Stephen A. Rudolph

Mr. Rudolph is a partner who has been with the firm since 1997.  He was born in the Bronx, New York.  From 1982 to 1989, Mr. Rudolph was an active duty member of the United States Air Force, having been stationed at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, George Air Force Base in Victorville, California, Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan and Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska.  Mr. Rudolph also served short tours of duty in South Korea, Germany, Greece, England and the Philippines.

Mr. Rudolph graduated from the University of Nebraska-Omaha with a B.S. in 1989.  He graduated from Widener University School of Law with a J.D. in 1994.  He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1994; admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1994; admitted to the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey in 1994; admitted to the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1995; and admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit in 1996.

Mr. Rudolph has been Certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney.  He has tried more than 125 jury verdicts, many of them involving the defense of complex cases in wrongful death, brain damage, products liability and employer liability.  Since 2003, Mr. Rudolph has obtained no-cause defense jury verdicts in 14 of the 21 counties in New Jersey, establishing the Firm's strong State-wide presence in New Jersey.  He has successfully tried more than 10 wrongful death cases through verdict and has tried many other catastrophic injury cases stemming from construction accidents, products liability, dram shop/liquor liability, tractor-trailer accidents and routine automobile accidents.  Mr. Rudolph is frequently listed as the defense trial attorney for defense verdicts that have been published in New Jersey Jury Verdict Review & Analysis and Verdict Search-New Jersey.  The following is a short, partial list of the jury verdict periodicals in which Mr. Rudolph’s defense verdicts have been published:

Mr. Rudolph frequently gives lectures and training seminars to various groups, corporations and insurance companies on a broad range of topics, including trial strategy and tactics, products liability, tractor-trailer litigation, traumatic brain injury, wrongful death, economic damages under Green v. Bittner, conscious pain and suffering, bad faith claims under Rova Farms, admissibility of testimony and evidence, closed-head injury claims, “intentional wrong” employer liability claims under Laidlow, and the use (or non-use) of defense experts.  Mr. Rudolph is a member of the Defense Research Institute (DRI), New Jersey Defense Association and the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Mr. Rudolph specializes in the defense and trials of complex, large-exposure cases involving wrongful death, traumatic brain injury, products liability, employer liability, dram shop/liquor liability, commercial litigation, tractor-trailer litigation, automobile negligence, premises liability and construction defect.

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