Burlington County covers more ground than any other county in New Jersey, stretching from the Delaware riverfront towns of Burlington City and Cinnaminson across the Route 38, Route 73 and Turnpike corridor and out into the Pinelands. A matter from Moorestown and a matter from the county's rural eastern townships can look nothing alike, which is why we start with the specific facts and the specific municipality rather than a county-wide assumption.
The county's commercial spine, the office parks of Mount Laurel and Moorestown and the warehouse and distribution operations clustered around the Turnpike and Route 130, makes employment a larger share of our Burlington County work than of most of our Pennsylvania service areas. Discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination claims from employees at those employers sit alongside the auto, premises and insurance matters we handle everywhere. Civil cases are heard at the county courts facility on Rancocas Road in Mount Holly, the county seat.
New Jersey also apportions fault differently than some clients expect. Under the state's modified comparative negligence rule, an injured person can still recover after being found partly responsible, but recovery is reduced by their own share of the fault and is barred entirely once that share exceeds 50 percent. Insurers know this, and an early argument that you were mostly to blame is a standard move we plan for from the outset of a Burlington County claim.
