Brian E. Moffitt is a highly experienced litigator who represents corporate and individual clients in commercial and other complex matters in the state and federal courts, including all aspects of strategy formulation, pre-litigation investigation, fact, and expert discovery, motion practice, pre-trial preparation, trials, and appeals.
Brian has extensive experience in mass tort and toxic tort litigation; defending claims arising from asbestos and other environmental contamination; environmental clean-up, cost recovery, and contribution litigation; insurance coverage litigation; contract disputes, including franchise termination; professional malpractice defense; class-action defense; trademark litigation; New Jersey Parentage Act litigation; and insurance defense.
He has had a wide range of experience working with medical and environmental experts, both consulting and testifying. Brian E. Moffitt is also exceptionally proficient with e-discovery and has overseen the creation, review, and production of document databases comprised of millions of pages of documents.
Areas of Practice
- Outside General Counsel™
- Corporate Compliance and Ethics Counseling and Investigations
- Intellectual Property: Trademarks and Copyrights
- Litigation, Trial and Appellate Matters
- New Jersey Business Dispute Resolution Lawyers
- Records Retention, Information Management & Electronic Discovery
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey
- New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
Education
- Seton Hall University School of Law, Juris Doctor, cum laude
- University of Notre Dame, B.B.A., Finance
Representative Cases
- R.A.C. v. P.J.S., 192 N.J. 81 (2007)
- R.A.C. v. P.J.S, 380 N.J. Super 94 (App. Div. 2005)
- Hawkins v. Harris, 141. N.J. 207 (1995)
Classes/Seminars
- “Early Case Assessment: Using a Sample of Your Company’s Data to Your Advantage,” New Jersey Corporate Compliance Roundtable (Speaker; February 2015)
Honors and Awards
- At global industrial gases corporation, supervised all litigation and claims, involving tort, contract, environmental and various other issues
- A successful defense of international bank, a premises owner, in over 340 toxic tort personal injury suits filed in the Southern District of New York arising from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
- Simultaneously handled e-discovery issues in a $100 million-plus malpractice claim against a leading New Jersey law firm, ultimately gaining dismissal of the claims via summary judgment
- A successful defense of public utility in a mass tort matter involving hundreds of personal injury claims arising from alleged exposure at a former manufactured gas plant
- A successful defense of global chemical conglomerate in action arising from alleged worker health and safety issues and alleged misrepresentations about the environmental condition of a closed plant site
- Successful prosecution of insurance coverage litigation on behalf of global chemical conglomerate seeking cleanup and defense costs relating to dozens of former manufacturing plants and other environmental sites, including various appeals and settlement of same
- Successful prosecution of insurance coverage litigation on behalf of global pharmaceutical company seeking cleanup and defense costs relating to numerous former manufacturing plants and other environmental sites