Attorney Profile
- Practice Areas
- Litigation
- Title Insurance
- Areas of Emphasis
- Complex Commercial Litigation
- Products Liability
- Securities and Accounting Fraud Litigation
- Bar Admissions
- New Jersey
- U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
- New York
- U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- Eastern District of Wisconsin
- Education
- Seton Hall University School of Law, J.D., 1995
- Rutgers University B.S. in Accounting, 1992
- Professional Activities
- Planning Board, Warren Township
- Capital Finance Committee, Montclair Township
- Executive Board Member, Boy Scouts of America (Patriots Path Council)
- NJ State and NY State Bar Associations
- Member, NJ Law Firm Group (circa 2000)
- Mentor, NJ Law Firm Group (2008)
- Member, Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey
Derrick R. Freijomil
Counsel
Derrick R. Freijomil is counsel in the firm's litigation department. He is an experienced commercial litigation and products liability attorney, who has practiced in state and federal courts and at the trial and appellate levels.
Mr. Freijomil has significant experience handling a variety of commercial disputes. He has litigated a wide array of contract and fraud matters, including accounting fraud and embezzlement, hotel and lending disputes, large real estate development transactions, sophisticated title dispute matters, and enforcement of restrictive employment covenants protecting trade secrets and confidential information. Mr. Freijomil's practice also consists of large national and multidistrict litigation. He has represented the New Jersey pension funds in securities litigation. He has spent a number of years litigating products liability and toxic tort matters, such as pharmaceutical, medical device and supplies, asbestos, and chemical exposure cases. He also served as national counsel for a pharmaceutical manufacturer in over 1,300 product liability cases, practicing in state and federal courts throughout the country.
While pursuing his law degree, Mr. Freijomil was Editor-in-Chief of the Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal and is a former law clerk for the Honorable James J. Petrella, Presiding Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division. He has been involved in The Arthur T. Vanderbilt Inn of Court both as a Pupil (2000-01) and a Barrister (2005-06). He was a member of the Capital Finance Committee for the Township of Montclair (2005-07), and is also on the Planning Board for the Township of Warren (2009-present). Derrick is a co-author of "Timely Notice of Removal to Federal Court in Cases with Multiple Defendants," International Law Office, (USA) Products Liability Section (Aug. 21, 2003), found at www.internationallawoffice.com, and a contributing author to the chapter on Trials in American College of Trial Lawyers (Complex Litigation Committee), Mass Tort Manual (2006). He has been named as a New Jersey Rising Star for 2007 to 2009 in the New Jersey Monthly magazine, New Jersey Super Lawyers -- Rising Star Edition.
Related Case Decisions
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Linda Hawkins and Eldridge Hawkins v. Weichert Title Agency, Fidelity National Title Ins. Co., Tracy Trallo, Robert Brittingham, Donna Sullivan and Behre & Behre Associates
(41 KB PDF) Oct 13, 2011 -
JYS Investments, L.L.C. vs. Billy B. Fisher, et al.
(58 KB PDF) Jun 22, 2011 -
Castlewood (US), Inc. et al. v. National Indemnity Co., 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 77634 (S.D.N.Y. Oct. 25, 2006)
(39 KB PDF) Oct 25, 2008
