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Visiting Clinical Associate Professor Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 N. Fifth Street Room E214 Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
Professor Sachs is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a finalist in the moot court competition. He served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam and subsequently practiced law in New Jersey for 35 years, focusing on the defense of product liability litigation. He has been certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a civil trial attorney and has served as a Director of the Products Liability & Toxic Tort Section of the N.J. State Bar Association. Before leaving practice to teach full time, he also was named on a list of New Jersey "Super Lawyers" by Law & Politics and New Jersey Monthly Magazine. He was an adjunct professor for a number of years at Seton Hall Law School, teaching Products Liability and New Jersey Practice. Immediately prior to coming to Rutgers, he was a Legal Writing Professor for three years at California Western School of Law in San Diego.
Publications
Book Chapters:
New Jersey chapters in PRODUCTS LIABILITY DEFENSES: A STATE-BY-STATE COMPENDIUM (4th ed. 2007; 3d ed. 2004; 2d ed. 2001; 1st ed. 1992) (published by Defense Research Institute)
New Jersey chapter in ADMISSIBILITY OF EXPERT TESTIMONY: A STATE-BY-STATE COMPENDIUM (1996) (published by Defense Research Institute)
Selected Articles:
Videotaped Accident Demonstrations at Discovery Depositions, FOR THE DEFENSE (Dec. 2008)
Getting a Witness to "Walk the Line": Accident Demonstrations at Videotaped Discovery Depositions, 30 AM. J. TRIAL ADVOC. 487 (2007) Click Here to view in pdf format.
Liability of Non-Manufacturing Product Sellers: The Need for a New Statutory Remedy, FOR THE DEFENSE (two part article, Dec. 2004 and Jan. 2005)
Product Liability Reform and Seller Liability: A Proposal for Change, 55 BAYLOR L. REV. 1031 (2003) Click Here to view in pdf format.
"Other Accident" Evidence in Product Liability Actions: Highly Probative or an Accident Waiting to Happen?, 49 OKLA. L. REV. 257 (1996)