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Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.

Sills Cummis & Gross, a full-service corporate law firm, with offices in New Jersey and New York, has the capabilities of a New York full-service law firm, but offers the economic benefits of a New Jersey-based headquarters. Our client roster ranges from Fortune 500 to emerging growth and foreign corporations doing business in the U.S.

Our clients know that our goal is to be their advocate and to efficiently resolve the matters we are retained to handle. We are mindful of budget constraints and effectively staff our matters so that we can work within our clients’ parameters.

We are service providers and our greatest asset is our client base. To preserve that asset, we keep our clients informed every step of the way. This is why many of our clients have retained us for decades and continue to keep us on the top of their lists of service providers.

Our lawyers believe that they have a responsibility not only to their clients, but also to the community. Many of them spend countless hours serving on non-profit boards, working for non-profit organizations as committee members and fund raisers and providing pro bono legal assistance.

 

The Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy Reorganization Practice Group has broad experience in all aspects of bankruptcy, reorganization and creditors' rights matters, including complex…
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Joseph L. Buckley is a Member of Sills Cummis & Gross and Chair of the Litigation Department. He has over 35 years of first chair trial experience in a wide variety of complex cases in…
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Of Counsel
Grace A. Byrd is Of Counsel to the Sills Cummis & Gross Employment and Labor Practice Group.
Ms. Byrd has worked with business owners, executives and other professionals to develop and…
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Associate
Matthew J. Correia is an Associate in the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department and is resident in the Firm’s New York office. Mr. Correia’s practice focuses on the acquisition,…
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Thomas A. Della Croce’s complex litigation practice has focused on banking litigation and business disputes on behalf of Fortune 500 and other large companies. In the banking litigation…
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Trent S. Dickey is resident in the Sills Cummis & Gross Newark and New York offices. He has more than 40 years of experience representing major domestic and foreign corporations in all…
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Assocaite
Morgan H. Durr is an Associate in the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation Department. She concentrates her practice in commercial litigation.
Prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Durr was a…
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Richard H. Epstein is Deputy Managing Partner of Sills Cummis & Gross and Co-Chair of the Firm’s Litigation Department, which received the Benchmark Litigation award for “New Jersey…
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Adam J. Faiella is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department. Mr. Faiella focuses his practice on land use, redevelopment, zoning, and related litigation. He…
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Charles J. Falletta is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation Department with over 20 years of experience in defending complex commercial and class action litigations, as well…
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Managing Partner, New York
Michael B. Goldsmith is Managing Partner of the Sills Cummis & Gross New York office.  He is Chair of the Firm's Fashion, Apparel and Textile Practice Group.
Before joining Sills Cummis…
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Hervé Gouraige is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation Department. Mr. Gouraige is a civil and criminal litigator/trial lawyer who practices in the areas of white collar and…
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Jeffrey J. Greenbaum, Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Class Action Practice Group, is an active litigator and trial attorney in the Federal and State Courts with a specialty in…
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Jason K. Gross is a Member of the Firm’s Corporate Department. He also serves as Co-Chair of the International | U.S. Cross Border Practice Group and the Cannabis Industry Practice Group.…
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Brian A. Haskel is resident in the Sills Cummis & Gross New York office. He is a highly experienced corporate attorney, with extensive transactional experience in mergers and…
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James M. Hirschhorn focuses on appellate litigation and representing regulated industries in connection with administrative and regulatory matters. Mr. Hirschhorn conducts administrative…
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Joshua N. Howley, who is part of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation Department, regularly practices in state and federal courts, including bankruptcy courts, primarily in New York and…
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Of Counsel
Jason L. Jurkevich has over 25 years of experience handling all facets of complex litigation on behalf of diverse clients such as Fortune 100 and other major corporations, closely-held…
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Clint Kakstys is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department and is resident in the Firm's New York office. His practice focuses on the acquisition, disposition and…
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Michael R. Leighton, a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department, concentrates his practice on real estate finance including loan workouts and distressed loan purchases…
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James M. Lemonedes is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Employment and Labor Practice Group. As former Senior Counsel and Trial Specialist for the New York City Corporation Counsel’s…
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Mark S. Levenson is Chair of the Real Estate Department and Chair of the Real Estate Transactions Practice Group. He also chairs the Sills Cummis & Gross Israel Business Practice Group…
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Of Counsel
Jill Turner Lever practices in all aspects of employment law. Ms. Lever advises clients on a wide range of employment law issues including day-to-day and strategic high-level advice and…
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Simon Levin is Chair of the Firm's Tax and Financial Planning Practice Group. He has over thirty-five years of experience with in-depth and innovative tax and financial planning expertise…
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Of Counsel
Stephen A. Linde is Of Counsel to the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department. He is resident in the Firm’s New York office. Mr. Linde has over thirty-five years of experience as a…
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Sills Cummis litigators represent multinational corporations, financial institutions and government bodies, often in complex and important matters.  Our attorneys are active in pre-trial,…
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Of Counsel
Vincent R. Lodato is Of Counsel to the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation Department. Mr. Lodato’s practice concentrates on defending product liability and toxic tort matters involving…
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Boris I. Mankovetskiy is a Member of the Firm’s Creditors’ Rights/Bankruptcy Reorganization Practice Group. He focuses his practice on complex corporate restructurings, including Chapter 11…
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Jeffrey Meltzer has a broad range of commercial real estate experience and focuses his practice on the acquisition, disposition, financing and leasing of commercial properties throughout…
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Associate
Eric Moreno is an Associate in the Sills Cummis & Gross Employment and Labor Practice Group.
Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Moreno served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Sheila Venable…
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Jeffrey Hugh Newman is a Member of Sills Cummis & Gross and Chair of the Real Estate Department. Mr. Newman has been practicing in the area of real estate, real estate litigation,…
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Thomas Novak has focused on insurance law for 35+ years and has represented insurance carriers, insurance producers and policyholders. He has handled insurance and reinsurance coverage…
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Senior Counsel
Mr. Oettle handles complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on public contracting, business valuation, and close corporation and LLC internal disputes, and he handles a range of…
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Mark S. Olinsky has been a civil and criminal trial lawyer for more than thirty years. He served as a federal prosecutor in the Office of U.S. Attorney Samuel A. Alito, Jr. and is Past…
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Of Counsel
Jordan E. Pace is Of Counsel to the Sills Cummis & Gross Employment and Labor Practice Group.
Mr. Pace focuses his practice on counseling employers on a broad array of employment law…
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Patricia M. Prezioso is Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Employment and Labor Practice Group. She is an active litigator and counselor and takes great pride partnering with her clients…
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The Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department is an interdisciplinary team of approximately 35 attorneys providing a full range of legal and related services to participants in all…
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Beth S. Rose is a Member of Sills Cummis & Gross, where she is Chair of the Product Liability Practice Group and a Co-Chair of the Litigation Department. Ms. Rose has over 25 years of…
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Richard J. Sapinski is Co-Chair of the Firm’s Tax Fraud and Controversy Practice Group. His practice involves white collar criminal defense on both federal and state levels and civil and…
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Robert E. Schiappacasse is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Corporate Department and a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. He primarily represents middle market companies in…
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Of Counsel
Andrew W. Schwartz is Of Counsel to the Firm’s Product Liability, Litigation, Health Care and Banking Law Practice Groups. He joined the Firm in 1998 after spending six years in the…
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Joseph P. Scorese is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Tax, Trusts and Estates Practice Group. Mr. Scorese’s primary area of practice is complex estate planning and estate and trust…
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Laura E. Sedlak is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation Department. Ms. Sedlak has experience assisting a diverse range of clients in antitrust, intellectual property and…
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Of Counsel
Vimal K. Shah, Of Counsel to the Sills Cummis & Gross Employment and Labor Practice Group, is an experienced trial and appellate litigator focusing on employment law. He represents…
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Member
Alan E. Sherman focuses on the area of tax and corporate planning. Mr. Sherman regularly counsels clients ranging from small business entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 public companies. He…
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Andrew H. Sherman is Chair of the Firm’s Creditors’ Rights/Bankruptcy Reorganization Practice Group. He has represented clients in a broad range of complex business reorganizations, debt…
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Joseph B. Shumofsky is an accomplished trial lawyer and Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is Co-Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross White Collar Criminal Defense…
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Sills Cummis & Gross, a full-service corporate law firm, with offices in New Jersey and New York, has the capabilities of a New York full-service law firm, but offers the economic…
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Sills Cummis & Gross attorneys represent clients in a wide range of tax and estate planning and administration matters, tax litigation and disputes. Our attorneys, many of whom are…
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Peter G. Verniero is Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Corporate Investigations and Integrity and Appellate Practice Groups.
At the Firm, Mr. Verniero has worked on a number of…
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Lori M. Waldron is Co-Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Life Sciences Practice Group. Her practice focuses on the representation of both emerging growth and well-established public and…
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Member
Ted Zangari is a Member of Sills Cummis & Gross, a commercial law firm with offices in New Jersey. Mr. Zangari’s law practice is multipronged. He chairs the Firm’s Real Estate…
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Of Counsel
Mr. Zucker has thirty years of experience in the areas of tax, estate planning and business planning.
He has extensive experience in counseling owners of closely-held businesses in all…
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The Labor and Employment Practice Group at Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. has been named a 2022 Go-To Thought Leader by the National Law Review. In August of 2022, the New Jersey Supreme Court made a landmark ruling relating to the classification of certain workers as contractors, significantly tightening the definition of the state’s independent business requirements. Firm authors Jill Turner Lever, Mark A. Nehme, Patricia M. Prezioso provided an extensive breakdown of the ruling and its impact on labor law in the state, and Sills Cummins’ Labor & Employment practice group is recognized for its vital contributions for the analysis of independent contractor law in New Jersey.

