Regina Sharlow Johnson, graduated in 1991 from the College of The Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Spanish. In 1994 Ms. Sharlow Johnson earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.), from Seton Hall University Law School in Newark, New Jersey. She is also a 2001 graduate of Widener University Law School in Wilmington, Delaware, where she obtained a Masters of Law in Health Law (L.L.M) degree. As a legal research assistant during her tenure at Widener Law School she conducted legal research related to nursing home regulations. Her own graduate thesis entitled PBMs Ripe for Regulation was published in 2002 in the Food and Drug Law Journal. This article focused on the inadequate regulation of the Pharmacy Benefit Management Industry.
Ms. Sharlow Johnson was admitted to the State Bar of New Jersey in 1994 and is licensed to practice before all New Jersey State Courts. She is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court; and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Ms. Sharlow Johnson was born and raised in Middlesex County, New Jersey, where she previously practiced law representing clients in personal injury, real estate, land use, matrimonial, and workers compensation cases. Ms. Sharlow Johnson currently focuses her practice in all areas of pharmaceutical litigation, personal injury and medical malpractice. Her graduate studies and research afford her a unique perspective in pharmaceutical litigation. She has been one of the lead attorneys prosecuting an Ephedra case in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, where she is still admitted Pro Hac Vice for this pending litigation. In that case, Ms. Sharlow Johnson represents the family of a Philadelphia Police Officer who died prematurely from the ingestion of an Ephedra based product. She has taken and/or participated in several key corporate designee depositions in that case that is currently set for trial in June 2007. Ms. Sharlow Johnson’s current practice focuses on commencing litigation of multiple Ketek antibiotic cases and Ortho Evra cases in the New Jersey Superior Court, Middlesex County. She is also involved with representing the firm’s medical malpractice and personal injury clients.
When she is not practicing law, Ms. Sharlow Johnson, along with her husband Paul, remain busy caring for their four very active sons Paul, Thomas, James, and Liam.
Publications: “PBMs: Ripe for Regulation,” Food and Drug Law Journal, Vol. 57, No. 2, 323 (2002).