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Jeffrey M. Norton, a member of Newman Ferrara LLP, practices primarily in the areas of shareholder rights, ERISA litigation, consumer fraud, products liability, and civil rights. He has played a leading role in numerous actions where plaintiffs or class members won substantial benefits, including In re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport ERISA Litig., (D.N.J.) ($90 million settlement);
In re AIG ERISA Litig., 04-CV-9387 (S.D.N.Y.) ($24.5 million settlement);
In re Conagra Foods, Inc. ERISA Litig., 8:05-CV-00348 (D. Neb.) (settlement valued over $14 million);
Salvato v. Zale Corp. et al., 3:06-CV-1124-D (N.D. Tx.) (settlement valued over $7 million); and
Graden v. Conexant Systems, Inc., 2:05-CV-00695 (D.N.J.) (settlement valued at over $12 million).
In the Conexant case, Mr. Norton argued and won an appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, setting a precedent that established statutory standing under ERISA for millions of otherwise disqualified former employees.
See Graden v. Conexant Systems, Inc., 496 F.3d 496 (3d Cir. 2007),
cert. denied 128 S.Ct. 1473 (2008)). Mr. Norton subsequently achieved a similar result before the Eleventh Circuit in
Lanfear v. Home Depot, Inc., 536 F.3d 1217 (11th Cir. 2008). Mr. Norton was involved in
In re: New York ReNu with Moistureloc Product Liability Litig., 766,000/2007 (NY Sup. Ct.), and most recently was appointed to the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in
In re: Zicam Cold Remedy Marketing, Sales Practices And Products Liability Litig., 2:09-MD-02096 (FJM), pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. Mr. Norton also currently serves as lead counsel in
In re Match.com Consumer Litig., 3:10-CV-2651-L, pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and several other national class actions.
In addition to representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of civil-litigation matters. Mr. Norton is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law, where he teaches a course on Mass Torts and Class Action Litigation. Mr. Norton drafted the supplement to Paul D. Rheingold, Mass Tort Litigation (1996), and played a critical role in the seminal voting-rights case of Goosby v. Town Board of the Town of Hempstead, 981 F. Supp. 751 (E.D.N.Y. 1997),
aff'd, 180 F.3d 476 (2d Cir. 1999),
cert. denied, 528 U.S. 1138 (2000). Mr. Norton's efforts have been the subject of several television and newspaper pieces, and he has been a panelist for CLE seminars, including ALI-ABA's Lender Misconduct in Consumer Foreclosures and Bankruptcy. Mr. Norton is admitted in the state courts of New York and Connecticut, as well as the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Eastern District of Michigan, the District of Colorado, and the Northern District of Ohio; the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, and Eleventh Circuits; and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Norton graduated with honors from Arizona State University in 1992 and cum laude from Pace University School of Law in 1997, where he received a Dean's Grant as well as a Public Interest Law Scholarship, for his work with the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York City, and Pace University's Social Justice Center.
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