Tara L. Pehush
An unwavering presence in the courtroom, Tara frequently serves as lead counsel at trial and in arbitration hearings. She seamlessly guides matters from their inception to their successful close, conducting direct and cross-examination of fact, expert, and corporate witnesses, drafting and arguing trial, hearing, and appellate motions.
Tara has experience acting as oversight counsel for various companies confronted by repetitive or mass tort litigation. Faced with this type of liability, Tara nimbly collaborates with local counsel to implement defense strategies. She has personally overseen a nationwide docket of 10,000+ claims for a mass tort client, coordinating management of claims, including delegating to partners and associates and personally handling high-risk claims with a select team.
Tara is an informed and trusted advisor whom her clients know they can count on. Her meticulous approach to legal strategy enables her to provide them with thoughtful counseling on risk management and litigation needs. She adroitly creates innovative and client-tailored defense strategies.
Related Practices
Experience
Representative Matters
- National coordinating counsel for clients facing mass or repetitive asbestos and silica claims
- Represented a forest products company in lawsuits involving alleged design defect and failure to warn claims regarding their radiant barrier sheathing roofing products
- Represented a medical device manufacturer and distributer in a lawsuit regarding alleged negligent supervision of its trainers
- Represented a hair care products manufacturer in a dispute regarding their product marketing collateral, including labels
- Represented a commercial bakery equipment manufacturer against personal injury claims arising from design and manufacturing defect allegations
- Represented a sunglasses manufacturer in a class action lawsuit stemming from alleged misrepresentations in its product literature
- Represented a topical drug manufacturer in arbitration against claims of misappropriation of trade secrets (drug formulation), breach of confidentiality, and loss of profits because of delayed FDA approval
- Represented a pharmaceutical development and manufacturing company in a dispute regarding a profit-sharing term of distribution agreement
- Represented an industrial heating manufacturer facing personal injury claims; drafted and argued a successful summary judgment motion
- Represented a Chinese investor in an LCIA arbitration regarding its termination of a share purchase agreement governing its purchase of an iron ore mine after the seller, a Brazilian metals and mining company, failed to meet certain post-closing obligations
- Represented a U.S.-based water treatment equipment manufacturer in an ICDR arbitration
Insights
Credentials
Education
- J.D. cum laude University of Baltimore School of Law 2006
- Articles editor, University of Baltimore Law Review
- B.A. cum laude Loyola College In Maryland 2003
Bar Admissions
- New York
- New Jersey
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Clerk Experience
- New Jersey Superior Court, Passaic County, Civil Division
Recognition
- The Best Lawyers in America, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, 2023
Community
Pro Bono
- Survivor Reentry Project (represents victims of human trafficking seeking post-conviction relief)
- Kids in Need of Legal Defense (represents undocumented minors in immigration proceedings)
Volunteerism
- Board member, League of Women Voters of the City of New York
- Volunteer, Invisible Hands