Carl Soranno came to the practice of law after a 10-year career in financial services as a securities broker and financial planner, bringing a strong entrepreneurial and business sense to his varied commercial litigation practice.

Carl has focused his legal practice on counseling and representing a wide range of clients with complex commercial business matters. These matters include disputes related to trademark infringement, consumer fraud, employment, shareholder issues, contractual disputes, restrictive covenant claims and tort-related actions.

Carl also represents clients in matters involving divorce, equitable distribution, alimony, spousal support and marital property settlements.

Additionally, he represents lenders and creditors in New Jersey foreclosure actions and in bankruptcy proceedings.

Carl has successfully litigated in the federal and state courts and has arbitrated before the National Association of Securities Dealers and the American Arbitration Association.

PUBLISHED OR NOTEWORTHY DECISIONS

Carl Soranno is an accomplished appellate practitioner with notable published opinions, such as:

• The Ohio Casualty Group of Ins. Cos. v. Professional Insurance Management, 130 F.3rd 1122 (3rd.Cir.1997);
• The Ohio Casualty Group of Ins. Cos. v. Professional Insurance Management, 130 F.3rd 1122 (3rd.Cir.1997);
• Professional Insurance Management v. Ohio Casualty Group of Insurance Cos., 285 F.3rd. 268 (3rdCir.2002).

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Successful protection of trademark and service marks on behalf of a 37-year-old regional radiological group and home health care provider company from infringement by out-of-state competitors.
• Successful defense and prosecution of claims on behalf of physician/shareholders arising from post-employment restrictive covenants.
• Successful representation of individuals in matrimonial matters where complex issues of equitable distribution of property, alimony and support were at issue. Cases include litigation to enforce marital contracts such as prenuptial, postnuptial and separation agreements, as well as marital settlement agreements and divorce judgments.
• Successful defense in a number of cases arising out of employment/workplace-related claims, such as claims brought under The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, The Americans with Disabilities Act, The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, The New Jersey Conscientious Employee Protection Act, The Family Medical Leave Act and other related common law claims asserting breach of contract, wrongful discharge, harassment in the workplace and discrimination.
• Successful representation on behalf of a number of lenders from pursuing property foreclosure actions to protect the lender's rights in bankruptcy.
• Successful settlement of claims brought on behalf of injured clients arising from automobile accidents, pedestrian injuries and defective products.
• Successful defense of a shareholder oppression claim asserted by a withdrawing family shareholder of a 60-year-old closely held candy manufacturing company.
• Precedent-setting decisions in the federal Third Circuit establishing the jurisdictional boundaries of appeals arising from bankruptcy courts, creditors' rights of set off and the perfection of pre-petition security interests.
• Successful recovery of a percentage of royalties and interest in excess of $900,000 for a University of Pennsylvania medical professor/inventor against the university under its patent policy.

ADDITIONAL NOTEWORTHY INFORMATION

Carl has been quoted about matters of law in The New York Times, Star-Ledger and Hoboken Reporter. Most recently, he was quoted in the New Jersey Law Journal in "Defendant in Suit Alleging Libel by Email Can Remain Anonymous" and in The Star-Ledger. in "A Feud Builds in Frelinghuysen."  He is on the Board of Trustees of the Dombal-Vogel Foundation in Somerset County, which provides money through grants and other donations to address the needs of children in New Jersey, specifically the Somerset County area.