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18 distinguished civil litigation attorneys in New Jersey, each reviewed by the Lawyers of Distinction Selection Committee.

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Adam J. Kipnis

Civil Litigation

570 W Mt Pleasant Ave, Livingston, NJ 07039, USA

B.A. Penn State University (1996), J.D. Hofstra University School of Law (1999). Admitted to New Jersey State & Federal, 2000; New York State & Federal, 2000; Maryland State & Federal 2011 and Pennsylvania State Bar, 2007 Adam Kipnis focuses his practice on personal injury, professional malpractice, and toxic tort litigation. An experienced trial attorney, Adam has defended personal injury and toxic tort cases in state courts throughout the country and at the appellate level in both state and federal courts. Adam is known for his ability to consistently deliver a solid work product with high regard for his client's priorities. His experience in state and federal courts throughout the country has enabled him to obtain a unique understanding of geographic differences, which enhances his ability to define the strengths and weaknesses of every case that he handles. Broad experience and knowledge coupled with a strong work ethic and dedication to professionalism are hallmarks of Adam's practice. Adam is a former ethics investigator in District IV-A, Newark, NJ, and a former public defender in the Municipality of Bergenfield, NJ. In addition, he was law clerk to the Honorable Robert E. Hamer, New Jersey Superior Court.

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Adam Scalice

Civil Litigation

40 Ethel Road, Edison, NJ 08817

Mr. Scalice is a seasoned litigator with a practice focused on medical negligence and catastrophic personal injury. Mr. Scalice is an experienced and aggressive trial attorney who zealously advocates for his client’s rights. He has personally recovered millions of dollars on behalf of his clients through settlement and jury verdict. Mr. Scalice has been named to New Jersey’s “Top 40 Under 40” by The National Trial Lawyers and has been recognized as one of the top attorneys in New Jersey under the age of 40.

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Aileen Perez-Gjikova

Distinguished Lawyer

Civil Litigation

28 Laauwe Avenue, Wayne, NJ 07470

Aileen Perez-Gjikova is the founding member and managing partner of The Law Offices of Perez & Bonomo, LLC in Hackensack, New Jersey, with a practice centered on bankruptcy and family law. She founded the firm in 2011 after working at Brunnock & Fleming, P.C. in Morristown. During her years there as a senior associate, from 2002 to 2011, she built its Chapter 7 bankruptcy practice and managed its New York caseload. Perez-Gjikova studied social and behavioral sciences at Seton Hall University, earning her undergraduate degree cum laude. At CUNY Law School, she was an articles editor for the NYC Law Review and graduated in the top tenth of her class. Her earlier public-service positions included attorney work for the New York City Law Department and service as a public defender in Englewood Cliffs. Today, her Chapter 7 clients include consumers and small business debtors. Tax returns, bank statements and property records are among the documents she reviews before preparing a filing. She also takes Chapter 7 cases for low-income debtors through Northeast New Jersey Legal Services as a volunteer. Her family practice covers both contested and uncontested divorces, including representation at trial. Alongside divorce matters, she handles prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, paternity issues and grandparents’ rights. Custody arrangements and changes to support orders are also part of her work. Perez-Gjikova provides counsel in Spanish as well as English and conducts continuing legal education programs for attorneys.

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David Blackwell

Featured Lawyer

Civil Litigation

163 Madison Avenue, Suite 320, Morristown, NJ 07960

I am an attorney at Donnelly Minter & Kelly, LLC located in Morristown, NJ. My main area of practice includes civil litigation, with an emphasis on the defense of professional liability claims, employment lawsuits, commercial litigation, coverage matters and general liability claims.

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Jarrid Kantor

Jarrid Kantor

Distinguished Lawyer

Civil Litigation

354 Eisenhower Pkwy, Suite 1000, Livingston, NJ 07039

Jarrid Kantor has substantial experience litigating a variety of matters in both the State and Federal Courts in New Jersey and New York. In addition, Mr. Kantor has appeared before numerous boards throughout the State on a variety of applications. Mr. Kantor currently serves as the Township Attorney for the Township of Livingston as well as the Township Attorney for the Township of Morris. Additionally, he has previously served as Town Attorney for the Town of Dover. Mr. Kantor’s practice focuses on the following: (i) representation of public entities and boards, in various capacities; (ii) counseling closely held businesses in all aspect of their business; and (iii) complex civil litigation representing both Plaintiffs and Defendants (public and private) in disputes in State and Federal Court. Such experience includes the litigation of claims involving, and among other things: (a) Tort Claims under N.J.S.A. 59:1-1 et seq.; (b) CEPA claims; (c) LAD claims; (d) Employment claims; and (e) other Employment disputes; (f) breach of contract; (g) collections; (h) construction litigation; (i) defense of class actions; (j) and other litigated matters.

