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| Dechert,
Price &
Rhoads
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| Princeton
Pike Corporate Center
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| PO
Box 5218
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| Princeton,
NJ 08543
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| Phone:
(609) 620-3200
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| Fax:
(609) 620-3259
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| Web
Site: http://www.dechert.com
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| James Marino |
| Managing Partner |
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| Based
in Philadelphia, one of 100 largest firms in US with
over 500 lawyers, 30 NJ-based attorneys,
located in seven offices in US, also presence in London and
Paris, 1994 combination with one of London's leading law firms, combined
U.K. practice now known as Titmuss Sainer Dechert> Princeton office
established 1987 includes mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts,
public offerings, and loan transactions, health law, real estate,
and venture enterprise matters, litigation on securities, insurance,
labor, product liability, intellectual property, constitutional, environmental,
intellectual property> NJ clients include CAMPBELL
SOUP; COVANCE; McKesson Corp> Practice areas include corporate, securities,
technology litigation, healthcare, media. |
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DeCotiis,
Fitzpatrick, Cole & Wisler
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| 500
Frank W. Burr Boulevard
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| Teaneck,
NJ 07666
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| Phone:
(201) 928-1100
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| Fax:
(201) 928-0588
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| M.
Robert DeCotiis, Esq.
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| Senior
Partner
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| Firm
formed 1994 by politically influential partners
M. ROBERT DECOTIIS,
served as counsel to Governor JIM
FLORIO, former chairman, NJ
CASINO REINVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, veteran Democratic
fundraiser; MICHAEL GLUCK, former assistant counsel and appointments counsel to Governor
THOMAS KEAN, appointed as
counsel, NJ HIGHWAY AUTHORITY,
son of lobbyist and Whitman 1993 campaign co-chair HAZEL
GLUCK; ALFRED DECOTIIS,
brother of Robert deCotiis, member, Democratic National Committee.
nominated by President Clinton to be US Representative to United Nations
General Assembly, 1995; MICHAEL
COLE, Governor’s Counsel in THOMAS
KEAN Administration; William Harla, former assistant counsel to
Governor THOMAS KEAN and
deputy chief counsel to Governor JIM
FLORIO, finance chair for successful 2003 Mercer County Executive
campaign of Democrat Brian Hughes> Founding partner Edward Fitzpatrick
died December 1999, clients included
Governor CHRISTINE TODD
WHITMAN’s brother Webster Todd, Jr.> MICHAEL
GLUCK, a founding partner and former assistant counsel and appointments
counsel to Governor THOMAS KEAN,
resigned from firm 2002 to form own firm based in Trenton>
Former partner MICHAEL R. DECOTIIS appointed
2003 as chief counsel to Governor McGreevey> Offices also in Trenton,
Toms River, Ramsey> 30 attorneys. |
| DiFrancesco
Bateman Coley Yospin Kunzman Davis & Lehrer |
| 15 Mountain Boulevard |
| Warren, NJ 07059-6327 |
| Phone: (908) 757-7800 |
| Web Site: http://www.bivonacohen.com |
| John Coley |
| Managing Partner |
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| Firm headed by former NJ State Senate
President and Acting Governor DONALD T. DIFRANCESCO, DiFrancesco
resigned from firm to become Acting Governor January 31, 2001, re-joined
firm February 2002> Affiliated with NY City-based firm of Bivona
& Cohen> Partners include Somerset County Republican Assemblyman
CHRISTOPHER BATEMAN> Practice areas include government
and regulatory; real estate; insurance; banking; litigation. |
| Dillon,
Bitar & Luther |
| 53
Maple Avenue |
| PO
Box 398 |
| Morristown
NJ, 07960 |
| Phone:
(973) 539-3100 |
| Fax:
(973) 292-2960 |
| e-mail:
information@dbl-law.com |
| Web
Site: http://www.dbl-law.com |
| Thomas
J. Bitar, Esq. |
| Senior
Partner |
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| Firm
formed 1951> Name
partners include Thomas J. Bitar, member of editorial board, NJ
LAW JOURNAL, NJ Supreme Court
Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics, and as a trustee of the
Hartley Corporation, a private charitable corporation, former
editor-in-chief, Rutgers Law Review; Henry N. Luther, III, adjunct
professor of land use law at SETON HALL Law School, served as
NJ LOTTERY COMMISSION director 1975-76, executive secretary to
Governor BRENDAN T. BYRNE
1977, former commissioner, Waterfront Commission of NY & NJ>
Special areas include
litigation, corporate, land-use, real estate, municipal, regulatory
issues> 25 attorneys. |
| Drinker
Biddle & Shanley
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| 500
Campus Drive
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| Florham
Park, NJ 07932-1047
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| Phone:
(973) 360-1100
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| Fax:
