Esther Berezofsky serves as the managing member of the New Jersey office of Motley Rice LLC, a national litigation firm with offices in Mt. Pleasant, SC, New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Washington, DC, Connecticut, West Virginia and Rhode Island.

She has more than 35 years of experience litigating complex mass torts and class actions and has devoted her career to representing communities impacted by environmental contamination and consumers, individuals and families impacted by fraud and misconduct across a range of litigation areas.

The focus of her practice is environmental litigation representing communities and public entities harmed by contamination, social media litigation representing families and schools harmed by social media platforms, and pharmaceutical and medical device litigation on behalf of patients who suffer life-altering complications caused by dangerous and defective medical drugs and devices.

She serves as class counsel on the Executive Committee for residents exposed to lead contaminated water in the Flint Water Crisis litigation, has held leadership positions in PFAS contamination class actions, represents residents in communities nationally, as well as government entities in the United States in environmental and Natural Resource Damage litigation. She was also consultant to the Flemish Minister of Justice and the Environment in Belgium in PFAS matters involving 3M and works on environmental matters in the Netherlands.

Esther was lead counsel for a cancer cluster of children in Toms River, N.J., the story of which is memorialized in the Pulitzer Prize winning book: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation. In addition to her environmental and toxic exposure work, Esther has held leadership positions in MDL’s and represented clients in litigations involving multiple medical drugs and devices.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Esther practiced as a clinical psychologist and consultant for a national network of law firms on post-traumatic stress and community trauma arising out of environmental disasters such as Three Mile Island, Pa., and Times Beach, Mo.

Active in the legal community, Esther is a Past President of Public Justice, a national public interest law firm, and continues to serve on its Executive Committee of the Board of Directors. She serves on the Board of Governors of the New Jersey Association of Justice and was awarded both their Gold Medal for Distinguished Service in 2008 and the Gerald B. O’Conner Award for Trial Advocacy in 2021. She was recognized by the National Law Journal as a 2021 Elite Women of the Plaintiffs Bar and as a 2023 Plaintiffs Lawyers Trailblazer. Esther was selected to NJ Super Lawyers: 2007-2022, 2024-2026 and from 2020-2026 she has been named to the Lawdragon 500 Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers list.

As a frequent speaker and lecturer, Esther addresses environmental contamination, toxic exposure and mass torts. She has also served as an adjunct professor on trial advocacy at Rutgers Law School.

Esther is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits; U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, and the Northern District of New York.