Mayling C. Blanco
Associate
Two Gateway Center, 12th Floor
Newark, NJ 07102
Tel: 973.623.3000 x. 3826
Fax: 973.623.0858
MAYLING C. BLANCO devotes the majority of her practice to litigation defense, and also has extensive experience in commercial litigation, appellate practice, and class action. As a defense counsel, Ms. Blanco has defended multi-million dollar municipal tort liability and police-related civil rights cases from their inception to trial in both federal and state court. She has represented private and public sector employers in all aspects of employment defense, including issues relating to discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful discharge, and wage and hour laws in proceedings before state court as well as administrative agencies such as the EEOC and the Division of Wage and Hour. Ms. Blanco also has extensive experience in commercial litigation representing clients primarily in contractual disputes as well as quasi-criminal matters in municipal court. In addition, Ms. Blanco has significant experience in state appellate practice and is honored to be amongst the first attorney volunteers for the Appellate Division Pro Bono Civil Pilot Program. Ms. Blanco was named to the "Rising Stars" list in the April 2010 issue of New Jersey Monthly magazine, during her first year of eligibility for the recognition, and in the April 2011 issue.
Before joining the firm, Ms. Blanco clerked for Judge Mathias E. Rodriguez, Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, in Middlesex County for the 2007 term. During law school, she was a Dean Scholar at Seton Hall Law School, and was a law clerk at the Seton Hall Center for Social Justice, Immigration and Human Rights Clinic where she assisted in securing political asylum for an Ivory Coast political refugee and she assisted in representing others before the Immigration Court. She was a member of the Seton Hall Legislative Journal and co-president of the Latin American Law Students Association. Ms. Blanco worked as a research assistant for Professor Thomas Healy on an article pertaining to the increase of unnecessary constitutional rulings and for Professor John Jacobi on issues of health care law.
Ms. Blanco is a member of the American Bar Association, the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey, and New York County Lawyers Association.