Maura C. Smith

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, ...

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...

Lori M. Waldron is Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Life Sciences Practice Group. She is a trusted transactional advisor whose practice focuses on the representation of emerging growth, middle market, and established public and private companies across the life sciences sector. She represents biotechnology, pharmaceutical, specialty pharma, medical device, diagnostics, and healthcare-adjacent companies, as well as the investors, founders, and strategic partners that support them. Lori Wa...

Kristin Sostowski is a Director with Gibbons P.C. in Newark, New Jersey, where she is a member of the Employment & Labor Law Department and serves as Team Leader of the firm’s Higher Education practice. Kristin balances her practice between employment litigation and counseling, representing New Jersey and national employers and providing strategic counsel to clients at all phases of the employment relationship. Known for her tenacious advocacy, strategic approach, and attention to d...

Claudia Reis Understands the Law and the People Behind Affected By It For over twenty-five years, Claudia Reis has represented employees across New Jersey in discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination claims. But what sets her apart isn't just her command of employment law — it's her understanding of what's really at stake for the people she represents. Work is more than a paycheck. It's a source of identity, pride, and self-worth. When that's stripped away throug...

Brett M. Anders is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He exclusively represents management in workplace law, including counseling and litigation. Brett routinely advises clients regarding day-to-day employment issues, such as employee discipline and discharge, disability management issues, reductions-in-force and restrictive covenants. He also regularly conducts training programs for employers on a variety of employment-related topics, such as perfor...

Cynthia M. Craig is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Cynthia M., who practices law in Chatham, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2008. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Cynthia M. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Mr. Mairo focuses his practice on commercial litigation, workouts, financial reorganizations, and creditors’ rights. A respected and particularly well-rounded insolvency lawyer, he has represented an extensive slate of clients that comprises debtors, secured lenders, creditors’ committees, landlords, administrative agents for syndicates of lenders, foreign representatives, and more. Throughout his decades-long career, he has handled mid-size to multibillion-dollar bankruptcy matte...

Gary N. Skoloff is one of the founders of Skoloff & Wolfe, PC and is a nationally recognized family law practitioner. Mr. Skoloff, a past Chair of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association, and past President of the New Jersey Chapter of the of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, has argued many of the leading and most high-profile matrimonial cases in the state, including the well-known surrogate mother case of Baby M . Professional Activities Mr. Skoloff has been a...

Holly V. Horsley is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Public Finance Law. Holly V., who practices law in Morristown, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Holly V. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.