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Bar Admissions:
Admitted to the Bars of New Jersey, New York, Colorado, and Pennsylvania as well as numerous federal courts.
Honors:
The Supreme Court of New Jersey, Board of Trial Attorney Certification, has
designated Mr. Pizzi a Certified Civil Trial Attorney, and recertified him in January 2006.
Mr. Pizzi is a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association's Commercial and Federal Litigation Section and Chair of the Section's Internet and Litigation Committee. He also serves as Co-Chair, of the Internet and Computer Law Committee for the New Jersey State Bar Association.
Biography:
Mr. Pizzi has been with Connell Foley since 1983 after practicing at large firms in New York City and Denver. Mr. Pizzi's practice is devoted primarily to business and employment litigation, securities litigation and SRO arbitration, and the protection of corporate intellectual property. In recent cases, Mr. Pizzi lead a team performing an internal investigation of whistleblower claims by a former employee of one of New Jersey’s largest insurance and financial services companies; defended a consumer class action which presented issues under the Class Action Fairness Act and a class-action waiver clause; obtained dismissal of a Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower complaint; obtained a favorable jury verdict defending a college professor’s claims of sex discrimination; tried to a favorable federal court jury verdict an unfair competition case; succeeded at trial in a minority shareholder’s squeeze-out lawsuit; and successfully represented corporate officers in securities class actions and related SEC investigations.
Publications:
- Interviewed on February 2, 2006 by Money Matters syndicated radio show on the RIM Patent Battle
- Author, The Google Book Project Takes Aim at Industry's Content Cache, published in the New York Law Journal
- Author, Grokster Means More Litigation For Tech Firms, published in the New Jersey Law Journal
- Author, Employer Communication: E-Mail Can Compel Employees to Arbitrate
Workplace Claims, published in the July 5, 2005 New York Law Journal
- Interview - Grokster and the File-Sharing Conundrum Explained by Peter Pizzi on Money Matters
- Author, Lessons from Uncle Henry's published in the May 3, 2005 New York Law Journal
- Author, Idea versus Expression: Copyright Claim for Industrial Parts Vexes the Third Circuit published in The New York Law Journal February 22, 2005. Co-authored by Noel Humphreys.
- Author, Perfect 10 v. Google, Adult Web Site Challenges Search Engine on Image Hits published in the New York Law Journal, January 4, 2005
- Author, Sony v. Does: P2P Filesharing May Involve Protected Speech, New York Law Journal, October 4, 2004
- Author, 'Doe' Defendants: The RIAA's New Front in the Battle Against 'P2P' Filesharers, New York Law Journal, June 8, 2004
- Author, Strategies for Unmasking the 'Anonymous' Internet User, New York State Bar Association, Commercial & Federal Litigation Section Newsletter, Spring 2004 (with Rajen Akalu).
- Panelist, Spring Meeting 2004 (May 21, 2004), Commercial and Federal Litigation Section, NYSBA, "Ethical Issues Presented by Ex Parte Subpoenas To Unmask Anonymous Defendants".
- Panelist, "Privacy Issues in the E-Workplace: Individual Freedom of Speech vs. TheCompany's Right to Protect Itself," NJ ICLE Seminar October 23, 2001.
- Published an article in the New Jersey Law Journal's July 23, 2001 Intellectual Property magazine titled "Grappling with 'Cybersmear'".
- Panelist addressing "Cyber Smear" Litigation, Privacy, The Internet and the Workplace, at the 2001 NJ ICLE Labor Law Forum & Bench Bar Conference, March 29, 2001.
- Sons of Thunder v. Borden:
State High Court Has No Faith in Contracts
Reported Decisions:
- National Utility Service Inc. v. Huntsman Chemical Corporation, 70 F. Supp.2d 496 (D.N.J. 1999);
- National Utility Service, Inc. v. Chesapeake Corporation, 45 F.Supp.2d 438 (D.N.J. 1999);
- APC Commodity Corp. v. Ram Dis Ticaret, A.S., 965 F. Supp. 461 (S.D.N.Y. 1997);
- NYT Cable TV v. Homestead at Mansfield, Inc., 111 N.J. 21;
- Direct Satellite Communications, Inc. v. Bd. of Publ. Util., 615 F. Supp. 1558 (D.N.J.);
- Microbyte Corp. v. New Jersey State Golf Association, 1986-2 Trade Cas. (CCH) 67, 228, modified, slip op. dated June 2, 1987 (Lechner, J.);
- Heating and Plumbing Engineers, Inc. v. H. J. Wilson Co., Inc., 698 P.2d 1364 (Ct. App. Colo.).
Education:
Bowdoin College (A.B., magna cum laude, 1975)
Fordham University (J.D., 1978)
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