Colin Hackett is the Managing Partner in the Newark office of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the Trial, General Liability, Products Liability, Construction, Transportation, and Asbestos Practices. He has extensive litigation experience, including over seventy-five first chair jury trials in state and federal courts involving general liability, transportation, product, environmental contamination, and professional liability claims. In addition to trials in New Jersey he has tried matters in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Florida at the request of clients. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates of which Lewis Brisbois has forty-eight members.

His general liability experience includes the defense of building owners, property management companies, restaurants, and alcohol vendors. His transportation experience includes the defense of motor carriers, municipal bus operators, school bus companies, paratransit operators, and livery companies. His construction experience includes the defense of developers, general contractors, sub-contractors/artisans, and design professionals in cases involving alleged design and construction defects. His environmental experience includes toxic tort and product liability claims representing clients in the defense of actions alleging property damage and/or personal injuries as a result of exposure to contamination or hazardous products. He is first and foremost a “trial attorney” having obtained numerous “no cause” jury verdicts in each of these practice areas.

Publications

Admissions

• State Bar Admissions
  • New Jersey
• United States District Courts
  • United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
• United States Courts of Appeals
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• United States Supreme Court

Admissions

New Jersey

United States District Court, District of New Jersey

United States District Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

United States Supreme Court

Associations

• American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA)
• American Bar Association
• New Jersey State Bar Association
• Association of Equipment Manufacturers

Education

Seton Hall University, School of Law

Juris Doctor, 1991

Boston University, College of Liberal Arts

Bachelor of Arts, 1988

Representative Matters

• Secured a “no cause” jury verdict on behalf of a national logistics company and its tractor trailer driver. Following a six-day trial and after only 19 minutes of deliberating, the jury returned a defense verdict. The jurors concluded that the plaintiff had failed to meet his burden in establishing that Lewis Brisbois’ client was negligent in his operation of the tractor trailer at the time of the accident.