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- Member of the Ocean County Bar Association
Todd Wilson concentrates his practice on commercial, employment, and criminal litigation, representing clients in matters ranging from simple to complex. Mr. Wilson has extensive experience in litigating cases in federal and state courts, including trials, mediations, arbitrations, and appeals. Mr. Wilson founded his own firm in 2009, and he is experienced in all phases of litigation from commencement through trial and judgment enforcement, including motion practice, depositions, fact and expert discovery, trial preparation, mediations and arbitrations, and settlement negotiations. He is also experienced in all phases of criminal defense, from investigations through trial, sentencing, and post-sentencing violations of parole and probation, and has negotiated plea bargains, conducted plea hearings, drafted sentencing memoranda, argued sentencing and probation violation hearings, and negotiated parole violation sentences. Mr. Wilson also has experience counseling small business clients on contractual, employment, administrative, and regulatory matters.
Prior to founding his own firm, Mr. Wilson began his career with Lowenstein Sandler PC, an AmLaw 200 firm with a renowned nationwide litigation practice. While there, as Counsel to the firm's litigation department, he advised and represented corporate and individual clients in a wide array of matters in state and federal courts, including general and complex commercial litigation, securities and structured finance litigation, bankruptcy and asset recovery litigation, civil fraud cases, internal corporate investigations, consumer class action defense, construction litigation and contractor defense, transportation litigation, and products liability defense.
Mr. Wilson has also represented clients in various civil rights actions, including successfully defending a prominent preacher and advocate for the homeless unjustly charged in criminal proceedings. He also participated in litigation advocating for the humane relocation of homeless individuals evicted from a tent city. Mr. Wilson also represented various organizations advocating on behalf of children with disabilities across the state in a suit to enforce laws governing the education of children with disabilities.
Mr. Wilson was born and raised in New Jersey. Prior to attending college, he served in the U.S. Marine Corps, where he was trained as a rifleman and linguist. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice with high honors from Rutgers University in Newark. He received his law degree from Rutgers Law School in Newark, where he also graduated with high honors and was named the Saul Tischler Scholar and I.C.L.E. Merit Scholar and appointed to the Order of the Coif. He was also the recipient of the Philip Kravitz Memorial Prize for highest grade point average and West Publishing Company Prize for Highest Achievements in Criminal Law.
Mr. Wilson is a member of the Ocean County Bar Association and the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey.
Wesley Bridges is a partner in the firm and concentrates his practice on matters involving employment law and complex commercial litigation. Mr. Bridges is a recognized authority in employment law and has a vast amount of experience representing Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies in state and federal court. He has successfully represented corporate clients in cases involving discrimination, sexual harassment, the enforcement and interpretation of operating agreements and executive compensation packages, as well as prosecuted and enforced non-competes and restrictive covenants. Mr. Bridges routinely counsels companies regarding their compliance with employment laws and is a frequent lecturer at law schools and universities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Bridges also has substantial commercial litigation experience in state and federal court, and he has handled complex commercial litigation matters, including multi-state litigation on a national scale. His litigation experience includes all phases of discovery, orders to show cause and emergent relief, motions to dismiss, summary judgment motion practice, as well as bench and jury trials. Mr. Bridges' litigation practice includes representing staffing agencies in disputes involving privacy laws, hiring practices, wrongful discharge, whistleblower, family leave, disability leave, wage and hour as well as state and federal discrimination claims. He has trained employees at both corporations and state-run entities on the prevention of sexual harassment and discrimination claims at the workplace. Mr. Bridges has prepared numerous separation packages, post-employment confidentiality/non-compete agreements and has drafted dress code policies, anti-discrimination policies, personnel manuals and other related services applicable to the staffing industry.
A member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bars, Mr. Bridges is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and The Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He is also an active member of the New Jersey State and Burlington County Bar Associations.