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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 ...
M. Trevor Lyons, a partner in the firm, has devoted his entire career to representing employers, including privately owned businesses, international corporations, non-profit organizations and institutions of higher education. He has extensive experience in defending employers in litigation and providing pro-active and preventative strategic counseling to his clients on a wide array of personnel and benefit issues. He is a featured speaker nationally and regionally on numerous traditional and ...
Robyn L. Aversa is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. She joined the firm in 1997. Robyn defends employers in employment discrimination litigation before state and federal courts and agencies involving ERISA, race, gender, handicap and national origin discrimination and sexual harassment claims. She has extensive experience in counseling employers with respect to personnel and benefits issues, with a view toward preventing litigation. Robyn is also e...
Ira A. Rosenberg is a Member of Sills Cummis & Gross, Co-Chair of the Firm’s Corporate Department, Chair of the Firm’s Life Sciences Practice Group and Co-Managing Partner of the Firm’s Florida office. Mr. Rosenberg has more than 30 years’ experience representing life science and health care technology companies, ranging in size from start-ups to public companies, in corporate and intellectual property transactions and general corporate matters. This work has inclu...
Gregory Miller is the partner-in-charge of Rivkin Radler LLP’s New Jersey office in Hackensack, New Jersey, where he also serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. He previously served on the firm’s executive committee. With more than 25 years of experience, Greg represents businesses in commercial litigation and civil litigation matters, as well as corporate counseling, including trial and appellate work involving complex commercial disputes, in...
As Chair of the CSG Law Litigation and White Collar Defense & Investigations Groups and a former federal prosecutor, Matthew Beck brings exceptional skills and insight to representing companies, government entities, and C-suite executives in game-changing complex civil litigation, white collar criminal investigations, and securities enforcement matters. His broad practice also includes acting as outside general counsel for mid-sized private companies, managing their entire portfolio of le...
Michael R. Ricciardulli is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Medical Malpractice Law - Defendants. Michael R., who practices law in Westfield, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2013. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Michael R. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Allen Popowitz is a recognized leader in the real estate industry. Known for his business savvy and practical approach to each and every transaction, he focuses on what’s important in each deal and consistently achieves his clients’ goals. Allen advises his clients on all aspects of investment real estate and lending, including, but not limited to, sales, purchases, financing, leasing, and Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. He represents residential and com...
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.
Jan L. Bernstein chairs the firm’s New Jersey Matrimonial and Family Law Practice at Phillips Nizer LLP. She has dedicated her entire career - over four decades - to the successful representation of family law clients and the development of strong client relationships. Jan is renowned for finding creative solutions to complex and novel family law disputes and applies her talents in her roles as mediator and arbitrator. Jan enjoys representing a wide range of clients, national and intern...
Dorit Kressel has over 20 years of experience in public finance. She has served as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel in numerous transactions at the state and local level. Dorit focuses her practice on complex financings for the State of New Jersey and its agencies and authorities, including the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank, the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority,...
Mr. Jaffe concentrates his practice in environmental transactional and administrative law. He represents developers, property and business owners, landlords and tenants, manufacturers and other clients on a broad range of environmental legal issues. Mr. Jaffe assists clients in the evaluation, allocation and avoidance of liabilities under various federal and state environmental laws, including New Jersey’s Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA) and Spill Compensation and Control Act, the f...
Jeffrey M. Beyer is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Insurance Law. Jeffrey M., who practices law in Madison, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2024. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Jeffrey M. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Jeffrey Meltzer has a broad range of commercial real estate experience and focuses his practice on the acquisition, disposition, financing and leasing of commercial properties throughout the United States, including shopping centers, office/industrial buildings, apartment complexes, manufacturing facilities and vacant land for development, in both single-asset and portfolio transactions. He represents institutional lenders and borrowers in commercial mortgage loan transactions (both conventio...