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Carlton T. Spiller is a partner of the firm, where he is a member of its Litigation Department and chair of its Insurance Practice Group. Mr. Spiller concentrates his practice in insurance coverage litigation involving environmental, construction defect, and professional liability claims. Mr. Spiller has handled a number of the complex environmental coverage matters involving claims in excess of $100 million with contaminated sites located in states throughout the country. Mr. Spiller has also handled many construction litigation claims, resolving Fire Retardant Treated plywood claims and construction defect claims for many of New Jersey's largest builders, developers and general contractors. Mr. Spiller has also participated with Paul Rowe, chair of the firm's litigation department, as lead counsel in the Mutual Benefit Insurance Co. Rehabilitation, the largest insurance rehabilitation proceeding in U.S. history. Mr. Spiller has also litigated claims arising under professional liability policies, first party property polices, and employment related practices insurance policies, and Brownfields insurance policies. Mr. Spiller also has noted experience handling numerous complex commercial litigation including minority shareholder disputes, contract claims and banking litigation. Mr. Spiller received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University (1976). While an undergraduate, he authored and directed a documentary film on poets in New Jersey featuring William Carlos Williams and his poem "Paterson." He is a graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law (1982). Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Spiller clerked for the Honorable Edwin Stern, Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey. As a law clerk, he was involved in the first death penalty case under the then recent statute and participated in drafting many of the opinions concerning the constitutionality of the death penalty statute. Mr. Spiller recently published his first book of poetry Scalding Heart, which won the 2006 American Book Award for poetry. Mr. Spiller is admitted to practice in New Jersey, the Federal District Courts in New Jersey, and the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Mr. Spiller is a member of the New Jersey State and Middlesex County Bar Associations, the Environmental Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. | 