Kevin A. McDonald

Joel has been a partner with the firm for more than 45 years. He served on the firm's management and compensation committees from 1986 through 2017 and chaired the real estate practice group. Joel's practice focuses primarily on real estate and banking matters. His clients include a wide range of real estate investors and developers, numerous banks and other financial institutions, hotel owners and developers, a large fast-food franchise, and many non-real estate businesses with real estate n...

Attorney Amy Wechsler has been practicing law since 1985. She practices exclusively in the area of family law. She is certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a matrimonial attorney and is an accredited divorce and family mediator and trained arbitrator. She is also a collaboratively trained practitioner. Ms. Wechsler lectures and presents at the New Jersey State Bar Association as well as the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education.

Douglas R. Brown devotes his practice to business finance, mergers and acquisitions, and securities matters. Doug has substantial experience in representing private equity investors in acquisition and divestiture of businesses and the corporate law, finance, securities, and business problems spawned by those matters. These have involved transactions with European and Asian operations, and the acquisition of troubled companies in bankruptcy and receivership cases. He has also represented commu...

Michael F. Schaff is co-chair or the Corporate and Health Law teams at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. Mr. Schaff assists healthcare providers and businesses of all sizes in evaluating both the legal and business ramifications of any transaction, contract, agreement or negotiation, leveraging an educational and professional background rooted in business, finance, and taxation. His healthcare practice includes the representation of healthcare professionals and group practices, hospitals, ...

Kelly A. Erhardt-Wojie is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Real Estate Law. Kelly A. practices law in Woodbridge, New Jersey Best Lawyers has recognized Kelly A. Erhardt-Wojie since 2027. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Kelly A. Erhardt-Wojie is held by other lawyers.

Judah is a first-chair trial lawyer and commercial litigator with a focus on complex business disputes, including real estate and land use litigation, closely held partnership disputes, high stakes “bet the company” litigation, creditors’ rights and bankruptcy/insolvency matters, and disputes on behalf of alternative energy firms. He provides end-to-end strategic counsel, navigating clients through every phase of the litigation lifecycle—from pre-suit investigation and...

Brian J. Molloy is General Counsel and serves as Chairman of the Board at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. His professional liability litigation practice includes defending lawyers and law firms, both insured and uninsured, from Am Law 100 law firms to solo practitioners, as well as Judges and a number of different insurers including Attorneys’ Liability Assurance Society (ALAS) against claims of malpractice and ethics violations. His business and commercial litigation practice incl...

With broad-based knowledge gained through over 25 years of practice, Darren is a trial lawyer who represents individuals and business clients in complex commercial litigation. As a leader of the firm’s litigation practice, his experience encompasses cases involving partnership and minority shareholder disputes, non-compete agreements and restrictive covenants, breach of fiduciary duty, and claims related to unfair competition and trade secret issues. Darren has additional expertise in c...

Tom brings broad-based expertise to his representation of clients in the related areas of employee benefits, executive compensation, ERISA, taxation and employment law. He provides sophisticated counsel to middle market publicly and privately held business owners and employers, senior and C-suite executives, Boards of Directors and Board Committees. He also works closely with finance and human resources executives and external professional advisors and is often engaged by high-level business ...

Tom represents clients in commercial real estate transactions, including the sale, acquisition, leasing and mortgage financing of commercial, mutli-family, and industrial properties. He also provides representation in commercial property tax appeals, mortgage foreclosures and workouts, tax sale certificate foreclosures and condemnation valuation hearings. Throughout his career, Tom has counseled local and regional lenders, borrowers, developers, investors, and business owners/operators includ...