Multicounty (Mass Torts) Litigation Forum

Date: Jun 17, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online

Member Price: $187.00

Non-Member Price: $234.00

Section Price: $0.00

Event Code: I159425

Areas of Law: Product Liability & Mass Tort

Earn up to 4.8 credits! (More Information)

Faculty

Keynote

Moderator

Presenters

Justice Douglas M. Fasciale
New Jersey Supreme Court
Hon. Joseph A. Dickson, U.S.M.J. (Ret.)
Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC
Hon. Rachelle L. Harz, JSC (Ret.)
Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, PC
Hon. Brian R. Martinotti, U.S.D.J.
U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
Hon. John C. Porto, P.J.Cv.
Civil Presiding Judge for Vicinage One, Atlantic/Cape May
Hon. Joel Schneider, U.S.M.J. (Ret.)
Montgomery McCracken
Hon. Patty Shwartz (3rd. Cir.)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
is a Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and sits in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Following law school, Judge Shwartz was an associate at the law firm then known as Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz in Philadelphia, New Jersey. After her judicial clerkship she served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of New Jersey, where she investigated and prosecuted federal criminal cases and held several supervisory positions, including Criminal Chief and Executive Assistant United States Attorney. In 2003, she was appointed to serve as a United States Magistrate Judge for the United States District for the District of New Jersey, a position she held until her appointment to the Court of Appeals.

Judge Shwartz has served on several court committees and has been Chair of the Third Circuit Judicial Council’s Magistrate Judge Committee and Vice Chair of the Third Circuit Judicial Council’s Facilities and Security Committee. She has also been a member of the Board of Directors of the Historical Society of the United States District Court for the District of Jersey, the Advisory Board for the Association of the Federal Bar, and the Executive Committee of the John C. Lifland American Inn of Court. Judge Shwartz has been elected as a Fellow of the American Bar Association and formerly, as a Magistrate Judge, she served as the Third Circuit’s representative to the Board of Directors of the Federal Magistrate Judge’s Association. She is also an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School and lecturer at Rutgers School of Law-Newark.

Judge Shwartz received her B.A.. with highest honors, from Rutgers College and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review. She clerked for the late Honorable Harold A. Ackerman, United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey.
(9/23)
Hon. Ana C. Viscomi, J.S.C.
Middlesex County Courthouse
Jessica L. Brennan, Esq.
Barnes & Thornburg LLP, Morristown
Chief Judge Michael Kaplan, Chief U.S.B.J.
U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey
Lynne M. Kizis, Esq.
Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A., Woodbridge
Jared M. Placitella, Esq.
Cohen, Placitella & Roth, PC, Red Bank
Christopher M. Placitella, Esq.
Editor in Chief, New Jersey Mass Tort & Class Actions Treatise (New JerseyICLE 2020)
Cohen, Placitella & Roth, PC, Red Bank
Ellen Relkin, Esq.
Weitz & Luxenberg, New York
Colleen M. Restel, Esq.
Lowenstein Sandler, Roseland
Daniel M. Stolz, Esq.
Genova Burns LLC, Basking Ridge

The Multicounty (Mass Torts) Litigation Forum is an innovative program that will advance your insight into the various aspects of litigation in the mass torts arena. Start the morning with a riveting case law update for 2025. Learn strategies from a distinguished panel of judges on how to effectively move your case to trial. Acquire knowledge about the limits of bankruptcy and the 7th Amendment in mass torts litigation from an esteemed panel.

Afterwards, New Jersey MCL judges will update you on what is happening in the mass torts they are overseeing from the bench. The judges will discuss, among other things, surviving expert witness challenges and what you need to know about artificial intelligence to stay competitive. Absorb valuable information on being prepared for appeals from an esteemed panel that includes an associate justice of the state Supreme Court and a federal judge from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. You do not want to miss this program!

CLE Credits
NJ CLE:NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 4.8 hours of total CLE credit (Full Credits Available: NJ Civil Trial Attorney Credit: 4.8, NJ General: 4.8).
NY CLE (t&nt):NY Professional Practice Non-Transitional: 4.5
PA CLE:PA Substantive Credit: 4.0
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program.

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