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Employment Law Legal Guide 2025
View Legal GuideBrett 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...
Martin W. Aron is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C.; where he has served as the litigation manager. For more than 35 years, he has represented employers in all facets of labor and employment matters. Marty has significant jury trial, bench trial and arbitration experience and is one of approximately two percent of the attorneys in the state who are certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney. He regularly litigat...
John K. Bennett is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. His entire practice is devoted to representing employers in all areas of labor and employment-related matters. John regularly handles employment-related litigation in federal and state courts and administrative agencies, including substantial experience in jury trials. He also handles enforcing employment agreements to arbitrate claims, and arbitrations under those agreements, as well as arbitrati...
Kathie Caminiti is a partner in the firm's New Jersey and New York offices, and co-chair of the Pay Equity practice group. She has extensive experience handling employment litigation matters, ranging from individual plaintiff discrimination claims to wage and hour class and collective actions. Kathie has successfully defended cases alleging civil rights violations, race, sex, age and handicap discrimination, sexual harassment, whistle-blowing, wrongful discharge and retaliation. Kathie has a ...
Chris Capone is a partner in the firm's New Jersey office. He has successfully represented large corporations and small businesses in a variety of industries (healthcare, technology, retail, manufacturing and financial services) in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including equal employment opportunity, enforcement of restrictive covenants, wrongful discharge litigation, labor disputes and contract negotiations. His practice includes litigation in federal and state courts, a...
Richard J. Cino is the office managing principal of the Berkeley Heights and Monmouth County, New Jersey, offices of Jackson Lewis P.C. He is also co-leader of the Corporate Governance and Internal Investigations practice group. Rich has a broad area of practice and responsibility with the firm. He acts as lead counsel on all aspects of employment litigation, including defending claims of whistleblowers under various state and federal laws including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, sexual harassment, ...
Robert J. Cino is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. His practice focuses on litigation for management exclusively. Robert handles all aspects of employment law litigation including claims of harassment and discrimination on the basis of gender, pregnancy, age, race, religion, national origin and disability, as well as wrongful discharge, FMLA, CEPA, and retaliation claims. On behalf of clients, Robert has successfully obtained injunctive relief for ...
Jeffrey J. Corradino is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He has counseled clients in virtually every area of labor and employment law for over 20 years. Jeff has extensive experience representing employers in public and private sector employment related litigation, collective bargaining negotiations, representation cases, arbitrations and National Labor Relations Board matters. Jeff is a frequent speaker on human resource and legal topics, includin...
Mary T. Costigan is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. She holds a Certified Information Privacy Professional/US designation from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (iapp). Mary advises multinational, national, and regional companies on emerging privacy and cybersecurity issues, including the broad and growing array of mandates, best practices, and preventive safeguards. In particular, she focuses on advising and assisting clients...
Rosemary Gousman is the managing partner of the firm's New Jersey office and has devoted her extensive career to the practice of labor and employment law. Rosemary’s diverse practice includes both litigation and counseling of employers. She litigates cases involving discrimination, wrongful discharge, whistleblower claims, wage and hour laws, common law contract and tort claims, traditional labor law involving union-management relations, and employee benefits disputes. Rosemary has sign...
David Lichtenberg is a partner in the firm's New Jersey office. His practice focuses on employment litigation and counseling, with a particular emphasis on EPL claims. David has extensive litigation experience in both state and federal courts and is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Middle...
Carla D. Macaluso is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. She focuses her practice on employment litigation for management exclusively. Carla has handled all aspects of employment law litigation including claims of harassment and discrimination on the basis of gender, pregnancy, age, race, religion, national origin and disability, as well as wrongful discharge, FMLA, CEPA, invasion of privacy, defamation, breach of employment contracts and retaliation ...
Dina M. Mastellone is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. and is certified by the National Employment Law Institute in ADA/Rehabilitation Act compliance. She works as a strategic and tactical business partner alongside the firm's regional and national clients, counseling them on employment matters of all kinds and establishing and auditing human resources policies, handbooks and procedures. Dina has extensive experience training businesses and human r...
James M. McDonnell is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He represents management exclusively in all aspects of employment litigation, including restrictive covenants, class-actions, harassment, retaliation, discrimination and wage and hour claims. Jim regularly represents employers in federal and state courts and administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights, the United States...
As Co-Chair of FordHarrison’s Non-Compete, Trade Secrets and Business Litigation practice group, Mark Saloman extensively litigates and counsels clients on the meaning, drafting, and enforceability of various types of post-employment restraints such as non-compete agreements, non-solicitation provisions, confidentiality agreements, and other restrictive covenants. He has successfully litigated these types of cases in more than 20 states and tried them conclusion in state and federal cou...
Caitlin Dettmer is an associate in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. Caitlin assists employers with their day-to-day employment law compliance efforts. Her experience includes negotiating collective bargaining agreements, conducting internal investigations in response to allegations of discrimination or other improper workplace conduct, drafting employee handbooks and workplace policies, and conducting employment training programs. She also has a background in rep...
Kurt J. Ferdenzi is an associate in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. His practice focuses on representing employers in workplace law matters, including preventive advice and counseling. Before entering private practice, Kurt served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Joseph V. Isabella, J.S.C., of the Superior Court of New Jersey. During his time as a judicial law clerk, Kurt assisted with various court proceedings and trials, performed legal research on a v...
Colleen S. Heckman is an associate in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. Colleen is committed to working tirelessly to defend clients when litigation arises. Colleen represents employers in a wide range of litigation issues, including discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, and wage and hour matter in state and federal courts, and administrative agencies. Colleen also conducts workplace investigations. Prior to joining Jackson Lewis, Colleen represented ...
Stephanie E. Marshall is an associate in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. Her practice focuses on representing employers in workplace law matters, including preventive advice and counseling. While attending law school, Stephanie interned in the legal department of the United States Department of Homeland Security and was a 2019 scholarship recipient for the Garden State Bar Association. Before entering private practice, Stephanie served as a judicial law clerk to...
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