Practice Co-Chair Named

Day Pitney announced that Parsippany-based litigation partner Naju R. Lathia joined William (Bill) Roberts as co-chair of the data privacy, protection and litigation group. Her "wide-ranging litigation knowledge coupled with her experience as a financial and cyber crimes prosecutor is a natural pairing to the group's deep understanding of how corporations and businesses need to protect both their own and their clients data from intrusion," Roberts said in a statement. Lathia handles complex commercial matters in state and federal court, as well as internal and white-collar investigations. She previously served as a deputy attorney general in the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, in its Financial and Computer Crimes Unit. As a trial attorney, Lathia prosecuted and tried cases involving computer crimes, money laundering and financial fraud; and worked on technology issues with several large companies, and investigated cases involving cloud hacking and cyber fraud, the firm said. Lathia co-chairs the Law Partners Section of the South Asian Bar Association of North America, and is a member of the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey and the South Asian Bar Association of New Jersey, which recently named her the 2022 "Young Lawyer of the Year." She was also a 2021 "New Leaders of the Bar" honoree by the New Jersey Law Journal. She earned her J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, and her B.A. from Rutgers University. She is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York.