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Stephan T. Mashel
Morganville, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 38 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Rutgers University Law School
I am proud to be a lawyer. It has been my honor for 30 years and counting to be a trial lawyer in New Jersey representing individuals whose claims are meritorious and for whom it is critically important to recover damages for the wrongs committed against them. Being a lawyer has allowed me to use my innate and learned abilities to passionately, aggressively, and effectively advocate on behalf of those who have been harmed due to the malicious, intentional, or negligent conduct of others. Every day I am enthused to work for and with my clients as part of a...
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Elizabeth M. Trottier
Morganville, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Seton Hall University School of Law
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Gregory S. Schaer
Freehold, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 33 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Administrative
Widener University's School of Law
Gregory S. Schaer, Esq. is a highly experienced New Jersey employment lawyer and labor law attorney admitted to practice in the State of New Jersey and is a member of the bars of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit as well as the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Schaer has achieved substantial jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients. The cases that he has handled are known by judges and attorneys throughout the United States as a result of numerous decisions rendered by the...
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Amy C. Blanchfield
Morganville, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 12 years of experience
Employment and Appeals
Widener University Delaware School of Law
I am dedicated Employment Law Attorney at Mashel Law. I zealously represent workers who have been wronged in the workplace, in a broad array of legal matters. My experience and skill facilitate the successful representation of employees who suffer from unlawful and unethical employer practices. I am committed to zealously advocating for the best possible outcome in your case.
I received my J.D. from the Widener University School of Law in 2011. While in law school, I interned for the Honorable Bruce F. Bratton in the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas, and the Honorable Teresa Kondrup-Coyle of the New...
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Sheila Hatami
Freehold, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 17 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Administrative and Arbitration & Mediation
Hofstra University
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Peter Katz
Princeton, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and White Collar Crime
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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Allan Marain
New Brunswick, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 48 years of experience
(732) 828-2020
P.O. Box 1030
100 Bayard St 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
Employment and White Collar Crime
Seton Hall University School of Law
Allan Marain is a member of the New Jersey Bar. As such, he practices in Municipal Courts, the Superior Court of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Supreme Court. He is a member of the Bar of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is authorized to practice before the United States Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Aviation Administration,...
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Joel I. Rachmiel
Princeton, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 51 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Seton Hall University School of Law
Joel I. Rachmiel graduated from Newark College of Engineering (now part of N.J.I.T.) in 1967 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Mr. Rachmiel then worked as a mechanical engineer for several years before entering Seton Hall Law School where he earned his law degree in 1973.
Mr. Rachmiel served as an Assistant Union County Prosecutor from 1973 to 1979, during which time he prosecuted 75 jury trials. He opened his own law office in 1979, where he now limits his practice to plaintiff's personal injury litigation, criminal defense, and municipal court matters, including DWI/DUI.
Mr. Rachmiel became a Certified Criminal...
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Jonathan Rudnick
Tinton Falls, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Consumer
Elisabeth Haub School of Law - Pace University
Jonathan Rudnick has been litigation consumer cases for three decades in New Jersey and has tried in arbitration and court - before a jury - to decision many cases.
Jonathan Rudnick also has sued car dealerships for violating employee pay plans and failing to pay their employees proper commissions in New Jersey, Arkansas, Washington State and Illinois.
Jonathan Rudnick has litigated against hundreds of dealerships in New Jersey for Fraud and Consumer Fraud for selling cars with salvage titles, flood titles, prior damage, and non disclosure of significant defects.
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Jennifer Marie Mohamed
Princeton, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 25 years of experience
(609) 924-4295
The Forrestal Village
116 Village Boulevard, Suite 235
Princeton, NJ 08540
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business and Environmental
Albany Law School
I am an experienced Attorney with a proven track record representing clients in a wide array of transactional and litigation matters with an emphasis on commercial (business) and environmental litigation. I have an extensive understanding of environmental law and policy matters that comes from a lifetime commitment to environmental issues and having represented stakeholders on all sides of the table over the past 20 years, including government, industry, individuals, and environmental groups.
I started my law career as an attorney with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation where I was Counsel to the Division of Solid and...
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Vladimir Tsirkin
South Amboy, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 11 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, IP, Patents and Trademarks
Rutgers School of Law-Newark
Attorney Vladimir Tsirkin is admitted to practice law in Florida, New York and New Jersey, and U.S. Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, District of New Jersey and Southern District of Florida. He also is a registered patent attorney registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Attorney Vladimir Tsirkin received his Juris Doctor degree (JD) from Rutgers University School of Law, and a degree of Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Naval Engineering Institute. Prior to becoming a lawyer, VladimirI worked as a computer engineer for global financial companies Goldman Sachs...
