Attorney Profiles
Arthur H. Jones
Partner
| Office(s): | Haddonfield, NJ |
| Direct Dial: | (856) 354-3063 |
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| Email: | ahjones@archerlaw.com |
| Departments: | Litigation Services |
| Practice Groups | Appellate Practice Commercial Litigation Environmental Petroleum Industry Practices |
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| Practice Emphasis: | Appellate Practice in both the federal and state courts. Complex litigation involving environmental, contract and class action issues. Employment litigation involving federal and state discrimination laws, as well as common law wrongful discharge claims. |
| Education: | Gettysburg College (B.A., with departmental honors, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1981), University of Washington (M.A., philosophy, 1985), University of Pennsylvania (J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 1989) |
| Bar Admissions: | New Jersey, Pennsylvania, United States Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
| Personal Information: | Born in Camden, New Jersey, January 14, 1959; Recipient of the Henry Hanson Scholarship Award at Gettysburg College; Recipient of the M.H. Goldstein and John H. Mauer Memorial Prizes at the University of Pennsylvania; Law Clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Cowan, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1989-1990; Member of the New Jersey and Camden County Bar Associations; Member of the New Jersey Bar Association Appellate Practice Committee; Member of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Delaware Valley. |
| Biography: | ARTHUR H. JONES, JR. concentrates in appellate practice in both the state and federal courts. He clerked in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit with the Honorable Robert E. Cowan and, therefore, has a unique insight into the workings of the appellate courts both from the inside and the outside. Art's appellate practice extends throughout the East Coast. Art is a member of, and has practiced before, the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (encompassing N.J., Pa., Del.), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (N.Y., Conn., Vt.), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (Va., Md., N.C., S.C., W.Va.) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. In addition, Art has handled appellate cases for many years in both New Jersey's Appellate Division and Supreme Court. He has also been involved in appeals in Pennsylvania's and New York's appellate courts, as well as the Supreme Courts of Delaware and South Carolina. Not only is Art's practice geographically diverse, his appellate work is variegated, spanning a wide range of legal areas, including environmental, bankruptcy, personal injury, employment and civil rights, commercial contracts, construction, First Amendment, public access, health care, public bidding, bond development, school law, insurance and attorney malpractice, and trust and estates, as well as the many evidentiary and procedural issues that typically arise at trial. Many of Art's appellate cases have involved issues of important public concern, complex trials and/or large judgments. Examples of Art's recent appellate work include: * reversing a $2.8 million jury verdict against ExxonMobil Corporation for petroleum contamination in an appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; * establishing the interrelationship between the Bankruptcy Code and CERCLA claims in an appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; * successfully defending, before the New Jersey Appellate Division and Supreme Court, a client’s million dollar jury verdict because of tortious interference with a large construction contract; * reversing the Department of Health and Senior Services’ multi-million dollar charity care subsidy allocation and remanding for a more favorable calculation to our client under an appropriate statutory interpretation; * reversing a multi-million dollar personal injury verdict in the Virgin Islands before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; * successfully intervening on behalf of the speaker of the General Assembly to the Abbott case to challenge the State's school funding formula before the New Jersey Supreme Court; * appealing a state-wide environmental class action before the South Carolina Supreme Court; * defining the parameters of corporate liquidating trusts before the Delaware Supreme Court; * successfully resolving an enforcement petition by the National Labor Relations Board; * successfully defending several summary judgment rulings in discrimination and civil rights claims by teachers, students and employees; and * successfully establishing, in a matter of first impression that the estate of a living incompetent can not be altered by the agreement of the estate beneficiaries before the New Jersey Appellate Division. Art is frequently involved in developing early appellate strategies in cases destined for trial and coordinating the Firm's post-trial motion practices. In addition to appellate matters, Art has also litigated employment disputes involving state and federal discrimination claims (including race, sex, disability, age), wrongful discharge, terminations in violation of public policy and breach of contract. He has handled these claims from both the employer and employee perspectives. Finally, Art has litigated numerous commercial disputes from mundane breach of contract cases to franchise disputes to complex military procurement matters. He is involved in many of the Firm's class action cases in both state and federal courts. Although litigating disputes when necessary, Art has also investigated for corporations pre-litigation claims involving both commercial contract disputes and employment-related issues (e.g., harassment). As a result, he has successfully resolved numerous large claims through negotiation, and other dispute resolution techniques, before they resulted in expensive litigation. Art is a member of the Camden County and New Jersey Bar Associations. He is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association's Appellate Practice Committee. Because of his broad appellate practice, Art is a contributor to various journals and periodicals regarding a wide range of legal issues. He is also a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Delaware Valley. Art has been an attorney with Archer & Greiner since 1990, and has been a shareholder since 1998. He earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1989, graduating magna cum laude. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from Gettysburg College in 1981, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. After receiving the Henry Hanson Scholarship award at Gettysburg for further graduate work, Art received a Master's degree in philosophy and logic from the University of Washington in 1985. |