Essex County, NJ
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Essex County is home to Newark — New Jersey's largest city and principal legal market. The county hosts the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (Newark Vicinage), the Third Circuit Court of Appeals sessions, Rutgers Law School's Newark campus, Seton Hall University School of Law, and a deep corporate, financial, pharmaceutical, and insurance bar. Newark is headquarters for Prudential, PSEG, Horizon BCBSNJ, and other major employers. The Third Circuit's pharmaceutical Hatch-Waxman and biosimilar docket is among the busiest in the nation.