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Hanan M. Isaacs
Princeton, NJ Employment Law Lawyer
(609) 683-7400
300 Carnegie Center Drive
Suite 150A
Princeton, NJ 08540
Employment and Business
North Carolina Central University School of Law and Rutgers University - New Brunswick/Piscataway
Hanan M. Isaacs is a mediator, arbitrator, and trial lawyer with offices in Kingston, New Jersey. An experienced commercial and personal injury arbitrator, formerly for the American Arbitration Association’s New Jersey Regional Office, Mr. Isaacs is also an Accredited Professional Mediator (APM) in general civil and divorce matters by the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators (NJAPM). Mr. Isaacs is Chair of NJAPM’s Mediation Ethics Review Board and has so served for 5 years. He was NJAPM’s President for the 1999 to 2001 term. His law practice emphasizes employment litigation for workers, business litigation, personal injury law, family law,...
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Ekaterina Schoenefeld
Princeton, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Employment, Business, Consumer and International
Rutgers School of Law-Newark
Prior to opening my practice, I worked as an associate at Messina Law Firm, P.C., Holmdel, New Jersey; subsequently, I remained there as "of counsel." I have worked on a number of cases, including complex civil litigation, that involved a broad range of various questions of state and federal substantive law; sophisticated procedural, discovery and evidentiary issues; and post-judgment motions and appeals. The cases I worked on involved complex issues of federal and state law, relating to the Sherman Act; Lanham Act; Federal Communications Act; Truth in Lending Act; Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, New Jersey Consumer Fraud...
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Peter D. Valenzano
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Employment and Business
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
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Andrew I. Glenn
Princeton, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
University of Miami School of Law
Andrew’s first job as a lawyer was with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, where he was a Deputy Attorney General for approximately seven years. As a government trial attorney, he learned “his way around a courtroom” as well as how to effectively and persuasively write legal documents. As a Deputy Attorney General, Andrew gained invaluable litigation experience in both State and Federal Courts, arguing motions before judges, negotiating settlements before mediators, taking and defending over 800 depositions, and trying both bench and jury trials.
After working with the New Jersey Attorney General, over the next eight years, Andrew further honed...
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Kathleen M. Connelly
Tinton Falls, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 34 years of experience
Employment and Business
Rutgers School of Law-Newark
Kathleen Connelly concentrates her practice in Employment Law. She has more than 25 years of experience representing employers and individual members of management in both the private and public sectors in preventative counseling, litigation defense and dispute resolution, workplace investigations, employee handbooks, policies and training.
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William Robert Larkin
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 21 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation and Insurance Defense
Brooklyn Law School
Bill has 20+ years of litigation and law firm management experience. He is hardworking, efficient and detail oriented with strong leadership skills and a proven track record. He is extremely organized with a strong ability to multi-task. Bill works well in a team environment and is capable of handling complex matters and providing guidance to other team members to ensure that all matters are handled properly.
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Christopher J. Eibeler
Holmdel, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Employment
Albany Law School
Mr. Eibeler represents New Jersey employees in all areas of employment law, including sexual harassment, wrongful termination, disability discrimination, FMLA, whistleblower retaliation, discrimination and hostile work environment. Mr. Eibeler also represents individuals and small businesses in restrictive covenant litigation, including non-competes, unfair competition, non-solicitation and breach of loyalty cases. In addition to his employment law practice, Mr. Eibeler also represents independent sales representatives in unpaid commission matters. Mr. Eibeler also regularly appears before the Appeal Tribunal, Board of Review and Appellate Division representing persons in unemployment compensation claims.
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Lisa A. Hernandez
Holmdel, NJ Employment Law Lawyer
Employment
Rutgers School of Law-Newark
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Jeffrey D. Ragone
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 6 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Rutgers University - Camden
Admitted In New Jersey And Pennsylvania
Jeffrey Ragone is an associate at McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C. and practices out of the firm’s Marlton, New Jersey office. Mr. Ragone’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.
Mr. Ragone served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Faustino J. Fernandez-Vina of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. In the judicial term prior, he served as a law clerk for the Honorable Richard S. Hoffman, J.A.D., of the Appellate Division of New Jersey. Mr....
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Ashley E. Malandre
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Ms. Malandre is an associate at McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C. and practices out of the firm’s Red Bank, New Jersey office. Ms. Malandre concentrates her practice on all aspects of employment litigation, including but not limited to matters involving discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and whistleblower claims. Ms. Malandre has extensive experience in the representation of clients in federal, state, and administrative proceedings.
Prior to joining McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C., Ms. Malandre was extensively involved in the representation of management in all aspects of labor and employment law and municipal law. Ms. Malandre has represented public entities in...
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Rachel C. Krupnick
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 3 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Rutgers University - Camden
Rachel C. Krupnick is an associate at McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C., and practices out of the firm’s Red Bank, New Jersey office. She handles all aspects of employment litigation, including discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and whistleblower claims.
