Rosemary J. Bruno concentrates her practice in the areas of employment law and litigation, employee benefits litigation and defense of consumer class actions. She defends corporate clients and individuals in each of these practice areas.

Rosemary was an attorney with Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling when it joined Buchanan in 2006. As advisor to management, Rosemary assists employers in creating and maintaining a positive relationship with employees. She advises on workplace policies and practices, and provides counsel for decision-making in compliance with federal and state laws that govern the workplace. When a dispute results in judicial or administrative action, Rosemary represents employers against charges filed with the EEOC or with the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights. She regularly defends employers in court actions alleging discrimination or harassment, involving restrictive covenants, or raising other issues under employment contracts.

In the benefits area, Rosemary represents ERISA plans, plan trustees and fiduciaries in cases challenging plan design, investments, operations and decisions. She also represents consumer product companies in cases brought by individual or multiple plaintiffs, and in class actions.

Examples of her representative matters include:

Obtaining a voluntary dismissal with prejudice of all claims in a purported nationwide class action brought under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act against an automotive importer.

Defeating efforts to certify either a nationwide or a single state class in an action filed in New Jersey under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act by an out-of-state consumer against a New Jersey-based company.

Defeating nationwide class certification in a product liability case against a car manufacturer, and obtaining a voluntary dismissal of the remaining state class claims.

Defeating class certification in a suit for medical monitoring brought on behalf of former employees of a defunct textile dye plant in Paterson, NJ.

Through mediation, resolving related suits against fiduciaries of two employee pension plans of a failed insurance company, where the plans' assets were overwhelmingly invested in the employer's own investment vehicles.

Favorably settling breach of fiduciary claims against trustees of a nonprofit hospital which failed to make required pension and benefit plan contributions in the months preceding its bankruptcy filing.

Obtaining a defense verdict in a state court jury trial in Newark, NJ, of an age discrimination case.

Obtaining summary judgment for an individual sued under the NJ Law Against Discrimination as an alleged "aider and abettor."

Defending employers and key members of management in cases alleging sexual or racial harassment by co-employees.

Representing employers in connection with wage and hour audits by the Department of Labor, and counseling employers on wage and hour issues.

Rosemary is an active mediator. She has worked with counsel and parties in efforts to achieve early resolution of their disputes in more than 125 cases, in private mediations as well as through her participation as a mediator in the New Jersey Superior Court Presumptive Mediation Program and as a member of the Panel of Certified Mediators for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Following law school, she served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Samuel Allcorn, Jr., in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey.