Janet L. Poletto
Experience:
45 years
Janet L. Poletto | Attorney
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About Janet
Certified Civil Trial Attorney: Ms. Poletto is a 1976 graduate of Bucknell University, where she earned her B.A. magna cum laude with Special Recognition and Highest Honors in Psychology. In 1980, Ms. Poletto graduated from Georgetown University Law Center and was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar that same year.
Ms. Poletto has been primarily engaged as a civil litigation attorney, working on matters involving all aspects of defense litigation and the analysis and litigation of coverage issues. She has extensive experience in litigating matters in the fields of professional liability, including medical malpractice, biomedical claims, legal malpractice and broker malpractice claims. Ms. Poletto has also had significant involvement in analyzing and litigating questions relating to insurance coverage including issues of bad faith and extra contractual claims and has developed special expertise in the analysis and litigation of insurance coverage disputes relating to environmental and latent injury claims. Ms. Poletto has further handled the defense of products liability, biomedical and medical device, construction, environmental liability, toxic tort, chemical exposure, asbestos and other mass tort claims. She has experience, as well, in the litigation of claims arising out of employment discrimination, wrongful discharge and sexual harassment under both federal and state statutes.
Her practice includes the appeal of litigated matters and she has extensive experience in representing clients in mediation, arbitration and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Ms. Poletto is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney having successfully litigated, through trial and appeal, a significant number of cases.
Ms. Poletto's decades of litigation experience has culminated in more recent years in intensive involvement in high exposure, complex, multi-party litigation, including the litigation of class actions and matters handled through the Federal Multi-District Litigation program. In a number of these matters she has been appointed to serve as defense liaison counsel, acting as the conduit on behalf of the defense in communications with the court and plaintiff's counsel.
Admission
New Jersey
1980
Education
Bucknell University B.A.
Hardin Kundla Mckeon & Poletto Highlights
Administrative Law, Age Discrimination, Alcoholic Beverages, Dispute Resolution, Americans with Disabilities Act , Animal Bite; Apparel; Arbitration; Asbestos & Mesothelioma; Criminal; Bad Faith Insurance; Chemical & Cosmetics; Civil Rights; Cleanup & Superfund; Commercial Insurance; Commercial Leasing; Commercial Real Estate; Complex Litigation; Constitutional Law; Construction Contracts; Construction; Construction Liens; Consumer Protection; Contract; Copyright; Defamation & Slander; Dental Malpractice; Directors & Officers; Discrimination; Discrimination; Employee Rights; Employment Contracts; Employment Discrimination; Employment; Environmental Law; Errors & Omissions Insurance; Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA); Federal Appellate Practice; Federal Trial Practice; Food Products; Franchising; Freedom of Press; Freedom of Speech; Waste & Pollution; Mental Health; Health Care; Housing & Construction Defects; Insurance; Insurance Malpractice; Intellectual Property; Land Use & Zoning; Landlord-Tenant; Legal Malpractice; Defect and Lemon Law; Licensing; Life & Health; Litigation; Machinery & Tools; Mediation; Medical Malpractice; Medical Products & Devices; Motor Vehicle; Car Accident; Municipal; Malpractice; Personal Injury; Pesticides; Premises Liability; Products Liability; Professional Malpractice; Property & Casualty; Property Damage; Race Discrimination; Nuclear Power; Real Estate; Recreational Products; Reinsurance; Religious Discrimination; Residential Real Estate; Sex Discrimination; Sexual Harassment; Shipping; Slip & Fall Accident; State Appellate Practice; State Trial Practice; State and Local; Toxic Mold & Tort; Transportation & Shipping; Trucking; US Courts; Warranties; Whistleblower; Wrongful Death; Wrongful Termination
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