Best Lawyers Near You in Montclair, New Jersey for Commercial Litigation
Joseph B. Shumofsky is an accomplished trial lawyer and Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is a Member of the Firm’s White Collar, Litigation, and Corporate Investigations and Integrity Practice Groups. His practice focuses on white collar defense, internal corporate investigations, complex business disputes, and counseling corporations that are victims of white collar crimes.
Charles J. Falletta is a Member of the Firm’s Litigation Department with over 25 years of experience in defending complex commercial and class action litigations, as well as product liability and mass tort litigations for a variety of regulated products including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, consumer products and foods. Mr. Falletta also has extensive experience providing clients with unique value coordinating e-discovery in high-stakes litigations to execute efficient and cost-eff...
Marie Mathews serves as the Managing Member of CSG Law, where she provides strategic direction to the Firm, managing the firm’s resources to ensure effective and exceptional counsel to clients. Previously, Marie served in a variety of management roles at the firm, including as Practice Group Leader of the Litigation Group and Deputy General Counsel to the firm, where she supported firm operations and client service initiatives, as well as created programs to educate and mentor team memb...
Edward J. Dauber practices in the firm’s Litigation Group. He focuses his practice on white collar criminal matters, business litigation, and state and federal agency and regulatory matters. Ed joins CSG Law after founding a Newark-based law firm and working with its Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Teams. Prior to working in the private sector, he was the Chief of the Fraud Division of the United States Attorney’s Office in New Jersey and an advisor to the Attorney G...
Mariel L. Belanger maintains a diverse civil litigation practice in state and federal court. With respect to commercial litigation, Mariel has assisted clients in a wide array of industries in matters involving contract disputes, unfair competition, and trade secret and employee mobility issues, among others. Mariel also represents employers in employment-related cases both in court and before administrative agencies and has represented management against single- and multi-employee claims inv...
Ross Pearlson is an accomplished litigator with over 35 years of experience in complex civil litigation and white collar criminal investigations and prosecutions, with an emphasis on health care and securities matters. Ross handles a wide variety of diverse matters involving civil litigation in state and federal courts. He regularly handles cases involving shareholder oppression, restrictive covenants, unfair competition and other commercial torts and contract disputes, consumer fraud, Insura...
Josh Howley, who is part of the Firm’s Litigation Department, a member of the Firm’s Management Committee, and General Counsel of the Firm, regularly practices in state and federal courts, including bankruptcy courts, primarily in New York and New Jersey. One of his specialties is representing traditional lenders, hedge funds, servicers and receivers in asset recovery litigation. Mr. Howley is also frequently hired when mortgage loans go into default and the borrower asserts defen...
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 ...
Edward T. Kole chairs the Business and Commercial Litigation team at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. Mr. Kole handles complex corporate and commercial disputes on behalf of public and private companies in New Jersey and across the nation. Mr. Kole has represented large and medium sized businesses and corporations at every level of state and federal courts, involving a myriad of legal issues including complex contract disputes, restrictive covenant and trade secret litigation, securities ...
Thomas P. Scrivo is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Commercial Litigation and Litigation - Labor and Employment. Thomas P., who practices law in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2015. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Thomas P. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Mark S. Olinsky has been a civil and criminal trial lawyer for more than thirty years. He served as a federal prosecutor in the Office of U.S. Attorney Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and is Past President of the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey. Mr. Olinsky’s diverse caseload includes complex business disputes, health care litigation, complex commercial landlord-tenant litigation, and white collar defense. His courtroom experience includes many jury and bench trials, arbitrations and ...
Mr. Natale concentrates his practice on commercial litigation, business torts, shareholder and partnership disputes, breach of contract actions, construction disputes, municipal litigation, real estate and land use litigation, employment disputes, and the defense of professional liability actions. His work on behalf of clients encompasses all aspects of pre-trial, trial, chancery and appellate litigation at both the state and federal levels, as well as in private arbitration and administrativ...
Gerhard Buehning focuses his practice in business and commercial litigation, with additional work in construction law, education, intellectual property and labor and employment. Gerhard has significant experience in employment-related cases both in court and before administrative agencies and has represented management against claims involving, among other things, workplace discrimination, harassment, whistleblower retaliation, unequal pay, and wage payment violations. In addition to serving ...
Aladekemi Omoregie is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Commercial Litigation. Aladekemi, who practices law in Roseland, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Aladekemi is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Christine P. Clark focuses her practice on business and commercial litigation. Prior to joining Walsh, she clerked for the Honorable Stuart A. Minkowitz in the Morris County Superior Court. She was also a 2021 Summer Associate and law clerk at Walsh. Christine earned her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2022, where she was a part of the Women’s Law Forum and Treasurer of the Irish American Law Student Association. She received her BBA in Marketing from the University of ...
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