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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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.
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| 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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