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Joseph Nackson

Civil Litigation

21 Main St, STE 304, Hackensack, NJ 07601

Joseph L. Nackson is an attorney based in Hackensack, New Jersey, operating the Law Office of Joseph Lewis Nackson, Esq. Practice Areas • Litigation (Civil and Criminal) • Divorce and Family Law • Business and Commercial Law • Real Estate • Estate Planning, Wills, and Probate

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Keith McKenna

Distinguished Lawyer

Civil Litigation

1010 State Route 71, Suite 2c, Spring Lake Heights, NJ 07762

Keith A. McKenna concentrates his practice in the trial of complex business and commercial cases in Federal and State Courts in New York and New Jersey as well as matters involving business disputes among partners, owners and members of closely held business entities and, when necessary, seeking relief from the billings of prior counsel. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Eastern District of New York and the Second and Third Circuit Court of Appeals and is a member of the Essex County, New Jersey, and American Bar Associations and American Trial Lawyer Associations. He graduated Seton Hall University in 1986 and Law School in 1989 and was admitted in 1989 to New Jersey U.S. District Court and District of New Jersey; in 1990 to New York; in 1998 to U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; in 2004 to U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

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Noah Kane

Noah Kane

Member

Civil Litigation

550 Kinderkamack Rd, Oradell, NJ 07649, USA

Area of Practice: Consumer Protection Noah Kane, Esq., has spent his career on the consumer's side of the courtroom. He's represented hundreds of plaintiffs in individual and class actions—fighting banks, lenders, debt collectors, and large corporations, and recovering six- and seven-figure results for his clients. Noah is licensed in New York, New Jersey, and Maryland, with federal court admissions and cocounsel relationships across the country. Noah has been featured in the American Banker and the Cardozo Law Review. Noah founded Kane Law Firm LLC with a simple motto: if they wronged you, they should pay — not you. (We sue big companies, too.) You don't pay us out of pocket. We only get paid if we win.

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Samantha L. Varsalona

Samantha L. Varsalona

Distinguished Lawyer

Civil Litigation

81 Junco Ct, Three Bridges, NJ 08887, USA

Sam Varsalona is a member of the Litigation Practice in Greenberg Traurig's New Jersey office. Prior to private practice, Sam clerked for the Honorable Jack M. Sabatino, Presiding Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division. The attorney is providing legal services through and affiliated with Greenberg Traurig, LLP, a New York Limited Liability Partnership. Results may vary depending on your particular facts and circumstances.

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Stephen DeNittis

Distinguished Lawyer

Civil Litigation

5 Greentree Centre, STE 401, Marlton, NJ 08053

Stephen P. DeNittis is the managing partner of DeNittis Osefchen Prince, P.C. An experienced consumer fraud class action litigator and catastrophic personal injury litigator. He currently serves as lead or co-lead counsel in many class actions currently pending in federal and state court. Since 1998, Mr. DeNittis has successfully served as lead or co-lead counsel in over one hundred and seventy-five (175) class actions involving consumer fraud, false advertising, food mislabeling, construction defects, wage and hour violations, RESPA violations and mass tort litigation throughout the country.

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Steven Gerber

Civil Litigation

331 Newman Springs, Road Building 1, 4th Floor, Suite 143, Red Bank, NJ 07701

Steve Gerber has practiced management-side employment and labor law, focusing on litigation and arbitrations, for three decades. His trial practice also includes complex commercial litigation, complex tort defense litigation, internal investigations, and representing colleges, universities and independent schools in litigation and investigations. He began his career as a law clerk for the late Chief U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey, and from 1980 through 1984, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Mr. Gerber has been included on the New York Metro Area Super Lawyers® list several times and the New Jersey Super Lawyers® list, as well as the Top Attorneys, Best Lawyers in America and America’s Most Honored Lawyers . He is AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Gerber is active in the leadership of the Defense Research Institute – The Voice of the Defense Bar (“DRI”) (http://www.dri.org), the 22,000+ member international association of attorneys devoted to the defense of civil litigation. He is a past Chair of DRI’s Employment & Labor Law Committee, and currently is a Member of the Committee’s Advisory Board and its Seminar Planning Committee. He also has served as a Member of DRI’s Board of Directors, its Law Institute, and DRI’s 21st Century Lawyer Task Force. In addition, Mr. Gerber serves on the American Arbitration Association’s National Roster of Employment Arbitrators and Mediators. He is also a Member of the select Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC) and is a past Chair of the FDCC’s Employment and Workplace Law Section; and is a Member of the select Association of Defense Trial Attorneys, the New Jersey State Bar Association and the American Bar Association (Member, Litigation Section). Active in community affairs, Mr. Gerber is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Passaic County, and serves as Secretary for New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program, Inc.

