K&L Gates’ Newark office has grown exponentially in the last several years, from four partners in 2000 to approximately 45 lawyers now serving a number of Fortune 500 companies based or operating in New Jersey, New York and the greater Philadelphia area, along with local business, and religious and health care organizations. Our lawyers provide a full range of services to the region's core and growth industries, including chemical, gaming, health care, pharmaceutical, financial services, telecommunications, construction, and biotechnology, and they increasingly practice across the United States on behalf of clients located elsewhere.

The Newark office contributes significantly to K&L Gates’ leading practice areas, including insurance coverage, products liability and toxic tort, environmental, employment, intellectual property, litigation, real estate, health care, and construction. Combining K&L Gates’ strengths with deep New Jersey experience, the Newark office provides our expanding roster of clients with dedicated local representation complemented by the varied experience of K&L Gates’ other lawyers domestically and internationally. The office's litigators represent clients before federal and state courts, as well as a wide range of federal and state administrative agencies in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania in complex litigation, environmental, employment, and intellectual property matters.

Newark’s complex litigation practice focuses on the representation of corporate and individual policyholders in insurance coverage disputes, as well as defense of product liability, toxic tort, and construction matters. Lawyers in our insurance coverage practice have successfully represented clients in actions against insurance companies relating to a wide range of claims, including environmental site remediation stemming from property damage, bodily injury and property damage from asbestos and silica exposure, pharmaceutical and other product liability, and construction accidents and manufacturing events, as well as employment practices and directors and officers liability coverage.

Our environmental attorneys have been at the forefront of emerging issues in their field, including brownfields restoration, natural resource damages, and environmental justice, as well as developing community outreach projects to gain local support for manufacturing operations and related environmental permitting. Newark’s environmental attorneys have also been instrumental in developing innovative case management techniques for multi-party cases and have successfully negotiated consent decrees and other settlements with federal and state governments containing precedent-setting provisions.

The Newark office is also heavily involved in the defense of toxic tort and product liability cases, including the representation of clients with mass tort exposures.   Attorneys in our Newark office are experienced in litigating all stages of product liability, and toxic tort cases from pleadings through trial and appeal, in single plaintiff – single defendant cases, litigation involving dozens of plaintiffs and hundreds of defendants, nationwide class actions, and regional or national coordination of mass tort litigation.  Our Newark toxic tort team comprises 13 lawyers and, as further evidence of our commitment to this area, has on staff a technical specialist who advises the team and our clients on complex technical and science issues.

Our employment lawyers counsel management on workplace policies and practices.   We also represent employers in litigation, including class action litigation, concerning a wide variety of issues from discrimination to wrongful termination. Our matters range from single-plaintiff cases and class action litigation to US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission actions challenging company-wide and nationwide policies. The Newark employment lawyers also regularly appear before the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, and the New York State Division on Human Rights. 

Complementing K&L Gates’ strong firm wide experience in the intellectual property field, the Newark office advises clients in clearing, obtaining, licensing, and assigning intellectual property, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights as well as performing due diligence with respect to intellectual property rights involved in merger and acquisition transactions.  We also represent clients in federal and state court litigations concerning trademark and service mark infringement, patent infringement and validity, interpretation of licensing contracts, and general unfair competition matters. Further, our IP lawyers have been involved in several trademark infringement suits in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

Our health care practice advises clients on regulatory compliance, entity formation and restructuring, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, fraud and abuse issues, corporate governance, and legal and ethical issues associated with religiously based health care services, among others. Our real estate practice focuses on land use, commercial and retail leasing, conveyance and financing transactions, real estate tax appeals, and real estate related litigation. Our real estate attorneys routinely appear before the planning and zoning boards of municipalities throughout the state, have tried numerous land use cases in the New Jersey Superior Court, and regularly argue tax appeal cases before the New Jersey Tax Court and numerous County Tax Boards.