POSTPOLAK - Key Persons
Amanda C. Wolfe's practice is focused on zoning and land use law and estate and trust litigation. She has significant experience representing municipal zoning and planning boards throughout Somerset, Union, Hunterdon and Morris Counties. Amanda currently represents the Chatham Township Board of Adjustment, Borough of New Providence Board of Adjustment and Borough of New Providence Planning Board.
Since 2021, Amanda has been recognized as a New Jersey Super Lawyer Rising Star, a designation received by no more than 2.5% of lawyers in practice for 10 years or less in the State of New Jersey. She serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Land Use Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
Amanda served as a law clerk in the Chancery Division to both the Honorable Katherine R. Dupuis, P.J. Ch/P.J.F.P. (ret.) and the Honorable Frederic S. Kessler, P.J.Ch. (Ret.). While attending law school, Amanda interned for the Office of the Attorney General - Consumer Affairs Division, the Honorable Paul Armstrong J.S.C. (ret.), the Honorable Frederic S. Kessler, P.J.Ch. (ret.) and Florida Institutionalized Legal Services.
Anton Lendor is involved in Post Polak's Land Use / Redevelopment, Commercial Real Estate and Municipal Law practices.
Anton has provided legal services regarding the designation of redevelopment areas, rehabilitation areas, and redevelopment plans. He also defended against various challenges to redevelopment designations and redevelopment plans at both the Law Division and the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court. He also negotiates redevelopment agreements and financial agreements for both public and private clients.
Prior to joining Post Polak, Anton was a partner with DeCotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP. He has significant experience with the construction phase of redevelopment/development. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering with an emphasis on construction management.
Prior to practicing law, Anton was involved with various Newark school construction projects and the construction of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC). Additionally, he is a former commissioner of the Landmarks and Historic Preservation Commission and Zoning Board of Adjustment. He has worked as one of the lead attorneys on several transformative redevelopment and public works projects within the City of Newark.
In 2019, Governor Phil Murphy appointed Anton to the New Jersey Educational Opportunity Fund ("EOF") Board of Directors. The EOF was created by law in 1968 to ensure meaningful access to higher education for students that come from backgrounds of economic and educational disadvantage, and to contribute to the development of a college-educated public that reflects the diversity of the State. It provides financial assistance and support services, such as counseling, tutoring and developmental coursework, for low-income New Jersey residents who are capable and motivated but lack adequate resources for college study.
In 2020, Anton was inducted into the Rutgers African-American Alumni Alliance Hall of Fame.
Baye Adofo-Wilson is a lawyer, consultant and real estate developer with expertise in arts and cultural districts, sustainability and mixed-income housing. He focuses his law practice on New Jersey Redevelopment Law and Opportunity Zones.
Baye has a real estate development and consulting firm, BAW Development LLC, which focuses on developing transformative, residential and mixed-use projects in urban communities. Currently, BAW Development, LLC is in partnership with RPM Development to preserve and rehabilitate Hinchliffe Stadium in Paterson, NJ, a historic Negro League baseball Stadium. They will also develop a restaurant, exhibition space, housing and a parking structure. BAW Development is also designated developer of the West Lake Redevelopment Area in Neptune, New Jersey, a historic African-American Community and they are planning to develop 124 units of mixed-income housing, 10,000 square feet retail, commercial and a restaurant. BAW Development, LLC is also working in Jackson, Mississippi, helping to revitalize Farish Street, the historic African American entertainment district, and the development of the city's Opportunity Zones.
Baye was formerly Deputy Mayor/Director of Economic and Housing Development (EHD) for Newark, NJ. While he was at EHD's helm, Newark had an unprecedented $2+ billion of development, including annually 2,000 units of housing built, three million square feet of commercial development and three million square feet of industrial development. Baye managed the development of two significant parks in Newark: Mulberry Commons, a three-acre park in the city's downtown, and three-mile-long Riverfront Park, along the Passaic River. As the Director of EHD, Baye managed the departments of housing, property management, real estate, economic development, planning, zoning and the office of sustainability.
Baye was a 2014-2015 Urban Design Critic at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a member of the 2013-2014 Loeb Fellows class at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. While at Harvard, he examined strategies and opportunities for reimagining and rebuilding low-income communities using sustainability, culture and real estate development as a model to spur economic development and increase local participation.
