Thomas J. Herten
Thomas J. Herten is equally effective in and out
of Court. Over the years, he has established a well-deserved
reputation for successfully handling litigation in the Federal and
State Courts for the firm’s business clients, and a distinctive
record of successfully representing his clients in business
planning, negotiations and skillfully handling complex corporate
management matters. He has substantial expertise in commercial and
residential land use projects and governmental law, interfacing with
municipal, county and state governments.
Mr. Herten’s extensive experience in commercial
and corporate law, zoning, planning and land use issues,
environmental regulations, water resource law, business
partnerships, corporate insurance matters, bankruptcies and chancery
litigation, as well as his representation of various New Jersey
cities and towns, enables him to provide a wide range of seasoned
advice to the firm’s many and diverse clients.
Continuing the tradition of excellence within the
firm, Mr. Herten was honored with the Lawyer Achievement Award for
2006, presented annually by the Bergen County Bar Foundation. This
award recognizes an attorney whose endeavors have served to
encourage and promote local, state and national efforts to improve
and modernize our legal system.
A distinguished civil trial attorney, Mr. Herten
has received appointments as a Special Master in commercial
litigation from both the Federal District Court and the New Jersey
Superior Court. An effective mediator, Mr. Herten has been chosen on
numerous occasions by the United States Bankruptcy Court, by the
Superior Court of New Jersey and by litigants themselves to aid in
resolving complex commercial matters. He has been selected by his
fellow lawyers to render opinions on matters relating to the
professional conduct and ethics of attorneys in New Jersey and has
been appointed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey to serve on the
local attorney Ethics Committee. He is admitted to practice before
the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals
for the Third Circuit, the United States District Courts for the
District of New Jersey and the Eastern and Southern Districts of New
York, as well as the New Jersey and the New York Supreme Courts. Mr.
Herten graduated cum laude from Seton Hall University School of Law
and earlier was a Thomas G. Sherman Scholar at Columbia University
School of Law. He served as Senior Law Clerk to the Honorable
Frederick B. Lacey, U.S.D.J., one of the nation’s preeminent
jurists.
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