Jonathan J. Lerner

Dale E. Barney has extensive experience in all aspects of debtor/creditor relations; bankruptcy and insolvency litigation; and commercial and chancery litigation. With substantial trial and appellate experience, Mr. Barney leads the dedicated litigation team within the Financial Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights Department and also offers cost effective alternatives to litigation, through arbitrations, mediations, and alternative dispute resolution proceedings. He advises clients on...

Ed Hilzenrath represents a broad array of health care providers across a spectrum of healthcare-related legal matters, including corporate, transactional, and regulatory issues. His clients include hospitals, physicians, physician groups, ambulatory surgical centers, imaging centers, management services organizations, and private equity backed health care organizations. Ed advises clients on practice formations and sales, buy-sell agreements, employment issues, practice mergers, fraud and abu...

Joseph L. Linares concentrates his practice on litigation, contract drafting and complex negotiations. Joseph handles a multitude of dispute types including contract claims and drafting, intellectual property, employment, construction and torts as well corporate/business law and transactional work. In addition to servicing established corporate clients, he also provides counsel for non-profits, small businesses, and start-up ventures. Joseph has completed a secondment as corporate counsel at ...

Matthew Collins has extensive experience representing clients in all aspects of labor and employment law. He provides strategic counsel to clients on a wide range of labor and employment issues such as discrimination; harassment; whistleblowing; discipline and discharge; layoffs; collective bargaining agreements; reasonable accommodations for disabled employees; and compliance with state and federal family and medical leave acts and applicable wage and hour laws. He also conducts training in ...

Michael S. Carucci is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation, Appellate, and Corporate Investigations and Integrity Practice Groups. He handles complex business litigation and regulatory enforcement actions; conducts internal investigations of large private, non-profit, and public organizations; and advocates for clients on appeal. Mr. Carucci has successfully litigated a variety of cases both at the trial court level and the appellate level, including before the New Jersey Supre...

Daniel B. Devinney is the newest partner of SSDMD. He joined Sarno da Costa D'Aniello Maceri LLC in 2016 as an associate in our Roseland office and was promoted to Counsel before making partner in 2020. He started off 2020 strong by securing a gross $650,000 jury verdict in an emergency medicine malpractice case. Daniel graduated from Cornell University in 2002 and earned his J.D. from Seton Hall in 2007. During law school, he was a merit scholar and completed an internship with the Community...

Cheryl Ritter assists clients in the development and implementation of estate and gift planning matters including wills, trusts, financial powers of attorney, living wills, and health care agent designations. In this role, Cheryl counsels individual clients on the tax-efficient transfer of wealth using a variety of strategies, including dynasty trusts, life insurance trusts (individual and survivorship), qualified personal residence trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, charitable trusts, ...

Harris Freier is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Employment Law - Management and Litigation - Labor and Employment. Harris, who practices law in Morristown, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2023. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Harris is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Angelo Sarno is a partner in the law firm of Sarno da Costa D'Aniello Maceri LLC. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a matrimonial attorney and was the youngest attorney in New Jersey to receive this significant designation. Mr. Sarno has been named to the New Jersey Super Lawyers every year since its inception in 2005. He was selected by his peers as one of the top one hundred matrimonial lawyers in New Jersey in 2009. He is admitted to the New Jersey State Bar and United ...

A skilled product liability defense litigator, Jessica Brennan represents manufacturers of prescription pharmaceuticals, medical devices and consumer goods in coordinated state proceedings, multidistrict litigation, class actions and individual matters. Co-chair of the eDiscovery and Knowledge Management group, she directs eDiscovery for mass tort and multidistrict litigation in the U.S. and globally, including in Japan, the European Union and Switzerland. Jessica serves in various capacities...