John D North

Practice Areas

Chair, Litigation Department, Chair, Banking & Financial Services Litigation Practice Group. Concentration in commercial litigation, emphasis on state and federal trial practice. Has tried over 75 jury cases to verdict. Defense of catastrophic injury and other high exposure cases in areas of negligence, public entity and professional liability, construction. Personal injury practice limited to plaintiffs in medical malpractice and significant injury cases. Also concentrates in representation of commercial and residential real estate developers in connection with design and construction defect litigation, as well as defense of claims brought under New Jersey's Planned Real Estate Development Full Disclosure Act and Consumer Fraud Act.

Career

Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney.

Recipient of the Trial Bar Award from the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey for distinguished service in the cause of justice (2019).

Recipient of the Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey and the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law (2016).

Professional Memberships

International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Fellow

American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow

Litigation Counsel of America, Fellow

Trial Attorneys of NJ, past President

American Board of Trial Advocates

NJ State Bar Association

Association of the Federal Bar of NJ

Publications

Author, "A Trial Lawyer's Strategic Guide to the New Jersey Rules of Evidence," (NJICLE) 2013

Contributor, "Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts" (Thomson Reuters/ABA) 2017

Personal

University of Maryland School of Law (1977)

Lehigh University (1971)