Before Harvard, he co-founded the Lincoln Park/Coast Cultural District, an organization redeveloping the Lincoln Park neighborhood in the City of Newark. He led a comprehensive effort to transform a low-income Newark neighborhood into a sustainable cultural district that included affordable housing and mixed-use developments, urban agriculture, music festivals, historic restoration and workforce development projects.
Baye is a decorated US Army veteran.
Clyde Otis joined Post Polak in 2015. He has over 25 years of commercial litigation experience in Federal and State courts and a lifetime of experience addressing the business and legal needs of the entertainment industry. Most recently, Clyde spent over 10 years in the public sector, where he represented municipal entities in legal and business affairs, land use, redevelopment, labor and disciplinary matters, litigation and municipal prosecution. He served the City of Newark as:
First Assistant Corporation Counsel
Assistant Chief Municipal Prosecutor and DWI Prosecutor
Labor and Employment Counsel
Legislative Director for Economic and Housing Development, and
Acting Planning Board Attorney
Experience
Clyde successfully represented Newark in litigation and transactional matters, and helped developers navigate redevelopment projects, contracts and planning matters through Newark's legal and legislative process. He also spent several years as the Municipal Prosecutor for Maplewood and has served as Special Prosecutor for Orange and Irvington. He has tried hundreds of municipal court cases including over 30 DWI trials. Clyde represented the City of Newark in over 100 disciplinary actions, police trials and administrative proceedings and also negotiated collective bargaining agreements. Clyde's tenure in Newark's City Hall assists the Firm in its current position as General Counsel to the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation. Clyde's land use experience is enhanced by his current position as a member of he Zoning Board of Adjustments for the Township of Maplewood.
Clyde comes from a family with very strong ties to the entertainment industry. They have been in the music business for over 60 years. His father, Clyde Sr., was a legendary songwriter and producer, writing and producing hits for Brook Benton, Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole, Aretha Franklin, Johnny Mathis, Randy Travis, Ray Charles and countless others. He was also one of the first black executives at a major record company. His mother, Lourdes, a very success model who appeared on the cover of Ebony and other magazines, was the first person of color with a recurring role on primetime television. For many years, Clyde has handled all litigation, legal and business affairs involving over 4,000 copyrights and 300 writers. He is experienced in copyright infringement litigation as well as experienced in television and movie transactional representation.
Earlier in his legal career, Clyde was associated with large, mid-sized and boutique law firms in New Jersey and New York. He is an Adjunct Professor at Cardozo Law School; teaching Municipal Governance. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable William L. Hungate, USDJ, Eastern District of Missouri.
After three decades of litigating a wide range of issues, David Epstein has developed a diversified practice that he attributes to his role as a problem solver. Dave principally handles commercial litigation, hospitality, alcoholic beverage, municipal, family and employment disputes (appearing before Federal and State Courts and administrative tribunals and agencies in these matters). He has also become familiar with many "sub-sets" of these practice areas or related areas such as estate and trust disputes, real estate disputes, corporate disputes, trade secret litigation, commercial tenancy litigation, consumer protection litigation and civil rights matters. Dave also specializes in seeking and opposing requests for emergent relief in these practice areas which must be handled in an expedited fashion. In that regard, Dave prides himself in being able to effectively evaluate and assess cases in an early fashion, thus affording his clients the advantage of having their course better charted from the outset of representation.
He is very involved in his community, having served as trustee of the Madison, NJ Community Pool Corporation, trustee of the Madison Cooperative School and coach of the Madison Junior Football team.
Dave has received an AV Preeminent rating by Martindale. He has been included in the list of New Jersey Super Lawyers as a top-rated business litigator.
Douglas Sherman is an experienced transactional attorney advising clients in a broad array of matters. Doug strives to provide his clients with realistic and practical advice in order to further their goals and provide them with an understanding of the legal issues involved in the transaction and viable resolutions, from contract to closing. He has advised clients in all aspects of real estate and other business transactions, including business entity formation, real property sales and acquisitions, asset purchases, leasing and financings. He has worked on a multitude of matters over his career, both large and small, from advising clients on multi-million-dollar transactions to handling more modest deals, such as negotiating a lease for a client's retail store. Doug also has extensive experience advising clients as local counsel in multistate transactions where expertise on the intricacies of New Jersey law and custom are required.
