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Kevin O’Connor is a partner with a broad legal background and emphasis on construction, employment and complex commercial disputes. He is involved in all aspects of commercial litigation in State and Federal courts and in private alternative dispute resolution venues, with involvement in all phases of litigating construction and commercial matters, including drafting of pleadings, discovery, depositions, motions, trials and arbitrations. Mr. O’Connor advises ENR Top 100 and Fortune 500 clients on a broad panoply of construction, employment and commercial issues. He has tried numerous matters before juries in both State and Federal courts.

Mr. O’Connor received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Montclair State University, cum laude, and his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Rutgers Law Review and as a Member of the National Moot Court Team. While in law school, Mr. O’Connor was elected to the Order of the Barristers and was the recipient of the Nathan Schildkraut Award for Excellence in Advocacy.

Mr. O’Connor’s publications include: ”New Jersey’s Heeding Presumption in Failure to Warn Product Liability Actions,” 47 Rutgers Law Review 343 (1994);“When Discrimination Claims Ride the Commuter Train,” NJLJ, December 18. 2005;“New York Law Applies in Commuter Discrimination Claims,” NJLJ, December 25, 1995;“Effective Use of Daubert to Dispose of Baseless Design Defect Claims,” For the Defense, May 1998;“The Evolving Standards of Admissibility for Expert Witness Testimony,” NJLJ, March 16. 1998;”Sword or Shield: and The Consumer Fraud Act in Construction Litigation,” NJLJ Oct. 2010 Supplement; and "Navigating the minefield
of modern Employee Theft Claims," NJLJ Apr. 18, 2011
Supplement.

Mr. O’Connor is admitted to practice law before the United States Courts of Appeal for the Third and Second Circuits, the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and the District of New Jersey, as well as the courts of the State of New York , the State of New Jersey and the State of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Section on Litigation and Construction Litigation), the New Jersey Bar Association (Construction Law Section) and the Morris County Bar Association. He is a Member of the District XA Ethics Committee, a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children (CASA-Morris) and member of the Board Development Committee at the YMCA in Mountain Lakes, NJ.