Wharton Business Lawyers

I am an aggressive New Jersey attorney with extensive experience in Business and Divorce Litigation. I advocate with focus, skill and determination, representing clients in litigation, as well as mediation and arbitration. I am dedicated to resolving complex matters to effectively advance my clients' interests. Outside of the office, I have been commended for my work advocating for special needs children needing accommodations in schools.

Co-Chair, Labor and Employment. Matthew Collins has extensive experience representing clients in all aspects of labor and employment law. He provides strategic counsel to clients on a wide range of labor and employment issues such as discrimination; harassment; whistleblowing; discipline and discharge; layoffs; collective bargaining agreements; reasonable accommodations for disabled employees; and compliance with state and federal family and medical leave acts and applicable wage and hour laws. He also conducts training in these areas for executives, directors, managers, supervisors, and employees and conducts internal investigations of employee complaints. Matthew drafts and provides advice on employment contracts, employment manuals, personnel policies...

Over the past 16 years, I have represented a wide variety of clients across numerous industries in high-stakes “hardball” commercial litigation. I am experienced in all areas of business litigation including, real estate, corporate shareholder and partnership battles, trusts and estates, lending and finance, intellectual property protection, employment, healthcare, bankruptcy adversary proceedings, foreclosure, and complex contractual controversies. In addition, I hold the Certified Trial Attorney designation by the New Jersey Supreme Court, a distinction reserved for less than 2% of the attorneys in New Jersey.

For over 30 years, I have been providing counsel on income and estate tax planning for individuals as well as their businesses and investments. I provide business succession and sophisticated estate planning services to a wide range of clients. I bring to my practice deep knowledge of a myriad of business transactions and restructuring and the tax consequences of such transactions.

For over a decade, attorney Len Garza has represented companies, business owners, and other stakeholders regarding a wide variety of business matters including entity formation, corporate governance, joint ventures, and more. Len routinely represents his clients in the reviewing, drafting, and negotiating of a wide variety of business agreements including those with shareholders, vendors, clients, and partners. Len also counsels' clients on estate planning matters, including the formation of trusts, wills and other structures, all designed to transfer assets to heirs and to charities in a tax-efficient manner that respects the values of his clients. He serves as a Volunteer Advocacy Ambassador...

Steven Lehr is the principal and founder of LehrLaw, a boutique general practice law firm.

ALAN S. GOLDBERGER is a member of the New Jersey, New York and Maryland Bars and practices in the areas of sports insurance defense, sports law, business law, association law, and commercial and chancery litigation. Based in suburban Fairfield, Essex County, New Jersey, Al is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in New Jersey, New York and Maryland. Al counsels clients nationwide in sports industry and athletic risk management and liability defense, business-related disputes, administrative hearings and contractual relations.He is frequently retained to represent sports officials, sports-related entities and national sports governing bodies. A nationally...

For over 25 years, Attorney Jeffrey W. Plaza has represented businesses, ranging from small companies to large publicly traded corporations, shareholders, limited liability company members, partners and joint venturers in a wide variety of business dispute and commercial litigation matters. He regularly appears before the state and federal courts in New Jersey and New York in matters involving breach of contract, shareholder/member/partner disputes, breach of shareholder/operating/partnership/joint venture agreement, shareholder/member oppression, breach of fiduciary duty, director and officer liability, and business torts. If you require the advice and skill of a seasoned business dispute and commercial litigation attorney, please...

Anthony Arturi, Esq. provides dedicated, energetic and loyal representation to his clients to efficiently protect and advance their interests. He has 23 years of experience in representing large and small clients alike, in matters involving real estate transfers and development, finance, contract and business litigation, commercial litigation, employment law, shareholder disputes, contract and real estate disputes, appellate practice, legal ethics, criminal defense and personal injury matters. His representative clients include real estate developers, industrial service companies, shopping center owners, banks and private lenders and numerous small business owners. Mr. Arturi is admitted to practice law in...

