Mt. Laurel, NJ – – Norfolk Southern has selected Capehart Scatchard as a “Go To Law Firm®” in a recent survey of the Top 500 U.S. Companies by Corporate Counsel® magazine. Norfolk Southern named Capehart Scatchard as an outside law firm to which they turn to for assistance in the area of Litigation.
The survey, administered by American Lawyer Media, allowed Fortune 500 General Counsel to identify Go To Law Firms in seven different practice areas that include Litigation, Corporate Transactions/Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Canada, International and Securities.
Capehart Scatchard’s Transportation Group has been providing comprehensive legal services to management at all levels of Class I, Class II and Short Line railroads across the United States and in Canada. The Group represents railroads in the areas of real estate, environmental and commercial issues, railroad safety regulations, safety performance standards, prosecution of loss and damage claims and highway-rail grade crossing safety issues.
The Transportation Group is headed by veteran railroad counsel, John K. Fiorilla and Christopher J. Hoare, and includes attorneys Peter Bejsiuk, Betsy Ramos, Mary Ellen Rose, Robert Muccilli, Alan Fox, Michelle Corea, and Matthew Litt, with paralegals Patricia Beringer and Beverly Bogdan.
Mr. Fiorilla, a Cinnaminson resident, focuses his practice in the railroad industry. He graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1974 and is a former Senior General Attorney for the Consolidated Rail Corporation. For more than thirty four years he has been helping to create and present railroad management policy and positions with diversified management and litigation experience as both in-house counsel and local counsel for Class I, Class II, and Short Line Railroads. He has specific experience in presenting finance, real estate, operations, engineering, government affairs, and customer service positions.
Among his professional activities, Mr. Fiorilla is a member of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel; the American Short Line & Regional Railroad Association; the Association of Transportation Professionals; the Conference of Freight Counsel and the New Jersey State ( Federal Practice and Procedure Section) Bar Association.
Mr. Hoare , a Robbinsville resident, focuses his practice in railroad litigation. For over 17 years, he has represented Class I and Short Line Railroads in cases involving FELA, grade crossing collisions, trespasser fatalities, construction accidents, passenger injuries, collections, property damage, and other matters. Prior to his admission to the bars of Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1992, Mr. Hoare was employed as an Amtrak senior claims agent for six years. He is also admitted to the bar in the state of New York (2007).
Mr. Hoare received his law degree from Seton Hall University and his B.A. degree from Rutgers University. After college, he worked for the engineering departments of Conrail and Amtrak for five years before becoming a claims agent in Amtrak’s Law Department for six years. He is a member of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (NARTC).