(973) 360-9831
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| Web
Site: http://www.dbr.com
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| Daniel
F. O'Connel, Esq.
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| Managing
Partner
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| Firm
resulting from merger effective November 1999 between Philadelphia-based
firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath and NJ firm of Shanley & Fisher,
creating 360 lawyer-
firm (150 in NJ) with seven offices> Combined firm headquartered in Philadelphia, continues to practice
under name of Drinker Biddle & Reath except in NJ where firm
to practice under name of Drinker Biddle & Shanley LLP
for at least three-year period, with offices in Florham Park (100
attorneys) and Princeton (50 attorneys)> Ranked as eighth-leading
firm in 1999 gross revenues with $39.9 million and 19th in profits
per partner with $230,500 according to annual NJ
LAW JOURNAL survey based on revenues from NJ-based attorneys>
Shanley and Fisher one of State's oldest firms, late founding partner
Bernard Shanley close advisor to President Eisenhower> Drinker
previously entered NJ 1988 by absorbing former Princeton firm of Smith,
Lambert & Hicks, also 1995 acquisition of environmental practice
of dissolving firm, Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Sheikman & Cohen,
partners include David Goldberg, former chair, NJ
TURNPIKE AUTHORITY, Commissioner, NJ
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION and Counsel to Governor Robert Meyner;
John Kandravy, board member, VALLEY
HOSPITAL; Raymond Tierney, chairman, board of trustees, ST.
PETER'S COLLEGE; Richard Levao, chairman, RUTGERS
UNIVERSITY board of trustees; Arthur R. Schmauder director, Growth
Financial Corp. and trustee, Morris Museum; Samuel Lambert, board
member, NJ CONSERVATION FOUNDATION,
MCCARTER THEATER > JOHN
DEGNAN, former NJ Attorney General and 1981 Democratic gubernatorial
primary candidate, resigned as Shanley partner 1990 to become in-house
corporate counsel to firm client CHUBB,
named Chubb president 1996 and vice chairman 2002> Subsidiary,
ISSUES MANAGEMENT, based
in Princeton for government relations, permit problems, lobbying>
Clients include MERCK; PNC BANK;
AETNA; MELLON BANK. |
| Fischbein
Badillo
Wagner Harding
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| 2
Penn Plaza
11th Floor
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| Newark,
NJ 07105
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| Phone:
(973) 690-5333
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| Fax:
(973) 562-8588
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| James
J. Florio |
| Of
Counsel |
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| Formed
1999 upon merger of former Florio & Perrucci, with 21 NJ attorneys,
into NY City-based Fischbein Badillo Wagner Harding> Firm includes
former NJ Governor and unsuccessful 2000 US Senate candidate JIM
FLORIO> Fischman Badillo partners include former NY City deputy
mayor and congressman Herman Badillo, current chair of City University of
NY board of trustees, potential 2001 NY City mayoral candidate>
Concentration in corporate, environment, health care, labor, regulatory
law> 5 attorneys in NJ.
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| Fox,
Rothschild,
O'Brien & Frankel
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| 997
Lenox Drive
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| Lawrenceville,
NJ 08648
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| Phone:
(609) 896-3600
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| Fax:
(609) 896-1469
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| Web
Site: http://www.frof.com
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| Phillip
Griffin, Esq.
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| Managing
Partner
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| Philadelphia-based
firm founded 1907 with over 200 attorneys, including 80 in NJ as result of
1999 merger with Atlantic City-based 38-attorney firm of Horn, Goldberg,
Gorny, Daniels, Plackter, Weiss & Perskie> Prior 1993 merger of
existing NJ office with former Katzenbach, Gildea & Rudner firm in
Mercer County> Office also in Voorhees> Horn, Kaplan senior partner
Leonard Horn served 1987-99 as chief executive of Miss America Pageant;
former President, BETTY BACHARACH REHABILITATION HOSPITAL; Edward Knight, past
director, First Fidelity Bancorporation, served for 20 years as
chair ATLANTIC CITY MEDICAL CENTER;
STEVEN PERSKIE, former
chief of staff to Governor JIM
FLORIO; chairman of NJ CASINO
CONTROL COMMISSION; Superior Court judge; and NJ Senator and
Assemblyman> Clients include Miss America Pageant; casino-hotels; ATLANTIC
CITY MEDICAL CENTER; several banks, insurance companies, financial and
investment firms.
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| Gibbons,
Del Deo, Dolan,
Griffinger & Vecchione
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| The
Legal Center
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| 1
Riverfront Plaza
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| Newark,
NJ 07102
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| Phone:
(973) 596-4500
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| Fax:
