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James Ughetta is the Leader
of the firm’s Product Liability Practice Team. His practice
emphasizes litigation and preventive counseling in the field
of product liability. He also handles regulatory compliance,
class actions, appeals and insurance-related matters.
Mr. Ughetta has extensive trial experience
representing companies in high exposure cases on a local and
national level. His clients have ranged from Fortune 500 companies
to newly created or well established privately held companies.
A representative sampling of products defended in litigation
include motorcycles, helmets, automobiles, vans, trucks, trailers,
agricultural equipment, outdoor power equipment, swimming
pool products, consumer and commercial products, medical devices
and electrical cords/cables. He has tried cases throughout
the United States and has appeared pro hac vice in litigation
pending in many states including California, Arizona, Oregon,
Texas, North Carolina, Illinois, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Florida,
Nevada, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee,
Ohio, Michigan and Colorado.
James Ughetta also works closely with
many product manufacturers on product liability prevention
matters, product recalls and regulatory compliance. Further,
he has handled a variety of insurance coverage disputes.
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Ratings fall into two categories - legal ability and general
ethical standards.
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New York State Bar
New Jersey State Bar
U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts
of New York
U.S. District Court, District
of New Jersey
U.S. Supreme Court |
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Denison University, B.A., 1977
St. John's University School of Law, J.D., 1981
Emory School of Public Health, Biomechanics of Impacts
Northwestern University Traffic Institute
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Product Liability Advisory Council,
Sustaining Member
Fellow, Trial Lawyer Honorary Society, Litigation Counsel of
America
International Association of Defense Counsel
New York Super Lawyer (2009)
Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
Defense Research Institute
Society of Automotive Engineers
Who's Who in American Law (Marquis)
Association of the Bar of the City of New York - Committee on
Product Liability, Chairman of Daubert, Scientific Evidence
Subcommittee (1997-1999)
St. John's University School of Law Civil Trial Institute, Moot
Court Judge |
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"Product Liability Prevention
and Concerns," Center for International Legal Studies (October,
2008)
Chapter, "Motions in Limine to Preclude Expert Testimony"
in book entitled Preparing For and Trying the Civil Lawsuit,
New York State Bar Association (2004)
"Demonstrative Evidence in Product Liability Cases,"
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (March 2001)
"Deposing Plaintiff's Expert," For The Defense, DRI
(July 1999)
"Admissibility of Evidence of Other Accidents," For
The Defense, DRI (October 1995) |
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"Discovery,
Trials and Appeals in Product Liability Cases," Tokyo,
Japan (September 2002)
"Defending Product Liability Trials in the United States,"
South Korea (September 2002)
"Demonstrative Evidence in Product Liability Cases,"
speaker, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
(March 2001) |
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