New Jersey Federal Civil Procedure

Elizabeth J. Sher is a partner with Day Pitney LLP in Parsippany and serves as the firm’s General Counsel. Ms. Sher practices in the area of complex commercial litigation, including state and federal trial and appellate matters, primarily in New Jersey and New York. She is a past President of the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey, and she is an active member of the Lawyers Advisory Committee to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. She is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and serves as a board member of the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. She is a past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Federal Practice and Procedure Section. She received her B.A. from Brandeis University, summa cum laude, and her J.D. from New York University School of Law, cum laude. She clerked on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Leonard I. Garth.

Kerri E. Chewning is a partner and trial lawyer with Archer & Greiner, P.C. in Voorhees where she practices in the area of complex commercial litigation in the federal and state courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Her practice focuses on complex business cases, unfair competition claims, and the defense of class actions. Ms. Chewning also has extensive experience defending civil rights claims. She is a former President of the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey, where she now serves on the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee and the Third Circuit Committee. Ms. Chewning is an active member of the Lawyers Advisory Committee for the District of New Jersey and is a past Chair of the Federal Practice and Procedure Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. From 2000 to 2002, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Garrett E. Brown, Jr., U.S.D.J. (ret.). She received her B.S. from Rutgers College and her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law-Camden.