Jonathan Rudnick | Tinton Falls Consumer Protection Lawyer

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About Jonathan

Practicing law since 1991, he was a law secretary for the Honorable Laurence Stamelman in Freehold, New Jersey. He then joined the law firm of Rudnick, Addonizio and Pappa and became a partner in 2000.

He has been litigating fraud, consumer fraud, lemon law and class action cases since 1996. He estimates that he has litigated in excess of 1,000 cases and tried over 100 cases before a judge and jury and arbitration.  
 
He was co-class counsel on the case of Dellapietro v. Sansone Auto Mall, alleging the overcharge of title and registration fees. Primary class counsel in that case was Mike Coren of Levy Angstreich, one of the leading class action firms in the nation.
 
Settlements in all the consumer fraud class action litigation would be in to the millions.  He receives referrals from other attorneys throughout the State of New Jersey, northeast, as well as nationwide.

Previously  a member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates, an organization dedicating to lobbying, protecting and otherwise assisting consumers with their rights pertaining to deceptive business practices. They have yearly meetings and seminars, which he ordinarily attends. He has attended consumer rights seminars in Baltimore, Washington, San Diego, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Washington and Boston.

He has lectured lawyers in the context the Institute of Continuing Legal Education on many consumer issues. He lectured specifically on the issue of auto fraud before  Legal Services of New Jersey in 2002 and attended the federal odometer fraud conference in Seattle in 1999.  He is faculty at LawLine.com for continuing legal education

He has been a member of the State Bar and served on the Consumer Law Committee since its creation in 2002. He was appointed by the Honorable Judge Waldman, Superior Court, Freehold, New Jersey, when he was President of the Monmouth County Bar Association. This committee is dedicated to the furtherance of consumer-related legislation proposed by politicians. It comments and prepares legislative positions on all relevant consumer-related issues.

He was appointed to the Supreme Court Committee for the Special Civil Part in 2001 and has provided various free lectures to the public on lemon law, consumer fraud and credit repair issues.

He also is on the faculty at lawline.com, for which viewers receive ICLE credit for viewing the online lectures. The classes are "How to Sue a Car Dealership
and "Discovery in a Case Against a Car Dealership."

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Experience

Managing Partner

Carton and Rudnick LLC

2007 - Present

Partner

Rudnick Addonizio Pappa

1991 - 2007

Admission

Verified New Jersey

1990

Verified New York

1990

Education

Indiana University

B.S. (Finance)

1987

Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • -New Jersey State Bar Association
  • Member Since:
    2001
  • -National Association of Consumer Advocates
  • Member Since:
    1998
  • -New Jersey State Bar Consumer Committee
  • -Monmouth County Bar Association Trustee
  • Member Since:
    1996 - 2004
Honors / Awards
  • BV Rated given by Martindale-Hubbell in
    2015
  • Super Lawyer given by Super Lawyer Magazine in
    2014

Carton & Rudnick Highlights

Consumer Protection, Personal Injury, Class Action, , Lemon Law

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