The Insider Guide to New Jersey Leaders
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| Apruzzese,
McDermott, Mastro & Murphy |
| 25
Independence Boulevard |
| PO
Box 112 |
| Liberty
Corner, NJ 07938 |
| Phone: (908) 580-1776 |
| Robert T. Clarke,
Esq. |
| Managing Principal |
| Web
Site: www.ammm.com |
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leading firm in representing corporate management in labor, human
relations issues, also general corporate, real estate practice> Co-founder and now of counsel Vincent Appruzzese a former president of NJ State Bar Association> Co-founder and now of counsel
Frank McDermott served during Whitman Administration
as chairman, NJ
Turnpike Authority, former Union County Republican chairman, State
Senator, Senate President and Assembly Minority Leader> Managing principal Robert T. Clarke negotiated labor contracts with several unions in healthcare industry, also represents healthcare clients in arbitrations, proceedings before National Labor Relations Board and other labor and employment matters, former attorney with NJ Public Employment Relations Commission. |
| Archer
& Greiner |
| 1 Centennial Square |
| Haddonfield, NJ 08033 |
| Phone:
(609) 795-2121 |
| Web
Site: www.archerlaw.com |
| Edward
C. Laird, Esq. |
| President |
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| Comprehensive corporate, litigation, tax, land-use, real estate practice, including strong hospital and health care; environmental; securities specialties> Founded
1928, largest independent South Jersey-based firm, with 160 attorneys> Partners include Christopher R. Gibson, Chair of firm’s Litigation Department, a leading environmental litigatordefending corporate clients in toxic and chemical pollution matters, also appointed counsel to NJ commissioners of board of Delaware River Port Authority of PA and NJ, serves as a trustee of The College of NJ> Lee Hymerling,
family law and divorce, editor-in-chief, NJ Family Law Journal, also editor of standard NJ divorce forms reference piblication> Terence Fox, corporate and commercial banking law,
with emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, commercial lending
transactions and NJ's Industrial Site Recovery Act on
business transactions, serves as general counsel to Chamber of Commerce of Southern NJ, also
acted as counsel to Ronald McDonald House of Southern NJ> Other offices in Flemington & Princeton, Philadelphia, Wilmington and New York City. |
| Bathgate,
Wegener,& Wolf |
| 1 Airport Road |
| PO Box 2043 |
| Lakewood, NJ 08701 |
| Phone:
(732) 363-0666 |
| Web site: www.bathweg.com |
| Lawrence
E. Bathgate, II, Esq. |
| Senior Partner |
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| Senior
partner Lawrence E. Bathgate, recognized as one of 100 most influential lawyers in US by National
Law Journal, prominent national, NJ Republican insider, Republican National Finance Chairman under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George
H.W. Bush, chairman, 1986 Governor Thomas Kean Inaugural Committee, finance chair, 2001 Bret Schundler gubernatorial campaign> Raised over $250,000 for 2008 John McCain, over $200,000 for 2004 George W. Bush presidential campaigns> Board memberships inlude Seton Hall University; President's Advisory Committee on Arts of Kennedy Center in Washington
D.C.; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , Washington, DC; NJ Performing Arts Center; Newark Boys & Girls Clubs; Ocean County College Foundation; Boy Scouts of America (Northeast Region); M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas and Liberty Science Center>
Office also in
Newark> Real estate, corporate, regulatory, tax-exempt finance
practice, extensive representation of governments, authorities and other public agencies. |
| Blank,
Rome |
| 210 Lake Drive East |
| Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 |
| Phone:
(856)
779-3600 |
| Web
Site: www.blankrome.com |
| Steven
D. Weinstein, Esq. |
| Partner |
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| Formerly Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley, Philadelphia-based
firm with over 500 attorneys, opened new office in Princeton December 2007> Partners
include David Norcross, prominent national, NJ Republican activist, currently serves on Executive Committee of Republican
National Committee and chairman of RNC’s Standing Committee on Rules, former RNC counsel and runner-up candidate for chair of
National Committee, former US Senate nominee and executive
director NJ Republican State Committee> Steven Weinstein, litigation and public finance partner, active
Democrat close to former
Governor James Florio, formerly served as board chair of Rowan University and as chair of West Jersey Health and Hospital Foundation,
former
Camden County Counsel, currently president, Haddonfield Board of Education, member of NJ Commission on Higher Education and board member of NJ Alliance for Action and NJ Future> Stephen Orlofsky, administrative partner in Princeton office, former US District Judge for District of NJ 1996 to 2003, also US Magistrate Judge for District of NJ 1976 to 1980> Extensive public finance practice, firm
