News & Wins:

On Tuesday, April 8th, Managing Partner Robert J. Kelly will lead a panel of corporate counsel and human factors experts at the Sports Fitness Industry Association’s Litigation Summit at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, Arizona. The session, entitled “Avoiding Nightmares and Catastrophes”, will focus on the strategies involved in developing warnings for recreational products, appropriate…

Experienced product liability, class action, business torts, shareholder derivative, and consumer financial services litigator Eric Goldberg joined Littleton Joyce as a Partner in the New York City office.  Eric graduated with honors from Columbia University and Georgetown Law Center, where he was a journal editor. Eric previously practiced at Pepper Hamilton LLP, and is admitted…

Sarah Fang graduated from Rutgers School of Law – Newark in 2002.  Following law school, Ms. Fang clerked for the Honorable Donald S. Coburn, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, and she was honored as a Super Lawyers Rising Star for 2011 – 2013.

We are pleased to recognize Christine Delaney as our firm’s newest partner. Christine is based in our Red Bank, New Jersey office, and specializes in toxic tort and products liability litigation.

Effective January 1, 2014, Bob Kelly assumed the role of Managing Partner.  Announcing the change, former Managing Partner Bob Littleton stated: “With his consummate professionalism, judgment and integrity, Bob brings the right mix of qualities and experience to advance the firm through its next phase of continuing growth.”

Following on the heels of Bob Kelly’s July 2013 win in a steel mill case in Louisiana, Mr. Kelly recently succeeded in defeating the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial in the same case.  The plaintiff argued that the verdict sheet, which showed a damage finding exceeding $2.6 million but no liability as to Siemens,…

C. Scott Toomey was referenced in a recent Bloomberg article entitled “NCAA Concussion Suits Merger Sought Even With Differences“.  The article discusses a December 5, 2013 hearing before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) regarding the potential consolidation of multiple class action suits into an MDL format.  The cases arise out of claims brought…

Jessica Hernandez Diotalevi has been selected as the vice-liaison from the DRI Young Lawyers Committee to the DRI Diversity Committee.  Ms. Hernandez Diotalevi will assist the Diversity Committee with articles, programming, marketing, and provide general advice on how to attract young lawyers to the committee.  The firm is proud of Ms. Hernandez Diotalevi’s commitment to…

James C. Ughetta and C. Scott Toomey were published in the November issue of For The Defense, the Defense Research Institute’s monthly publication.  Please see the attached article, entitled “Uniform Discovery Responses and Protective Orders.”

A New Jersey judge issued an opinion in favor of the firm’s client, a major international petrochemical company, dismissing a suit in which plaintiff alleged exposure to asbestos-containing products while engaged in demolition at a client-owned facility.  Mr. Schmitz successfully argued that, under New Jersey law, a landowner has no duty to protect employees of…