In addition to representing clients in more traditional types of business transactions, Doug is also involved in advising restaurant, hotel, bar and tavern owners and operators, suppliers and distributors regarding alcoholic beverage law and regulations. He provides counsel with respect to the often complicated and little-known rules and laws governing the distribution, sale and service of alcoholic beverages and the purchase, sale and transfer of liquor licenses. Through his many years of experience in this area of law, he is able to assist clients in developing and implementing strategies to ensure compliance with applicable regulations while meeting their business goals.
Ellen Kim has extensive knowledge and experience in all matters of business law, entity formation and a variety of commercial transactions.
Her experience in corporate matters includes business formation, entrepreneurships, partnerships, employment and executive compensation, expansion and dissolution and financing, with specialization in private equity financing.
Ellen has worked closely with boards of directors of both public and privately held corporations spanning several industries, including fashion, hospitality, renewable energy, private equity funds, fund administrators and investment advisors.
She has also had the unique opportunity of becoming fluent in working with all sides of the start-up universe. Ellen began her career representing start-up companies seeking venture capital funding or incubation services and began to introduce venture capital and business incubator contacts to the companies she was representing. That early relationship-building process eventually developed into a comprehensive effort to help both start-up companies seeking funding and venture capital funds and business incubators seeking profitable new investments.
Ellen has experience nurturing start-ups through the business life cycle, serving them from their formative stages, during periods of growth, and through their exits. Depending on the needs of the company, she has served in the capacity of general counsel, playing an active role in day-to-day operations and functioning as an integral part of company management, providing legal advice and business counsel and, alternatively, participating as a situational advisor who consults with in-house legal counsel and executive teams regarding strategic corporate decisions.
Mr. Polak has been with the Firm for over 35 years. He spent the first six years of his professional life with the U.S. Department of Justice, including some three and one-half years with the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey. He has tried countless cases before juries and has extensive bench trial experience as well. Mr. Polak has also been appointed outside counsel by the New Jersey Attorney General in representing employees of County Prosecutors' Offices and the Department of Corrections in employment and civil rights cases. He served as a Trustee of the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey and a Master of the American Inns of Court Foundation, and has been selected as a New Jersey Super Lawyer for each year since 2005.
Fred is the resident partner at the firm's Millington office. Prior to joining Post Polak, he was a principal of Bisogno, Loeffler & Zelley in Basking Ridge. He began his career with Bross, Strickland, Cary, Grossman & Icaza in Newark. Prior to beginning his practice, Fred was Law Clerk to the Honorable Marilyn Rhyne Herr in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Hunterdon County.
Glen J. Vida provides legal services in the areas of environmental litigation and complex commercial matters, as well as residential and commercial closings. Prior to joining Post Polak, he had a distinguished career as a solo practitioner for over 35 years.
Glen has focused his practice on actions involving environmental remediation, recovery claims against insurance companies and direct polluters, prosecuting as well as defending environmental matters, and statewide cleanup actions. He has represented both individual operators as well as large corporations. He has prosecuted claims against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and defended actions commenced by them.
In commercial cases, Glen has litigated multi-state claims involving insurance companies, prosecuting, and defending claims on behalf of a variety of clients, including pharmaceutical distribution companies, insurance agencies and individual business operators. He has negotiated commercial Leases and litigated to enforce or to challenge them.
He has appeared before the New Jersey trial courts, appellate division and the State Supreme Court, as well as the Federal District Courts in New Jersey and New York.
Glen has directed his clients to form new corporations and LLCs and negotiated and drafted operating agreements and other shareholder arrangements. He has also represented estates through probate and distribution. In addition, he has represented numerous trucking companies in formation, defense, insurance coverage, licensing and operational legal oversight.
Glen was a member of the Union County Ethics Committee for nine years, and was chosen as chairman, working closely with the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics. Presently, Glen has been appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Special Ethics Master, presiding over disciplinary hearings involving attorney misconduct.
Job Titles:
- Asbestos Conference - Chair of Panel on "Ethics in Mass Tort Litigation" February 2015 and 2016
After serving New Jersey for 34 years in the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control (NJABC), J. Wesley ("Wes") Geiselman joined Post Polak as of counsel in Post Polak's Hospitality, Alcoholic Beverages and Cannabis Law Group.
