HEROLD LAW, P.A. - Key Persons
Practice Areas
Environmental Law
Biography
Anthony Reitano has specialized in the environmental field, first as an engineer and later as an attorney, for over 35 years. As an engineer, he addressed environmental issues for a major petrochemical company in North America and Europe. Projects included refinery catalyst handling, waste disposal, reduction and reuse, environmental audits, startup of new facilities, and troubleshooting. He currently leads the firm's environmental practice group. He has negotiated numerous commercial real estate contracts with regard to environmental issues and remediation agreements, including Brownfields agreements for investigation and remediation of hazardous substances. Mr. Reitano has been and is involved in defending agency enforcement actions, such as RCRA Permitting and Corrective Action and handling of RCRA listed wastes, CAA Title V and HAP issues, including trying such actions before Administrative Law Judges; Superfund actions, including negotiating Administrative Consent Orders and Memorandum of Agreements with state and federal agencies; and has worked with responsible parties to obtain cost-effective remediation objectives both for active sites and Brownfields. He was instrumental in negotiating one of the first United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 2 TSCA risk based cleanup approvals that was issued pursuant to the 1998 TSCA amendments. Mr. Reitano completed negotiating a first-of-its-kind remediation liability transfer agreement on behalf of a chemical company with a remediation contractor and the State of New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and, for another manufacturing client, a unique air pollution reduction agreement. He has handled regulatory matters in states in EPA Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 9, including currently handling a Title V/PSD enforcement action in Region 5.
Education
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law - Newark, Newark, New Jersey
J.D. - 1986
New Jersey Institute of Technology
B.S. - 1972
University of Maryland
M.S. - 1973
Bertram F. Ames and Edith Ames v. Crag Products, Inc., Melvin Wiesenthal, Frank A. Orechio, Teresa McHarg Inter Vivos Trust, and Armando B. Fontouro, as the Acting Sheriff of Essex County, ESX-C-15-91
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Shareholder
- Managing Director of Herold Law
Craig Provorny is Managing Director of Herold Law. His practice focuses on the representation of both plaintiffs and defendants in trust and estate litigation, environmental cost recovery actions, plaintiff insurance recovery, counseling clients in employment related matters, and general commercial litigation. Craig has appeared in both state and federal courts, including the trial, appellate, and New Jersey Supreme Court.
Edward Rubin, plaintiff v. Peregrine Building Corp, John R. Wallace, Gustav A. Hoffman, Ronald V. Kenderian, Closter Commons, Zebar, Inc. and John T. Wallace, defendants v. Peregrine Building Corp., Peregrine Financial Corp and Pergrine Excavating Corp, and John R. Wallace, Third-Party Plaintiffs v. Ethel Rubin, Third Party Defendant, C-001713
Mr. Sylvester was Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Intercat, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Intercat was a privately held specialty chemical company engaged in developing, manufacturing, and selling catalysts, additives and related products globally primarily for use in refining petroleum.
James S. Mulholland, Jr. Family Limited Partnership and Clariel J. Mulholland Family Limited Partnership v. Chubb Insurance of New Jersey, L-276-08
Practice Areas
Environmental
Biography
John McAleese's practice focuses exclusively on environmental matters. Mr. McAleese has helped corporations in such industries as energy, chemicals, manufacturing, and real estate development address their transactional, environmental compliance and litigation needs for more than 30 years. Drawing on his prior experience as a chemical engineer, Mr. McAleese is able to quickly assess risks and liabilities and offer his clients reasoned guidance based on their business objectives.
Mr. McAleese helps clients move forward on important business transactions while managing environmental factors. He advises them on environmental issues in corporate and real estate transactions, conducting environmental due diligence, negotiating environmental provisions within transaction documents and financing agreements, and providing guidance on property transfer permitting and authorization requirements.
Mr. McAleese advises clients on environmental regulatory compliance as well as insurance coverage related to environmental risks. Mr. McAleese has extensive experience advising and representing clients regarding waste water and storm water permitting issues under the federal Clean Water Act and state analogs, hazardous waste management issues pursuant to the federal RCRA program, and conducting environmental remediation projects under various state Brownfields programs. In addition, Mr. McAleese has assisted clients in complying with property transfer laws such as the New Jersey Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA).