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Steven Holinstat

Civil Litigation

11 Brentwood Drive, North Caldwel, NJ 07006

Steven Holinstat is a senior counsel in the Litigation Department. Over the past two decades, he has handled complex, high-profile litigations that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in recoveries. The latter include a nine-figure settlement in the bankruptcy of Ocala Funding, LCC, in which Steve was the lead litigator in a series of fraudulent conveyance cases involving one of the largest frauds in the history of the residential mortgage industry. Steve has a broad and diverse background in all aspects of high-stakes commercial litigation and is one of the firm’s principal fiduciary litigators. His significant victories include defeating, on summary judgment, objections to the probate of a $70 million estate, which preserved the decedent’s desire to leave his estate to charity. Steve also is the lead litigator in a number of high-net-worth trust and estate matters, and has developed a reputation for being adept at intervening and resolving challenging interfamily disputes before they escalate into full-blown litigation. When litigation is unavoidable, Steve is an aggressive and experienced trial lawyer. He has handled cases before federal and state courts around the country and numerous arbitrations before JAMS, the American Arbitration Association, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers, or NASD) and the International Chamber of Commerce.

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Vijay Yellareddigari

Vijay Yellareddigari

Distinguished Lawyer

Civil Litigation

5 Independence Way suite 200, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA

Vijay Yellareddigari, Esq is an attorney at law and partner of Kasprzyk Yellareddigari LLC. Prior to founding Kasprzyk Yellareddigari LLC, Vijay worked with Chugh, LLP in Edison, NJ, Reilly Janiczek & McDevitt, P.C. in Philadelphia, PA and The Sampat Law Firm, LLC in Langhorne, PA. Vijay has worked on a variety of matters ranging from administrative, civil, criminal, real estate and immigration. Vijay is also a certified Panel Attorney to the Aircraft Owners and Pilot Association (AOPA). Vijay currently serves as a Board Member of the Delaware Law School of Widener University’s Alumni Association. He also serves on the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity’s Rho Eta Province Council. During Law School, Vijay was the President of the Delaware Law School of Widener University’s Student Bar Association. He also served as a Liaison for the American Bar Association’s Commission of Lawyer Assistance Programs (CoLAP). Vijay was a Law Clerk for the Delaware Law School of Widener University’s Law Clinic, a Law Clerk with the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General in the Insurance Fraud Division, an Intern to Justice Nijjar of the Supreme Court of India, an Intern to Justice Reddy or the High Court of Andhra Pradesh in India. Vijay graduated law school with a pro bono distinction. During undergraduate school, Vijay was the Founder and President of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity chapter at Drexel University.

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Patrick Galligan

Featured Lawyer

Civil Litigation

163 Madison Ave, Suite 320, Morristown, NJ 07960

Patrick J. Galligan practices commercial litigation and serves as general corporate counsel in Morristown, New Jersey, where he is a partner at Donnelly Kelly Blackwell & Galligan, LLC. His practice also includes professional liability and construction law. In litigation, his experience runs from discovery to trials and appeals, with appearances in both the Superior Court of New Jersey and federal courts in the state. Two Morris County organizations have had Galligan as their president: the Bar Foundation in 2016 and the Bar Association in 2017. His service also includes a foundation trusteeship and co-chairmanship of the association’s Civil Practice Committee. He previously served on the District XB Ethics Committee. Galligan earned his undergraduate degree at the College of the Holy Cross, receiving a B.A. in 1991. He then attended Seton Hall University School of Law, where he received his J.D. in 1996. The firm’s earlier name was Donnelly Minter & Kelly, LLC; its Morristown office is at 163 Madison Avenue, Suite 320. Beyond Galligan’s own listed practice, the firm handles commercial real estate, corporate transactions, and estate and trust planning and administration. Its clients range from small businesses to multi-billion-dollar corporations, and its work includes both business and personal legal counsel.

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Stephen Loeb

Civil Litigation

25 Wessman Dr, West Orange, NJ 07052, USA

Stephen R. Loeb is a seasoned attorney with over two decades of experience representing clients in New York and New Jersey. A graduate of Brooklyn Law School (1995), he established The Law Office of Stephen R. Loeb in 1999. Renowned for his dedication to providing personalized legal guidance, Stephen R. Loeb has successfully handled a wide range of cases, including matters involving civil litigation and of-counsel representation. He is well-versed in personal injury, family law, real estate law, and employment law. His commitment to achieving the best possible outcomes for his clients has earned him a reputation for excellence in the legal community. In addition to his law practice, Loeb is the founder of QuickLawConsults, a pioneering platform designed to offer accessible and affordable legal advice. By providing concise summaries and guidance on various legal issues, QuickLawConsults empowers individuals to make informed decisions about their legal matters.

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