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email pageMeredith has substantial and wide-ranging experience in defending all types of professionals – including attorneys, accountants, architects, engineers, insurance producers and real estate agents and brokers – in professional malpractice actions through all phases of litigation in New Jersey and the New York metropolitan area. She also has extensive experience defending individuals and corporations in complex commercial, employment and personal injury matters.
Meredith is also an accomplished appellate advocate. She has successfully argued several matters before the Supreme Court and Appellate Division of New Jersey.
In addition, Meredith is actively involved in her community. She has been a trustee of the Jewish Women’s Foundation of New Jersey since 2006 and recently served a two year term as co-chairperson of the Foundation. She also previously chaired the Foundation’s Grant Committee and was a member of the Nominating Committee.
Meredith is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and one of the firm’s Managing Partners.
Partner, Morgan Melhuish Abrutyn, 1999-Present
Associate, Morgan Melhuish Abrutyn, 1994-1999
Associate, Fox, Rothschild, O’Brien & Frankel (successor in interest to Katzenbach, Gildea & Rudner), 1992-1994
Law Clerk, Honorable James J. Coleman, Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division (prior to his elevation to the New Jersey Supreme Court), 1991-1992
New Jersey
New York
US District Court for the District of New Jersey
US District Court for the Eastern District of New York
US District Court for the Southern District of New York
US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
JD, cum laude, Seton Hall University School of Law, 1991
BS (Major in Mechanical Engineering and Minor in Engineering Management), Tufts University, 1988
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Listed in New Jersey Super Lawyers, 2010-2017 (Top 100 New Jersey Super Lawyer, 2014; Top 50 Women New Jersey Super Lawyer, 2012 and 2013-2015; and New Jersey Super Lawyer Rising Star, 2006)
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Named Top 50 Women in Business by NJBIZ Magazine, 2006
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Claims Litigation Management
Member, Defense Research Institute
Member, Essex County Bar Association
Member, International Association of Defense Counsel
Member and Former Chair of the Insurance Benefit Committee, New Jersey State Bar Association
Member, Professional Liability Underwriting Society
Speaker, "Young Professionals Session: Pick Me! Pick Me!" - American Bar Association Lawyers Professional Liability Conference; Fall 2017
Speaker, “New Jersey Law Office Management” – Essex County Bar Association; 2013
Speaker and Co-Author, “Managing Expectations in the Tripartite Relationship” – International Association of Defense Counsel Professional Liability Roundtable; 2013
Co-Author, "New Jersey Appellate Division Holds That A Client Contesting a Law Firm’s Legal Bills By Filing A Legal Malpractice Counterclaim Must Submit An Affidavit Of Merit and Specify the Specific Time Entries They Are Contesting" – American Bar Association Lawyers Professional Liability eAdvisory Newsletter; May 2013
Co-Author, "United States Supreme Court Determines State Courts May Hear Legal Malpractice Claims Arising From Underlying Patent Litigation Thus Narrowing Jurisdiction Under The Arising Under Doctrine" – American Bar Association Lawyers Professional Liability eAdvisory Newsletter; March 2013
Co-Author, “New Jersey Supreme Court Finds the Puder Doctrine Remains a Limited Equity Based Exception” – American Bar Association Lawyers Professional Liability eAdvisory Newsletter; April 2012
Co-Author, "New Jersey Supreme Court Determines Dates of Exoneration for a Crime in Relation to Accrual of Cause of Action for Legal Malpractice" – American Bar Association Lawyers Professional Liability eAdvisory Newsletter; March 2012
Speaker, “New Jersey Law Office Management” – Essex County Bar Association; 2012
Speaker, “Overview of Architect and Engineer Claims” – General Star Insurance Company; 2012
Speaker, “Legal Malpractice Update” – New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education; 2012
Co-Author, “Trust Accounts Scams Covered Under Legal Malpractice Policy in Nardella Chong, P.A. v. Medmarc Cas. Ins. Co., 642 F. 3d 941 (11th Cir. 2011)” – American Bar Association Lawyers Professional Liability eAdvisory Newsletter; November 2011
Speaker, “Legal Malpractice Update” – New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education; 2011
Speaker, “Recent Developments in Legal Malpractice” – ALADN Conference; 2010
Co-Author, “Check Fraud Scams” – Professional Liability Underwriting Society Journal, Volume XXIII, Number 9; 2010
Co-Author, “Know Your Client” – New Jersey Law Journal, Volume 197, Number 11; 2009
Co-Author, “To Impute or Not To Impute: An Historical Analysis of New Jersey's Hardline Stance Against the Application of the Doctrine of Imputation as a Defense for Corporate Auditors” – International Association of Defense Counsel Newsletter; 2006
Co-Author, “The Imputation Doctrine Does Not Bar Innocent Shareholders from Pursuing a Claim Against the Corporate Auditors for Failing to Discover Fraudulent Activities of Corporate Officers” – Client News Letter; 2006
Co-Author, “Practicing Malpractice Avoidance” – New Jersey Lawyer; 2005
Speaker, “New Jersey Lawyers Professional Liability Risk Management Seminar” – New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education; 2005
Co-Author, “Practicing Malpractice Avoidance” – New Jersey Lawyer, Volume 14, Number 39; 2005
Speaker, “Legal Malpractice Seminar” – Passaic County Bar Association; 2000
Speaker, “How to Avoid Legal Malpractice Claims in Handling Real Estate Transactions”; 1999
Co-Author, “The End of Meritless Malpractice Cases” – New Jersey Law Journal Professional Liability Supplement; 1997
Polzo v. County of Essex , 196 N.J. 569, 960 A. 2d 375 (2008) (view the oral argument here).
Stoeckel v. Township of Knowlton , 385 N.J. Super. 267, 902 A. 2d 930 (App. Div.), certif. denied, 188 N.J. 489, 909 A. 2d 724 (2006).
Diocese of Metuchen v. Prisco & Edwards, AIA, 179 N.J. 305, 845 A. 2d 132 (2004), appeal after remand, 374 N.J. Super. 409, 864 A. 2d 1168 (App. Div. 2005).
Gilles v. Wiley, Malehorn & Sirota, 345 N.J. Super. 119, 783 A. 2d 756 (App. Div. 2001), certif. denied, 171 N.J. 340, 793 A. 2d 718 (2002).
Christie v. Jeney, 167 N.J. 509, 772 A. 2d 361 (2001).
Kaplan v. Skoloff & Wolfe, P.C., 339 N.J. Super. 97, 770 A. 2d 1258 (App. Div. 2001).
In re O’Dowd, 233 F. 3d 197 (3d Cir. 2000).
DeAngelis v. Rose, 320 N.J. Super. 263, 727 A. 2d 61 (App. Div. 1999).
Dinizio v. Butler, 315 N.J. Super. 317, 718 A. 2d 251 (App. Div. 1998).
General Motors Corp. v. City of Linden, 143 N.J. 336, 671 A. 2d 560 (1996), cert. denied, 519 U.S. 816, 117 S. Ct. 66, 136 L. Ed. 2d 27 (1996).