Corinne McCann Trainor

Practice Areas

Corinne is a seasoned trial lawyer who helps business leaders resolve complex, high-stakes commercial, constitutional, regulatory, real estate and construction disputes.

Owners and executives of companies facing existential challenges rely on Corinne to design and implement multi-front legal strategies that protect their interests and advance their business goals. She often coordinates the services of experts in technical fields, including forensic accounting, actuarial science, architecture and design, engineering, quality assurance, public affairs and government relations.

She represents clients in a range of highly regulated industries, including pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, life sciences, construction, real estate and land use, insurance, transportation and commercial banking. She helps them solve a broad range of legal problems involving contract disputes, regulatory overreach, civil and property rights issues, unfair competition, fraud, breach of fiduciary duties and intellectual property violations.

Corinne is skilled with real estate litigation, particularly as it relates to property and development disputes. Landowners and developers depend on her to find ways to overcome regulatory challenges.

Corinne regularly appears before the New Jersey state and federal courts, the State of New Jersey’s Office of Administrative Law, and in arbitration as both lead and local counsel. She also has extensive experience as lead counsel in appellate matters and applications involving constitutional claims and statutory disputes.

Career

Prior to joining Fox Rothschild, Corinne was an associate at an East Coast-based law firm, where she was a member of the firm’s Associates Committee, Technology Committee and Cybersecurity Committee. She also previously worked as a judicial clerk from 2008 to 2011 for Chief U.S. District Judge Garrett E. Brown, Jr., in the District of New Jersey and from 2007 to 2008 as a judicial clerk to Judge Clarkson S. Fisher, Jr. in the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey.

While in law school, Corinne held internships in the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, Appellate Section, as well as judicial internships with Judge Thomas R. Vena in the Superior Court, Essex County, Criminal Division, and U.S. District Judge Dennis M. Cavanaugh in the District of New Jersey.

Additionally, Corinne was an intern with Seton Hall University School of Law’s Juvenile Justice Clinic, where she appeared in family court in defense of juvenile offenders. She was chair of the school’s public interest fundraising efforts and served as senior notes editor for the Seton Hall Legislative Journal.

Professional Memberships

Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey | Federal Bar Association | Jersey Shore Chamber of Commerce | Lifland Inn of Court | Monmouth County Bar Association, Trustee (2026-2027) | New Jersey State Bar Association, Civil Trial Bar Section, Federal Practice and Procedure Section, Women in the Profession Section | New Jersey Women Lawyers Association | Trial Attorneys of New Jersey | Mercer County District VII Ethics Committee | Jersey Shore Chamber of Commerce, Chair | Women's Club of Brielle | Jersey Shore Women's Conference, Treasurer | Borough of Brielle Planning Board, Chair

Education