Franklin Lawyers

Mr. Cohen was a founding partner and currently is Of Counsel. For more than 35 years, his practice was civil litigation, focusing on personal injury, maritime, product liability, professional negligence, and construction accident claims. Mr. Cohen is certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney (2001 to present), which is the highest specialty certification available to NJ civil trial attorneys. Mr. Cohen has been recognized for his outstanding legal work as well as his service to the community.

Lisa Browning, Esq. opened her own law firm in April 2020. She is a collaboratively trained attorney and a mediator. Consistent with the firm’s mission statement her goal is to help people through one of the most difficult times of their lives, with kindness, compassion and expertise. Ms. Browning has been practicing since 2005 and her primary practice includes all types of alternative dispute resolution within Matrimonial Law. Lisa obtained a doctor of jurisprudence from Rutgers School of Law – Newark and holds a certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Jessica R. Mayer,...

I have practiced business law for two decades, and have significant experience in counseling companies from their start-up phase through a sale. My experience includes negotiating strategic transactions and advising on day to day business issues. I have significant experience in technology transactions, from SaaS to Agile development and traditional software licensing.

Attorney Warren D. Levy is one of the original key founders of the law firm and is the head attorney behind the Law Offices of Kasuri & Levy, LLC. With over 20 years of experience in various fields, primarily in Divorce & Family Law: (Child Custody, Child Support, Domestic Violence, Domestic Partnerships, Collaborative Law, Protection Orders, Restraining Orders, Men/Father Rights, Female/Mother Rights, International Divorce, Invalid Marriages, Fraudulent Marriages, Legal Separation, Non-Paternal Custody, Adoption, Paternity, Pre-Nuptial Agreements, Post-Nuptial Agreements, Cohabitation Agreements, Name Change, Jewish Gets (religious divorce), Annulments, IVF Donor & Surrogacy Agreements, Family Law Mediation, Parenting Plan Agreements,...

Litigation attorney with over 40 years of experience in Personal Injury, Family Law, Municipal Court, General Litigation, Land Use; Attorney for Woodbridge Township Planning Board for over 30 years. Attorney for Sayreville Borough Planning Board 2017-19; Qualified Civil and Family Law Mediator; Arbitrator, Superior Court of New Jersey, Middlesex County; Member of ESP and ISP panel, Family Court, Middlesex County Superior Court; Super Storm Sandy Mediator.

Blake C. Width has a broad spectrum of experience in the areas of bankruptcy, commercial litigation, community associations, construction, creditors' rights, employment, insurance, labor, municipal, and public safety.

Peter Ventrice is a partner with Brause, Brause & Ventrice, L.L.C. Mr. Ventrice earned a Preeminent "AV" Peer Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and he has been selected as a New Jersey "Super Lawyer" in the area of family law, a distinction held by fewer than 5% of practicing attorneys in the State of New Jersey, and is based upon peer recognition and professional achievement. Mr. Ventrice's family law practice includes divorce, child custody and parenting time, child support, alimony, distribution of assets and liabilities, enforcement and modification of existing judgments and orders, and domestic violence restraining orders. He is also a qualified...

Patent application and prosecution, trademark application, patent licensing, corporation formation, copyright registration, NDA, Infringement defense, and Estate Planning. I was graduated from Rutgers School of Law with the award of American Bar Association/BNA Excellence Award in Intellectual Property. My practice is to safeguard your intellectual property rights. I have assisted many startups and solo inventors to prepare patent and trademark applications. Moreover, some of the clients have obtained licensing opportunity since then.

Ms. Hiles is an associate at Petro Cohen, P.C. focusing on workers’ compensation claims with more than 25 years of legal experience. Her practice at Petro Cohen has included working in all areas of workers’ compensation, including traumatic injury claims as well as occupational exposure claims. Ms. Hiles attended West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia where she majored in political science and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993. She then enrolled in law school at Widener University School of Law located in Wilmington, Delaware. During law school, Ms. Hiles she completed the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, and also participated...

