BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 X-GWTYPE:USER UID:dmhperson1160 FN:James J. "J." Ferrelli TEL;WORK:+1 609 631 2408 TEL;TYPE=WORK,FAX:+1 609 228 6135 EMAIL;WORK;PREF:JJFerrelli@duanemorris.com N:Ferrelli, James J. TITLE:Partner ORG:Duane Morris LLP ADR;INTL;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;;Duane Morris LLP | P.O. Box 5203 | Princeton, NJ 08543-5203 | USA | URL;WORK:http://www.duanemorris.com NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE: Street Address Duane Morris LLP 100 American Metro Boulevard, Suite 150 Hamilton, NJ 08619 James J. ("J.") Ferrelli concentrates his practice primarily in the areas of business litigation, products liability, and class actions. Additionally, Mr. Ferrelli serves as Special Counsel for the Burlington County Bridge Commission. Mr. Ferrelli has an active and diverse business litigation practice, and has represented corporate and individual clients in complex commercial matters involving breach of contract, real estate, antitrust, employment disputes, restrictive covenants, franchise and distributorship issues, Lanham Act and unfair competition claims, copyright and trademark, consumer fraud, business torts, corporate governance, breach of fiduciary duty, and disputes arising from the acquisition or sale of a business. He has successfully handled jury and bench trials, injunction and replevin proceedings, and arbitrations of such matters. Likewise, he has maintained a transactional practice in which he has been involved in negotiating and drafting various contracts on behalf of clients, and has represented several professional athletes in a variety of business matters. Over the last 20 years, Mr. Ferrelli's products liability practice has focused predominantly in the defense of pharmaceuticals, biologics, and medical devices, and includes experience in cases involving a number of other products, including automobiles, industrial equipment, sports equipment, and hair care and cosmetic products. He has extensive experience in defending mass torts, and presently serves as counsel for a defendant pharmaceutical company in the In re Accutane and In re Isotretinoin mass tort proceedings pending in Atlantic County, New Jersey. In a recent series of pharmaceutical products liability cases, he successfully assisted a major producer of biologics in defeating an application before the Supreme Court of New Jersey to designate the cases for mass tort consolidation. Besides his experience in defending mass torts, Mr. Ferrelli has represented defendants in class action litigation. Mr. Ferrelli has represented the Burlington County Bridge Commission since the mid-1980s, serving as its Special Counsel since 1994. In the course of his representation, he has handled a wide variety of litigation and transactions for the Bridge Commission, including real estate, land use, contract, and personal injury matters. In the late 1980s, Mr. Ferrelli represented the Bridge Commission in admiralty and insurance disputes arising out of the collision of a tug and crane barge with the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge, recovering in excess of $1 million for damages to the bridge caused by the accident. Recently, he obtained summary judgment for the Bridge Commission as plaintiff in a real estate title dispute with an adjacent railroad line by tracing title to the lands in question back to the original 1833 survey of the rail line. Mr. Ferrelli's ongoing representation of the Bridge Commission has involved a number of litigation and transactional matters involving real estate, including easements, leases, outdoor advertising locations and billboards, quiet title issues, conveyances, and property acquisitions. Mr. Ferrelli has significant experience with a variety of technologies associated with modern complex litigation, including database management of documents and depositions, digital video testimony and other electronic courtroom media. Additionally, Mr. Ferrelli frequently assists clients on issues relating to electronic discovery. Mr. Ferrelli is active in a number of professional associations. Mr. Ferrelli presently serves as a Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association representing Burlington County on its Board of Trustees, a position he has held since 2006. He is a past President of the Burlington County (N.J.) Bar Association and has served as an officer and on its Board of Trustees for over ten years. He has served on a variety of committees not only of the Burlington County Bar Association, but also of the New Jersey State, Philadelphia, and Camden County (N.J.) bar associations. He is a member of the Litigation, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law, and Intellectual Property Law sections of the American Bar Association, and the Commercial Litigation and Drug and Medical Device Litigation committees of the Defense Research Institute. Mr. Ferrelli is chair of the Editorial Board of the New Jersey Lawyer Magazine and has served as an active member since 2002. He has written and spoken on a variety of legal issues. Mr. Ferrelli has served as the Special Editor for a number of editions of New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, including issues devoted to Business Litigation, Federal Civil Practice, Landlord and Tenant Law, Special Lands, and Construction and Government Contracts Litigation. As Special Editor, he planned the issue, selected writers and approved article topics, edited and finalized all articles for publication, and wrote an article for each issue. Mr. Ferrelli is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and before the United States District Courts for the District of New Jersey and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has also been admitted to perform appellate work before both the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Ferrelli is a 1984 graduate of the New York University School of Law, where he served for two years on the Annual Survey of American Law, first as a staff member, and then as an Articles Editor. He earned his B.A. from Boston College in 1981, graduating summa cum laude. END:VCARD