Press Release
Duane Morris Partner Nominated to New Jersey State Bar Association Board of Trustees
PRINCETON, February 2006 - Duane Morris LLP is pleased to announce that James J. "J." Ferrelli, a partner in the Trial Practice Group in the firm's Princeton office, has been named to the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA). Nominated unanimously by the Board of Trustees of the Burlington County Bar Association, J. will serve an initial two-year term as an NJSBA trustee representing Burlington County, with a three-term limit.
J. has developed a successful litigation practice in the areas of business litigation, product liability, and class actions. He has represented a wide array of corporate and individual clients in complex commercial matters including breach of contract, real estate, antitrust, employment disputes, restrictive covenants, and franchise and distributorship issues. He also has experience in matters of copyright and trademark, corporate governance, breach of fiduciary duty, and transactional disputes. In addition, he has gained extensive experience defending pharmaceuticals and medical devices companies in product liability matters, particularly in cases involving tort liability. He has also successfully represented defendants in class action litigation involving breach of warranty claims and consumer fraud.
An active member of the New Jersey legal community, J. is the immediate past President of the Burlington County Bar Association in New Jersey, where he led the creation of a Technology Committee to modernize the Association, and has served as an officer on its Board of Trustees for ten years. In addition, he has served on committees within the bar associations of New Jersey, Camden County, and Philadelphia. He is also a member of the Defense Research Institute's Commercial Litigation and Drug and Medical Device Litigation committees, as well as the Litigation, Real Property, Intellectual Property Law, and Probate and Trust Law sections of the American Bar Association. Since 2002, he has been a member of the Editorial Board of New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, the official publication of the NJSBA. J. writes and speaks frequently on a variety of legal issues.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, J. graduated from New York University School of Law in 1984, where he served as a staff member and Articles Editor for the Annual Survey of American Law. Prior to that, he graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from Boston College in 1981.