Ms. Holz Meola heads the Social Security Disability Department at Petro Cohen, P.C. and has nearly 30 years of legal experience. In addition to Social Security disability, she handles workers’ compensation claims for the firm. Ms. Holz Meola graduated cum laude from Mount St. Mary’s College (Emmitsburg, MD) in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in political science and minoring in business. In 1989, she received a Juris Doctor degree from Dickinson School of Law of Pennsylvania State University (Carlisle, PA). As part of her legal education, Ms. Holz Meola assisted in providing free legal services to victims of...

A founding partner and current managing partner of Petro Cohen, P.C., Ms. Petro focuses on personal injury litigation and has more than 30 years of experience. She is bilingual, fluent in English and Spanish.  She is a former president of the Atlantic County Bar Association and served nine years as master in the Vincent S. Haneman America Inn of Court. Ms. Petro has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University and received her law degree at Rutgers University School of Law.  Ms. Petro is a Phi Beta Kappa and has served on numerous boards and committees during her legal tenure. -...

Raymond graduated from The George Washington University in Washington, DC with a bachelor’s degree in Business Economics and Public Policy. He then took a year off after college and worked for Steptoe & Johnson, a large international law firm in Washington, DC. There he worked on a multi billion dollar matter between McDonnell Douglass and Northrup involving litigation over the F-18 Fighter Plane and F-20 Tiger Shark. He also worked for clients such as the countries of Taiwan, Soviet Union and East Germany. After Steptoe & Johnson, Raymond went to Rutgers University Law School. While there, he worked for The United...

Nicholas Anthony Pagliara is the founding partner of Pagliara Law Group, who represents clients in Employment discrimination, sexual harassment, civil rights, police brutality and personal injury throughout New Jersey. Mr. Pagliara provides aggressive defense and negotiation. Pagliara Law Group, PA is a knowledgeable and aggressive New Jersey based law firm representing all of the voiceless and gives them a voice. Whether it be you are fighting your employer for being mistreated or being wrongfully treated by the government, injured due to the negligence of others in a car accident or medical malpractice, or even immigration matters. We...

Karra L. Kingston Esq. has helped people from all walks of life start their lives over by getting out of debt. Karra Kingston is a Staten Island Bankruptcy lawyer and New Jersey bankruptcy lawyer. Ms. Kingston began her career as a bankruptcy attorney. She has appeared in front of many federal court judges and has helped many debtors obtain a fresh start. Ms. Kingston understands the complex federal rules for discharging debt. While working as a bankruptcy attorney, Ms. Kingston’s dedication has resulted in settlements of large debts for clients at 20-30 percent of what they owed. She also...

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Natalee Picillo is a well respected and experienced New Jersey Divorce & Family Law attorney. She also represents clients throughout New Jersey in connection with DWI & Traffic Tickets.

Michael Maggiano, a founder and senior partner of Maggiano, DiGirolamo & Lizzi, has specialized in personal injury litigation with a focus on Construction Accidents as well as Medical Negligence for over 35 years now! He is widely acknowledged by his peers as one of the top trial lawyers in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. He has tried cases throughout this area as well as various other states of the United States. Maggiano is licensed to practice law before all State and Federal Courts in New Jersey and New York. He is also licensed to practice law before the...

Jay Lavroff concentrates his practice in litigation, with an emphasis in the areas of insurance coverage, construction and professional liability claims, and contract disputes. Insurance coverage issues that Jay has litigated range from interpretation of provisions in motor vehicle policies to the availability of coverage for the remediation of contamination of soil, air and water, costing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Andrew Olesnycky, a former supervisor-level assistant prosecutor at the Union County Prosecutor's Office, represents individuals and organizations facing criminal charges and investigations in federal, state, and municipal courts. Mr. Olesnycky has served as lead attorney defending charges of multi-million dollar federal and state fraud conspiracies, federal bank fraud, federal benefit fraud, state and federal large-scale multi-defendant drug conspiracies, sexual assaults, child pornography, interference with custody, and Superstorm Sandy-related fraud. Mr. Olesnycky is certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Certified Criminal Trial Attorney, a designation obtained by fewer than 1% of attorneys state-wide. During his nearly five-year...