The National Law Review recognizes Sills, Cummis & Gross as a Go-To Thought Leader for the firm’s COVID-19 coverage focusing on pandemic legislation relevant to the New York and New Jersey areas. Sills attorney – authors kept NLR readers apprised of sick leave rules, workers compensation coverage for essential workers, CARES act updates, executive orders, regional regulations and workplace restrictions. The following Sills, Cummis & Gross New York & New Jersey Coronavirus authors were exceptionally popular with the NLR readers: Grace A. Byrd, Brian A. Haskel, Jill Turner Lever, David I. Rosen, Alan E. Sherman, Jason L. Sobel and Lori M. Waldron.

David Rosen represents employers in federal and state court litigation, before administrative agencies and through arbitration and mediation at Sills, Cummins & Gross.  Mr. Rosen was named a 2019 National Law Review Go-To Thought Leader for his coverage of employment law, specifically issues facing New Jersey and New York employers. With 2019 being a big year of change in employment & labor law for employers, Mr. Rosen’s coverage helped our readers stay on top of an overwhelming number of developments.

Sills Cummis & Gross has been selected for a 2018 NLR Go-To Thought Leadership Award for their coverage of New York and New Jersey Employment Law. With all the changes going on in both of these states, Sills attorney-authors provide employers with New Jersey and New York operations with the information they need to remain compliant with new legislation and court decisions.

 

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