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Marina Corodemus

Marina Corodemus

Managing Partner, Director ADR Practice Area
Location:
Iselin, New Jersey
Phone:
732-603-0005
Fax:
732-603-8933
E-mail:

Judge Corodemus is a highly experienced professional in Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and a sought after special master by Federal and State Courts involving class actions, mass torts, environmental contaminations, natural resource damages, products liability, consumer fraud and serious aggregate litigation. She brings over 10 years experience on the bench as New Jersey's sole Mass Tort Judge. Judge Corodemus is the Director of ADR Practice in her firm Corodemus & Corodemus LLC with a national practice. She has lectured throughout the country. She is a member of the ALI Aggregate litigation Advisor Committee, is a Board and Executive Board Member of the Sedona Conference and is a adjunct Professor at Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey.

Mass Tort Judge Presided over:

Pharmaceutical Cases: Fen-phen Diet Drug 
     PPA
     Rezulin
     Latex Gloves
     Propulsid 
                                                          
Products Liability Cases: 
     Talalia v. Cooper Tire (National Class Action)
     Perez v. Wyeth Laboratories Birth Control Cases

Tobacco Cases: 
     Mehlman v. Phillip Morris and RJR et als.

Environmental Contamination Cases: 
     Durham Woods Pipe Line Explosion
     Toms River Ciba Geigy Cancer Cluster Cases

 IN RE LEAD PAINT CASES ASBESTOS
 
ADR Professional SPECIAL MASTER APPOINTMENTS:
 
      Federal District Court of New Jersey: EPHEDRA BANKRUPCY CASES 
      Federal MDL VIOXX: SPECIAL MASTER 
 
      HUDSON COUNTY CHROMIUM CASES
 
      SPECIAL MASTER APPOINTMENTS IN THE STATE COURTS:       
      New Jersey
      California
      Florida 
      New York

Areas of Practice

  • 75% Alternative Dispute Resolution Mediation-Arbitration-Settlement Negotiations
  • 25% Special Master Appointments Federal and State Courts Management, Discovery
  • Allocation

Bar Admissions

  • New Jersey, 1981
  • New York, 1989
  • U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1981
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1981
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1981
  • U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1981

Education

  • Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey
    • J.D. - 1980
  • Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
    • B.A. - 1977
    • Major: English

Published Works

  • "Rock'em, Sock'em Preemption:Who Is Getting Their Block Knocked Off?, BNA CLASS ACTION REPORTER Vol. 9, 9/26, 2008

Classes/Seminars

  • Adjunct Professor of Law, Rutger University School of Law, 2002 - Present
  • Presenter Mass Torts Judicial Seminar, HB Conferences, 2010

Honors and Awards

  • Middlesex County Outstanding Lawyer Achievement Award, 1991
  • NJ ICLE Outstanding Service Award

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • American Bar Association, Fellow, 1999 - Present
  • ALI, Member, 2001 - Present

Past Employment Positions

  • New Jersey State Court, Judge of the Superior Court, 1983 - 2004
  • Assistant Township Attorney, Old Bridge Township, 1981 - 1983
  • Superior Court Bench, 1993 - 2004
  • Private Practice, 1981 - 1993

Pro Bono Activities

  • NJ Metro Chapter Multiple Sclerosis Society, 2000 - Present

Corodemus & Corodemus, L.L.C.
The Woodbridge Hilton Building
120 Wood Avenue South, Suite 500
Iselin, NJ 08830
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