Significant Developments in Class Action Litigation

Presenters

Christopher J. Dalton, Esq.

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Newark

Michael A. Galpern, Esq.

Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom and Sinins, Voorhees

Bruce D. Greenberg, Esq.

Blogger, New Jersey Appellate Law Blog
Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC, Newark

is a Member of Lite DePalma Greenberg Afanador, LLC in the firm’s Newark, New Jersey, office. He handles consumer, antitrust and securities class actions, generally for plaintiffs, in state and federal courts. He has also served as an expert witness regarding class counsel’s attorneys’ fees.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court, Mr. Greenberg is Past Co-Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Class Actions Committee and a past Chair of the NJSBA Appellate Practice Committee. He was appointed to the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Character in 1991, is a founding member and Past Chair of the New Jersey Law Firm Group and is a member of the NJSBA Land Use Law Section.

Mr. Greenberg is the author of the “Supreme Court Review” chapter of every edition of ICLE’s New Jersey Appellate Practice Handbook since 1999 as well as the New Jersey appellate law blog (www.appellatelaw-nj.com), which was cited in the briefs of both parties in Carrera v. Bayer. Mr. Greenberg is the co-author of the chapter on class action litigation in New Jersey Federal Civil Procedure (New Jersey Law Journal Books) and the author of an article about objectors to class action settlements which appeared in the St. John’s Law Review. He has also lectured on appellate practice for ICLE, the New Jersey State Bar Association and county bar associations, and has moderated the Appellate Bench-Bar Conference of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Mr. Greenberg received his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Writing and Research Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems. He clerked for Justice Daniel J. O’Hern of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
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Christopher J. Michie, Esq.

Clark Michie LLP, Princeton

Caroline E. Oks, Esq.

Gibbons PC, Newark

is Director of Business and Commercial Litigation for Gibbons P.C. in the firm’s Newark, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., offices. She handles a wide range of complex business and commercial litigation matters in both state and federal courts throughout New Jersey and New York. Her practice focuses primarily on aspects of general and complex commercial litigation, including factual investigation, discovery and strategy, briefing and motions practice, and appellate filings in connection with class action defense, common law fraud, breach of contract, business torts and multi-party construction disputes.

Ms. Oks is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and the District of Columbia; and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of Columbia; and the United States Court of Appeals for the First, Second, Third and District of Columbia Circuits. A Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association Women in the Profession Section, she is a member of the American Bar Association’s Class Action and Derivative Suits Committee and Co-Chair of its Young Lawyers Subcommittee. She is also a member of the New York State and Essex County Bar Associations, the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association and the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey.

An editor of the Gibbons Law Alert blog, Ms. Oks is a Barrister of the John C. Lifland American Inn of Court. She has lectured for the New Jersey State Bar Association and Lorman Education Services, and is the author of “Third Circuit to Revisit Administrative Feasibility Prong of Heightened Ascertainability Requirement,” (New Jersey Law Journal) and other articles.

Ms. Oks received her B.A. from the University of Connecticut, where she was a New England Scholar, and her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, where she was Senior Notes Editor of the Seton Hall Legislative Journal and Vice President of the Student Bar Association. She was a judicial intern to the Honorable John C. Kennedy, J.S.C., Civil Division, and was a law clerk to the Honorable John C. Kennedy, J.A.D., Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.
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