Charles X. Gormally is a Member of the Firm's Executive Committee, the Founding Chair of the Litigation Practice Group, the Co-Chair of the Cannabis Practice Group and a Member of Employment Services Practice Group. The New Jersey Supreme Court has acknowledged his commitment as a trial attorney by designating him as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney for more than thirty years. Mr. Gormally has developed a proficiency in counseling clients with complex business matters, confidential corporate compliance investigations, challenges to governmental regulation, contract disputes and tort actions. Mr. Gormally has successfully tried jury and bench trial cases in the federal...

Since 2005, Jeremias E. Batista, Esq. has offered comprehensive legal services to clients throughout New Jersey and New York City area. Clients receive the personal individual attention one on one with Mr. Batista on every case to assure his clients receive the highest quality legal services. Mr. Batista looks forward to the satisfaction of helping clients to change their life for the better.

Erdal Turnacioglu concentrates his practice in the area of employment law. He has substantial experience within the state and federal courts of New York and New Jersey. Over the course of my legal career, Erdal has been driven by a passion for employment law. After law school, he worked in-house for a major New York City insurance company, handling motor vehicle accident defense. While this job introduced him to the practice of law, Erdal never lost sight of his dream of one day assisting individuals and businesses with their employment-related issues. In 2010, Erdal attended a seminar entitled, “How to Handle...

Dewitt Liu has represented hundreds of buyers and sellers of residential and commercial real estate in New Jersey. He has been selected as a 2018 and 2019 “Rising Star” by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters company. Only the top 2.5% of New Jersey attorneys in their specific area of legal practice are selected for this distinction by their attorney-peers. The “Rising Stars” designation is for “lawyers who exhibit excellence in practice.” Furthermore, Dewitt has received Avvo.com’s “Client’s Choice” award for 2013 and 2018. Dewitt has also been invited by the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Institute of Continuing Legal Education to...

Wilson Family Law prides itself on educating its clients and empowering them with options on how to proceed with their family law matters. We educate our clients about the law and the judicial system, and help them understand and assess the best approach for them and their family. The process matters. Whether proceeding with collaboration, mediation, negotiation, or litigation, Wilson Family Law works with the client to create a plan that is tailored to meet their needs and needs of their family. We know that our clients’ issues are important to them, so they are important to us.

Based in Randolph, New Jersey, Justin has significant experience handling business litigation cases from inception through trial, including those involving contract disputes, partnership disputes and shareholder disputes.  Justin has been selected to the Super Lawyers list as a New Jersey "Rising Star" in Business Litigation Law for 2015-2023. Each year, only 2.5 percent of New Jersey attorneys are selected to be included on the Rising Star list, which is issued by Thompson Reuters. Justin has also earned the AV Preeminent rating by Martindale-Hubbell in Complex Business Litigation, Business Litigation and Civil Practice. This rating signifies that Justin's reviewed peers rank him at the...

David Mazie is an acclaimed New Jersey trial lawyer and a senior member in Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman. His trial record is unprecedented as he is the only New Jersey lawyer to have won two personal injury verdicts in excess of $100 million. Mr. Mazie also obtained a $125 million settlement on behalf of a seriously injured client, which is the largest personal injury settlement in New Jersey history. Mr. Mazie has more than 75 verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million, including many settlements/verdicts in excess of $10 million. His settlements have been described by a...

Attorney Harris S. Feldman at Blume Donnelly Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari helps clients in need of help in personal injury, medical malpractice, and product liability cases.

Maurice W. McLaughlin is a founding member of McLaughlin & Nardi, LLC. He handles a wide range of matters including complex negotiations, litigation and transactions. Maurice leads the firm’s litigation practice. Maurice is admitted to the bars of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts and the United States Supreme Court. He has practiced in state, federal and administrative courts throughout the Northeast.

