NEW JERSEY LAW OFFICE
Lynne M. Kizis - Attorney at Law
Practice Areas: Mass
Tort Litigation, Class Action Litigation
Areas of Emphasis: Asbestos Litigation, Products
Liability, Occupational Disease, Defective
Consumer Products, Consumer Fraud
Bar Admission:
New Jersey and U.S. District Court,
District of New Jersey, 1987;
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1992
Education:
J.D., Seton Hall University, Cum Laude, 1987
A.B., Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 1984
Biographical Information:
Lynne M. Kizis is a shareholder of Wilentz and co-administers the Mass Tort / Class Action team. She has practiced in the fields of complex, class action and toxic tort litigation since joining Wilentz in 1989. Ms. Kizis has represented victims of occupational and environmental illness in trial and appellate courts for personal injury, wrongful death, property damage and economic loss due to hazardous substances including asbestos, lead, and toxic chemicals, as well as dangerous pharmaceutical products, and defective consumer products. She has served as lead or co-lead counsel in a variety of consumer protection class actions.
In addition to her extensive legal practice, Ms. Kizis has been a frequent author and lecturer for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America-New Jersey (ATLA-NJ), the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Middlesex County Bar Association and the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, on a variety of topics including products liability, procedural and evidence issues, causation and other tort issues, consumer fraud and class action law, and issues of women in the law. She has served on the Board of Governors of ATLA-NJ since 1998. She serves on the Class Action Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Ms. Kizis is also on the Executive Committee and Women's Initiative of the National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys (NASCAT). She previously served as a Trustee, Treasurer and Secretary of the Middlesex County Bar Association and chaired its Women Lawyers' Section. Since 1996, Ms. Kizis has served as a Peer Educator for the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on the Status of Women in the Courts. She has served continually on the Superior Court of New Jersey Middlesex County Asbestos Advisory Council since 1996 and on its Mass Tort Electronic Filing Committee since 1997. During 1997-1998, she served on the Mass Tort Advisory Committee to the New Jersey Supreme Court.
Ms. Kizis is a barrister of the Joseph Halpern-David Furman American Inn of Court. She provided volunteer legal services following the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center as part of "Trial Lawyers Care" one of the largest pro bono efforts in U.S. legal history, which Wilentz helped establish.
Direct Telephone: (732) 855-6424
Direct Fax: (732) 726-6612
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