Firm News

The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed the trial court’s grant of summary judgment dismissing our client, an electrical products manufacturer, based upon the plaintiff’s inadequate product identification. Bob Littleton worked with our local counsel, Jim Carlson of Christian & Smalls in Birmingham, to secure this result.

Romelia Leach represented Littleton Joyce Ughetta Park & Kelly at this year’s DRI Diversity Conference in Chicago. We are committed to the principles of diversity, and this annual conference affords us the opportunity to stay on the cutting edge of developing issues, network with other similarly diverse law firms and increase our efforts to retain…

Rebecca Ulisse defends clients against claims of defect, breach of warranty, violation of general business laws and various commercial issues on a local and national basis. Prior to joining the firm, she regularly engaged in high stakes dispute resolution, regulatory, license, trademark and joint venture contractual compliance, government investigations and risk assessment analysis on behalf…

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…

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…

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…

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…

NYC partner Bob Littleton taught a session of Professor Carol Basri’s Corporate Lawyering course at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Bob spoke on Managing Corporate Crises, covering material from his chapter on this topic in Professor Basri’s treatise.

NYC partner Michael Bai spoke on Product Liability Prevention and Concern at a legal seminar in Montreal, Canada presented by the Center for International Legal Studies. The audience included law professors and attorneys from Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany and the United States.

Ms. Kyriss focuses on high-stakes litigation in state and federal courts, with an emphasis on products liability litigation and complex commercial litigation. Ms. Kyriss is admitted in New York, New Jersey and Michigan, and her admission in Illinois is pending. She can be reached through our New York Office.