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About Matthew Mendelsohn
Matthew R. Mendelsohn is a member of Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman and is certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court, a distinction held by fewer than 3% of New Jersey lawyers. He earned his B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University and his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law. He is admitted in New Jersey and New York state and federal courts, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Mendelsohn handles complex civil litigation, class actions, mass torts, toxic torts, personal injury, medical malpractice, and defective products cases. Notable results include an $80 million class action settlement for Volkswagen water leaks
- a $38.5 million Honda air conditioning class action settlement
- a $30 million Subaru battery drain class action settlement
- a $19.2 million wrongful death and burn injury recovery
- and a $7 million construction worker injury recovery
He serves as a Trustee on the Board of Trustees of Trial Attorneys of New Jersey. He was named a New Leader of the Bar by the New Jersey Law Journal in 2012, selected to the Super Lawyers Rising Star list from 2008 through 2014, and to the Super Lawyers list from 2015 through 2025. Lawdragon recognized him among the 500 Leading Consumer Plaintiff Lawyers from 2023 through 2025.
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A gas explosion at a converted multi-family house in Elizabeth, New Jersey on November 11, 2015 badly burned six members of the Henderson family and, over the following weeks and months, killed three of them. The family sued the gas utility and the property owner, alleging an improperly capped gas line caused the blast. On February 11, 2019, a Union County Superior Court judge approved a $19.2 million settlement, reached in mediation, apportioned among three estates and three surviving claimants.
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