Personal Injury, Commercial and Business Litigation, and Employment Law
At Frier Levitt, we are selective about the matters we handle, and we will not advise our clients to "settle" unless the defendants offer an amount of money that meets our criteria for a great result. In other words, we don’t sell our clients short to make a quick buck.
While the firm counsels clients to take actions that forestall litigation, we do not hesitate to aggressively litigate when necessary, on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, at the trial and appellate levels of state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration and mediation venues.
Litigation Practice Areas
- Personal injury litigation, including auto accidents, pedestrian injuries, sexual assault or abuse, and crane accidents;
- Products liability cases, including, Thoratec HeartMate heart pumps, crib accidents, insulin syringes injuries, and tiki torch oil injuries;
- Fire-related injuries;
- Wrongful death, including suicide while in the care of others;
- Legionnaires' Disease;
- Nutmeg Benefit Trust cases;
- Fraud Litigation involving Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services;
- Front Running arbitrations and lawsuits;
- Business litigation;
- Real estate fraud;
- Labor and employment, including Jim Shun Wage Claims;
- Auction Rate Securities disputes;
- Insurance fraud;
- Bankruptcy litigation;
- Foreclosures;
- Estate litigation; and
- Insurance litigation
Other Litigation
- Creditor’s rights in bankruptcy;
- Civil rights litigation, including deprivation of individual’s
constitutional rights
and §1983 claims; - Fair housing claims, including the prosecution and defense of allegations that an owner or real estate agent failed to rent to a minority or steered minorities to other locations based on the prospective tenant’s race, creed, color, sexual orientation, national origin or religion;
- Condominium litigation;
- Litigation arising out of an insurance company’s failure to pay out on an insurance claim including life insurance, disability insurance and property damage claims; and
- Claims arising out of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.