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Law Firms A-C

Apruzzese, McDermott, Mastro & Murphy
25 Independence Boulevard
PO Box 112
Liberty Corner, NJ 07938
Phone: (908) 580-1776
Fax: (908) 647-1492
Robert T. Clarke, Esq.
Managing Principal
Web Site: http://www.ammm.com

A leading firm in representing corporate management in labor, human relations issues, also general corporate, real estate practice> Former senior partner and now of counsel FRANK MCDERMOTT prominent Republican, served during Whitman Administration as labor counsel to NJ HIGHWAY AUTHORITY and chairman, NJ TURNPIKE AUTHORITY, former Union County Republican chairman, State Senator, Senate President and Assembly Minority Leader> 15 attorneys.

 

Archer & Greiner
1 Centennial Square
Haddonfield, NJ 08033
Phone: (609) 795-2121
Fax: (609) 795-0574
Web Site: http://www.archerlaw.com
Edward C. Laird, Esq.
President
 
Founded 1928, largest South Jersey firm, with 105 attorneys> Partners include George Kugler,  NJ Attorney General 1970-73 in Cahill Administration; Lee Hymerling, family law and divorce, editor-in-chief, NJ Family Law Journal, associate editor, NJ LAW JOURNAL, 1981-93; Edward Laird, litigation, insurance and environmental, member, SUPREME COURT OF NJ, Board on Trial Attorney Certification> Comprehensive corporate, litigation, tax, land-use, real estate practice, including strong hospital and health care; environmental; securities specialties> Other office in Philadelphia.

 

Bathgate, Wegener,& Wolf
1 Airport Road
PO Box 2043
Lakewood, NJ 08701
Phone: (732) 363-0666
Fax: (732) 363-9864
Lawrence E. Bathgate, II, Esq.
Senior Partner
Senior partner LAWRENCE BATHGATE prominent national, NJ Republican insider, past finance director, Republican National Committee, chairman, 1986 THOMAS KEAN Inaugural Committee, finance chair, 2001 BRET SCHUNDLER gubernatorial campaign, member, board of regents, SETON HALL UNIVERSITY> One of largest Ocean County firms with 15 attorneys, office also in Newark> Real estate, corporate, regulatory, tax-exempt finance practice.

 

Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley
210 Lake Hill Drive East
Cherry Hill, NJ 08002
Phone: (856) 779-3600
Fax: (856) 779-7647
Web Site: http://www.blankrome.com
Stephen M. Orlofsky, Esq.
Managing Partner
 
Philadelphia-based firm with over 200 attorneys, 17 NJ resident attorneys> Partners include DAVID NORCROSS, prominent national, NJ Republican activist, former counsel to and runner-up candidate for chair of Republican National Committee, former US Senate nominee and executive director REPUBLICAN STATE COMMITTEE; STEVEN WEINSTEIN, active Democrat close to  former Governor JIM FLORIO, former Camden County Counsel, former counsel, SOUTH JERSEY PORT CORPORATION, served as chair, NJ Higher Education Alliance; trustee, West Jersey Health and Hospital Foundation; ROWAN UNIVERSITY> 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 Philadelphia, Allentown and Media PA, West Palm Beach FL, Wilmington DE.

Brach, Eichler, Rosenberg, Silver, Bernstein, Hammer & Gladstone
101 Eisenhower Parkway
Roseland, NJ 07068
Phone: (973) 228-5700
Fax: (973) 228-7852
Burton L. Eichler, Esq.
Senior Partner
45 lawyers> Partners include Burton L. Eichler, member of NJ Republican State Finance Committee, listed in Best Lawyers of America in health care law (copyright Woodward/White, Inc.; Aiken SC)>  Charles Kushner, CEO of KUSHNER COMPANIES real estate developers, former partner in firm> General corporate, real estate, litigation, health care, environment, tax, insurance.

 

Budd, Larner, Rosenbaum, Greenberg & Sade
150 John F. Kennedy Parkway
CN-1000
Short Hills, NJ 07078
Phone: (973) 379-4800
Fax: (973) 379-7734
Web Site: http://www.buddlarner.com
Mitchell Rait, Esq.
Counsel and Executive Director
 
Strong litigation practice> 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> Strong practice in defense of product liability claims, other practice areas include general litigation, corporate, environment, tax, insurance defense> 5 women partners, highest percentage of women partners of largest firms> 80 lawyers> Offices also in Cherry Hill, Atlantic City, Atlanta.

Capehart & Scatchard
8000 Midlantic Drive
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
Phone: (609) 234-6800
Fax: (609) 235-2786
Web Site: http://www.capehart.com
William B. Scatchard, Jr.
President
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 partner GLENN PAULSEN, counsel to NJ Senate, 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> 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
Fax: (973) 994-1744
Web Site: http://www.carellabyrne.com
Charles C. Carella, Esq.
Senior Partner
 
Partners include former Governor BRENDAN T. BYRNE, board member of E'TOWN CORP., INGERSOLL RAND,  past board member, PRUDENTIAL; 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, past Counsel to NJ DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE, former Assemblyman, Essex County Freeholder, a director of HORIZON BLUE CROSS-BLUE SHIELD; JOHN BAIN, Republican fundraiser, patent and trademark specialist, trustee, NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY> Former patent, trademark specialty firm broadened practice to general corporate representation> 50 attorneys, offices in Roseland and Lyndhurst> Clients include INGERSOLL-RAND; MERRILL LYNCH; NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; NJ RESOURCES; DUPONT; ARCHDIOCESE OF NEWARK.

