Practice areas:

Appellate Advocacy
Commercial Disputes
Constitutional Law
Creditors’ Rights
Employment Disputes
Public Entity Defense
Non-Compete Agreement Disputes
General Tort Liability
FELA
Shareholder Litigation
Background:

Clerkship

  • Hon. Ronny Jo Siegal, J.S.C., Passaic County Superior Court (2010-11)

Education

  • Rutgers University School of Law – Camden, J.D. (2010)
  • Binghamton University, B.A., English Literature & History, cum laude (2007)

Bar Admissions

  • New Jersey (2010)
  • New York (2010)
  • Connecticut (2010)
  • Pennsylvania (2016)
  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (2010)
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (2020)
  • Third Circuit Court of Appeals (2011)

Affiliations

  • Binghamton University Alumni Association – Law Chapter
  • New Jersey Bar Association – Civil Bar Trial Executive Committee

 

Biography

Ms. Anderson focuses her practice in defense litigation with a concentration on Tort Claims Act defense, FELA, automotive accidents, premises liability, railroad accidents, civil rights, wrongful death, property damage, and professional malpractice claims. Her clients include municipalities, governmental entities, railroads, school boards, large and small business owners, and their insurers. Ms. Anderson is experienced in all phases of civil litigation, including trial and appellate practice.

Prior to co-founding Anderson & Shah, Ms. Anderson was a partner at a regional New Jersey law firm, a Deputy Attorney General in the Tort Litigation Section of the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, and a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Ronny J. Siegal, J.S.C., Chancery Division, Family Part.

Ms. Anderson was named as a New Jersey Rising Star for Civil Litigation in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016, as listed in the New Jersey Super Lawyers® magazine. Rising Stars are chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Thomson Reuters, as being among the top-up-and-coming lawyers in New Jersey. Only 2.5 percent of New Jersey attorneys receive this honor each year.

Honors & Awards
icon Super Lawyers” Magazine – Selected as a “Rising Star” – 2016-2018  Less than 2.5% of attorneys selected as “Rising Stars” (lawyers under 40) through a peer nominated process based on independent research and peer evaluation  For information on the selection process, see: https://www.superlawyers.com/about/selection_process.html
Presentations
  • “Liability Case – Legal Update,” South Jersey Claims Association, April 2017
  • “General Overview of Premises Liability Law and Specific Claims,” South Jersey Claims Association, March 2017.
Representative Cases
  • Nizomov v. Jones, 2023 WL 685398, 2023 N.Y. Slip Op. 05266 (2st Dept. 2023)
  • Marshall v. SEPTA, 300 A.3d 537 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2023)
  • J.P. v. Lawrence Twp. Bd. of Educ., No. A-0180-20, 2022 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 449 (App. Div. Mar. 18, 2022), cert. den 252 N.J. 153 (2022)
  • Stair v. New Jersey Transit Inc., 2015 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 950 (App. Div. April 24, 2015)
  • Chen v. New Jersey Transit, 2014 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1480 (App. Div. June 20, 2014)
  • Garcia v. New Jersey Transit, 2014 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1004 (App. Div., May 2, 2014)
Publications
  • “The Notice of Tort Claim was Timely Received, but is it Statutorily Compliant?” Public Entity E-Newsletter, November 2017
  • “Don’t Let Your Public Entity Client Get Tripped up by a Pothole,” Public Entity E-Newsletter, February 2017
  • “Res Ipsa Loquitur: The Thing Speaks for Itself… Unless the Thing We’re Speaking of Involves a Public Entity,” Public Entity E-Newsletter, August 2016
  • “The Snowball Effect of the Common Law Snow and Ice Removal Immunity May Be About to Lose Momentum,” Public Entity E-Newsletter, January 2016
  • “Sunbather’s Personal Injury Claim Barred under the New Jersey Tort Claims Act,” Legally Speaking, February 2015.

Background:

Clerkship

  • Hon. Ronny Jo Siegal, J.S.C., Passaic County Superior Court (2010-11)

Education

  • Rutgers University School of Law – Camden, J.D. (2010)
  • Binghamton University, B.A., English Literature & History, cum laude (2007)

Bar Admissions

  • New Jersey (2010)
  • New York (2010)
  • Connecticut (2010)
  • Pennsylvania (2016)
  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (2010)
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (2020)
  • Third Circuit Court of Appeals (2011)

Affiliations

  • Binghamton University Alumni Association – Law Chapter
  • New Jersey Bar Association – Civil Bar Trial Executive Committee

 

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