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Joseph T. Carney is a partner with the firm and concentrates his practice in complex litigation matters including environmental contamination/remediation actions, insurance coverage actions, and other significant commercial litigation matters. As counsel for local public entities, Mr. Carney has significant experience in ensuring compliance with the New Jersey Local Public Contracts Law, the New Jersey Open Public Meetings Act and the New Jersey Open Public Records Act.  He also has experience in defending tobacco related product liability claims.

Mr. Carney’s clients include the Pollution Control Financing Authority of Camden County (“PCFA”) and the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority.  Mr. Carney has also represented other local County and Municipal entities.  As counsel for the PCFA, Mr. Carney and another partner successfully served as lead plaintiffs’ counsel in a landfill cost-recovery matter involving hundreds of defendants.  He has also successfully defended the PCFA in a class action matter in which the putative class members sought medical monitoring for alleged exposure to contaminated drinking water.

Before joining the firm in 1994, Mr. Carney served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable J. Calvitt Clarke, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Mr. Carney received bachelor degrees in Engineering and Economics from Swarthmore College in 1985. He graduated from the George Mason University School of Law in 1993, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief for the George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal.

Mr. Carney was admitted to practice in New Jersey in 1993, and in Pennsylvania, New York, and the District of Columbia in 1994. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is a member of the American, New Jersey, and Camden County Bar Associations.