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Anita Ruth Hotchkiss
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Anita Hotchkiss is a trial attorney with 40 years of experience defending companies and individuals in the state and federal trial and appellate courts. Her practice emphasizes complex pharmaceutical, medical device, and other products liability cases; mass torts; class actions; and medical and legal professional liability matters. Anita has tried over 35 cases and is one of the few attorneys in the country who has tried a medical monitoring class action. She is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney, and is fluent in Italian and Spanish.
Among the products she has defended are anesthetic agents, DES, DTP, flu and poliovirus vaccines, PPA, fen-phen, breast implants, denture adhesives, metoclopramide, sutures, artificial hips and knees, and phosphosoda. In the realm of medical liability, Anita has handled and tried to conclusion various types of professional malpractice actions including legal malpractice, medical malpractice, pharmacy malpractice, and dental malpractice, and she has handled disciplinary actions against hospital physicians. She has also tried to conclusion multiple pharmaceutical actions and has defended several major pharmaceutical companies in both individual and mass tort actions.
Anita secured one of the first "junk science" dismissals in the country on the basis of Daubert v. Merrell Dow. She has been involved in other cutting-edge cases involving recognition of the learned intermediary doctrine, the privilege of self-critical evaluation, and dismissals based on bankruptcy, as well as rejection of the theory of enterprise liability and the over-extension of consumer fraud acts to skirt established tenets of liability. She has written several amicus briefs on behalf of the Product Liability Advisory Council in these and other cases of interest and importance to corporate defendants. In addition, Anita has served as an expert witness in evaluating thousands of mass tort cases for a multimillion-dollar company in a commercial dispute involving allocation of a $100 million escrow.
Anita has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been named repeatedly in New Jersey MonthlyMagazine's list of "Super Lawyers," with special citation as one of the top 50 women attorneys in New Jersey. She lectures frequently to attorney and corporate members of national and local legal organizations on defense issues and tactics and was an invited member of the faculty at the prestigious Trial Academy run by the International Association of Defense Counsel.
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Licensed in New York for 43 years
State: New York
Acquired: 1982
No misconduct found
Licensed in New Jersey for 50 years
State: New Jersey
Acquired: 1975
No misconduct found
Location
Goldberg Segalla LLP
301 Carnegie Center Drive, Suite 200, Princeton, NJ, 08540
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Experience
Honors
2026
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2025
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2024
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2023
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2022
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2021
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2020
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2019
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2018
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2017
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2016
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2015
Lifetime Achievement Award, New Jersey Law Journal
2015
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2014
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2013
William A. Dreier Award for Excellence in Product Liability Law, New Jersey State Bar Association, Legal Services of New Jersey
2013
Women Leaders in the Law, American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell
2013
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2012
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2011
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2010
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2009
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2008
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2007
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2006
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2005
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2002
McLaughlin Award, New Jersey State Bar Association, Civil Trial Bar Section
2001
Professional Lawyer of the Year, Morris County Bar Association and NJ Commission on Professionalism in the Law
1995
20 most influential women in the health care industry, Medical Herald
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Supreme Court of New Jersey Civil Trial Attorney, Supreme Court of New Jersey
N/A
The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defence Lawyers, Who's Who Legal
N/A
New Jersey Super Lawyers, 2005-2018, Super Lawyers
N/A
Product Liability Lawyers — Defendants, 2018-19, The Best Lawyers in America
N/A
Avvo Rating: 10, Avvo
