SHAFRON LAW GROUP - Key Persons
Jared is admitted to practice in New Jersey (1987) and Minnesota (1986) and has practice in New Jersey since 1989.
Jared is primarily a business lawyer, representing and advising clients in business transactions and litigation. Business transactions include the formation of new businesses, the drafting and development of partnership, operating and shareholder agreements (including buy-sell agreements), the implementation of business succession plans, the buying and selling of businesses and business interests and the acquisition, sale, leasing and financing of both commercial and residential real estate. Jared has extensive litigation experience in these areas of law in courts throughout northern New Jersey. Jared's litigation experience includes contract disputes, shareholder or partner buyouts and litigation and probate litigation related to will contests and disputes.
Jared has a unique interest in the representation of builders and contractors and their special needs related to real estate development, business and consumer contracts and consumer fraud compliance. He has extensive experience representing individual homeowners who have been harmed by the actions of unscrupulous builders and remodelers and pursuing their (consumer fraud and related) claims against home improvement contractors. He is a frequent lecturer and writer on issues the New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act and its risks and dangers to businesses, as well as its protections to consumers.
Jared also has extensive experience in representing community associations (condominium and cooperative apartment buildings and home owner associations), providing general advice and implementing strategies and actions for effective governance and operations of such entities.
As a former municipal prosecutor, Jared has a broad understanding of the municipal court process and law, helping clients achieve successful resolution of an often stressful circumstance.
Jared is actively involved in his Pascack Valley community, as a recreation athletics coach and leader and as a member of various local charitable organizations. In addition to having coached his children and dozens of others in soccer, basketball and softball in River Vale and Hillsdale, NJ, he is the former President of the River Vale Youth Soccer Association and former Athletic Director of the Township of River Vale. He was a long time member and a term President of the Westwood Rotary Club and a long time Trustee of the Dr. David Goldberg Child Care Center a Non Profit child care center formerly of Westwood, NJ. Jared has served as Prosecutor of the Township of River Vale and as a Member of its Planning Board.
Jared is a soccer enthusiast having traveled to Israel with a soccer team competing in the international Maccabiah games of 2009. His other interests include fitness training, food, riding his motorcycle and music.
Jason Shafron is admitted to practice in New Jersey (1991) and New York (1995). He represents and provides counsel to individuals and businesses in a variety of matters related to their business and personal needs and interests. Mr. Shafron offers personal attention to each matter, taking the time necessary to understand his clients in order to provide zealous and efficient advocacy.
Primarily a business lawyer, Mr Shafron represents and advises clients in the formation of new businesses, the drafting and development of partnership and shareholder agreements, the implementation of business succession plans, the buying and selling of businesses and business interests and in real estate acquisitions, financing, leasing and sales.
For 25 years, Mr. Shafron has provided his business and personal clients the highest level of professionalism, legal knowledge and client-centered service. We are not a high volume practice but rather high quality in our approach. We are selective with respect to the clients and the cases that we accept. When you become a client of our law firm, you become part of our family.
Jonathan Vender is an associate at Shafron Law Group. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Before joining Shafron Law Group in 2017, Mr. Vender was an associate at a Pennsylvania law firm, where he helped represent businesses in complex litigation. He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Bergen County Bar Association, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Zachary Bernstein is an associate at the Shafron Law Group, LLC. Zachary is admitted to practice in New Jersey (2011) and New York (2015).
Before joining the Shafron Law Group, LLC, Zachary had extensive experience in litigation and counseling in matters involving complex commercial and employment issues at a Bergen County law firm.
Zachary earned his B.S. from The College of Charleston and his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, where he was a member of the Seton Hall Law Tax Society and was a Director of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Pro Bono Program. During law school, Zachary worked as a judicial intern in the chambers of the Hon. Brian R. Martinotti, J.S.C. and worked as a legal intern in City of Newark's Law Department.