James A. McFaul | Associate
Areas of Practice
Mr. McFaul is an associate at Butz Dunn & DeSantis. His areas of practice include complex civil litigation, professional liability, general tort and business litigation, insurance fraud and coverage matters, healthcare litigation, and appellate work. His professional liability practice has included the representation of large international law firms, prominent regional and local law firms, doctors, architects, and engineers.
Representative Matters
- Handled numerous matters on behalf of attorneys and law firms in connection with claims for professional malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and conflicts of interest.
- Represented various design professionals in litigation involving personal injury, property damage, and/or delay/acceleration claims.
- Represented numerous medical professionals in litigation concerning partnership dissolutions, insurance fraud, medical malpractice and licensing-board hearings.
- Authored successful motions for summary judgment dismissing several multi-million dollar legal malpractice actions against prominent law firms.
- Authored successful emergent motion to stay medical board’s suspension of client, contemporaneously with motion for leave to appeal, resulting in Appellate Division deciding the appeal on the merits and vacating the suspension in three days.
- Assisted at three-week jury trial and successfully obtained $2.8 million wrongful death verdict against major automobile manufacturer for a design defect.
- Assisted at three-week jury trial and successfully obtained $850,000 wrongful death verdict against large hospital for failure to provide adequate security.
- Co-authored successful motion for summary judgment establishing New Jersey precedent: tolling statute applies to a parent’s bystander liability claim.
- Co-authored amicus curiae brief to New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of New Jersey State Bar Association arguing that a heightened standard of proof should be applied to prosecution of a claim under the Insurance Fraud Protection Act.
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