placitella, Editor in Chief, New Jersey Mass Tort & Class Actions Treatis, will serve as the moderator.
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Chief Judge Freda L. Wolfson
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Newark
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Chief Justice Stuart Rabner
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
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Hon. Rachelle L. Harz, JSC, Hackensack
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Hon. Bruce J. Kaplan, JSC, New Brunswick
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Hon. John C. Porto, JSC, Atlantic City
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Hon. Mary F. Thurber, JSC, Hackensack
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Hon. Ana C. Viscomi, JSC, New Brunswick
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Parvin K. Aminolroaya, Esq.
Seeger Weiss, LLP, Ridgefield Park
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John C. Garde, Esq.
McCarter & English, LLP, Newark
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Maha M. Kabbash, Esq.
Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP, Morristown
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Lynne M. Kizis, Esq.
Past President of the New Jersey Association for Justice (NJAJ)
Past Chair, Product Liability and Mass Tort Section of the NJSBA
Member, Superior Court of New Jersey, Middlesex County Asbestos Advisory Committee
Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer, PA, Woodbridge
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David R. Kott, Esq.
Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers
Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney
McCarter & English, LLP, Newark
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David J. Molton, Esq.
Fellow, INSOL International
Brown Rudnick LLP, NYC
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Jared M. Placitella, Esq.
Associate Editor, New Jersey Mass Tort & Class Actions Treatise (NJICLE 2020)
Cohen Placitella & Roth, PC, Red Bank and Philadelphia
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Susan M. Sharko, Esq.
Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Florham Park
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Adam M. Slater, Esq.
Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney
Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman, LLC, Roseland
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Daniel M. Stolz, Esq.
Genova Burns, LLC, Basking Ridge
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