Mr. Plawker practices in the areas of commercial litigation, attorney ethics, criminal defense, intellectual property licensing, copyright, trademark, unfair competition, and employment law. He has successfully completed major software licensing transactions with J.P. Morgan, Bank of Boston, Deloitte & Touche, Nomura, Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Advanta Mortgage, MBIA, Ocwen Financial, The Money Store, AMRESCO, Fannie Mae, Morgan Stanley, KPMG Peat Marwick, Pricewaterhouse Cooper, Greenwich Nat.West, Credit Suisse First Boston, among others. He is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School where he was a Note and Comment Editor of the Wisconsin International Law Journal and author of A Soviet Contradiction: Socialist Federalism and the Freedom of Secession, Wisconsin International Law Journal, Vol. 10, No. 1, Fall 1991. Upon graduation, he received the Ruth B. Doyle Award for outstanding service to the law school community. He holds a degree also in Russian language from The Pushkin Institute in Moscow. He served during the 1992 to 1993 term as law clerk to the Honorable Sybil R. Moses, Assignment Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County. He has been recognized in New Jersey Monthly magazine's "Super Lawyers" in 2010.
Bar Membership and Court Admissions
•Wisconsin 1992; New Jersey 1993; District of Columbia 1994
•United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
•United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
•United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York
Activities and Associations
• Trustee, Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey
• New Jersey State Bar, Federal Practice Section
• Essex County Bar Association
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
• 2001-2007 Editor of The Chronicle, the newsletter of The Essex County Bar Association.Representative Cases
Criminal defense
United States v. Plotkin et al. (conspiracy to defraud the IRS)
United States v. Duronio (computer sabotage)
United States v. Huang (commercial bribery)
Partnership litigation/commercial real estate (75-day bench trial)
ABS Associates, Ltd. v. Hartz Mountain Development Corp., 2006 WL 1519577, N.J.Super.Ch., May 09, 2006.
Administrative Law (challenge against the NJSEA’s development of Xanadu)
In re Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., 2006 WL 2371348, N.J. Super.A.D., 2006
Eminent Domain litigation
ISP Environmental Services, Inc. v. City of Linden et al. (representing landowner)
Insurance Fraud
Selective Ins. Co. of America v. Medical Alliances, LLC, 362 N.J. Super. 392 (Law Div. 2003)
Attorney Ethics
In re Gallo, 178 N.J. 115 (2003)
Trademark and Copyright Litigation
Hitachi Maxell v. DTC Computer Supplies, 2004 WL 2558651, 2004 (successfully represented alleged infringer)
The Carlisle Group, Inc. v. Confidential (obtained settlement of $275,000 for software developer whose software was used without a license)
Labor/Antitrust
Farmland Dairies, Inc. v. Milk Drivers et al.
Aviation
Bobian v. CSA Czech Airlines, 93 Fed.Appx. 406, 2004 WL 628864 C.A.3 (N.J.);
222 F.Supp.2d 598 (D.N.J. 2002); 232 F.Supp.2d 319 (D.N.J. 2002)
Employment and Federal Jurisdiction
Menoken v. McNamara, 88 Fed.Appx. 550 2004 WL 434168, C.A.3 (N.J.); 213 F.R.D. 193, 2003 WL 549404 (D.N.J.)
Software Licensing
Successfully completed major software licensing transactions with Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Bank of Boston, Deloitte & Touche, Lehman Brothers, Deutsche Bank, Nomura, UBS, Bank of America, Ocwen Financial, Fannie Mae, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Morgan Stanley, among others.
E-MAIL: rplawker@whbesqs.com
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