When protecting clients' interests require more direct action, Mr. McAleese represents them in negotiating with environmental regulatory agencies or in defending them in civil and administrative environmental litigation. Such litigation includes cost recovery actions involving federal Superfund (CERCLA) and similar state statutes, enforcement actions, permit appeals, and environmental contamination toxic tort cases.
Mr. McAleese is a graduate of New York University School of Law and has a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree from Villanova University. Prior to going to law school, he was a practicing chemical engineer, specializing in process control.
Practice Areas
Taxation | Trusts and Estates
Biography
For over 30 years, Joseph M. Lemond has counseled clients on federal and state tax matters involving trust and estate planning, estate administration and individual tax planning. His counseling includes designing and implementing estate and succession plans involving charitable income tax deductions, qualified plan/IRA assets, generation skipping transfer tax "dynasty" trusts, life insurance trusts, charitable remainder trusts, charitable lead trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, and family limited partnerships. Active in national and state bar associations, Joseph is a past Chair of the Taxation Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and a member of the Section of Taxation of the American Bar Association.
Prior to joining Herold Law, P.A. in 1994, Joseph was an attorney at McCarter & English in Newark, New Jersey.
Practice Areas
Trusts and Estates | Taxation
Biography
Mr. O'Donnell focuses his practice on private client services, including the representation of high net worth individuals and families, estates and trusts in estate planning, tax, administration and related legal matters, the management and/or counseling of family offices, advising corporate executives on compensation matters, counseling not-for-profit corporations and foundations and providing tax advice on charitable giving.
Education
Rutgers School of Law - Camden, Camden, New Jersey
J.D. - 1973
Job Titles:
- Associate - Florida Office
Practice Areas
Trusts and Estates
Biography
Lauren Vazquez focuses her practice on estate planning, probate, and trust administration. She is licensed to practice law in Florida, where she resides and works out of the Firm's Florida office in Delray Beach. Lauren grew up in New Jersey and attended the University of Delaware, where she received her B.A. in History. She earned her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.
Education
Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
J.D. - 2011
University of Delaware
B.A. - 2007
Lisa White Luxenburg; v. PhillipWhite, Philisa Corp and JoMar, Inc., L-884-01
Job Titles:
- Counselor, BSA Patriot 's Path Council
Michael Sery, Matthew Sery and David Sery, v. Officers and Directors of Federal Business Centers, Federal Business Centers, Inc. Peter C. Visceglia, Christine Kanter and Frank D. Visceglia, Jr., 06-cv-0126 (FHS-PS)
Job Titles:
- Shareholder
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Land Use Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association
- Shareholder / Real Estate and Land Use
Practice Areas
Real Estate and Land Use | Civil Litigation | Corporate and Banking
Biography
Robert Simon's practice includes land use regulation before local zoning and planning boards; real estate-related litigation including land use, tenancy, tax appeal, condemnation, and title actions; and commercial and residential real estate transactions.
Mr. Simon is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Land Use Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association; Board Attorney for the Township of Tewksbury Land Use Board; Special Land Use Counsel for the Borough of Wallington as to Affordable Housing litigation; and Board Attorney for the Township of Millburn Board of Adjustment.
He has previously served as District Chair for the Office of Attorney Ethics, District XIII Fee Arbitration Committee; Panel Chair, District V-B Fee Arbitration Committee; and Chairman of the Borough of Peapack-Gladstone Land Use Board. He has participated as a panelist at land use seminars sponsored by ICLE and Lorman Education Services. Mr. Simon has also been qualified as an expert witness in real estate litigation matters by the Superior Court and District Court of New Jersey.
Mr. Simon received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, and his J.D. from Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, New York, where he served as a member of the Editorial Board of the New Europe Law Review. He was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable R. Benjamin Cohen, J.S.C. He has been admitted to practice law in New Jersey and New York, including U.S. District Court (District of New Jersey; Southern and Eastern District of New York) and U.S. Court of Appeals (Second and Third Circuit).
Education
Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, New York
J.D., Doctor of Jurisprudence - 1991
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
B.A., Bachelor of Arts - 1987