Rukhsanah L. Singh focuses her practice on federal and complex commercial litigation, with emphasis on intellectual property, antitrust, and class action defense matters. 

Ms. Singh has represented clients across a broad spectrum of industries. She has experience representing entities and individuals involved in pharmaceutical, financial services, life sciences, technological fields, and other service and product industries. Ms. Singh also has represented clients in defending complex, putative class actions and in handling issues arising under consumer fraud, antitrust, and intellectual property laws.

Prior to joining Connell Foley LLP in 2008, Ms. Singh served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Joel A. Pisano, U.S.D.J., in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Honorable Roberto A. Rivera-Soto, Associate Justice, in the Supreme Court of New Jersey. She graduated cum laude from Seton Hall University School of Law, where she was a member of the editorial staff of the Seton Hall Law Review and a member of the Interscholastic Moot Court Board. During law school, Ms. Singh also participated in the Center for Social Justice’s Impact Litigation Clinic, through which she successfully argued an appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Honors and Awards:

• New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Stars (2012, 2013)

Representative Experience:

• Representing Wyeth Inc. entities in defending putative class actions from direct and indirect purchasers of the pharmaceutical product Effexor XR®, which assert antitrust violations arising from Wyeth’s patents regarding Effexor XR® and related patent litigation with pharmaceutical companies seeking to sell generic versions of the product
• Representing sanofi-aventis US in defending claims arising under the federal antitrust laws in connection with certain of its alleged contracting and marketing practices
• Representing UBS entities and individual defendants in defending a putative class action brought pursuant to the PSLRA arising out of purchases of certain mortgage-backed assets and successfully moved for the dismissal of the Amended Consolidated Complaint
• Representing Perdue Farms Inc. in defending a putative class action asserting consumer fraud allegations relating to Perdue’s labeling and sales of certain of its chicken products
• Representing a variety of pharmaceutical companies as local counsel in prosecuting or defending patent litigation claims arising under the Hatch-Waxman Act
• Representing clients in the snack food industry in defending against putative class actions in the District of New Jersey and Eastern District of Pennsylvania based on consumer fraud allegations that the caloric and fat content of certain snack foods were mislabeled
• Representing life sciences entities and serving as liaison counsel to approximately 100 pharmaceutical, technological, and other life sciences entities in defending claims of patent infringement in both the District of New Jersey and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• Representing directors and officers of a real estate developer in defending claims of consumer fraud and violations of the New Jersey Planned Real Estate Development Full Disclosure Act in connection with the development, offering and sale of certain condominiums.

Affiliations:

• New Jersey State Bar Association
• New York State Bar Association
• The Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey
• South Asian Bar Association of New Jersey