Christopher M. Terlingo

Chris provides advice and handles litigation involving general contract disputes, products liability, consumer fraud claims, breaches of employment agreements and restrictive covenants, including non-compete, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure, as well as business torts, including tortious interference, duty of loyalty, inevitable disclosure and other legal disputes that arise when a valuable employee leaves to join a competitor. Chris also provides litigation support to the firm’s land use group, including pursuing and defending actions in lieu of prerogative writs and bid protests of public contract awards. Serving a diverse range of clients, Chris assists in all aspects of litigation, from client counseling and initial pleadings, to written discovery, drafting dispositive and non-dispositive motions, and trial preparation and appeals.

As a first generation lawyer, Chris enjoys working with his clients’ and treats each client’s situation as unique. Always taking the time to understand his clients’ goals, Chris leaves no stone unturned in meeting their challenges head on. He crafts legal arguments that advance his client’s position while addressing both the counterpoints and likely concerns of the court. In this way, he provides the help and counsel best suited to each client’s needs.

During law school, Chris served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Rutgers University Law Review and as a teaching assistant to the first-year legal research and writing program. He also served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Noel L. Hillman, U.S.D.J., Camden, NJ.