Best Lawyers Near You in Westwood, New Jersey
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Michelle Bergeron Spell focuses her practice on estate planning, succession planning and trust and estate administration for domestic and foreign individuals. She has extensive experience in multi-generational estate planning and asset protection. Michelle's clients include high net worth individuals and families for whom she handles such matters as wills, grantor retained interest trusts, generation-skipping trusts, family limited partnerships and living trusts. Michelle has extensive experi...
Diane D. Reynolds is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law. Diane D., who practices law in Florham Park, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2015. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Diane D. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
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...
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, ...
Gianfranco A. Pietrafesa is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law. Gianfranco A., who practices law in Hackensack, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2007. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Gianfranco A. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Litigation partner Kate Campbell handles environmental, toxic tort and class action litigation and Superfund and RCRA remediation matters*. Since joining the firm in 2003, she has developed considerable experience in defending complex toxic tort claims for personal injury, wrongful death, medical monitoring and property damage, in representing potentially responsible parties across the country in CERCLA and RCRA matters, and in litigating federal, state and private enforcement actions under a...
Boris I. Mankovetskiy is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Creditors’ Rights/Bankruptcy Reorganization Practice Group. He focuses his practice on complex corporate restructurings, including Chapter 11 cases and out-of-court workouts. His clients include official creditors’ committees, debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, investors that focus on distressed situations and other parties-in-interest in corporate insolvency matters. Mr. Mankovetskiy has particularly extensi...
Ms. Vanides practices exclusively in the area of divorce and family law. An experienced litigator, she is also a trained family collaborative lawyer and mediator. Ms. Vanides provides counsel related to all aspects of family law, including divorce, alimony and child support, custody and parenting time, distribution of marital assets, and post judgment modification and enforcement. She has achieved considerable success in obtaining optimal results for many of her clients through alternative di...
Cecilia I. Lassiter, Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross State and Local Incentives Law Practice, focuses on state and local public incentives and real estate matters, with a particular emphasis on redevelopment, zoning and land use. Ms. Lassiter has extensive experience in redevelopment matters, including the designation of areas in need of redevelopment or areas in need of rehabilitation, and the negotiation and preparation of complex redevelopment agreements, purchase and sale agreements...
David L. Cook is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation Department. He primarily represents corporations and banks in litigation involving complex commercial disputes in state and federal courts throughout the United States. His extensive background involves a broad range of experience including representing Fortune 500 companies in antitrust class actions, major international banks and corporations in U.S. sanctions and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations, media compani...
David R. King is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law and Commercial Litigation. David R., who practices law in Newark, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2023. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which David R. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Nathanya G. Simon is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Education Law. Nathanya G., who practices law in Little Falls, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2024. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Nathanya G. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Daniel B. Devinney is the newest partner of SSDMD. He joined Sarno da Costa D'Aniello Maceri LLC in 2016 as an associate in our Roseland office and was promoted to Counsel before making partner in 2020. He started off 2020 strong by securing a gross $650,000 jury verdict in an emergency medicine malpractice case. Daniel graduated from Cornell University in 2002 and earned his J.D. from Seton Hall in 2007. During law school, he was a merit scholar and completed an internship with the Community...