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Best Lawyers in New Jersey, United States for Labor and Employment Law - Employee
Employment Law Legal Guide 2025
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JON W. GREEN is a partner in the Florham Park, N.J. law firm of Green Savits, LLC. He currently concentrates in the practice of employment law and civil rights litigation on behalf of employees. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits. He has been designated as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court since 1998. Each and every year since 2005, Mr. Green has been sel...
Claudia A. Reis, Esq. has dedicated her career to representing aggrieved employees in claims against their current and former employers. Her practice includes all aspects of employment law, including sexual harassment, discrimination (on the basis of sex, age, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, impermissible gender stereotyping, pregnancy and disability), unfair wage claims, retaliation, and claims relating to both state and federal leave acts, wage and hour...
Neil Mullin has been a plaintiff's employment lawyer for 30 years. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Fellow of the American College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. A graduate of Columbia University magna cum laude and phi beta kappa, he graduated from Rutgers Law School in Newark, New Jersey. He has been honored as a Distinguished Graduate of Rutgers. He has argued successfully in the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Mr. Mull...
Michael F. O’Connor is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Employment Law - Individuals. Michael F., who practices law in Wall Township, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2007. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Michael F. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
During his career, Mr. Davis has served as class counsel on numerous nationwide employment class actions and has tried nearly 20 cases to verdict. Mr. Davis has been recognized by the press as an experienced trial attorney and employment law expert. He is regularly interviewed by print and television media outlets around the world, including The Associated Press, The Shriver Report, and CNN En Español. Mr. Davis began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in the esteemed Manhatt...
Steven R. Cohen is a name partner and principal shareholder in Selikoff & Cohen. Steven has represented unions and union members before the New Jersey Supreme Court and other state trial and appellate courts, the Public Employment Relations Commission, the Office of Administrative Law, the State Board of Education, and other state agencies as well as in TEACHNJ and other teacher tenure proceedings for more than 45 years. Areas of expertise include workplace discrimination and accommodatio...
Bruce P. McMoran has over 30 years of experience in labor and employment law. Mr. McMoran has tried over 200 cases. He has achieved numerous multi-million dollar jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of clients. During the early years of his career, Mr. McMoran represented only employers in employment law. He watched as the “social compact” which had existed between companies and their employees for generations slowly eroded away. That social compact was based on the mutual unde...
Mr. Zazzali has served as New Jersey's Attorney General and as an Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Since returning to private practice, he has been appointed by the state and federal governments, federal and state courts, and litigants as a monitor, receiver, independent counsel, independent investigator, discovery master, and bankruptcy trustee for various institutions and organizations in both the private and public sectors. Mr. Zazzali advises clients on...
Nancy Erika Smith is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Civil Rights Law, Employment Law - Individuals and Litigation - Labor and Employment. Nancy Erika, who practices law in Montclair, New Jersey, has been recognized since 1987. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Nancy Erika is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Stephanie D. Gironda is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Employment Law - Individuals. Stephanie D., who practices law in Woodbridge, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Stephanie D. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Chris Lenzo is a partner in the New Jersey law firm of Lenzo & Reis, LLC. He represents employees in employment law matters, including negotiation, mediation, arbitration, trial litigation, and appellate litigation of claims of discrimination, harassment, whistleblower retaliation, wrongful discharge, failure to accommodate disabilities, family and medical leave violations, breach of contract, and wage and hour violations. In his practice, Chris has litigated several reported cases, some ...
Maureen S. Binetti is co-chair of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A.’s Employment Law group. Ms. Binetti is among the few female or employment attorneys certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney. Ms. Binetti’s has represented both sides of employment disputes for over 35 years, in the New Jersey state and federal courts. These disputes include claims of harassment and discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin, national...
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