Partner, Litigation Department
Member, Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group
Member, Real Estate Brokerage Practice Group
Practice Focus
Complex commercial, real estate and trust and estate litigation.
Professional Activities / Honors
· Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America in the Commercial Litigation practice area.
· Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers - New Jersey Edition and Super Lawyers - Corporate Counsel Edition in the Business Litigation practice area.
· Member of the Mediation Panel of the Superior Court of New Jersey.
· Adjunct professor at Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, teaching pretrial advocacy (2002-2006).
· Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Freda L. Wolfson, United States District Court, Trenton, for the 1987-1988 term.
· Chairman of the Plainsboro, NJ, Zoning Board of Adjustment.
· Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review rated AV® Preeminent.
· Contributor to the Encyclopedia of New Jersey.
· Member of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
· Member of the Middlesex County Bar Association.
· Member of the Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey.
· Member of and counsel to the Board of Trustees of Congregation Beth Chaim, West Windsor, NJ.
· Eagleton Institute of Politics, Undergraduate Associate, 1983-1984.
Publications / Articles / Presentations
· Co-Author, "The ABC's of Commercial Tenancy Litigation", Exhibit A, Summer 2010.
· Presenter, "Commercial Landlord/Tenant Issues: Lessons Learned from Litigation", Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP Webinar, April 20, 2010.
· Co-author, Civil Trial Preparation (2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2009 & 2012 (to be published)), New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education.
· Lecturer, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2001-present.
· Author, "Motions to Transfer Eviction Actions", New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, December 2009.
· Lectured on slavery at the New Jersey State Library (October 8, 2009).
· Author, "When Slavery Wasn't a Dirty Word in New Jersey", New Jersey Lawyer, February 15, 1999.
· Author, "New Jersey Slavery and the Law", Rutgers Law Review, Summer 1998.
· Co-author, "Civil Jury Trials Under the New Jersey Constitution", New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, June 1997.
· Author, "Courts Should Preserve Summary Dispossess Actions", New Jersey Law Journal, June 24, 1996.
· Co-author, "25 Years of the New Jersey Antitrust Act", Seton Hall Law Review, Vol. Twenty-Six 1996.
· Co-author, "Applying the Attorney-Client Privilege to In-House Counsel", Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, November 1995.
· Author, "Can Untimely Attempts to Exercise Renewal Options be Enforced?", New Jersey Law Journal, October 16, 1995.
· Co-author, "The Right to a Civil Jury Trial in New Jersey", Rutgers Law Review, Summer 1995 (cited in Brennan v. Orban, 145 N.J. 282, 297-98 (1996); Lyn-Anna Properties v. Harborview Development, 145 N.J. 313, 326 (1996); State v. One 1990 Honda Accord, 154 N.J. 373, 378 (1998)).