Mrs. Krupnick graduated from Towson University’s Honors College in 2015, where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Journalism & New Media. Following her graduation from Towson, Mrs. Krupnick attended Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey.
During law school, Mrs. Krupnick served as an intern for the Honorable Jeffrey L. Schmehl of the U.S. District Court for the...
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Lauren M. Hill
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 5 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Business
Rutgers School of Law-Camden
Ms. Hill serves as an associate in McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C.’s Red Bank office. She handles all aspects of employment litigation, including discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and whistleblower claims. Ms. Hill is a zealous advocate who believes that every individual should enjoy a workplace free from discrimination.
Ms. Hill graduated from The College of New Jersey in 2016, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a specialization in Management, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. Upon graduation, Ms. Hill attended Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey on a Dean’s Merit...
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Jaclyn E Alston
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 2 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Rutgers School of Law-Camden
Admitted In New Jersey & Pennsylvania
Ms. Alston is an associate with McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C. in the firm’s Marlton, New Jersey office. Ms. Alston primarily focuses her practice on employment law and civil litigation, representing clients in matters involving discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and whistleblower claims.
Ms. Alston graduated magna cum laude from Rutgers University in 2020, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and a minor in Legal Studies. Ms. Alston graduated as part of Rutgers’ Bachelors/Juris Doctor Dual Degree program which allowed her to complete both degrees in six years, rather than...
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Jodi Jaffe
Princeton, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
University of Florida
Jodi J. Jaffe graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Brandeis University in 1987 and received her J.D. from the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, in 1990.
Jodi began her career representing people that could not afford a lawyer who were accused of crimes; she became an Assistant Public Defender for the Dade County Public Defender’s office in Miami, Florida. In part, her relentlessness enabled her to get what she wanted for her clients, making her a successful trial attorney. Jodi is not afraid to take on “the system” and she will work tirelessly in the fight...
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Richard Marcolus
Belford, NJ Employment Law Attorney
Free ConsultationEmployment and Products Liability
Villanova University School of Law
I am a Workers Compensation lawyer at Levinson Axelrod where I have handled Compensation cases for 37 years. I started at Levinson Axelrod in 1985 and have worked there since I graduated from Villanova Law school in 1985.
I have handled thousands of cases over my career including Construction site, Toxic exposure to chemicals, cancer claims, CoVid claims and orthopedic occupational claims.
I am a leader in an organization I help found in the early 1990's named COSH that acts as a Watchdog for Workers Compensation legislation. I have been instrumental in helping the passage of legislation that has...
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Gaetano J DiPersia
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 2 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Business
Villanova University School of Law
Mr. DiPersia is an associate at McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C. Mr. DiPersia’s primary areas of practice are commercial litigation, employment law, class action disputes, and business litigation.
A 2022 graduate of Villanova Law School, Mr. DiPersia started his practice at a Philadelphia area law firm, where his focused practice area was commercial litigation disputes. This included, but was not limited to, litigating contract disputes mainly in the construction and trucking industries.
While at Villanova Law, Mr. DiPersia was a student attorney in the Federal Tax Clinic, where he represented under-privileged individuals in disputes with the IRS. Additionally, Mr. DiPersia was a...
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George Herbert Flammer Jr.
Skillman, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 7 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Rutgers School of Law-Camden
George H. Flammer, Jr., is an Attorney-At-Law of Farrell & Thurman, P.C., where he represents a wide range of clients in a variety of personal injury, employment, and labor matters, based in Mercer County and Somerset County, New Jersey. Mr. Flammer maintains a plaintiff's personal injury practice, wherein he represents individuals injured as a result of other's negligence. Mr. Flammer has a broad range of personal injury matters before state and federal courts, including motor vehicle accidents, slip and falls, and wrongful death matters.
He additionally represents employees in state and federal employment matters concerning discrimination, sexual harassment, harassment, overtime violations,...
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Leonard M. Fogelman
Princeton, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 48 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Administrative, Business and IP
Fordham University School of Law and Fordham University
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Tyler J. Burrell
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 3 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Business
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Mr. Burrell is a Marlton, New Jersey attorney who practices employment law, class action, and business litigation. In addition to his role as an associate, he is also McOmber McOmber & Luber's Chief Operating Officer.
Mr. Burrell's legal background includes working as a law clerk with McOmber McOmber & Luber from 2017-2021.
Mr. Burrell's education and experience includes political certification through the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania and pro-bono research for the New Jersey Partners for Women and Justice. He obtained his undergraduate degree in 2017 from Rowan University, where he graduated summa cum laude with a...
