MEMBERS
T.J. Herten
A. Burstein
P.F. Sheridan, Jr.
A.J. Cevasco
T.P. Bottinelli
A.D. Litt
S.B. Harz
P. Papalia
R.J. Contant
S.M. Marra
T.S. McGuire
A.T. Fede
G.A.Pietrafesa
S.D. Jacobson
M.I. Lubin
N.O. DeScherer
D.Y. Gielchinsky

ASSOCIATES
P. Ascolese
L.R. Bicocchi
C.P. Bossong
T.J. Fagan
C.B. Hand
L.J.C. Hardesty, Jr.
M.R. Olszak
J. O'Neill
D.C. Ritson
E.S. Thompson

OF COUNSEL
J.T. Shafron
W.H. Schmidt, Jr.
D.S. Steinberg
L.C. Tomasella
C. Brooks

SPECIAL COUNSEL
G.C. Escala

DIRECTOR OF
OPERATIONS
D. Polizzotto

ATTORNEY MAIN PAGE

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.

Seton Hall University
(B.A. 1967)

Columbia University School of Law
(1967)

Seton Hall University School of Law
(J.D. 1973)

New Jersey
New York

U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

U.S. Supreme Court