John C. Whipple

Thomas M. Walsh practices in the areas of commercial litigation, corporate restructuring, distressed M&A transactions, bankruptcy, and debtor and creditors’ rights. In the litigation arena, Tom regularly appears in bankruptcy courts across the country, as well as federal courts throughout New York and New Jersey. Within the transactional setting, he has assisted clients across a variety of industries – including real estate, hospitality, healthcare, manufacturing, retail and t...

Joel Siegel’s practice focuses on counseling high net worth individuals and multi-generational families in a manner which enables them to achieve their tax, and more importantly, their non-tax objectives. To accomplish this goal, he works closely with his clients and their other advisors to fully understand their family situation, their financial situation and their wishes and concerns for their spouses and descendants. Joel also handles tax controversy matters before the Internal Reven...

Susan Dromsky-Reed helps families and individuals create plans which can simply and easily transfer assets to their heirs, while taking into consideration necessary income, estate, and inheritance tax planning. Her goal is to provide peace of mind and to promote family harmony, during the planning process and during estate administration. As part of her practice, she provides individuals and families with planning and tax advice regarding spousal, intergenerational, and business succession; c...

Mary Frances Palisano is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Criminal Defense: General Practice and Criminal Defense: White-Collar. Mary Frances, who practices law in Newark, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2020. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Mary Frances is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jerry Zaro, Chair of Banking and Real Estate Services Department, focuses his practice on banking and finance, real estate, corporate and government relations matters. He began his law career as a judicial secretary to the Honorable Thomas F. Shebell, Jr. in the Superior Court of Monmouth County. Prior to joining Sills Cummis & Gross, Mr. Zaro was the President and Managing Partner of Ansell Zaro Grimm and Aaron for 25 years and served as the Chair of the Commercial Real Estate and Financ...

Mr. Pralgever concentrates his practice in business and commercial litigation, with a special focus in corporate, partnership and LLC split-ups and dissolutions, condominium matters and representation of associations, estate litigation, employment issues, consumer fraud act litigation, real estate and intellectual property disputes. He has handled a wide variety of complex commercial and corporate litigation in state and federal courts, as well as arbitrations in both New Jersey and New York....

Keith R. Hemming is Chair of the Sills Cummis Construction and Energy Law Practice. He practices in the area of commercial law, with an emphasis on representing owners, contractors, renewable energy firms, designers and manufacturers of building products. Mr. Hemming regularly advises clients on complex commercial transactions and litigates claims in various federal and state courts, as well as arbitration tribunals involving all aspects of the design, procurement and construction of infrastr...

Mark has a diverse litigation and counseling practice representing both private and public sector employers. For more than 20 years he has been defending employers in discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, breach of contract, wage and hour, and other employment-related cases before state and federal courts, administrative agencies and arbitration tribunals. Mark also provides counseling and compliance advice to employers with respect to the full spectrum of employment ...

Stephen Timoni is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Health Care Law. Stephen, who practices law in Westfield, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Stephen is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Harris is passionate about his cases and is dedicated to delivering exceptional results to his clients. His passion and dedication results in millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts. More than that, Harris takes pride in creatively finding solutions to the legal problems that arise in complicated personal injury cases.His professionalism and commitment to trial work have been recognized over the years. Harris is Certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. H...