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AV Preeminent Peer-Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
N/A
Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
Work Experience
2008 - Present
Partner, Goldberg Segalla, LLP
Associations
2007 - Present
Worrall F. Mountain Inn of CourtMaster and Counselor
1994 - Present
American Bar FoundationFellow
1989 - Present
New Jersey State Bar Association, Food, Drug & Cosmetic Law CommitteeChair
American Board of Trial Advocates
Member
American Bar Association, Litigation Section, Litigation Management Techniques Subcommittee
Member
American Bar Association, Litigation Section, Corporate Counsel Committee
Member
American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Member
New Jersey Lawsuit Reform Alliance
Member
2007 - 2011
New Jersey Supreme Court Appointments, District X Ethics CommitteeMember
2003 - 2005
Morris County Bar Association, Judicial Selection CommitteeMember
2001 - 2004
Worrall F. Mountain Inn of CourtMaster and Counselor
1998 - 1999
Trial Attorneys of New JerseyPresident
1991 - 1998
Morris County Bar Association, Judicial Appointments CommitteeChair
1989 - 1996
Worrall F. Mountain Inn of CourtMaster and Counseler
1989 - 1990
New Jersey State Bar Association, Certified Attorneys SectionChair
1989 - 1989
New Jersey State Bar Association, Task Force on Women and the LawMember
1984 - 1986
Morris County Bar AssociationBoard of Trustees
1981 - 2000
Trial Attorneys of New JerseyBoard of Trustees
Education
1975
Rutgers University School of Law
JD - Juris Doctor
1970
Rutgers University
MA - Masters
1959
Bates College
BA - Bachelor of Arts
Speaking Engagements
2015
Product Liability Seminar — NJ Law Center
The Role of Preemption in Mass Torts
2014
NJICLE Construction Law 2014 Seminar
The Economic Loss Doctrine in New Jersey — Now You See It, Now You Don’t
2014
Medmarc 27th Medical Device Seminar
To Mock or Not To Mock — A Trial Lawyer’s Perspective on the Ins and Outs of Jury Science
2010
Product Liability Advisory Council Fall Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia
The PLAC Amicus Brief Committee and How it Works
2010
Product Liability Advisory Council Fall Meeting, San Antonio, Texas
Medicare Secondary Payer Issues
2010
Presentation to Worral F. Mountain Inn of Court, Morristown, New Jersey
Medicare Secondary Payer Issues
2010
Medmarc Annual Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina
Science Days for the Court — Pros and Cons for Defendants
2009
Masters in Trial, American Board of Trial Advocates, Montclair, New Jersey
Defense Summation in an Automobile Death Case
2009
Life Sciences Seminar, Warren, New Jersey
The Alphabet Soup of FDA Approval for Prescription Drugs
2009
Life Sciences Seminar, Warren, New Jersey
Guilt by Association,” or “It’s Not Even our Product — What Do You Mean We’re Liable?
2009
Life Sciences Seminar, Warren, New Jersey
Preemption After Riegel and Wyeth v. Levine
2008
Morris County Inns of Court
E-Discovery - Turning the Tables on Plaintiffs,
2007
Morris County Inns of Court
Maintaining and Enforcing Protective Orders - Not Over Until the Twelfth Of Never
2006
Product Liability Advisory Council Fall Conference
Boon for Defendants: The Road from Plaintiff's Bankruptcy to Summary Judgment
2005
National Forum on Off-Label Promotion of Pharmaceuticals
Litigating the Off-Label Case
2003
IADC Midyear Meeting
Keeping Corporate Secrets Secret: Protecting and Enforcing Protective Orders
2001
Product Liability Advisory Council 2001 Spring Conference
Crisis Management and Crisis Communication
2001
ABA Litigation Section Meetings
Presentation of Evidence in the Electronic Courtroom
2000
ICLE Product Liability: Update
The Presentation of Evidence in the Electronic Courtroom
1999
ALI/ABA Fifth Annual Advanced CDefendants' Barsourse of Study for Plaintiffs' and
Medical Monitoring Classes Under Rule 23(b)(2) - The Ultimate Shell Game
Publications
2018
Product Liability Playbook Blog
Contributor, Product Liability Playbook Blog
2015
New Jersey Mass Torts and Class Action Treatise, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education
Co-Author, “The Role of Preemption in Mass Tort Cases,” Chapter 15
2014
New Jersey Law Journal
Co-Author, “The Economic Loss Rule in NJ and the ‘Integrated Product’ Doctrine,”
2013
Product Liability Litigation: Current Law, Strategies, and Best Practices, Practising Law Institute
Co-Author, “How to Win a Dismissal When the Plaintiff Declares Bankruptcy,” chapter
2006
For the Defense
Pharmaceutical Defendants - Heed This Warning
2005
Litigation Update
Three for Three - N.J. Supreme Court Issues a Triad of Opinions That Should Please Defendants
2005
New Jersey Law Journal
Like Water and Oil: Consumer Fraud Act Claims Should Not be Viable in
2004
Defense Counsel Journal
Protecting and Enforcing Protective Orders: Easier Said Than Done
2001
Washington Legal Foundation Backgrounder
Protective Orders Redux: It's Not Over Until the Twelfth of Never
2000
Litigation Update
Federal District Courts In New Jersey and Pennsylvania Reject Challenges to Protective Orders
1998
Litigation Update
New Jersey Court Denies Class Certification for Medical Monitoring in Diet Drug Litigation
1998
Litigation Update
Learned Intermediary Doctrine Withstands 'Advertising' and 'Non-Therapeutic' Attack in New Jersey
Languages
Spanish
Italian
English