 

Cohn, Lifland, Pearlman, Herrmann & Knopf
Park 80 Plaza West-One
Saddle Brook, NJ 07662
Phone: (201) 845-9600
Fax: (201) 845-9423
Web Site: http://www.njlawfirm.com/
Albert L. Cohn, Esq.
Managing Partner
Founded 1924> General corporate, litigation, professional negligence, medical malpractice, tax, family law, criminal law, commercial litigation, appeals> Albert L. Cohn prominent litigator, adjunct professor 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-, lecturer, NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1970-, chair, NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1995-> 18 attorneys.

 

Cole, Schotz, Bernstein, Meisel & Forman
Court Plaza North
25 Main Street
Hackensack, NJ 07601
Phone: (201) 489-3000
Fax: (201) 489-1536
Michael Forman
Managing Partner
 
Largest Bergen County firm with 80 attorneys> 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> Former partner, Leonard I. Garth, presently serves on US Court of Appeals for Third Circuit, also served on United States District Court>. Principal NJ firm involved in matters relating to rehabilitation and ultimate sale of assets of insolvent Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co.> Clients include SANZARI ENTERPRISES (real estate development); GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA CO.

Connell Foley
85 Livingston Avenue
Roseland, NJ 07068
Phone: (973) 535-0500
Fax: (973) 535-9217
Web Site: http://www.cfg-lawfirm.com/
John B. Murray, Esq.
Managing Partner
 
Former Connell, Foley & Geiser, name partner THEODORE GEISER, a leading Republican fundraiser and former counsel to NJ HIGHWAY AUTHORITY, resigned December 1999 in dispute with partners over client> Partners include ADRIAN ‘BUD’ FOLEY, past trustee, ST. PETER'S COLLEGE, prominent Democrat, served as president, 1966 NJ Constitutional Convention; past president, NJ STATE BAR ASSOCIATION; former director, PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE; 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> Clients include ANHEUSER-BUSCH; CNA Insurance; KMART; VERIZON; NJ MANUFACTURERS INSURANCE; RUTGERS UNIVERSITY; several insurance companies> 85 attorneys.

Cooper Perskie April Neidelman Wagenheim & Levenson
1125 Atlantic Avenue
PO Box 1125
Atlantic City, NJ 08401
Phone: (800) 529-3161   or    (609) 344-3161
Fax: (609) 344-0939
Web Site: http://www.cooperperskie.com
James L. Cooper, Esq.
Managing Partner
 
Second-largest Atlantic County firm (to HORN, GOLDBERG) with 45 attorneys> Other offices in Northfield, Cherry Hill and Cape May Court House> Strong practice in casino-hotels, banking, defense litigation> Serves as gaming consultant to US Virgin Islands Casino Control Commission, partner Lloyd Levenson  President, International Association of Gaming Attorneys 1999-2000> Founding partner James L. Cooper Fellow of American College of Trial Attorneys, received first million dollar jury verdict in NJ in  1960's, received Trial Attorney's of NJ award  1989 for Distinguished Service, adjunct professor at Temple University School of Law; partner Lewis B. April heads personal injury practice, handles architects and engineers professional liability defense, member of American College of Trial Lawyers, first non-judge to serve as president, Vincent S. Hahnemann American Inn of Court> Clients include several casinos and insurance companies.

Cooper, Rose & English
480 Morris Avenue
Summit, NJ 07901
Phone: (908) 273-1212
Fax: (908) 273-8922
Web Site: http://www.crelaw.com
John W. Cooper, Esq.
Senior Partner
 
Firm resulting from March 1994 merger of Kerby, Cooper, English, Danis & Garvin and Young, Rose, Imbriaco & Burke> Partners include John Cooper, Fellow of American College of Probate Counsel; Frederick W. Rose, corporate and corporate litigation, past trustee, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY; JERRY FITZGERALD ENGLISH, vice chairman, editorial board, NJ LAW JOURNAL, former commissioner, NJ DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION and legislative counsel to Governor BRENDAN BYRNE; Roger S. Clapp, practice in land-use, municipal, public finance, estate planning> Clients include SCHERING-PLOUGH; Witco Corp.; Uniroyal; Nissan Motor Corp.; BP North America> 30 attorneys, office also in Rumson.

 

Courter, Kobert, Laufer, & Cohn
1001 Route 517
Hackettstown, NJ 07840
Phone: (908) 852-2600
Fax: (908) 852-8225
Web Site: http://www.cklcpc.com
Joel A. Kobert, Esq.
Managing Partner
Partners include former Republican Congressman JAMES A. COURTER, resigned as partner prior to unsuccessful 1989 campaign for Governor, rejoined firm following election, past chair of Federal Base-Closing Commission, named counsel to NJ SPORTS & EXPOSITION AUTHORITY 1994, also serves as president, IDT CORP. fast-growing telecommunications, Internet firm; Joel A. Kobert, past president, NJ STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, president, Board of Trustees of NJ LAWYER NEWSPAPER, past chair, Warren County Democratic Committee; William M. Laufer, Fellow of American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, also handles commercial litigation and personal injury cases, serves as Vice President of D.A.R.E NJ, past member of Governor¹s Council on Sports and Physical Fitness,  Trustee, NJ Special Olympics> Of Counsel CHRISTINE V. BATOR appointed by Governor CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN as  Commissioner, NJ HIGHWAY AUTHORITY, also trustee, NJ STATE BAR ASSOCIATION and director, NJ LAWYER NEWSPAPER> 20 attorneys.

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