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Address: 301 Carnegie Center Drive, Suite 200, princeton, NJ, 08540-6530
Law Firm: Goldberg Segalla LLP
Phone: 609-986-1350
Fax: 609-986-1301
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Website: http://www.goldbergsegalla.com
| Title | Partner |
| First Year of Call | |
| Areas of Practice | Product Liability |
| Description | Anita Hotchkiss is a trial attorney with more than 40 years of experience defending companies and individuals in the state and federal trial and appellate courts. Her practice emphasizes complex pharmaceutical, medical device, and other products liability cases; mass torts; class actions; and medical and legal professional liability matters including disciplinary actions against physicians. Anita has tried over 35 cases and is one of the few attorneys in the country who has tried a medical monitoring class action. She is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney, and is fluent in Italian and Spanish.Anita secured one of the first junk science dismissals in the country on the basis of Daubert v. Merrell Dow. She has been involved in other cutting-edge cases involving recognition of the learned intermediary doctrine, the privilege of self-critical evaluation, and dismissals based on bankruptcy, as well as rejection of the theory of enterprise liability and the over-extension of consumer fraud acts to skirt established tenets of liability. She has written several amicus briefs on behalf of the Product Liability Advisory Council in these and other cases of interest and importance to corporate defendants. In addition, Anita has served as an expert witness in evaluating thousands of mass tort cases for a multimillion-dollar company in a commercial dispute involving allocation of a $100 million escrow.Anita has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been named repeatedly in New Jersey Monthly Magazine’s list of Super Lawyers, with special citation as one of the top 50 women attorneys in New Jersey and has been cited in the Best Lawyers in America. She lectures frequently to attorney and corporate members of national and local legal organizations on defense issues and tactics and was an invited member of the faculty at the prestigious International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy.Experience HighlightsHealth Care and Pharmaceuticals Anita’s experience defending and counseling health care companies, health care product manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies spans numerous disciplines, including product liability, malpractice and professional liability, mass torts, and commercial litigation. Among the products Anita has defended are anesthetic agents, DES, DTP, flu and poliovirus vaccines, PPA, fen-phen, breast implants, denture adhesives, metoclopramide, sutures, artificial hips and knees, chemotherapeutic drugs, and phosphosoda. In the realm of medical liability, Anita has handled and tried to conclusion various types of professional malpractice actions including legal malpractice, medical malpractice, pharmacy malpractice, and dental malpractice, and she has handled disciplinary actions against hospital physicians. She has also tried to conclusion multiple pharmaceutical actions and has defended several major pharmaceutical companies in both individual and mass tort actions.Honors & AwardsLitigation Counsel of America: FellowAV Preeminent Peer-Review Rating, Martindale-HubbellAvvo Rating: 10, SuperbBest Lawyers in America, Product Liability Litigation- Defendants, 2018-21Lifetime Achievement Award, New Jersey Law Journal, May 2015William A. Dreier Award for Excellence in Product Liability Law, New Jersey State Bar Association, February 2013Women Leaders in the Law, American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell, 2013New Jersey Super Lawyers, 2005-20 (Thomson Reuters)The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defence LawyersMcLaughlin Award, New Jersey State Bar Association Civil Trial Bar Section, 2002Professional Lawyer of the Year Award, Morris County Bar Association and New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law, 2001Named by Medical Herald as one of the nation’s 20 most influential women in the health care industry, October 1995Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial AttorneyView peer-review methodologies at martindale.com and superlawyers.com . No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Community InvolvementCommentator on Court TV and other radio and television programs The Community Theatre at the Mayo Center for the Performing Arts, Morristown: Board of Trustees – Secretary and Legal Counsel Morristown/Morris Township Public Library Fund Raising Committee, 2005Publications & EventsPublicationsCo-Author, The Role of Preemption in Mass Tort Cases, Chapter 15 in New Jersey Mass Torts and Class Action Treatise , New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2015 Co-Author, How to Win a Dismissal When the Plaintiff Declares Bankruptcy, chapter in Product Liability Litigation: Current Law, Strategies, and Best Practices, Practising Law Institute, January 2015 and December 2013 Co-Author, The