John M. Losinger
John "Jack" Losinger advocates on behalf of businesses and individuals in connection with commercial disputes, with a specific focus on violations of restrictive covenants and the misappropriation of trade secrets and confidential information.
Jack’s wide range of litigation experience - which includes employment lawsuits arising from claims of discrimination and harassment, contractual and estate disputes, environmental cost recovery actions, tax appeals, and municipal court matters - gives him the ability to quickly adapt and pursue a strategy that is in the best interest of his client. By making a concerted effort to understand the strengths and weaknesses of his client’s position, he has had success negotiating favorable pre-suit resolutions and, when necessary, litigating in state and federal court and in arbitration. Jack’s clients have included individuals, small companies and publicly traded corporations.
Jack also has extensive experience conducting comprehensive investigations of a variety of sensitive matters for institutions of higher education and private sector employers, including allegations of inappropriate conduct in the workplace, ethical violations, conflicts of interest, policy violations, and bullying.
Jack is regularly appointed by Chancery Division judges in Essex County and Morris County to serve as the court-appointed attorney for alleged incapacitated persons in guardianship matters.
Reported Opinions
Capparelli v. Lopatin, 459 N.J.Super. 584 (App. Div. 2019) (applying the doctrines of frustration of purpose and impossibility to affirm the trial court’s avoidance of a written contract)
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New Jersey State Bar Association
ABA, Litigation Section, Business Torts and Unfair Competition Committee
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Represented an employer and successfully thwarted two former employees’ efforts to misappropriate the employer’s confidential information, violate their restrictive covenants, and work for a direct competitor. After filing a Verified Complaint and Order to Show Cause, and securing temporary restraints, and a preliminary injunction, the matter was resolved to the employer’s satisfaction.
- Represented employers, both pre-suit and in litigation, in connection with claims for hostile work environment, discrimination, and wrongful termination.
- Following a bench trial, procured a judgment for money damages in favor of a multinational IT and networking company, on the basis that a customer breached a UCC Finance Lease Agreement.
- Successfully resolved probate litigation on behalf of the executor of an estate arising from a dispute as to the validity of a handwritten codicil to the decedent’s will.
- Successfully moved to preliminarily dismiss portions of a Complaint filed against a construction company, and, shortly thereafter, negotiated the voluntary withdrawal of the lawsuit.
- Obtained partial summary judgment on behalf of owners of real property in a lawsuit arising from a tenant’s breach of a commercial lease agreement.
- Filed, pursued, and successfully resolved lawsuits against insurance carriers arising from underpayments following Super Storm Sandy.
- Represented families in connection with the appointment of guardians of the person and estate of incapacitated individuals.
- Obtained reductions in tax assessments for property owners in matters pending before the County Boards of Taxation and the Tax Court of New Jersey.
- Successfully represented property owners in landlord-tenant court, by either evicting delinquent tenants, or reaching resolutions through which tenants make payments for back rent owed.
- Represented colleges, universities, private schools, and business entities to conduct in-depth investigations into allegations of, among other things, hostile work environment, inappropriate sexual conduct, discrimination, and hazing.