2005 GOLF OUTING

The Fourteenth Annual GRSLL&B Golf Outing will be held on May 5, 2005, at Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club. Each year a donation is made to a local charity and this year, the recipient will be the Meghan Rose Bradley Foundation. Meghan Rose Bradley was a Somerville (N.J.) High School student who lost a brief and fierce battle with brain cancer in November 2004. The Foundation has been set up in her memory to provide for scholarships in her name.

New Shareholders

The firm is pleased to announce that Christopher H. Westrick and Audrey L. Shields have become shareholders of the firm effective January 1, 2005. Chris joined the firm as an associate in May 1999 in the coverage department. A 1997 graduate of Seton Hall Law School, during his time at GRSLL&B he has focused primarily upon construction defect and related insurance coverage litigation. Chris also handles construction site accidents, engineering and architectural malpractice, employment cases and a variety of other complex litigation matters. Chris lives in Mount Olive, New Jersey, with his wife Karen and daughter Allison, 21/2.

Audrey has been associated with GRSLL&B for 6 years here her practice has mainly been focused in insurance overage defense litigation. Audrey also plays an integral art in the firm’s litigation department, and for the past two
years has been defending professional malpractice claims on ehalf of attorneys, insurance brokers and agents. In her pare time, Audrey takes care of her family and two wonderful ittle boys, Anthony, 31/2, and Joseph, 11/2.

Firm Highlights

Jeffrey S. Bell has been certified as an Arbitrator by the New Jersey Adminstrative Office of the Courts and is approved to arbitrate matters in Middlesex and Somerset counties.

Kenneth R. Rothschild and Christopher H. Westrick achieved a significant result on a motion filed in a $27 Million ngineering malpractice matter. In a matter arising out of alleged design deficiencies in a large industrial facility, they
successfully had approximately $19 Million of the claimed damages dismissed based upon a contractual damage limitation.

Philip A. Garubo, Jr. and Jeffrey S. Bell recently completed a six week trial in a case involving complex issues and testimony from over forty witnesses including seven experts. The trial was the result of a devastating fire at a residential apartment complex which spread to neighboring properties, destroying multiple homes. While there were no physical injuries, there were claims for emotional distress and loss of property. Although the jury returned a finding of liability on one count of the complaint, the verdict was favorable to the defense in that it totaled less than the “low” on a proposed “high/low” agreement, and was approximately 25% of the plaintiffs’ global settlement
demand during jury deliberations.