Kathleen S. Murphy focuses her practice
on Litigation and Labor and Employment Law.
Ms. Murphy
has tried more than a hundred verdict trials. Her
extensive trial experiences involve defense of
enumerable automobile negligence claims, product
liability trials, environmental claims, and
employment discrimination claims. Ms. Murphy has
broad expertise in the Appellate Court, having
argued dozens of cases relating to evidential and
substantive issues. She is also skilled in the
Supreme Court, and in 2007 she argued a case which
determined an issue of admissibility of evidence
that had long divided the Appellate Courts and is
now cited regularly. The
Supreme Court of New Jersey, Board of Trial Attorney
Certification has designated Ms. Murphy a Certified
Civil Trial Attorney.
She is a member of the Fellows of the American Bar
Foundation, a prestigious organization that requires
elected membership; she was nominated and elected in
2001. She has also been a member
of the Supreme Court Advisory Committee since 2004.
Ms. Murphy is a member of The American Board of
Trial Advocates (ABOTA), a national organization in
which election for membership is required by the
voting members. She was elected for membership in
1992, was elected Treasurer of the
North Jersey
chapter from 1997-1998, and served as elected
president from 1999-2000. In 1998, Ms. Murphy
received the Civil Trial Attorney
Achievement Award from the Essex County Bar
Association.
Ms. Murphy was Law Secretary
to Hon. Robert A. Matthews, Presiding Judge, New
Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, from 1977
to 1978. She was a Member of the Supreme Court of
New Jersey Ethics Committee from 1986 to 1990, a
Barrister in the Essex County Inns of Court from
1987 to 1988, and Master in that Inn from 1988 to 1998. Ms. Murphy was a Member of the
Judicial Appointments Committee from 1987 to 1990,
the Judicial Evaluation Committee from 1989 to 1990,
and the Civil Trial Bar Commission from 1980 to
1998.
Lunsford v. Vizcaino v. NJM,
392 N.J. Super. 366, 920 A.2d 754 (2007)
in which the Appellate Division
clarified the insurance carrier’s
obligation to defend an intentional act
when alternatively pled with negligence,
with a favorable result for the
insurance carrier.
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Brenman v. DeMello,
191 N.J. 18, 921 A.2d 1110 (2007) in
which the Supreme Court made a
conclusive determination of the
admissibility of photographs without
need for expert testimony, reversing a
contrary finding.
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Argent v. Brady v. NJM,
386 N.J. Super. 343, 901 A.2d 419
((2006) an insurance coverage case
wherein the Appellate Division defined
the business pursuits exclusion
favorably to the insurance industry.
