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
D.C. Ritson
K.K. Ruggiero
E.S. Thompson

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

SPECIAL COUNSEL
G.C. Escala

DIRECTOR OF
OPERATIONS
D. Polizzotto

ATTORNEY MAIN PAGE

Kelly K. Ruggiero

Kelly K. Ruggiero practices in both the transactional and commercial litigation departments of Herten Burstein. On the transactional side, she participates in the negotiation and drafting of the gamut of merger and acquisition documents, together with documents relating to corporate governance. On the litigation side, Ms. Ruggiero handles all phases of the litigation process, through and including trial preparation.

After graduating from law school, Ms. Ruggiero served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert P. Contillo, J.S.C. in the New Jersey Superior Court, Bergen Vicinage. During her clerkship, Ms. Ruggiero gained significant experience in a variety of areas, including complex business and shareholder disputes, estate litigation and foreclosure matters. Ms. Ruggiero began her legal career as a paralegal in the corporate legal department of one of the nation's largest investor-owned water services companies.

Ms. Ruggiero is a 2001 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, where she was selected as a Washington Scholar in the Fall of 1999. Ms. Ruggiero received her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2006.

Kelly Ruggiero is a member of the Bergen County, Rockland County, New York and New Jersey State Bar Associations.

College of the Holy Cross
(B.A. 2001)

Seton Hall University School of Law
(J.D. 2006).

New Jersey
New York

U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey