Alfred Anthony, a New Jersey mass tort and class action attorney, has joined Locks Law Firm as a partner in the firm’s Cherry Hill and New York City offices, with plans to eventually work out of the firm’s forthcoming North Jersey office. Anthony comes to Locks Law Firm from Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, where he spent the last 23 years developing a practice specializing in environmental contamination, chemical exposure, benzene exposure, asbestos exposure, pharmaceutical torts and products liability litigation. In 1994, Anthony established legal precedent in New Jersey by certifying the first toxic exposure personal and medical monitoring class action (Russo v. Allied Signal). As a result of the settlement, a 30-year medical monitoring program was established for people who played on a chromium contaminated ballfield in Jersey City. In 1997, he received the Association of Trial Lawyers of America’s Outstanding Achievement Award for his work on behalf of 427 Pompton Lakes residents in an environmental contamination suit against DuPont that resulted in a $38.5 million settlement (Pompton Lakes v. DuPont). Anthony is a member of the American Association of Justice, the American Association for Justice Benzene Litigation Group and the Middlesex County Bar Association. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the New Jersey Association for Justice. In addition, he was elected mayor of Livingston earlier this year.
Rivkin Radler Elects Partner in NJ Office
New York-based Rivkin Radler has elected attorney Nancy Del Pizzo a partner. Del Pizzo, of Summit, is based in Rivkin Radler’s Hackensack office and is a member of the firm’s intellectual property and appeals practice groups. Del Pizzo focuses her practice on commercial disputes, with an emphasis on intellectual property matters such as trademark, trade dress, copyright and patent infringement, domain name disputes, source codes, misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair competition, defamation, libel and trade libel. She also drafts intellectual property-related agreements and drafts and files copyright registrations. Del Pizzo has been appointed to the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Pro Bono Committee for the 2015-16 term. In 2014, she was appointed co-chair of the Internet/Privacy Subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Intellectual Property Litigation Section. In 2013, the New Jersey Supreme Court appointed Del Pizzo to its District VC Ethics Committee (Essex County–West). She is a former chair of and currently serves as a trustee of the NJSBA’s LGBT Rights Section. Del Pizzo is a magna cum laude graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law.
