John D. McCarthy
jdm@spsk.com

John D. McCarthy is a partner with Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP and a member of the firm’s Litigation Department. His practice includes insurance defense and coverage, commercial litigation, product liability matters, medical malpractice, personal injury and criminal law. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Supreme Court of the United States. He is the author of "The Innocent Retailer: Does New Jersey's Product Liability Act Provide Protection?" which appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal on December 2, 2005.

Mr. McCarthy joined Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP in 2001. Prior to joining the firm, he was an associate with an insurance defense firm in Newark from 1999 through 2001. He was an Assistant Prosecutor with the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office from 1995 through 1999. He served a judicial clerkship with the Honorable James T. O’Halloran of the Superior Court of New Jersey during the 1994-1995 court term.

Mr. McCarthy was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hudson County Bar Association from 1999 through 2002. He was President of the Young Lawyer’s Division of the Hudson County Bar Association in 1998. He is a member of the Morris County and New Jersey State Bar Associations. He was an Intelligence Specialist with the United States Naval Reserve from 1996 through 2002. He graduated from the Morris County Chamber of Commerce's Leadership program in 2006.

Mr. McCarthy graduated cum laude from Providence College in 1990. He received his law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1994.

Bar Admissions:

• New Jersey (1994)
• Pennsylvania (1994)
• United States Supreme Court