Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, which has an office in Florham Park, recently won the General Litigation Department of the Year award at the 2024 N.J. Law Journal Legal Awards event.
Greenberg Traurig’s New Jersey office was honored for a variety of statewide and national litigation victories, including quashing potential class actions and providing life-altering pro bono work for The Innocence Project.
“Receiving this recognition for the exceptional work that our New Jersey litigation team does on behalf of our clients is a true honor and we thank the New Jersey Law Journal for this,” New Jersey Co-Managing Shareholders David Jay and David Oppenheim said in a joint statement. “Providing our clients with unrivaled service and legal excellence is our top priority and we thank our clients for placing their trust in us again and again for their most important legal matters throughout the Garden State and around the country.”
The New Jersey Law Journal Legal Awards aim to honor outstanding individuals and organizations in the legal profession, focusing on those who have made significant contributions and are advancing the industry.
The awards are designed to recognize excellence and innovation within the legal community. Greenberg Traurig was named 2022 New Jersey Litigation Department of the Year by The American Lawyer, a fellow ALM publication. It also was named New Jersey Law Journal’s Litigation Department of the Year – Class Action in 2016, and its General Litigation Department of the Year in 2013.
“We congratulate the highly skilled and dedicated New Jersey litigation team on this very well-deserved honor,” Greenberg Traurig Litigation co-chairs Lori Cohen and Masoud Zabeti said in a joint statement. “They are an integral part of the overall success of our firm’s global litigation practice, which excels in serving the interests of our clients worldwide.”
The New Jersey Litigation Practice earned this honor for handling cases including the successful resolution of Helman v. Marriott, a putative class action in which plaintiffs alleged entitlement to more than $500 million in claimed damages. Shareholders Roger Kaplan, Ian Marx and David Sellinger defeated class certification and resolved the matter on an individual basis, in a case that was the final chapter of several mass and class actions relating to the Ritz Carlton Destination Club luxury fractional interest timeshare program.
Greenberg Traurig also assisted, with Marx and Caroline Heller working on a pro bono basis, in the New Jersey Supreme Court’s landmark decision in State v. Watson, and its follow-up case, State v. Washington, which set precedent concerning witness identifications in criminal cases, eliminating the main source of wrongful convictions.
The firm also achieved landmark results for longstanding clients, such as Consolidated Edison Solutions, Inc. and Live Nation Entertainment Inc.
