IARC’s Latest Evaluation: Automotive Gasoline Causes Cancer
In Feb-March 2025, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a division of the World Health Organization, published a groundbreaking study concluding that exposure to automotive gasoline can cause cancer in humans. This key development confirms what Andrew DuPont and Locks Law Firm’s benzene exposure team have been arguing before juries for years: That […]
“Judicial Hellhole”
Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, has a less affectionate nickname if you ask oil companies and the insurance industry. They’re calling it a “Judicial Hellhole.” On December 10, 2024, big money corporate interests published a top-10 list of cities, counties, and states that their board rooms are calling “Judicial Hellholes.” They’re crying fire and […]
Dacthal Pesticide Ban: EPA Falls Short Again, Inaction Fails to Protect the Unborn
Locks Law Firm is accepting birth defect cases on behalf of children suffering from low birth weight, decreased IQ, and impaired brain development and motor skills due to exposure to the herbicide Dacthal (“DCPA” or “dimethyl tetrachloroterephthalate”).
CrossFit Tragedy: Could This Athlete’s Drowning Have Been Prevented?
Last Thursday, I arrived in Paris to experience my first ever Olympic games and watch the best athletes in the world compete in their sport. After a day out, we sat at a sidewalk cafe, and I received sad news from the USA: Lazar Dukic, a top CrossFit athlete from Serbia, passed away while competing […]
Camp Lejeune and the PACT Act
“Justice was denied to too many people in my community” – Gene Locks Our founding partners’ guiding principle is reflected in the tenacity with which the Locks Law Firm has fought on behalf of our clients since the firm’s inception. Nowhere is there a clearer example of justice denied than in the moments when the […]
Locks Law Firm Partner Al Anthony Helps Raise Over $1.3 Million for Pillar Care Continuum
In support of the excellent and virtuous work of the Pillar Care Continuum (formerly Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey), Locks Law Firm Partner and Livingston Councilman, Al Anthony, assisted in raising over $1.3 million directly benefiting the agency’s programs for individuals. As an organization founded out of the love of parents with children with cerebral […]
Partner Andrew DuPont along with colleagues at Justice for our Neighbors – Delaware Valley, to host CLE on Humanitarian Relief Available to Afghan Nationals Under the U.S. Immigration & Nationality Act
Locks Law Firm partner Andrew DuPont and his colleagues at JFON-DV are hosting a CLE on Humanitarian Relief Available to Afghan Nationals Under the U.S. Immigration & Nationality Act. The CLE will take place on September 29th at 12:30 pm. Proceeds benefit JFON-DV’s pro bono and low bono representation of immigrants in PA, NJ, DE […]
Locks Law Firm Attorneys Peer Reviewed for inclusion on Annual 2022 Best Lawyers in America® list
Every year, The Best Lawyers in America® list is published, recognizing attorneys for their work using a peer review survey. We are pleased to announce that 2 of our lawyers have been selected for inclusion on the 2022 list for their work: For more information on the The Best Lawyers in America® selection process, click […]
“Significant levels of toxic heavy metals” found in popular baby foods: report
On Thursday, February 4, 2021 the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy for the House of Representatives published a staff report titled “Baby Foods are Tainted with Dangerous Levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium, and Mercury.” The Subcommittee, relying on internal company test results from Nurture, Beech-Nut, Hain and Gerber found that all tested baby foods […]
Looking to the Future: American Law in 2021
Respect has been on my mind throughout my almost 50 years as a lawyer, but never more so than over the last four. A recurring thought: How are we, who honor our profession and its goals, to expect respect from the public, our clients, when an outgoing President gives out pardons to convicted felons like […]
Partner Jennifer Emmons’ $4 Million Award for Birth Injury Case
Partner Jennifer L. Emmons represented a little girl, now 7 years old, whose arm was injured during her birth. During the delivery and after the baby’s head came out, her shoulder got stuck. This is referred to in obstetrics as a shoulder dystocia. There was evidence that the nurse midwife, who was the only obstetrical provider […]
RBG, A Father, & Daughters
As a law student in 1970, the upheaval of the 60’s was a part of my thinking as I sat in my first class in Civil Procedure. As I looked around the classroom in what was an old repurposed factory building, I noticed many women about to take on law school with me. I confess […]