Frances Tomes is a member of the Bar in New Jersey and New York. She has been practicing law since 1986. She handles general civil litigation, including medical malpractice claims, pharmaceutical claims, toxic tort, and asbestos litigation. She also handles consumer protection cases, both individually and in class actions. She was one of three trial attorneys representing plaintiffs in the first multi-plaintiff trial in asbestos litigation. She's also handled numerous other multi-plaintiff litigation. Ms. Tomes has litigated as co-lead counsel consumer product class actions that have generated large settlements for consumers nationwide. In Extensis, Inc. v. Hewlett-Packard Company, Ms. Tomes was co-lead counsel in a consumer fraud class action that resulted in a settlement valued at over $140 million in rebate certificates and repair kits for purchasers of certain defective HP LaserJet printers, Pisano v. Peg Perego involving defective strollers and Gutelkov v. Buy Buy Baby involving
improper tax charges. She also served as c-Liaison Counsel in the New Jersey Bextra Litigation. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the NJAJ and a member of the Bad Faith Committee of the NJAJ. She is also a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association Committee for Consumer Protection, Medical Malpractice Committee, and Product Liability and Toxic Tort Committee. She has been certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney, a distinction awarded to less that 3 percent of the attorneys in New Jersey.