Eli is an associate in Swartz Campbell’s Product Liability and Litigation groups. His practice focuses on counseling and defending government entities, financial institutions, property owners, product manufacturers, distributors, insurance companies, and construction contractors in all phases of litigation. Eli is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Eli is a creative problem solver, who works with clients to help them achieve their goals. He has successfully negotiated with prospective plaintiffs to avoid litigation, obtained dismissals at the pleading and summary-judgment stages, and obtained favorable awards at arbitration hearings. Eli has also successfully represented clients’ interests in Pennsylvania’s appellate courts, where he persuaded the Commonwealth Court to affirm a ruling in a client’s favor and, in a separate matter, to order that a verdict entered against his client be vacated.

Eli has experience handling complex construction-casualty cases, having designed and executed strategies both to defend against tort claims and to enforce indemnification and additional-insured contract provisions. He also has substantial experience defending against negligence claims in a variety of contexts, having handled more than fifty lawsuits from their inception through their resolution. In addition, he regularly counsels clients about their record-management and electronic-discovery obligations. He is a trained mediator for the New Jersey Superior Court, and serves as an arbitrator for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas’ Compulsory Arbitration Program.

Before joining the firm, Eli served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Robert B. Kugler, United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey. He also spent two years at a mid-sized law firm in New York where he helped defend complex toxic-tort claims involving issues of first impression.

Eli received his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law where he made the Dean’s List each year and graduated cum laude. He received several other awards while at Rutgers, including the First-Year Writing Award and The Honorable James E. Hunter, III Advanced Moot Court Competition’s Best Brief Award.