Jerry Fischer provides legal services to Post Polak's alcoholic beverage industry clients. Previously, Jerry had a distinguished 37-year career with the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General, serving between 2000 and 2012 as the Director of the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control for the State of New Jersey. Prior to assuming the role of Director, Jerry served as Senior Associate Counsel to Governor Christine Whitman, Section Chief of the Claims Litigation Section, Senior Deputy Attorney General in Charge of Litigation, and Assistant Deputy Director in Charge of Litigation.
Over the course of his career, Jerry has had extensive experience in alcoholic beverage law, the New Jersey Tort Claims Act, eminent domain and inverse condemnation, civil rights, employment law, and administrative and appellate practice. He has served on a number of New Jersey Supreme Court committees and has also been a lecturer for local and state bar associations, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and the New Jersey Attorney General's Advocacy Institute. Before becoming a lawyer, Jerry was a nuclear chemist.
John Post's practice focuses on substantial litigation and transactional matters for both private and public sector clients. Among his notable accomplishments, he has negotiated contracts for a head coach in the NFL, tried a nationally televised divorce case against a former governor of the State of New Jersey, and has been the attorney for the Borough of Mountainside for 43 years, on whose behalf he has conducted ground-breaking litigation against other local governments, regional authorities and the State of New Jersey. Most recently, in an effort which the Court Appointed Special Master, Retired Judge Eugene Serpentelli, described as "outstanding," and which demonstrated remarkable prescience, John obtained a Judgment of Repose through the courts which gave Mountainside immunity from Mt. Laurel suits for ten years. Six months later, the New Jersey Supreme Court acknowledged COAH's administrative ineffectiveness and made judgments obtained through the courts the exclusive vehicle for municipalities seeking immunity from Mt. Laurel lawsuits.
John is a Marine, having spent three years as a JAG Officer in the Marine Corps, trying courts-martial and advising Marine Commands in the U.S. and the Republic of Vietnam, where he served in Danang during the TET Offensive. On his release from active duty, he founded the law firm which has grown to become Post Polak Goodsell & Strauchler. He was the Managing Partner until 2008, when he resigned in order to devote his full attention to the firm's clients.
John has received an AV Preeminent rating by Martindale.
Kathryn A. Kopp's practice is focused on real estate, land use, landlord/tenant matters and commercial transactions. She has represented individuals and commercial clients in virtually all aspects of the acquisition and sale of real estate and business assets as well as the drafting and negotiation of leases.
Kathryn has assisted in obtaining variance approvals for individuals and businesses seeking to develop properties in a number of municipalities throughout New Jersey. She has also assisted clients in obtaining approvals of development projects from Historic Commissions in Somerset County, NJ.
Kathryn received her undergraduate degree from Saint Leo University and her law degree from New York Law School.
Marsha Moore concentrates her practice on zoning and land use, real estate, commercial transactions and consumer bankruptcy. She represents purchasers, sellers, borrowers, landlords and tenants in all facets of real estate and commercial transactions.
In addition, Marsha handles all aspects of business advice and transactions on behalf of both existing companies and startups, including review, negotiation, preparation of all types of commercial agreements including sales agreements, leases, formation, dissolution of limited liability companies and corporations, sales and purchases of assets and stock/membership/partnership interests.
Marsha has obtained timely land-use approvals for clients, including subdivision and site plan approvals and all types of variances, in a variety of settings. These include the development, leasing and financing of residential and mixed-use buildings, retail buildings, office buildings, houses of worship and schools. She has appeared before countless municipal and county boards throughout the State of New Jersey, including numerous municipal planning boards, zoning boards and historic commissions.
Marsha has represented developers in many of Newark's major real estate projects in the past few years, including Teachers Village at Four Corners, located in downtown Newark, consisting of the construction of eight buildings to provide 204 units of residential workforce housing, three charter schools, pre-school daycare and a variety of retail spaces at the ground level of each building; Hahnes and Company Department Store, a mixed-use development consisting of 212 residential units, art school, commercial/office space and a new parking garage; a new high school at North Star Academy Charter School; site plan approval for AeroFarms, a vertical and urban farm complex; and "Homes2Suites by Hilton," a five-story, 137-room hotel.
Marsha also represents debtors, secured creditors and unsecured creditors in matters involving Chapters 7 and 13 bankruptcy.
Marsha was included on the list of ROI Influencers: People of Color 2023.
Prior to joining Post Polak, Marsha was a partner with Pitman Mindas Grossman Lee and Moore.
