Glen Ridge Lawyers

Former Deputy Attorney General and Law School Professor focusing on dispute resolution through mediation. Mediates business, commercial, construction, employment and tenure, real estate, condominium, and probate disputes. Transactional attorney for real estate and commercial matters. Trustee, New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators Trustee, Northeastern New Jersey Legal Services

Brendan Sweeney specializes in employment-related trial matters and class actions on behalf of both employers and employees. His deep experience on the employer side, and inside the legal departments of large companies, allows him to quickly assess matters and help clients understand their rights. After graduating near the top of his class from Villanova Law School, Brendan was a law clerk to a federal District Court Judge in Philadelphia. Beginning in 1998, Brendan was an Associate in the Labor and Employment law departments at Morgan Lewis and Seyfarth Shaw. In 2005, he became in-house counsel for Morgan Stanley. In 2007, he...

Since 1983, Attorney Bob Davies has provided caring and responsive representation to clients and their children throughout the process of divorce. He has handled a wide variety of legal issues in divorce, custody litigation, equitable distribution, privately held businesses, interference with custody, domestic violence, and DCPP matters. Bob Davies has successfully fought in court to get fair and equal parenting time for fathers who wanted to participate fully in raising their children. The old stereotype that the father gets to see the children only every other weekend IS NO LONGER THE LAW. Mr. Davies will fight to help...

Jeffery P. Rankel is an associate at McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C. and practices out of the firm’s Red Bank, New Jersey office. Mr. Rankel’s primary areas of practice are civil litigation and employment law, including but not limited to matters involving discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and whistleblower claims. Before joining McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C., Mr. Rankel served as an Assistant Trial Court at the Rhode Island Public Defender’s Office, where he researched legal issues and drafted legal memoranda on issues arising in indigent clients’ cases, which honed his legal research and writing skills. While there, Mr....

As a practicing attorney for thirty years, I have been privileged to work with clients in a variety of areas. Having served as a judicial law clerk in the family court, I have a long standing appreciation for the issues and circumstances clients face in matrimonial matters. I approach each case with a desire to provide a clear path towards resolution, while purposefully advocating for the best outcome for my clients. I am a strong proponent of alternate dispute resolution and have successfully mediated matrimonial cases.

I bring the same passion and commitment to all matters I handle, whether they...

Ms. Mayzelshteyn is an associate at McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C. and practices out of the firm’s Red Bank, New Jersey office. Ms. Mayzelshteyn handles: She handles all aspects of employment litigation, including discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and whistleblower claims. Ms. Mayzelshteyn graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers University in 2017, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree with majors in English and Political Science. Following her graduation from Rutgers University, Ms. Mayzelshteyn attended Seton Hall University School of Law on a Chancellor Scholarship, graduating in May 2020. Ms. Mayzelshteyn was actively involved in the Seton Hall...

John F. Hipp has been a New Jersey licensed attorney for over three decades. He was admitted to the Bar of the New Jersey State Courts and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey in 1985; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1986 and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1987. His experience undertaking professional responsibility in complex commercial litigation includes representing New Jersey public entities, business owners and residential property owners in a wide range of environmental matters including permit violations, underground oil storage tank remediation, off-site contamination and...

DWI/Traffic Ticket/Municipal Court Specialist * Certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Municipal Court Attorney * B.A. (Psychology, Magna Cum Laude), 1987: Fairleigh Dickinson University, * 1986 Interaction Between Law & Psychology, 1986: Harvard University * Juris Doctor (J.D.), 1990: Seton Hall University School of Law.

Dhruv Patel is a personal injury attorney with Brandon J. Broderick, Attorney at Law specializing in PIP Arbitration and motor vehicle claims. Dhruv focuses on the complex issues of New Jersey’s PIP Arbitration process such as medical necessity, causation, termination of benefits, and improper applications of penalty. Through medical research, he builds a client’s case to prove medical necessity for treatments after an injury. Dhruv successfully represented a number of clients through PIP arbitration since joining the firm. Dhruv graduated cum laude and received a J.D. from Widener University Delaware Law School where he was a member of the Transactional...

A seasoned and compassionate attorney specializing in municipal court, criminal law, personal injury and medical malpractice.Specialties include helping teenagers with drug and alcohol offenses get on the right path. Women with breast cancer should contact the firm to see if a delay in diagnosis contributed to necessary radical surgery and chemotherapy. Telephone consultations are free of charge on any legal issue. The firm has a wide referral network to handle all legal problems.

Oscar J. Barbosa founded Diaspora Law aiming at connecting community-oriented attorneys to provide comprehensive immigration services. He brings his previous experience to provide the assistance the community currently seeks. Mr. Barbosa speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese (Conversational). Mr. Barbosa sees immigration as a human rights-oriented practice. As an organizer, he previously worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as a Legal Assistant and with the Service Employees International Union. As an Immigration Attorney, he has been able to explain complicated options in understandable terms to his clients. His previous academic and work experiences have taken him for extended periods to...

I have specialized in commercial civil litigation for over 25 years. I am a member of the Bar of the State of New Jersey and of the State of New York, as well as being admitted in the United States District Court for the State of New Jersey, and Southern and Eastern Districts of the State of New York. I have handled matters at both the trial and appellate levels in these courts.

I have represented clients for numerous disputes, including collection of amounts due, breach of contracts, commercial landlord/tenant disputes, business torts, Consumer Fraud claims, secured transactions, business torts,...