March 22, 2023

Volume XIII, Number 81

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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. Given the current economic climate, 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.

Contributing authors from Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. :

Joseph Buckley, Banking Litigation Attorney, Sills Cummis, Law firm
Joseph L. Buckley is a member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Management Committee and Chair of the Litigation Department. He has over 35 years of first chair trial experience in a wide...
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Grace Byrd Employment Attorney Sills Cummis Law Firm
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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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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Matthew J. Correia Associate Real Estate
Matthew J. Correia is an Associate in the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department.  Mr. Correia’s practice focuses on the acquisition, disposition, financing and leasing of...
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Thomas A. Della Croce, Sills Cummis Gross, Litigation attorney, Asset Recovery Lawyer
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, Intellectual Property Attorney, Sills Cummis Gross, Product Liability Lawyer
Trent S. Dickey is resident in the Sills Cummis & Gross Newark and New York offices. He has more than 37 years of experience representing major domestic and foreign corporations in all...
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Richard Epstein Litigation Attorney, Sills Cummis Gross Law Firm
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  NJ Real Estate Lawyer Sills Cummis & Gross
Adam J. Faiella is an Associate in the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department.  Mr. Faiella focuses on zoning and land use, including the preparation of site plan and variance...
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Charles Falletta, Mass Tort Litigation Attorney, Sills Cummis Gross, Class Action Matters Lawyer
Charles J. Falletta is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation Practice Group with extensive experience in complex commercial, technology and class action litigation, as well as...
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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 RICO Litigation Attorney Sills Cummis & Gross Law Firm
Hervé Gouraige is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Gouraige is a civil and criminal litigator/trial lawyer who practices in the areas of white collar...
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Jeffrey Greenbaum Class Action Litigation Attorney Sills Cummis Gross law Firm
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 Corporate Attorney Sills Cummins & Gross
Jason K. Gross is a Member of the Firm’s Corporate Practice Group. He also serves as Co-Chair of the International Law Practice Group.  As counsel to public and private companies, both...
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Brian A. Haskel Corporate Attorney Sills Cummis & Gross New York, NY
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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George Hirsch Litigation & Bankruptcy Attorney Sills Cummis & Gross Law Firm
George R. Hirsch is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation and Creditor’s Rights/Bankruptcy Reorganization Practice Groups.  Mr. Hirsch has represented clients, including...
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James Hirschorn, Appellate Litigation Attorney, Sills Cummis Gross, Regulatory Matters Lawyer
James M. Hirschhorn specializes in appellate litigation and representing regulated industries in connection with administrative and regulatory matters. On behalf of clients in the heath...
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Lawrence Horn, Business Crimes lawyer, Tax litigation attorney, Sills Cummis Gross
Lawrence S. Horn is Chair of the Firm’s Business Crimes and Tax Litigation Practice Groups.  Mr. Horn received his B.A. from Princeton University and his J.D. from New York University...
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Joshua Howley, Financial Institutions Litigation Attorney, Sills Cummis Gross,
Joshua N. Howley is a Member of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group.  The New Jersey Law Journal recognized Mr. Howley in 2011 as one of New Jersey’s “40 Under 40” attorneys, and New...
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Jason Jurkevich Complex Litigation Attorney Sills Cummis Gross Law Firm
Jason Jurkevich has over seventeen 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 Real Estate Attorney Sills Cummis & Gross New York, NY
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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Rachel N. Laurel Associate Attorney Newark New Jersey Employment Labor Lawyer Sills Cummis & Gross P.C.
Rachel N. Laurel is an Associate in the Sills Cummis & Gross Employment and Labor Practice Group. She represents and advises management in connection with a wide range of employment law...
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Michael R. Leighton Real Estate Finance Attorney Sills Cummis & Gross Newark, NJ
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 Newark Labor Attorney Sills Cummis
James M. Lemonedes is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Employment and Labor Practice Group. Mr. Lemonedes is a member of the New York State Bar but is currently not a member of the...
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Mark Levenson, Real Estate Attorney, Sills Cummis, Retail Leasing lawyer
Mark S. Levenson is a Chair of the Real Estate Department and Chair of the Corporate Real Estate Practice Group. He also chairs the Firm’s Israel Business Practice Group. Mr. Levenson...
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Jill Turner Lever Employment Lawyer Sills Cummis Gross Law Firm
Jill Turner Lever practices in all aspects of employment law.  She advises clients on a wide range of employment law issues including day-to-day advice and counsel on compliance with...
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Simon Levin, Tax and Financial Planning, Attorney, Sills Cummis Gross, Lawyer,
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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Stephen A. Linde Of Counsel Sills Cummis & Gross Law Firm
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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Vincent Lodato Litigation Attorney Sills Cummis Gross Law Firm
Vincent R. Lodato is an Associate in the Firm's Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Lodato’s practice concentrates on defending product liability matters including cases involving medical...
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Boris I. Mankovetskiy, Sills Cummis Gross, Chapter 11 bankruptcy Lawyer, Commercial Litigation Attorney
Boris I. Mankovetskiy is a Member of the Firm’s Creditors’ Rights/Bankruptcy Reorganization Practice Group. He has represented secured creditors, banks, insurance companies and investment...
