Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC has served as the lead in several high-profile New Jersey cases over the past year, spanning the consolidated litigations of sexual assault claims at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, the Title IX case against William Paterson University and the development of American Dream, the second-largest shopping mall in the United States.
The New Jersey Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics on Friday released an opinion finding that a Garden State attorney who owned a business in addition to his legal practice created a conflict of interest impacting his entire firm when he retained his own firm to perform legal work for an entity owned by his business.