(973) 596-0545
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| Web
Site: http://www.gibbonslaw.com
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David
J. Sheehan, Esq.
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| Managing
Director
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| Founded
1907, former firm name
Crummy Del Deo Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, adopted new name
1998 including retired 3rd Circuit Chief Judge John Gibbons, current
special counsel to firm and partner prior to going on bench, also
current Richard J. Hughes Professor of Constitutional Law at SETON
HALL UNIVERSITY> Litigation,
corporate, product liability, tax, land-use, real estate, tax-exempt
finance practice> Sixth-leading firm in 1999 gross revenues with
$55 million, 14th in profits per partner with $366,700 according to
annual NJ LAW JOAL survey>
Sponsors special fellowship
program to support public interest lawyers named after Judge Gibbons,
allows associates to work on public interest projects> Partners
include Director Michael Griffinger chair of Litigation Department,
Fellow of American College of Trial Lawyers, listed in ‘The Best Lawyers
in America’ as business and bankruptcy litigator,
Editor, Federal Civil Practice Guide, Third Circuit, founder
and past Chairman of Federal Practice and Procedure Committee of NJ STATE BAR ASSOCIATION,
Master, Brennan Inn of Court, Fellow, American Bar Foundation;
Frank Reilly represented York Management in series of acquisitions,
including 1997 deal acquiring KMART
of Canada; David Ravin, former senior partner of own firm, prominent
bankruptcy attorney; retired Appellate Division presiding judge Herman
Michels>
160 attorneys |
| Giordano,
Halleran
& Ciesla
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| 125
Half Mile Road
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| PO
Box 190
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| Middletown,
NJ 07748
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| Phone:
(732) 741-3900
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| Fax:
(732) 224-6599
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| Web Site: http://www.ghclaw.com |
| Bernard
J. Berry, Jr., Esq.
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| Managing
Partner
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| Largest
firm in Monmouth County with 70 attorneys> General practice, health
care, land-use, real estate, environmental practice> Counsel to
NJ HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION,
represents more NJ hospitals than any other firm, partner Frank Ciesla
appointed 1999 to NJ Advisory Commission on Hospitals by Governor
CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN>
Firm contributed $50,000 to 1989 Democratic gubernatorial, legislative
campaign, with senior partner Jack Giordano named to Governor JIM
FLORIO transition committee, firm served 1990-93 as bond counsel,
NJ SPORTS & EXPOSITION AUTHORITY.
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| Graham,
Curtin & Sheridan
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Four
Headquarters Plaza
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| PO
Box 1991
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| Morristown,
NJ 07962
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| Phone:
(973) 292-1700
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| Fax:
(973) 898-0107
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| Thomas
R. Curtin, Esq.
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| Managing
Partner
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| Former
Ribis, Graham & Curtin, former senior partner NICHOLAS
RIBIS joined Trump Organization in management role 1991, now CEO of TRUMP HOTELS & CASINO RESORTS> Offices also in Atlantic City,
Trenton, NYC> Partners include Thomas R. Curtin 1993-94 president, NJ
STATE BAR ASSOCIATION; Charles Irwin, former
Director, NJ Division of Consumer Affairs,
member, NJ CASINO
REINVESTMENT & DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, Vice
Chairman, NJ CASINO CONTROL
COMMISSION; Joseph A. Fusco former
Atlantic County Prosecutor, director licensing section of NJ
CASINO CONTROL COMMISSION, trustee of RICHARD
STOCKTON COLLEGE Foundation, served on board, NJ State College
Foundation; partner PETER SHERIDAN
former executive director, REPUBLICAN
STATE COMMITTEE, former counsel, NJ Casino Association> Strong
casino-hotel, corporate, municipal, government regulation practice,
partner Charles Irwin also serves as general counsel to management
consulting firms for tribal gaming operations> 30 attorneys.
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| Greenbaum,
Rowe,
Smith, Ravin, Davis & Himmel
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| Metro
Corporate Campus 1
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| PO
Box 5600
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| Woodbridge,
NJ 07095
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| Phone:
(732) 549-5600
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| Fax:
(732) 549-1881
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| Web Site: http://www.greenbaumlaw.com/ |
| Paul
A. Rowe, Esq.
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| Managing
Partner
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| Second
largest Middlesex County firm with 100 attorneys> General practice,
known particularly for land-use, real estate, construction litigation,
environmental law, bankruptcy> Attorneys
included in Best Attorneys in America refernce book Paul
A. Rowe, managing partner and head of firm's Litigation
Department,
in Business Litigation
category;Robert
S. Greenbaum, Arthur M. Greenbaum, and Wendell A. Smith,
all listed in Real Estate category;
Alan E. Davis, chair of firm's Corporate Department
and partner W. Raymond Felton, concentrates practice
in corporate and securities law, listed in Corporate Law;
Michael A. Backer, partner in Tax, Trusts & Estates
Department, included
in Trusts & Estates
category> Clients include
K. HOVNANIAN ENTERPRISES;
UNITED PARCEL SERVICE.
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| Grotta,
Glassman & Hoffman |
| 75
Livingston Avenue |
| Roseland,
NJ 07068 |
| Phone:
(973) 992-4800 |
| Fax:
(973) 992-9125
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| Web
Site: http://www.gghlaw.com |
| Theodore
M. Eisenberg, Esq. |
| Managing
Partner |
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| NJ's
largest firm exclusively representing management clients in labor
relations, employment law, employee benefits, corporate immigration
matters> Serves clients in the following industry sectors: Retail,
Financial, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Transportation, Media, Municipalities,
Universities, Fashion, Hospitality and Non-Profit> 60 attorneys>
Theodore M. Eisenberg, Esq. consistently recognized by Corporate Counsel’s
Best Lawyers: Labor and Employment. |
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