Founded in 1955, Ehrlich, Petriello, Gudin & Plaza, Attorneys at Law is a law firm dedicated to providing effective legal services for residents of New Jersey and New York. As a full service law firm with over 100 years of combined legal experience, the team is prepared to take on even the most complicated legal matters. The firm has offices in Newark, Morristown, and New York City, and represents individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, publicly traded companies, and government agencies. The attorneys are prepared to assist clients through a variety of legal matters including those involving family law, commercial...

David Zatuchni graduated from Northwestern University School of Law in 1995. Since that time, he has exclusively practiced in the field of employment law. For many years, Mr. Zatuchni defended large corporations in all types of employment discrimination lawsuits and labor law matters. In 2000, Zatuchni & Associates was founded with the single purpose of providing employees the best possible legal representation in their fight against the companies and corporate behemoths that Mr. Zatuchni previously represented. Mr. Zatuchni founded the Firm on the guiding principle that high-quality legal services should not be the exclusive province of corporate employers,...

Peter G. Siachos is the Co-Chair of the firm’s Commercial Litigation and Class Action practice groups and is Managing Partner of the firm's Charleston office. An experienced trial attorney, Peter has taken 74 trials to verdict. He routinely handles class action and individual matters nationwide, many of which are high-exposure with media coverage, before federal and state trial and appellate courts, administrative and regulatory agencies, and arbitration panels (domestic and international). Peter is licensed in numerous jurisdictions (New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, and South Carolina) and utilizes creative dispositive motions, innovative deposition tactics, well-crafted trial strategies, and...

Scott W. Paterson is an attorney at Paris Ackerman & Schmierer LLP, where he focuses his practice on providing legal counsel to small and mid-sized businesses, with particular concentration on commercial litigation, commercial transactions, taxation, and franchise law. Prior to joining Paris Ackerman & Schmierer LLP, Scott served as a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Joseph L. Rea, J.S.C., in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Middlesex County. Scott earned his J.D. cum laude from Seton Hall University School of Law, where he was awarded the Best Appellate Brief for his work in Appellate Advocacy. While at Seton Hall, Scott...

Robert Nussbaum practices general commercial litigation and appears regularly in New Jersey's federal and state courts. A significant portion of Rob's practice involves the handling of construction-related matters for owners, contractors and suppliers, as well as the defense of personal injury and product liability actions. He has defended clients in several complex pieces of construction litigation and has also defended wrongful death actions, numerous premises liability cases for private businesses and insurance companies, motor vehicle accident claims, and product liability actions brought against manufacturers and distributors of industrial equipment and commercial products. Rob also practices extensively in the area of...

Mr. Donnelly is the head of the Firm's corporate and real estate law department with a focus on transactional real estate and corporate law. With more than 25 years of experience, he represents clients in commercial leasing, real estate financing, and environmental law compliance and advises, negotiates and documents the purchase and sale of commercial real property including Section 1031 exchanges of real property. Mr. Donnelly also advises closely-held businesses, including corporations, limited liability companies, professional practices, and other entities, and their owners on a variety of business issues, including structuring and negotiating business formations, acquisitions and sales. In addition, Mr....

As a former federal prosecutor and an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, I also understand how the other side thinks. With ten of my 30 years of legal experience devoted to prosecution, I have unique insight into how both New Jersey state and federal authorities bring charges and how they argue cases.

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Doug Kortrey is a former in-house attorney who has held various positions in privately held and publicly traded technology and communications companies and who specializes in the areas of commercial contracting, licensing (software, content and other intellectual property), employment law, telecommunications, law department management and intellectual property portfolio management. He has served as an advisor to and counseled start-up, growth and mature companies for more than 25 years providing legal and business advice to technology innovators on new product development and in negotiations of inbound services agreements, marketing and distribution agreements, and domestic and international outsourcing arrangements.