Phil Furia is a highly versatile and experienced litigator who has spent the last fifteen years obtaining outstanding results for his clients in courts throughout the country. As Chair of the Class Action Practice, he leads the firm’s efforts in representing plaintiffs in complex, high-stakes class actions, focusing on consumer product defect and contamination cases, antirust matters and data breach litigation. He has successfully prosecuted matters involving unsafe and defective consumers products, mislabeled pharmaceuticals, heavy metals and microplastics contaminations, and the unauthorized exposure of sensitive personal information.

In addition to his class action work, Phil has extensive experience handling disputes involving breach of contract, fraud, attorney ethics, professional liability, real estate matters and intellectual property. He has represented a diverse range of clients, from individuals to large corporations, in litigation and arbitration matters across the country. When needed, he calls upon his deep experience as an appellate advocate, having briefed and argued numerous appeals in state and federal courts, including in the First, Second and Third Departments of the New York State Appellate Division, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second and Fifth Circuits, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the Texas Supreme Court.

Phil is a 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law, where he was a Presidential Scholar, member of the Interscholastic Moot Court Board and Editor of the Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law. He is also a 2006 graduate of The College of New Jersey where he earned a bachelor’s degree in criminology. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at both a renowned litigation boutique and an AmLaw 100 firm.