Economic Loss Rule in NJ and the ˜Integrated Product’ Doctrine, New Jersey Law Journal, December 10, 2014 Author, When the Plaintiff Declares Bankruptcy, chapter in Product Liability Litigation, Current Law, Strategies, and Best Practices, Practising Law Institute (PLI), October 2009 Author, Pharmaceutical Defendants – Heed This Warning, For the Defense, April 2006 Author, Boon for Defendants: The Road from Plaintiff’s Bankruptcy to Summary Judgment, The Update, Spring 2006 Author, Boon for Defendants: The Road from Plaintiff’s Bankruptcy to Summary Judgment, For The Defense, January 2006 Author, Like Water and Oil: Consumer Fraud Act Claims Should Not be Viable in Prescription Drug Product Liability Actions, New Jersey Law Journal, December 5, 2005 Author, Three for Three – N.J. Supreme Court Issues a Triad of Opinions That Should Please Defendants, Litigation Update, November 2005 Author, Protecting and Enforcing Protective Orders: Easier Said Than Done, Defense Counsel Journal, April 2004 Author, Protective Orders Redux: It’s Not Over Until the Twelfth of Never, Washington Legal Foundation Backgrounder, January 12, 2001 Author, Federal District Courts In New Jersey and Pennsylvania Reject Challenges to Protective Orders, Litigation Update, November 2000 PresentationsPanelist, Multicounty Litigation (Mass Torts): Practice in New Jersey and Beyond, New Brunswick, NJ, January 26, 2016 Presenter, The Role of Preemption in Mass Torts, Product Liability Seminar – NJ Law Center, February 18, 2015 Presenter, The Economic Loss Doctrine in New Jersey – Now You See It, Now You Don’t, NJICLE Construction Law 2014 Seminar, June 2014 Presenter, To Mock or Not To Mock – A Trial Lawyer’s Perspective on the Ins and Outs of Jury Science, Medmarc 27th Medical Device Seminar, June 2014 Presenter, Medicare Secondary Payer Issues, Presentation to Worral F. Mountain Inn of Court, Morristown, New Jersey, November 22, 2010 Presenter, The PLAC Amicus Brief Committee and How it Works, Product Liability Advisory Council Fall Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, October 8, 2010 Presenter, Science Days for the Court – Pros and Cons for Defendants, Medmarc Annual Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, June 7, 2010 Presenter, Medicare Secondary Payer Issues, Product Liability Advisory Council Fall Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, April 29, 2010 Presenter, Defense Summation in an Automobile Death Case, demonstration at Masters in Trial, American Board of Trial Advocates, Montclair, New Jersey, December 5, 2009 Panelist, Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Challenges in Responding to Justice Department Litigation Based on ˜Whistleblower’ Allegations, American Law Journal TV, October 12, 2009 Presenter, The Alphabet Soup of FDA Approval for Prescription Drugs, Life Sciences Seminar, Warren, New Jersey, September 15, 2009 Presenter, Guilt by Association, or It’s Not Even our Product – What Do You Mean We’re Liable?, presentation on innovator liability, Life Sciences Seminar, Warren, New Jersey, September 15, 2009 Presenter, Preemption After Riegel and Wyeth v. Levine, Life Sciences Seminar, Warren, New Jersey, September 15, 2009 Presenter, E-Discovery – Turning the Tables on Plaintiffs, Morris County Inns of Court, September 15, 2008 Presenter, Maintaining and Enforcing Protective Orders – Not Over Until the Twelfth Of Never, Morris County Inns of Court, November 26, 2007 Presenter, Boon for Defendants: The Road from Plaintiff’s Bankruptcy to Summary Judgment, Product Liability Advisory Council Fall Conference, October 2006 Presenter, Litigating the Off-Label Case, National Forum on Off-Label Promotion of Pharmaceuticals, American Conference Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 23, 2005 Presenter, Keeping Corporate Secrets Secret: Protecting and Enforcing Protective Orders, IADC Midyear Meeting, Pebble Beach, CA, February 17, 2003 Presentation of Evidence in the Electronic Courtroom, ABA Litigation Section Meetings, Amelia Island, Florida, June 2001 Presenter, Crisis Management and Crisis Communication, Product Liability Advisory Council 2001 Spring Conference, Nashville, TN, April 4-6, 2001 Presenter, The Presentation of Evidence in the Electronic Courtroom, ICLE Product Liability: Update 2000, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, NJ, December 2, 1999Recent Insights Fifty-One Goldberg Segalla Attorneys Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America for 2021 August 20, 2020 Thirteen Goldberg Segalla Attorneys Featured in 2020 New Jersey Super Lawyers March 26, 2020 The Best Lawyers in America 2020 Names Thomas P. Bernier and Patrick B. Naylon Lawyers of the Year, Lists 37 Goldberg Segalla Attorneys Nationwide August 15, 2019 Anita Hotchkiss Profiled in A Family Linked by Ambition, Modern Counsel May 21, 2019 Fourteen Goldberg Segalla Attorneys Listed in 2019 New Jersey Super Lawyers March 19, 2019 The Best Lawyers in America 2019 Names Thomas F. Segalla, Albert J. D’Aquino, John P. Freedenberg Lawyers of the Year, Lists Thirty-four Goldberg Segalla Attorneys August 15, 2018 |
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