Dorit Kressel

Dorit Kressel

Roseland, NJ recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2023
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54 Best Lawyers awards

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Awarded Practice Areas

Public Finance Law

Biography

Dorit Kressel has over 20 years of experience in public finance. She has served as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel in numerous transactions at the state and local level.

Dorit focuses her practice on complex financings for the State of New Jersey and its agencies and authorities, including the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank, the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority, the South Jersey Transportation Authority, the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority, and others. Her extensive experience includes advising on transactional and tax aspects of matters involving general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, private activity bonds, complex refunding and restructuring transactions, forward delivery structures, and interest rate hedging transactions. Dorit has also assisted clients, including the State of New Jersey and the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank, in drafting enabling legislation for new financing initiatives.

Dorit served as a judicial law clerk to Associate Justice Gary S. Stein of the New Jersey Supreme Court. She has also taught law courses to graduate and undergraduate business students at William Paterson University of New Jersey.

Dorit is a member of the Order of the Coif. She graduated cum laude from Fordham University School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Law Review. Dorit received her LL.M., in Taxation, from New York University School of Law.

Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC

54 Best Lawyers awards

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Overview

  • Fordham University, J.D., graduated 1994
  • Fordham University, J.D., graduated 1994

Client Testimonials

Ms. Kressel is very diligent and detail-oriented. She thinks through all possible scenarios and outcomes and evaluates options before rendering a decision.

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
  • Public Finance Law
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Banking and Finance Law
  • Tax Law
Awards:
  • Included in NJBIZ, Best 50 Women in Business (2013)

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