Associate
New Jersey Office
T 973.863.7638
F 973.994.3375


Civil litigation with a concentration in tort and contract law, construction defense, insurance defense commercial litigation and insurance coverage.

Education
1998 Tufts University, B.A. Political Science
2001 Yeshiva University-Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D.

Bar Admissions

Passed New Jersey and New York Bars in 2001.
Admitted to New Jersey State Court December 2001.
Admitted to New Jersey Federal District Court March 2002.
Admitted to New York State Court May 2002.
Admitted to New York Federal Court, Southern and Eastern Districts November 2002.


Associations

 
Eric Polishook
EPolishook@morganlawfirm.com

Mr. Polishook is a 2001 graduate of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University) in Manhattan, New York. At Cardozo, Mr. Polishook focused on his litigation studies, participating in the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program through NITA, conducted by Professor Barry Scheck, as well as completing a course in Appellate Advocacy. He completed his undergraduate studies at Tufts Univeristy in Medford, Massachusetts, outside of Boston where he was born and raised, and received a B.A. in Politcal Science in 1998. During his time at Tufts, Mr. Polishook completed a semester studying abroad at London's City University. Mr. Polishook started his professional career at Newman Fitch Altheim Myers in downtown Manhattan on Wall Street, where he focused on the representation of commercial construction managers first in New York and then in New Jersey, and their defense in Labor Law/Tort and Breach of Contract cases. He has been at Morgan Melhuish Abrutyn for almost 2 years, and his practice has expanded to also include general insurance defense, insurance coverage and commercial litigation. He maintains a New York practice but has also expanded upon his New Jersey practice. Mr. Polishook recently obtained a defense verdict in his first solo, civil trial in a property damage case (tort, breach of contract) involving a residential cooperative apartment in Manhattan

Work Experience
December 2004-Present Morgan Melhuish Abrutyn (New York, New York/Livingston, New Jersey)
Sept 2001-Nov 2004 Newman Fitch Altheim Myers-New York, NY/Newark, NJ