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7 distinguished corporate and transactional law attorneys in New Jersey, each reviewed by the Lawyers of Distinction Selection Committee.

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Corporate and Transactional Law

92 Lake Rd, Short Hills, NJ 07078

Caren J. Menahem is a licensed attorney in New Jersey, Washington D.C. and Connecticut. Ms. Menahem holds an undergraduate degree from S.I. New House School of Public Communications in Syracuse, New York and she has earned her Juris Doctorate from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City. She has experience working in the television broadcast arena, media advertising creative departments and has prior Corporate Law experience.

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Edward McKenna

Edward McKenna

Distinguished Lawyer

Corporate and Transactional Law

36 Buena Pl, Red Bank, NJ 07701

Edward J. McKenna Jr. is a Red Bank, New Jersey, attorney and the senior partner identified by Mckenna, Dupont, Stone & Washburne. His professional background includes municipal office: he formerly served as mayor of the Borough of Red Bank. He also co-founded the Two River Council of Mayors and served as its chairman. McKenna was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1975. His firm profile records admissions in New York and the District of Columbia as well. The federal courts listed there include the U.S. Supreme Court, the Third Circuit and District of Columbia Circuit courts of appeals, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Tax Court. Credit union law is among his listed practice areas, alongside banking law and commercial litigation. He has also lectured on credit union and employment law. His individual practice listing covers municipal law; corporate, labor and employment law; matrimonial and family law; and real estate, land use and development. Arbitration, mediation and dispute resolution appear in that same listing, while his seminar background includes a panelist role in New Jersey Supreme Court mediation. His firm dates its legal services to 1980 and describes serving Monmouth County families and businesses, state financial institutions and municipal governments. Its advertised services include residential and commercial real estate, property tax appeals and bankruptcy; these are firm-wide offerings, not a further list of McKenna’s individual practice areas.

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Goutam Jois

Corporate and Transactional Law

1741 Whitehorse Mercerville Rd, Mercerville, NJ 08619

Goutam Jois is president and chief executive officer of Jois Construction Management, a company with its main office in Mercerville, New Jersey. He took the position in July 2021, according to his professional profile, after serving as general counsel and then combining that role with the chief operating officer position. His earlier career was in law firms. Jois lists an associate position at Cravath, Swaine & Moore from October 2009 to July 2012, followed by an associate position at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher through September 2017. During the latter period, he coauthored “How to Use Analytics and Predictive Coding as Securities Litigators” with Gareth Evans. Gibson Dunn’s February 2016 announcement identifies Jois as a New York associate and places the article in the winter issue of the ABA Securities Litigation Journal. September 2017 also marks the start of his general counsel tenure at JCMS; the additional chief operating officer title followed in February 2020. At Jois Construction Management, the business is infrastructure project delivery. The company dates its program, project and construction management work to 1985. Its portfolio includes transportation, water and wastewater, environmental, industrial, institutional and commercial building projects. These are the company’s services, rather than a description of Jois’s legal practice. Outside the company, the New Jersey Alliance for Action lists Jois among its Mercer County Chapter co-chairs, together with Daniel Benson and Wayne DeAngelo.

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Joseph B. Fuirita

Corporate and Transactional Law

1771 Front St, Scotch Plains, NJ 07076, USA

Joseph B. Fuirita has a history with Schiller, Pittenger & Galvin. He joined the firm as a Summer Associate in 2014, staying on as a clerk throughout the rest of his time in law school and gaining valuable experience in meeting the diverse needs of the firm’s clients. While in Seton Hall Law, Joe served as an Intern to Appellate Division Judge Ellen L. Koblitz and was a member of the Seton Hall Circuit Review Journal. Following his graduation from Seton Hall in 2015, he served as a Law Clerk to Judge Margaret Mary McVeigh, the presiding Chancery Division Judge in Passaic County. He assisted Judge McVeigh in cases involving corporate governance and dissolution, foreclosure and banking law, as well as probate and estate matters.

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Richard Lambert

Richard Lambert

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Corporate and Transactional Law

15 East Midland Avenue, Suite 3D, Paramus, NJ 07652

Mr. Lambert founded the firm in July of 1998 in order to cater to the legal needs of small to mid-sized businesses, their owners and executives. Mr. Lambert was born in White Plains, New York, on May 4, 1953. He attended Fordham University, where he received his B.A. in Communication Arts, and Fordham University School of Law, where he received his Juris Doctor degree in 1979. Mr. Lambert is a business lawyer who serves as outside general counsel to a wide range of businesses, including many small to middle-market companies and start-up businesses, in a variety of industries. In his role as outside general counsel, Mr.Lambert provides counsel on the broad range of legal subjects affecting business, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and financings; antitrust and distribution law; banking and commercial finance; employment law; contracts; trademarks; and the negotiated resolution of business disputes. The clients of Dunn Lambert, L.L.C. are located primarily in New Jersey and New York, but the firm does maintain general counsel relationships with clients in other states in the United States and in Europe.

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Robert P. Shapiro

Corporate and Transactional Law

411 Hackensack Ave 6th floor, Hackensack, NJ 07601, USA

Robert has been practicing law in New Jersey and trying cases in its varied courts since 1967. The head of ShapiroCroland Corporate, Bankruptcy and Commercial Litigation departments, Robert’s varied experience includes advising companies and individual clients in such diverse areas of the law as acquisitions and mergers, bankruptcy reorganizations and litigation of insurance, construction and complex commercial matters. A graduate of New York University and The George Washington University Law School, Robert is admitted to practice before both the federal and state courts of New Jersey and New York as well as the United States Supreme Court. Robert is an active member of several state and local bar associations. He is a former member of the Judicial Selection and Appointment Committee; past Chairman of the New Jersey Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Law Section; Co-Editor of the New Jersey State Newsletter of the Bankruptcy Section; past Master of the Vincent Commisa and D. Joseph DeVito Bankruptcy Inns of Court; Lecturer, Institute of Continuing Legal Education of New Jersey; and Chairman of Audit Committee of UJA, Northern New Jersey and currently a Director, past Director and Officer of JCC of the Pascack Valley, past Director of Graphic Scanning Corporation, Past Vice-President and Director of Banyan Golf Club, West Palm Beach, Florida, past Director of Jewish Home and Rehabilitation, Rockleigh, New Jersey.

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