Richard D. Nasca provides legal services to the firm's alcoholic beverage industry clients. Rich started his legal career as a law clerk with the State of New Jersey, Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control in 1998. He was later sworn in as a Deputy Attorney General with the Division in 1999. Rich served as a Deputy Attorney General with the Division until 2009, when he left State service to go into private practice where he worked at a law firm that represented clients in all tiers of the alcoholic beverage industry.
During his time at the Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, Rich was involved with all aspects of alcoholic beverage regulation and enforcement. For most of his tenure with the Division, he was assigned to the Enforcement Bureau, where he assisted with investigations and prosecuted licensees who violated the State's alcoholic beverage control laws.
Rich is an experienced transactional attorney advising clients in a broad array of matters in the alcoholic beverage industry. Rich is involved in advising restaurants, hotels, bars, liquor stores, manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers and distributors regarding alcoholic beverage laws and regulations. He provides counsel with respect to the often complicated and little-known rules and laws governing the manufacturing, distribution, sale and service of alcoholic beverages and the acquisition, sale and transfer of all types of alcoholic beverage licenses.
Rich is also a regular lecturer on the topic of alcoholic beverage law at the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education.
Robert Goodsell is an experienced transactional attorney, closing substantial matters for the firm's institutional and corporate clients. He has served as General Counsel to Morristown Municipal Airport, as well as General Counsel to the Warren Township Sewerage Authority, a position he held from 1988 until 2016. Bob also has extensive appellate litigation experience.
Experience
Representing DM Airports, Ltd., operators of Morristown Municipal Airport, Bob has handled:
Job Titles:
- Director of New Jersey 's Administrative Office of the Courts
Mr. Sanders served as Legal Assistant to Director Robert D. Lipscher, the Director of New Jersey's Administrative Office of the Courts, and was a law clerk to Hon. Herbert S. Alterman, J.S.C. in Passaic County. Mr. Sanders was a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court's District V-B Ethics Committee from 1997 to 2001, where he successfully prosecuted Matter of Sidney S. Kanter, 162 N.J. 118 (1999). Mr. Sanders serves as Vice-Chair of the District X-B Ethics Committee. He was also a founding member of the Justice Wm. J. Brennan, Jr. Inn of Court, and a Master of the Inn from 1995 to 2003.
Siobhan Beere is a partner with the firm concentrating on employment law, local government law, and litigation defense. Ms. Beere began working with the firm in 2004 as a legal assistant/paralegal, and continued to work full-time while completing both her masters and law degrees. This has resulted in Ms. Beere having extensive experience in a variety of practice areas, including appellate practice. While completing her master's program, Ms. Beere also completed an externship and thereafter became employed at West Bergen Mental Healthcare, where she continued to work part time while completing her law degree at Rutgers School of Law-Newark.
Ms. Beere has extensive experience in advising corporate and public entity clients on the development, implementation, and enforcement of employment related policies and practices. Her experience has grown substantially in the past year as clients had to navigate the "new normal" of maintaining a business during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ms. Beere is also a primary member of our litigation defense practice and currently represents police and state employees throughout the State of New Jersey. To that end, Ms. Beere regularly appears on behalf of clients in federal and state courts. She regularly represents corporate clients and local government agencies in the defense of employment and labor related matters. She also regularly represents state employees, as assigned by the New Jersey Attorney General, in the defense of civil rights and alleged law enforcement misconduct claims.
Ms. Beere holds a Master's Degree in Forensic Psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and a Juris Doctor from Rutgers School of Law. She was admitted to the Bars of New Jersey and New York in 2014. Ms. Beere has also been a Visiting Professor of Ethics at DeVry University and Adjunct Faculty in the Paralegal Program at Raritan Valley Community College since 2018.
Steven Rother brings more than forty years' experience to clients involved in complex transactions involving a broad range of business and property types. He garnered that experience both in the practice of law and by holding executive positions at the highest levels at firms involved in debt and equity finance.
Experience
Following law school and a Superior Court clerkship, Steve held positions as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Newark and as General Counsel for the City's Redevelopment and Housing Authority. In those positions he was involved in major redevelopment projects, which included the development/construction by the Rockefeller Group of a new headquarters for New Jersey Public Service Electric and Gas, and numerous multifamily projects financed with tax-exempt securities. Steve left those positions to join Manhattan-based Related Companies, a national real estate developer and syndicator. At Related, Steve formed two affiliates: a commercial mortgage bank and an NASD municipal securities broker/dealer. Steve was a principal in and served as President of both entities. He had the mortgage banking entity qualified as an FHA project lender and a Ginnie Mae issuer. The firm served both Related and third parties.
