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Evelyn R. Storch
Member
Undergraduate
Douglass College, 1968
Law School
Rutgers University School of Law, 1981
Evelyn Storch is a trial attorney specializing in complex commercial, real estate based and construction litigation, professional liability claims and insurance defense and coverage disputes. She brings to her clients the wisdom of her twenty five years of trial and appellate court experience in both the state and federal courts. She has litigated intricate matters involving partnership dissolutions, shareholder and securities disputes, restrictive covenant suits, real estate brokerage claims (on behalf of both brokers and developers/owners), and civil rights violations. Her clients include individuals, small businesses, medium and closely held companies and the occasional multi-national corporation. Her diverse experience enables her to adapt her services to the particular needs of each client.
Evelyn graduated cum laude from Rutgers School of Law Camden in 1981. While in law school, she was Associate Editor of the Rutgers Law Journal and was a semi-finalist and won the Best Brief Award in the school's Moot Court Competition. She served as a legal intern to the Hon. Dolores K. Sloviter, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Essex County, New Jersey State, and American Bar Associations. She is the Chairwoman of the Amicus Committee of the NJSBA and is a state liaison for the Woman Advocate Committee of the ABA, for which she has published an article on brief-writing, "If You've Got It, Flaunt It: Persuasive Brief Writing." Evelyn has served as a panelist and presenter on electronic discovery and bad faith insurance claims, brief writing, electronic discovery and taking and defending depositions. On behalf of the NJSBA, Evelyn wrote the amicus brief to the New Jersey Supreme Court in Jerista v. Murray, 185 N.J. 175 (2005), which upheld the proximate cause requirement in legal malpractice cases.
Evelyn spearheads the firm's women's outreach program -- The PoWER Network, Powerful Women Effecting Results. The PoWER Network, organized and run by the women of the firm, through its newsletter, social events, and information exchange, provides a resource and network for women in business and women-owned businesses, large and small.
Notable Publications
American Bar Association -- Annual Meeting, Section of Litigation Committee on Corporate Counsel
Electronically Stored Information: Are You Ready? February, 2008
American Bar Association - Litigation
Spoliation, or Please Don't Leave the Cake Out in the Rain July, 2006
American Bar Association
If You've Got It, Flaunt It: Persuasive Brief Writing January, 2005
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