NEWARK, NJ, March 19, 2019 – Walsh Pizzi O’Reilly Falanga LLP announced that Partner Hector D. Ruiz will be honored by ALIANZA at their Defensores De La Justicia banquet to be held March 25 at Rutgers University Camden Campus. Now in its 16th year, the award...
By: Joseph L. Linares and Selina M. Ellis Marijuana laws are changing at a rapid pace across all 50 states. Currently, 40 states permit some form of medical access to marijuana. One of the many thorny issues they must negotiate is whether a prospective or current...
By: Joseph L. Linares and Selina M. Ellis New Jersey lawmakers and citizens appear to favor marijuana legalization for recreational use, and approval of recreational cannabis in the Garden State seems inevitable. What remains undecided, however, is the form, scope and timing of any legalization legislation. While...
NEWARK, NJ, February 22, 2019 – Walsh Pizzi O’Reilly Falanga LLP announced that Partner Liza M. Walsh was presented with the 2019 James J. McLaughlin Award by the Civil Trial Bar Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association on February 21. Named in honor of...
As reported in Law360, a proposed class of diabetes patients who say three major insulin manufacturers caused them to overpay for the medication can’t pursue Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims against the drugmakers, a New Jersey federal judge said Friday, because the consumers didn’t...
NEWARK, NJ, February 14, 2019 – Walsh Pizzi O’Reilly Falanga LLP is co-sponsoring a free seminar for the parents of special needs children. Entitled Navigating the Bureaucracy of the Special Education System: Practical Strategies and a Primer on Legal Rights, Partner Thomas J. O’Leary, will...
The following article originally appeared on Law360. Clarifying State Consumer Fraud Act At NJ High Court Partner Hector D. Ruiz authored an article on the New Jersey Supreme Court’s treatment of CFA claims in the context of business-to-business transactions involving custom-made goods. This article examines the New Jersey...
By: Hector D. Ruiz In a pair of recent decisions issued a week apart, the United States Supreme Court refined jurisprudence surrounding the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA or Act), 9 U.S.C. §§ 1-16, and addressed the gateway question of a court’s primary power to determine whether...
By: Hector D. Ruiz On January 10, 2019, the New Jersey Supreme Court made clear that consumers will not be compelled to arbitrate claims of consumer fraud and other wrongs where the contract provision is misleadingly labeled and otherwise fails to convey clearly that arbitration would...
NEWARK, NJ, January 10, 2019 – Walsh Pizzi O’Reilly Falanga LLP, a leading women-owned law firm in the Mid-Atlantic region, today announced four new partners: Sydney J. Darling, Selina M. Ellis, Eleonore Ofusu-Antwi and Katelyn O’Reilly. Their promotions were effective January 1. “Each is an extraordinary...