After serving Related for fourteen years, Steve purchased the mortgage-servicing portfolio from Related and formed his own mortgage banking firm. Utilizing FHA mortgage insurance and Ginnie Mae securities, the firm created a specialty financing nursing homes and assisted living residences. In addition, the firm engaged in numerous multifamily conduit financings. In four short years, that firm grew its portfolio so that Steve was able to merge his firm with the mortgage banking affiliate of Heartland Bank. In the process, Steve became President of that entity, which had eight offices throughout the country.
In 1999 Steve made a career change and joined a startup healthcare company as its General Counsel. That firm rapidly grew through acquisitions and new construction of nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Steve handled all legal aspects of acquisition and construction, including the financing thereof. In addition, Steve handled land use applications for newly constructed facilities in New Jersey. In so doing he developed a means to secure approvals for the construction of facilities in high-end residential zones by pursuing fair housing claims in the federal courts. Since then, Steve has expanded upon that approach to land use and secured approvals for drug and alcohol treatment facilities, AIDS residences and hospices. By the time Steve left in 2003, the company's portfolio had grown to more than 120 facilities nationwide, including a REIT portfolio that was purchased and taken private.
Steve has now returned to the private practice of law at Post Polak, where he brings his wide-ranging experience to benefit the firm's clients, resolving their problems and advancing their business interests. In addition to practicing law, for the past twelve years he has served as the Chairman of the Essex County Improvement Authority, the public and private financing arm of the county, and the owner/operator of the Essex County Airport. Steve now serves as the Executive Director of that authority.
Steve has been included on the list of 2024 Best Lawyers in America in the area of Municipal Law.
William D. Sanders draws upon his 40 years of experience working with, and against, the leading attorneys in this state, to find creative solutions to our clients' problems. Mr. Sanders takes a holistic approach to the conduct of litigation. Reflexive, boilerplate pleadings and discovery objections are not in his vocabulary. He understands that communicating real positions to judges and adversaries projects strength and that rote responses project weakness. Mr. Sanders looks for the ‘touchpoints' in the relationships between not only the parties, but parties and their counsel and insurers that often drive the conduct of litigation and resistance to case resolution. Mr. Sanders then pursues strategies to expose/put pressure on those relationships in order to focus the parties on how their interests are best served/protected by resolutions that provide the best, most cost-effective case resolution for our clients.
Mr. Sanders concentrates his practice in complex commercial mass tort, products liability, professional liability, insurance coverage and personal injury defense. He has substantial experience in asbestos litigation, having represented both Fortune 100 companies and mining companies as defendants. He also has experience representing clients in professional liability, personal injury, insurance coverage, consumer protection and securities arbitration matters.
His published opinions include Grubbs v. Knoll, 376 N.J. Super 420 (App. Div. 2005) where he successfully obtained triple damages and over $575,000 in attorneys' fees and expenses. Mr. Sanders also participated in Strasenburgh v. Straubmuller, 146 N.J. 527 (1996), which established important corporate law principles, and the Philippines v. Westinghouse litigation, which yielded over a half-dozen published opinions concerning significant substantive and federal procedural principles.
Mr. Sanders also served on the insurers' team prosecuting the declaratory judgment action concerning the $60 million property insurance claim of the owners of the Essex House Hotel following its renovation in the early 1990s. Mr. Sanders has participated in several major defense committees in insurance litigation, including the $900 million claim of the New Jersey Attorney General against the members of the former Joint Underwriting Association.
Mr. Sanders has been a frequent lecturer for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE), and has created, moderated and participated in seminars such as "Taking the Pledge: How to Conduct a Civil Practice," "Civil Motion Practice," "Post-Trial Issues," "Personal Injury Law: Tips for a Better Practice," and "Confidentiality and Its Limitations." He has also lectured for Lorman Educational Services concerning "Litigation Ethics" and "Purchasing Law: UCC Sec. 2-207."
Mr. Sanders's article, "Essential Tools for Successful Mediation They Don't Teach You at Your Average ADR CLE," was recently published in The New Jersey Law Journal.