Essex County Lawyers

My passion is representing temporary and permanent Immigrants to America. I have been practicing exclusively Immigration Law for more than 45 years in New York City, NY, Newark, NJ, Miami & Orlando, Fl.

I was honored to serve as the Chairperson of the New York Chapter of The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). AILA is the most important Immigration Bar membership for Immigration Lawyers in America.

I have experience in almost all areas of Immigration Law.

I have acted as a consultant to other Immigration Lawyers in complicated Immigration Law matters.

These are challenging times for immigrants to America. However, I believe in...

Education: Bachelor of Chemical Engineering, City College of New York
Master of Chemical Engineering, New York University
Juris Doctoris, Cum Laude, Seton Hall Law School

Experience: Eighteen years as a chemical engineer; five U.S. patents, two
technical articles. Lead process design engineer...

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.

Chair, Criminal Defense and Government Investigations Riza Dagli leads the firms Criminal Defense and Government Investigations Group. He focuses his practice on high-stakes criminal and commercial litigation, and represents businesses and individuals in complex and international matters and governmental investigations. He is regularly retained by corporations, health care professionals, health care organizations, financial businesses, lawyers, accountants, executives, and companies of varying sizes, in all stages of federal and state white-collar criminal and civil litigation, from initial inquiries to trial and appeals. He is a former prosecutor, and led both New Jersey’s Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor and the New Jersey’s Medicaid...

For nearly 18 years, Thomas Kamvosoulis has successfully guided clients through the litigation process and helped them achieve cost-efficient, pragmatic solutions to a wide array of legal problems. Tom’s expertise is advising clients in complex corporate disputes, with a particular emphasis on the healthcare industry. Tom has represented physicians, medical groups, surgery centers, vendors and related businesses in a wide-range of matters, including practice dissolutions, partnership buyouts, shareholder divorces, minority oppression cases, restrictive covenant enforcement, trade secrets, and contract disputes of all shapes and sizes. Tom strongly believes that to succeed in litigation, an attorney must (1) fully understand the client’s...

When there is a complex real estate deal to be done, whether it is a purchase or sale, tax appeal, or other legal matter, prominent real estate developers and investors call on Alan Hammer. For over 50 years, Alan has concentrated his practice in the areas of investment real estate transactions and tax appeals, representing the purchasers and sellers of office buildings, shopping centers, industrial facilities, apartment complexes, and vacant land. Alan is also personally active in the acquisition, ownership, management, and operation of investment properties, primarily multifamily complexes, throughout New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. He is also recognized for...

Chair, Real Estate Tax Appeals Daniel Pollak focuses his practice on state and local taxation, primarily representing taxpayers and municipalities in real estate tax appeals before the Tax Court of New Jersey and county boards of taxation. His representation of taxpayers includes the owners of virtually all categories of income-producing properties including shopping centers, hotels, offices, apartment buildings, banks, and country clubs. He also represents condominium complexes and owners of large single-family residential properties. During the course of his career, he has also represented municipalities in the defense of tax appeals. Additionally, Dan handles exemptions, condemnations, farmland qualification cases, and claims...

Chair, Corporate Transactions & Financial Services Brian Richard Lenker represents lending institutions and businesses across a broad range of corporate and commercial finance transactions. A member of the Firm’s Executive Committee, Brian is a highly experienced business lawyer with a deep knowledge of banking, corporate, and tax laws. Brian focuses his practice on commercial lending, acquisitions, sales, reorganizations of businesses, and real estate law. Representing banks, commercial real estate clients, and business entities ranging from start-ups to well established private corporations to health care companies to large supermarket chains, Brian applies his extensive knowledge of structured finance and asset-based lending to help...

Andrew Macklin practices mainly in the areas of construction litigation, complex commercial litigation, consumer protection and probate disputes. He has achieved excellent results for clients in each of these practice areas at every stage, from negotiation through trial and arbitration. He is admitted to practice before the state, federal and bankruptcy courts in New Jersey, as well as the state courts in New York and the Southern District of New York. *Results may vary depending on your particular facts and legal circumstances.

Robert Kosicki has extensive knowledge dealing with tax controversies at the administrative and court levels. He works with non-profit organizations, helping them with planning, structuring, and guidance. He assists with non-qualified deferred compensation plans and all aspects of tax planning. Robert has also obtained tax-exempt status for Type I, II, and III supporting organizations. In addition, he has reorganized multi-entity non-profit organizations in order to create parent subsidiary structures.

Chair, Personal Injury Edward P. Capozzi exclusively handles auto, trucking, NJ Transit, products liability, and other catastrophic personal injury cases. He has represented seriously injured clients in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, West Virginia, Florida, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Delaware. Edward is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a civil trial attorney, a distinction reserved for less than 2% of attorneys. The New Jersey Supreme Court has designated this honor to attorneys who are able to demonstrate sufficient levels of experience, education, knowledge, and skill in civil trial practice. Known for his fierce cross-examination of medical witnesses...

Jonathan Davis is a transactional attorney concentrating in commercial real estate. His practice includes all aspects of commercial leasing including office, retail, warehouse, industrial, and ground leases. He also works closely with our Healthcare department on Medical office and surgery center leases. Jonathan’s practice also includes the representation of institutional and private lenders in mortgage loans and other secured transactions. His practice also includes managing environmental issues in leasing, financing and sale transactions.

Chair, Litigation Keith Roberts Esq. is Chair of the Litigation practice. A leading practitioner in the healthcare and regulatory fields, Mr. Roberts represents health industry clients on various litigation matters, including regulatory matters (including the structuring of transactions to comply with applicable exceptions/safe harbor of state and Federal Fraud and Abuse Laws), negotiations with third party payors, licensure matters (e.g., Board of Medical Examiners, Board of Pharmacy and other professional board actions), third-party payor (including Medicare/Medicaid) and investigations, litigation, audits, disputes recoupments, and appeals, reimbursement matters, and other commercial litigation, healthcare fraud litigation (e.g., Insurance Fraud Prevention Act). Keith has extensive litigation...

Co-Chair, Labor and Employment Whether I am working with a client to solve a legal dispute (in or out of court) or keeping their family or their business affairs in order, the goal remains the same: solve the client’s problem. No client or dispute is the same, but my determined ability to solve problems promptly remains critical. Anthony Rainone has built a successful practice handling all manner of labor and employment, from counseling to litigation, commercial and construction disputes, and shareholder/limited liability company member disputes.