Fishkin Lucks LLP is pleased to announce that Kirstin (O’Callaghan) Mannarino has joined the Firm as an associate. Kirstin is a commercial litigator who has handled a wide-variety of business disputes and tort claims for corporations in a number of different industries, including construction, chemical, insurance, financial services, technology, energy and pharmaceutical. Kirstin also has substantial environmental expertise, having served as common counsel to large PRP Groups, prosecuted and defended cost recovery and contribution actions, and negotiated remediation plans with federal and state agencies. Before joining Fishkin Lucks, Kirstin spent her last several years practicing out of the New York and New Jersey offices of Day Pitney and Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge (n/k/a Edwards Wildman).
Kirstin received her J.D. from Boston University School of Law where she served as the Executive Editor of Student Publications on the Annual Review of Banking & Financial Law. She is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey state and federal courts. Kirstin currently serves on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association.
Fishkin Lucks prevailed today before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (Linares, J.). The Court granted the Firm’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s patent infringement claims against our client, an international online gaming company, upon our showing that the “alleged infringement activity could not have taken place in the United States” given the location of our client’s servers in Gibraltar, and that our client “did not have sufficient minimum contacts within the District” to support a prima facie showing of personal jurisdiction.
Fishkin Lucks prevailed today before the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Radkoff, J.). The Court granted the Firm’s motion to dismiss a plaintiff Trust’s action seeking judgment declaring its rights under a certain stranger owned life insurance (“STOLI”) policy, holding that plaintiff’s complaint was barred under the abstention doctrine given an earlier filed action brought in New Jersey State Court to rescind the STOLI policy. In so holding, the Court agreed with the Firm’s argument that “as master of its complaint and the entity whose rights have been placed at risk by Defendants’ (including the Trust’s) fraudulent scheme perpetrated in New Jersey,” our client was entitled to pursue relief in New Jersey and invoke the protections afforded by New Jersey law under the circumstances.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Newark, NJ and New York, NY – Seasoned attorneys Andrew Fishkin and Steven Lucks announced today their formation of a new law firm designed to deliver results exceeding expectations in a changed landscape for legal services. Out of its initial two offices in Newark (NJ) and New York City, the Firm is committed to delivering unparalleled litigation and risk management services in a client-centric, result-oriented manner that stresses efficient, cost-effective solutions. Through their almost 30-years combined experience in an Am Law 100 firm representing Fortune 500 and middle-market companies in matters ranging from significant “one-off” litigations to large inventories of cases around the country, the co-founders of Fishkin Lucks understand the realities of clients’ changed demands. They formed their new firm to respond to those new demands without losing sight of one “old school” principle by which they have always been guided: every new engagement presents opportunities to build or strengthen relationships and the Firm’s reward will always be its clients’ next matter or referral.
The founding partners are Andy Fishkin who was a litigation department chair, practice group leader and member of senior management at an Am Law 100 firm where he practiced for 20 years, and Steven Lucks who was an accomplished long-time member of that firm’s litigation department.
“Andy and I are fortunate to represent great clients that entrust us with some of their most critical matters and issues. Our new platform affords us an opportunity to strengthen our relationships with those clients and to provide litigation and risk management services to a wider array of companies and individuals who are more attuned to costs and value in what we believe is a new legal landscape,” said Steven Lucks.
Andy Fishkin added, “Steve and I cannot be more excited to continue to offer clients unparalleled litigation and risk management services and solutions in New York, New Jersey and other regions of the country through a new, lower-cost structure that is more responsive to and better aligned with clients’ budgets. Our modest infrastructure and sensible controls will allow us to exceed clients’ expectations in a more efficient and cost-effective manner.”