Maurice brings a broad legal background from his many years as a litigator, prior to which he served with the Superior Court of New Jersey in Hudson County as a law clerk for Judges Barbara A. Curran and Frances L....

Elga Goodman is the owner of E.A. Goodman Law where she specializes in business and personal taxation issues, including domestic and international estate planning, the administration of trusts and estates, closely held business planning, and issues affecting the elderly.

As a trust and estate attorney she advises clients on estate planning techniques aimed at ensuring that assets pass to the intended beneficiaries, while minimizing the state and federal tax burdens by creating charitable trusts and foundations, planned gifting programs, and drafting wills, trusts, powers of attorney and living wills.

Elga handles general estate planning issues and counsel clients about planning for...

Licensed in New York and New Jersey, Kevin Abessi is a heavily credentialed attorney with a background that is tailored to handle the challenges of family and business. As a client-facing professional with deep academic and professional exposures to finance and investment, Kevin and Abessi Law are well-equipped to handle the sort of financial and business matters that are often at play with matters pertaining to divorce, spousal/child support, contract negotiation, estate planning, and so much more. Abessi Law understands that facilitating legal services is about more than just lawyering, which is why it endeavors to be just as well...

The founding and managing member of Cadicina Law, LLC. Mr Cadicina is an experienced family law attorney who dedicates his entire practice to family law and related matters for over twenty-five years. A well recognized family law attorney who serves on County and State Bar Associations. Mr Cadicina is the Past President of the Morris County Bar Association and Foundation. He also serves on the family law executive committees for the New Jersey State Bar Association and New Jersey Association for Justice. Mr Cadicina is a Master in the Northern New Jersey Family Law Inns...

I bring over 30 years of experience as a business counselor and litigator, focusing on the unique challenges faced by closely held businesses. As Chair of the Business and Corporate Law Department at Weiner Law Group, I have dedicated my career to safeguarding businesses and their owners at every stage of the business lifecycle. My knowledge extends beyond litigation. I am both a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA) and a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA), qualifications that underscore my ability to offer a comprehensive perspective on business challenges. By combining legal acumen with financial insight, I empower business owners to make informed...

I have represented and counseled management across all facets of labor and employment law. My work encompasses a variety of issues, including employment discrimination and harassment, breach of contract, violation of restrictive covenants, wrongful termination, and ensuring reasonable accommodations in the workplace. Acting on behalf of corporations, I regularly review and prepare employment policies and employee handbooks to ensure they meet legal standards. I have also assisted in conducting internal investigations into allegations of harassment and other workplace misconduct, and I provide training for both employees and management on employment law matters. My experience extends to significant involvement in state...

Attorney Mitchel Makowicz Jr. has experience in various types of medical malpractice, peronal injury, and premises liability.

Scott A. Gorman founded The Gorman Law Firm in New Jersey in 2011. There, Mr. Gorman focused his practice primarily in the areas of criminal defense, domestic violence, drug possession, DUI/DWI, expungement and juvenile defense. Prior to opening his own firm, he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Barbara Byrd Wecker, a now retired judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division. Mr. Gorman also worked as an associate assigned to the Employment Law team at K&L Gates and he spent four years as an associate with the Rem Zeller Law Group working on civil...

As an immigrant myself, I understand the needs, worries, and concerns that people face when coming to America. I know the immigration system can sometimes be confusing and frightening. This is why I am dedicated to the client - from beginning to end. I help my clients evaluate their options, understand the steps along the way, and choose the best path towards legal residence, employment, and citizenship. I have helped people from all over the world find solutions for all their immigration needs. I also business owners who employ foreign nationals as well...

Andrew M. Wolfenson specializes in Divorce and Family matters, Bankruptcy, Civil Litigation, Real Estate, Municipal Court, and Expungements. A 1991 Graduate of the Fordham University School of Law, he is also the author of two fiction novels, "In His Own Defense" and "Deadly Fantasy: A Baseball Story", and serves as the Chairman of the New Jersey chapter of his college's Alumni Association.