Craig S. Hilliard
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993 Lenox Drive
Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08648
Craig S. Hilliard is a Shareholder in the Commercial Litigation Group. He concentrates his practice in the area of federal civil litigation, including class actions, fraud, securities, employment, copyright/trademark and other complex civil litigation. Prior to joining Stark & Stark, he served as a law clerk for United States District Court Judge Garrett E. Brown, Jr.
Mr. Hilliard has served as trial counsel to three broker-dealer defendants in one of the largest class actions in the country, In re Bennett Funding Group Securities Litigation, now pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. He also defended a parallel class action proceeding in New York state court. Mr. Hilliard has considerable experience litigating claims, as counsel to both plaintiffs and defendants under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.
Mr. Hilliard is also a member of the Stark & Stark Mass Tort/Pharmaceutical Litigation Team. The Mass Tort/Pharmaceutical Litigation Team is dedicated to applying its extensive experience in successfully prosecuting and defending large, complex class and mass tort actions, to pharmaceutical injury claims on behalf of individuals and their families.
In 2005, 2006 and 2007 Mr. Hilliard was named as a New Jersey Super Lawyer by New Jersey Monthly Magazine*.
Education
J.D., Rutgers University School of Law – Camden, 1988
Cum laude; Articles editor, The Rutgers Law Journal; member, National Moot Court Team
B.A., Economics; Rutgers College
Cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Bar Admissions
United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Ninth CircuitsUnited States District Court, District of New Jersey
United States District Court, Central District of Illinois
Professional Organizations
New York State Bar Association
New Jersey State Bar Association
Mercer County Bar Association
Reported Decisions
- Luxliner P.L. Export Co. v. RDI/Luxliner, Inc., 13 F.3d 69 (3d Cir. 1993)
- Photopaint Technologies, LLC v. Smartlens Corporation, 335 F.3d 152 (2d Cir. 2003)
- Fox v. Tanner, 101 P.3d 939 (Wyo. 2004)
- Blue Sky MLS, Inc. v. RSG Systems, LLC, 2002 WL 1065873 (D.N.J. 2002)
- Fleming Companies, Inc. v. Thriftway Medford Lakes, Inc., 913 F. Supp. 837 (D.N.J. 1995)
- Sussman v. Bank of Israel, 801 F. Supp. 1068 (S.D.N.Y. 1992)
- Technology Based Solutions, Inc. v. Electronic College, Inc., 168 F. Supp. 2d 375 (E.D. Pa. 2001)
- Coleman & Company Securities, Inc. v. The Giaquinto Family Trust, 236 F. Supp. 2d 288 (S.D.N.Y. 2002)
- McGinley v. Cardinal Publishing Co., 1994 WL 114914 (E.D. Pa. 1994)
- Mid-State Securities Corp. v. Edwards, 309 N.J. Super. 73 (App. Div. 1998)
- Cowen & Company v. Petersen, 246 A.D.2d 458, 669 N.Y.S.2d 19 (First Dep't 1998)
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