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Michael D. Fitzgerald
Eatontown, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Consumer and Tax
Elisabeth Haub School of Law - Pace University
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Charles J. Kocher
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Products Liability
Villanova University School of Law
Mr. Kocher is a Partner with McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C. in the firm’s Marlton, New Jersey office. He focuses his practice in the areas of employment law, class actions, business disputes, and business law. Mr. Kocher has successfully litigated and resolved wage and hour class actions and is currently pursuing several national collective actions and class actions for violations of wage and hour laws to recover monies owed to groups of workers. In addition to fighting for fair wages and equal treatment under the law for his clients, Mr. Kocher has deep experience in the representation...
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Matthew Allen Luber
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Attorney
Free ConsultationEmployment and Business
The College of New Jersey and Temple University Beasley School of Law
Mr. Luber joined McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C. in February 2015 and is the managing partner of the firm’s Marlton, New Jersey office. Mr. Luber focuses his practice in the areas of employment law, business disputes, business law, and personal injury. Mr. Luber has tried numerous cases to verdict, frequently obtains six and seven-figure settlements for his employment-related clients, and has experience litigating cases in federal and state courts throughout the country. Mr. Luber has also successfully handled and settled wage and hour class actions and whistleblowers in health care fraud cases brought under the federal False Claims...
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R. Armen McOmber
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation and Business
American University Washington College of Law
Mr. McOmber is a third-generation attorney and a lifelong resident of Monmouth County. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts and a Juris Doctor from American University Washington College of Law, in Washington, D.C.
In 1998, he was admitted to New Jersey and Federal District Court Bars and joined the firm of McOmber McOmber & Luber, which was established by his parents, Richard and Adrienne McOmber, in 1974. He was promoted to partner in 2001. Mr. McOmber resides in the Red Bank area with his wife, Dr. Nathalie Zenian McOmber, a general dentist who also...
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Elizabeth Zuckerman
Princeton, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 38 years of experience
Employment and Appeals
University of California - Davis
Ms. Zuckerman is an experienced employment attorney who has settled and litigated employee cases in virtually all areas of the practice. She has also handled numerous appeals involving employee rights issues, including several before the NJ Supreme Court. Since 2007, she has each year been selected by her peers as a "Super Lawyer" in the area of "Employment Litigation: Plaintiff." A well-regarded Mercer County wrongful termination lawyer, she is currently one of only a few lawyers in the State of New Jersey to have received this designation. Ms. Zuckerman was born in Orange, New Jersey in 1959. After two...
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Robert W. Smith
Holmdel, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 37 years of experience
Employment and Business
University of Michigan Law School and Seton Hall University School of Law
Robert W. Smith represents clients in all aspects of employment law and litigation. Mr. Smith has successfully litigated cases on behalf of employees involving claims of sexual harassment, disability discrimination, FMLA, New Jersey Family Leave Act, race discrimination, sexual orientation discrimination, hostile work environment and whistle blower laws. Mr. Smith also represents corporate clients in areas of human resource administration and personnel issues. Corporate representation includes, disciplines, leave of absence, disability issues, harassment, creation/monitoring of HR policies/procedures, employee training, workplace investigations, drafting/negotiating severance agreements, employee contracts, non-compete and restrictive covenants. Prosecuting and/or defending litigation involving restrictive covenants and trade secrets,...
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Ravi Sattiraju
East Windsor, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 25 years of experience
(609) 469-2110
50 Millstone Road, Building 300, Suite 202
East Windsor, NJ 08520
Free ConsultationEmployment
Rutgers University School of Law at Newark
Ravi Sattiraju, Esq. has spent his career in employment litigation and has built a reputation as one of the top employment lawyers in the region. In December 2011, Mr. Sattiraju was lead counsel in a $22.6 million hostile work environment jury trial, which is the largest single-plaintiff employment law verdict in the history of the State of New Jersey. More recently, Mr. Sattiraju also obtained a $950,000 settlement during trial in a challenging case alleging disability discrimination against a manager who had been employed by a major New York restaurant group, and a $560,000 verdict in a whistleblower...
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Pembroke H. Emanuelson
Holmdel, NJ Employment Law Lawyer
Employment
American University Washington College of Law
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Jonathan R Miller
Princeton, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Appeals, IP and Trademarks
Cornell University
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Austin B. Tobin
Red Bank, NJ Employment Law Attorney with 15 years of experience
Employment, Business and Products Liability
Seton Hall University School of Law
Mr. Tobin is an associate at McOmber McOmber & Luber, P.C. Mr. Tobin’s primary areas of practice are employment law and personal injury litigation. He is admitted to the New Jersey State Bar and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey.
Mr. Tobin has extensive prior experience defending employment matters on behalf of employers throughout the State of New Jersey. Mr. Tobin has litigated favorably on behalf of employers in several employment discrimination and wrongful termination cases. This unique background allows Mr. Tobin to be a zealous and effective advocate on behalf of employees who have been wronged by their employers....