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Jeffrey Meltzer Member New Jersey New York Real Estate
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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Mark A. Nehme Newark Labor Attorney Sills Cummis
Mark A. Nehme is an Associate in the Sills Cummis & Gross Employment and Labor Practice Group. He represents and counsels employers in connection with employment law and human resources...
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Jeffrey Hugh Newman, Sill Cummis Gross, Domestic Land Development Attorney, International Taxation Lawyer
Jeffrey Hugh Newman is a partner, member of the Firm's Management and Executive Committees and Co-Chair of the Real Estate Department. Mr. Newman has been practicing in the area of real...
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Thomas Novak Insurance Attorney Sills Cummis Gross Law Firm
Mr. Novak has focused on insurance law for 33+ years and has represented insurance carriers, insurance producers and policyholders. He has handled insurance and reinsurance coverage...
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Mark S. Olinsky, Sills Cummis Gross, RICO Actions Lawyer, Arbitration Appeals Attorney
Mark S. Olinsky has been a civil and criminal trial lawyer for thirty years. He served as a federal prosecutor in the Office of U.S. Attorney Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and received DOJ's...
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Jordan Pace Employment Attorney Sill Cummis Gross Law Firm
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 Prezioso Labor Lawyer Sills Cummis Gross Law Firm
Patricia M. Prezioso is Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Employment and Labor Practice Group.  She is an active litigator and counselor, with her practice focusing on assisting...
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The Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department is an interdisciplinary team of approximately 30 attorneys providing a full range of legal and related services to participants in all...
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Beth S. Rose, Sills Cummis Gross, Pharmaceutical Research Lawyer, Mass Tort Actions Attorney
As seen in the 2014 Chambers USA® Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, “Beth Rose is a skilled product liability attorney with a national profile.  Sources praise her for being...
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David Rosen Wrongful Dismissal Labor Arbitration Attorney
David I. Rosen has practiced labor and employment law since 1977. He has broad experience handling federal and state court jury and bench trials and appeals, administrative agency trials...
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Richard J. Sapinski, Sills Cummis Gross, Tax Litigation Attorney, Criminal Compliance Issues Lawyer
Member
Richard J. Sapinski is Vice-Chair of the Firm’s Tax Litigation Practice Group.  His practice involves white collar criminal defense on both federal and state levels and civil and criminal...
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Andrew W. Schwartz, Sills Cummis Gross, Litigation Attorney, narcotics test kits Lawyer, electromagnetic fields
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 Estate Planning Lawyer Sills
Member
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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Alan E. Sherman Tax & Corporate Attorney Sills Cummis & Gross Newark, NJ
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, Sills Cummis Gross, Bankruptcy Attorney, Financial Difficulties Coach, Lawyer
Member
Andrew H. Sherman is Co-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, Sills Cummis Law Firm, Business Crime and Litigation Attorney
Member
Joseph B. Shumofsky is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation, Business Crimes, and Corporate Internal Investigations Practice Groups.  Mr.  Shumofsky is an accomplished trial...
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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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Jason L. Sobel Real Estate Attorney Sills Cummis & Gross Newark, NJ
Member
Jason L. Sobel is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department and chairs the Firm’s F.O.R.E. (Family Owned Real Estate) Practice Group.  He primarily counsels retail,...
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Scott D. Stimpson, Sills Cummis Gross, Intellectual Property attorney, Complex Patent Disputes Lawyer
Member
Scott D. Stimpson is Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Intellectual Property Practice Group and is resident in the Firm’s New York Office at 30 Rockefeller Center. Mr. Stimpson is Co-...
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William Stuart Litigation Attorney Sills Cummis Gross Law Firm
Of Counsel
William R. Stuart III is Of Counsel to the Firm's Litigation Practice Group. Mr. Stuart’s practice concentrates on product liability, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, consumer products,...
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Sills Cummis & Gross attorneys represent clients in a wide range of tax and estate planning and administration and employee benefits matters, tax litigation and disputes. Our attorneys...
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Peter G. Verniero, Sills Cummis, Corporate Investigations Attorney, Retention policy Lawyer
Peter G. Verniero is Chair of the Firm’s Corporate Internal Investigations and Appellate Practice Groups. Since joining the Firm in September of 2004, he has worked on a number of...
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Lori M. Waldron, Sills Cummis Law firm, Emerging Growth Attorney, Stock Acquisition Lawyer
Lori M. Waldron's practice focuses on the representation of both emerging growth and well-established public and private companies in sophisticated business transactions, with a particular ...
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Ted Zangari Real Estate Attorney Sills Cummis & Gross Law Firm
Ted Zangari is a Member of Sills Cummis & Gross. He is a Chair of the Firm’s Real Estate Department and serves on the Firm’s Management Committee.  Mr. Zangari’s law practice is...
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Charles S. Zucker, Sills Cummis Law firm, Tax Planning Attorney, Generational Passing Lawyer
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 Jill Turner Lever and David I. Rosen of Sills Cummins & Gross P.C. as 2021 Go-To Thought Leaders for their reporting on religious exemptions in the workplace resulting from various government mandates related to the pandemic.  Interpreting and explaining recent guidance from the EEOC concerning employees' religious accommodations requests applicable to COVID-19 vaccinations, provisions of New York State’s emergency regulations, and Maine's vaccination mandate for healthcare workers, Ms. Turner Lever and Mr. Rosen provide practical information and strategies readers can use.

 

 

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.

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.

Recent Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. Contributions