selected by Whitman Administration as legal adviser on bond issue to
refinance State employee pension fund, also to pay deficit of State auto
insurance fund> Other offices in Princeton, Philadelphia, NY City,
Boca Raton FL, Wilmington DE, Hong Kong. |
| Budd,
Larner, Rosenbaum, Greenberg & Sade |
| 150 John F. Kennedy Parkway |
| CN-1000 |
| Short Hills, NJ 07078 |
| Phone:
(973) 379-4800 |
| Web
Site: www.buddlarner.com |
| Mitchell
Rait, Esq. |
| Counsel
and Chief Operating Officer |
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| Founded 1934, formerly Budd, Larner, Gross, Rosenbaum, Greenberg & Sade> Strong
litigation practice, particularly defense of product liability claims, other practice areas include corporate, environment, tax, insurance defense, family and matrimonial law> Michael Rosenbaum, chair of commercial litigation department, represented
defendants in 1999 case before US Supreme Court on whether terminated
employee-whistleblower may assert racketeering conspiracy claim>
Henry Larner, senior member of real estate, transactional and
finance group, cited in 2008 edition of The Best Lawyers in America in Real Esate Law> Offices also in Cherry Hill, NY
City, Philadelphia. |
| Capehart
Scatchard |
| Laurel Corporate Center |
| 8000 Midlantic Drive |
| Mount Laurel, NJ 08054 |
| Phone:
(856) 234-6800 |
| Web
Site: www.capehart.com |
| Peter S. Bejsiuk, Esq. |
| Managing Shareholder |
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| Origins
traced to firm founded 1876
in Camden by self-educated lawyer Thomas French, present name adopted
1961> One of largest South
Jersey firms with 45 lawyers> Opened Trenton office 1994 headed by
chair of government and regulatory affairs group Glenn Paulsen, counsel to NJ Senate 1991-2005, past Burlington County Republican
chairman and former director, Division of Motor Vehicles in Thomas Kean Administration, gubernatorial campaign director for former NJ
Attorney General W. Cary Edwards> Firm gained $2.5 million settlement in 1999 for client Foster Wheeler with Passaic County and Passaic
County Utilities Authority for project engineering and development costs
incurred for resource recovery (trash-to-energy) facility sited by Passaic
County in City of Passaic but never built> Litigation, government,
banking, public finance, school, tax, real estate, environmental. |
| Carella,
Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi, Stewart & Olstein |
| 5
Becker Farm Road |
| Roseland,
NJ 07068 |
| Phone:
(973) 994-1700 |
| Web
Site: www.carellabyrne.com |
| Charles
C. Carella, Esq. |
| Chairman, Executive Committee |
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| Partners
include former Governor Brendan T. Byrne, past
board member, Prudential, Ingersoll Rand, Mack-Cali> Charles Carella, former
Executive Director, NJ Lottery Commission and Executive Secretary to Governor in Byrne Administration,
1991-94 chairman, University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ> Peter Stewart, a director of Horizon Blue Cross-Blue Shield of NJ, past Counsel to NJ
Democratic State Committee, former Assemblyman, Essex County Freeholder> John Bain, Republican
fundraiser, patent and trademark specialist, vice chair of board of trustees, NJ Institute of Technology> Arthur T. Vandebilt II, grandson of former NJ Supreme Court Chief Justice Arthur Vanderbilt, and author of several legal, non-fiction books> Former patent, trademark specialty
firm broadened practice to general corporate representation, public finance, government regulation, health care> 35
attorneys, offices in Roseland and Lyndhurst. |
| Cohn,
Lifland, Pearlman, Herrmann
& Knopf |
| Park 80 Plaza West-One |
| Saddle Brook, NJ 07662 |
| Phone:
(201) 845-9600 |
| Web
Site: www.njlawfirm.com |
| Albert
L. Cohn, Esq. |
| Managing Partner |
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| Founded
1924> General corporate, litigation, professional negligence, medical
malpractice, tax, estate planning, matrimonial and family law, criminal law, commercial litigation,
appeals> Albert L. Cohn prominent litigator, served for 27 years as adjunct professor of appellate advocacy at Rutgers Law School, co-author with partner Barry Knopf of treatise on medical
malpractice, adjunct professor, permanent faculty member, National
Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1980-, past trustee and chair, NJ Institute for Continuing Legal
Education; Trustee, NJ Performing Arts Center> 18 attorneys. |
| Cole,
Schotz, Bernstein, Meisel & Forman |
| Court Plaza North |
| 25 Main Street |
| Hackensack, NJ 07601 |
| Phone:
(201) 489-3000 |
| Web Site: www.coleschotz.com |
| Morrill J. Cole, Esq. |
| Member |
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Co-founded 1928 by David L. Cole,
noted labor arbitrator and mediator and former Director of Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service, and Mendon Morrill, prominent trial
lawyer who counselled every president from Harry S. Truman to Gerald R.
