Business Law

Biography

• “Put-back” litigation based on fraud, breach of contract and warranty, and failure-to-cure claims arising from multi-million-dollar sales of mortgage “pools,” pursuant to a Master Purchase and Sale Agreement which governed a Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit; and defending a securities fraud suit brought by the New Jersey Bureau of Securities.
• Complex real estate development, and Section 1983 and prerogative writ litigation regarding the development of industrial property into a large mixed and multi-unit residential and commercial building.
• Land use and prerogative writ litigation, regarding the water supply for a multi-track residential development, and expansion of a large suburban mall.
• Construction delay, negligent design, breach of warranty, breach of contract, and wrongful or exaggerated lien claims concerning highway bridge repairs, a sewage treatment plant, and commercial office and public school buildings.
• A founder of a pharmaceutical corporation’s claims against the management that took over that company after it went public, regarding control, management, and proprietary rights.
• A suit between parties to a pharmaceutical joint venture regarding trade secrets and profits.
• Defending pharmaceutical anti-trust claims and analyzing pharmaceutical supply contracts.
• A dispute between the estates of two deceased partners and the remaining partner in a real estate development company regarding management, control and rights to properties and profits.
• “Corporate divorces” between principals of closely held pharmaceutical distributorships and motorcycle dealerships.
• Trade secret, copyright and other IP litigation, including applications for injunctive relief between generic drug manufacturers, sellers and importers of clothing, and creators and designers of an “app.”
• Claims regarding an exclusive insurable interest in, fire insurance proceeds from, and replacement value of a multi-unit apartment building; and suits concerning insurance coverage for a trucking fleet damaged by Hurricane Sandy, advertising injury, and franchisor liability.
• Creditor’s multimillion dollar claims in Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• An unconventional and successful undue influence claim based on an enabler-beneficiary’s control over alcoholic-decedent and forensic psychiatric analysis, despite decedent’s lucidity when naming his beneficiary.
• Defending claims against a trustee overseeing multi-million dollar testamentary trusts.

Education

• J.D. – 1985

• Studying International Law

• B.A. – 1982

Classes, Seminars & Public Speaking

• Lecturer, Trade Secret IP Protection & Management, European Cross-Industry Summit, Brussels, Belgium (December 2022)
• Lecturer, Federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, in webinars presented by The Knowledge Group (2015-present)
• Lecturer, Trade Secret Law, in webinar sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Review and the Life Sciences Intellectual Property Review (2020 and 2021)
• Lecturer, IPR Gorilla, Virtual IP Conference (2021)
• Lecturer, Trade Secret Law, International Intellectual Property Law Association, Virtual Summit (2020)
• Moderator and Lecturer, Trade Secret Law, New Jersey Bar Association Conventions (2015 and 2017)
• Lecturer, The law of trade secrets, trade dress, and theft-of-ideas, NJ CLE (2012)
• Lecturer, Construction Law, in seminars presented by National Business Institute Seminars on Construction Law (2017 and 2018)

Professional Associations and Positions

• Co-Chair of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section’s Trade Secret Subcommittee
• Co-editor of the American Bar Association’s Litigation Section’s IP Litigation Newsletter
• New Jersey State Bar Association

Bar Admission

• New Jersey, 1985
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1985
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court of New Jersey, 1985
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 2005
• New York, 1987
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1987
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1987
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, 1987
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1987

Practice Areas

• Complex Business Matters
• Litigation
• Real Estate and Construction Disputes
• Intellectual Property

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