Vinita Banthia

Associate

Overview

Vinita focuses her practice on complex environmental litigation, products liability claims, and toxic torts. She combines her interest in the environment with her dedication to helping clients navigate environmental issues. Vinita represents clients pursuing and defending complex environmental matters, focusing on issues related to corporate successorship and liability, cleanup and response costs, soil and groundwater contamination, diminution in value to property, and Natural Resource Damages. Her work includes all phases of litigation, including drafting pleadings, drafting discovery requests and responses, managing large scale document reviews and productions, motion practice, and trial preparation.

Leveraging her science background helps Vinita dig deeper into the facts in cases that include a scientific component. In what is often litigation driven by complex testimony of a technical and/or scientific nature, clients appreciate Vinita’s ability to translate the technical aspects of their matters into language they can understand. Vinita prides herself on her ability to listen to and understand the objectives of her clients, explain the litigation process in a straight-forward manner, and to develop a plan that uses creative and unique strategies to achieve successful results.

Prior to joining Archer, Vinita was a litigation and trial associate at a boutique trial firm, where she was on a defense team representing a Fortune 500 medical device manufacturer facing a multi-district litigation (MDL) with over 5000 plaintiffs. The defense team secured complete summary judgment for the manufacturer and the dismissal of all plaintiffs in the MDL.

Credentials

Education

University of Minnesota Law School, JD
University of British Columbia, BS

Admissions

Minnesota
New Jersey

Offices

Voorhees, NJ

Areas of Focus

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Practice

Industries

Manufacturing

News & Insights

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Natural Resource Damages in New Jersey - Six Years After Litigation Revival, More Guidance Needed

06.01.2024

Articles

Natural Resource Damages in New Jersey - Six Years After Litigation Revival, More Guidance Needed

Attorneys Vinita Banthia, Matt Conley and Daniel Farino write about the natural resource damages litigation revival in New Jersey in their co-authored New Jersey Lawyer article, "Natural Resource Damages in New Jersey - Six Years After Litigation Revival, More Guidance Needed." The current litigation push has focused on pursuing NRD claims with a goal of incentivizing more voluntary NRD settlements by responsible parties. However, the NJDEP would likely see more voluntary NRD settlements if it provided more guidance and certainty as to how these damages will be calculated....

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The Evolving Role of Government in Environmental Litigation

05.17.2024

Speaking Engagements & Seminars

The Evolving Role of Government in Environmental Litigation

Attorneys Vinita Banthia, Charles Dennen and Daniel Farino will be presenting on "The Evolving Role of Government in Environmental Litigation," at the New Jersey State Bar Association's Annual Meeting & Convention. In both state court and federal courts, New Jersey practitioners are seeing an uptick of government-led and government-involved litigation involving emerging and expanding theories of liability and damages. Many of these actions involve so-called emerging contaminants, or contaminants for which new standards are being set. Our litigation attorneys will discuss and examine the changing landscape in environmental law, and preview what New Jersey attorneys may expect to see as the government’s role in environmental litigation continues to evolve....

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Daniel Farino and Vinita Banthia to Speak on a Panel at the NJ State Bar Association's Annual Environmental Law Forum

06.16.2023

Speaking Engagements & Seminars

Daniel Farino and Vinita Banthia to Speak on a Panel at the NJ State Bar Association's Annual Environmental Law Forum

Archer Environmental Law Group attorneys Daniel Farino and Vinita Banthia will speak a panel at the New Jersey State Bar Association's Annual Environmental Law Forum on June 16-18, 2023....

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