Ford in national labor crises who served as judge of US District Court>
Morrill Cole named to The Best Lawyers of America directory in commercial litigation section every year since publication commenced in 1987> Former partners Leonard I. Garth and Michael Chagares serve on US Court of Appeals
for Third Circuit>
Principal NJ firm involved in matters relating to rehabilitation and
ultimate sale of assets in 1991 of insolvent Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.> Clients include Alfred Sanzari Enterprises (real estate development); Marcal Paper Mills; Inserra Supermarkets; Toys “R” Us; Port Imperial Ferry Corp. (New York Waterway commuter ferry)> 120 attorneys, offices also in NY City; Baltimore; Wilmington..
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| Connell
Foley |
| 85 Livingston Avenue |
| Roseland, NJ 07068 |
| Phone:
(973) 535-0500 |
| Fax:
(973) 535-9217 |
| Web
Site: www.connellfoley.com |
| John
B. Murray, Esq. |
| Managing Partner |
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| Established 1936> Partners include Adrian "Bud" Foley, Jr., past trustee, St. Peter's College, prominent Democrat, served as president, 1966 NJ
Constitutional Convention; past president, NJ
State Bar Association; former director, Prudential> George Kenny, editorial board member, NJ Law Journal, co-author with partner Frank A. Lattal of treatise
on NJ insurance law; John B. La Vecchia, insurance and environmental law,
Fellow of American College of Trial Lawyers, and Diplomate of American
Board of Trial Advocates> Former partner Raymond T. Lyons sworn in as
US Bankruptcy Judge May 1999> 125 attorneys. |
| Cooper
Levenson April Niedelman & Wagenheim |
| 1125 Atlantic Avenue |
| PO Box 1125 |
| Atlantic City, NJ 08401 |
| Phone:
(800) 529-3161 |
| Web
Site: www.cooperlevenson.com |
| Lloyd D. Levenson,, Esq. |
| CEO |
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| Founded 1957, 70 attorneys> Other offices in Northfield, Cherry
Hill, Cape May Court House, Princeton, Sea Isle City, Trenton, Harrisburg, PA, Bear, DE and Las Vegas> Strong practice in casino-hotels and gaming matters, also
banking, tax, defense litigation> Serves as gaming consultant to US Virgin
Islands Casino Control Commission, partner Lloyd Levenson
President, International Association of Gaming Attorneys 1999-2000, served on Board of Governors for NJ State Opera; Board of Trustees for Southern NJ Development Council> Firm received first million dollar jury verdict in NJ in 1960's, also won 2008 case in NJ Supreme Court on behalf of Cape May County Freeholders holding that state statute allowing county prosecutor to seek additional funds for his office cannot override budgetary decisions of Freeholders without proving that extra funds"reasonably necessary"> Clients include
several casinos and insurance companies. |
| Courter,
Kobert & Cohn |
| 1001 Route 517 |
| Hackettstown, NJ 07840 |
| Phone:
(908) 852-2600 |
| Web
Site: www.ckclaw.com |
| Joel
A. Kobert, Esq. |
| Managing Partner |
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| Co-founder and former partner Republican Congressman James A. Courter resigned as partner prior to unsuccessful 1989 campaign
for Governor, currently president, IDT Corp. telecommunications, Internet firm> Firm clients include former Governor Christine Todd Whitman, firm also named as counsel to NJ Sports & Exposition Authority during Whitman Administration> Other clients include Mars Inc. candy and confection maker and Jacqueline Badger Mars, grandddaughter of Mars founder with estimated fortune of $10.5 billion, ranked 58th on 2008 Forbes 400 list of wealthiest in US> Joel A.
Kobert past president, NJ State Bar Association, president, Board of Trustees of NJ Lawyer newspaper, past chair, Warren County Democratic Committee, boards include St. Barnabas Medical Center; Norwich
University; Skylands Community Bank>
15 attorneys. |
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