Kevin Haverty
Partner at Williams Cedar LLC Trial Lawyers
Kevin Haverty is an experienced trial attorney whose practice concentrates on pharmaceutical and medical device product liability, medical negligence and other personal injury matters. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney
Mr. Haverty also has an extensive appellate practice and has been involved in several significant cases in federal and state courts including, most recently, Wendell v. GlaxoSmithKline, a 9th Circuit decision addressing the admission of expert testimony in cases involving rare diseases. He has authored five briefs as friend of the court for the New Jersey Association for Justice (formerly ATLA-NJ) and thirteen cases in which he has been involved have resulted in published, precedential decisions by the courts.
From 1994 until 1997 Haverty was an adjunct professor of legal research and writing at Rutgers Law School. While a student at Rutgers Law School he was twice named a Dean's Scholar and was Staff Editor and later Articles Editor for the Rutgers Law Journal, authoring a law review Note which has been cited by the New Jersey Supreme Court and federal district court for the District of New Jersey as well as in other law review articles. He graduated from Rutgers Law with High Honors.
In 2006 he served on the New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission, work that ultimately led to the abolition of capital punishment in the state.
Among other matters, Mr. Haverty is currently focusing on cases involving diabetic patients injured using Medtronic insulin infusion pumps and recalled insulin infusion sets.
- Medical Malpractice
- Birth Injury, Medical Misdiagnosis, Pharmacy Errors, Surgical Errors
- Products Liability
- Drugs & Medical Devices, Motor Vehicle Defects, Toxic Torts
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Appellate
- Pharmaceutical & Medical Device
- Free Consultation
- Contingent Fees
- New Jersey
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- Pennsylvania
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- 3rd Circuit
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- 9th Circuit
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- Partner
- Williams Cedar, LLC
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- Partner
- Williams Cuker Berezofsky
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- Associate
- Andres & Berger
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- Associate representing plaintiffs in medical malpractice cases
- Adjunct Professor
- Rutgers University/ Camden School of Law
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- Rutgers School of Law-Camden
- J.D. (1992) | Law
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- Honors: J.D. with High Honors Dean's Scholar
- Activities: Staff Editor, Articles Editor Rutgers Law Journal
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- Rutgers University - Camden
- B.A. (1981) | Political Science
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- Honors: Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society
- Activities: Board of Governors, New Jersey Public Interest Research Group
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- New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission
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- Pan-European Organisation of Personal Injury Lawyers # 1397
- Member
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- American Association for Justice
- Member
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- New Jersey Association for Justice
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- New Jersey State Bar # 029281992
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- “The Entire Controversy Doctrine in New Jersey and the Nominal Party Exception: When is the Entire Controversy Not the Entire Controversy?”
- Rutgers Law Journal
- Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney
- Supreme Court of New Jersey
