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Alan G. Lesnewich Riker Danzig LLP
Fisher & Phillips LLP Headquarters Plaza, 1
430 Mountain Avenue, Suite Speedwell Avenue
303, Morristown, NJ 07962-1981
Hon. Rachelle L. Harz Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Phone: (973) 538-0800
Fax: (973) 538-1984
(Ret.) Phone: (908) 516 1076 E-mail: info@riker .com
E-mail: alesnewich@
Javerbaum Wurgaft fisherphillips.com Web: http://www .riker .com
Hicks Kahn Wikstrom Web: http://www.fisherphillips.com blank
& Sinins, P.C. 50 West State Street, Suite 1010
Trenton, NJ 08608-1220
505 Morris Avenue Degrees/Licenses: Phone: (609) 396-2121
– J .D ., 1985, cum laude, Seton Hall University
Springfield, NJ 07081 School of Law Fax: (609) 396-4578
Phone: (973) 379-4200 ext . 4540 – B .A ., 1975, Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum E-mail: info@riker .com
Cell: (201) 575-5923 laude, Colgate University Web: http://www .riker .com
E-mail: rharz@lawjw .com
Profile: Alan G . Lesnewich, J .S .C . (Ret .) Degrees/Licenses: J .D .
Degrees/Licenses: Bergan County Superior served for ten years as a Union County (New
Court, Civil Division Former Civil and Jersey) Superior Court judge after being Profile: The breadth of Riker Danzig’s
Multicounty Litigation Trial Judge practice allows us to offer unique services
appointed by the governor, and rejoined
Fisher Phillips upon his retirement from the to those seeking alternative methods of
Profile: Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn bench in May of 2023 . He draws on nearly resolving disputes . Our attorneys bring
Wikstrom & Sinins, PC offers a wide forty years of experience as a jurist, litigator broad experience in matters pertaining
range of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and trial attorney, including eight years as a to employment, intellectual property,
services, including mediation, arbitration, Fisher Phillips partner (2005-2013), to help construction, healthcare, trusts and estates,
and special masters, to provide law firms parties resolve employment cases by way of insurance, real estate, personal injuries,
with effective solutions for resolving mediation and arbitration . He also provides family, environmental law and more .
disputes outside of traditional court litigation . litigation and trial strategy advice to FP clients .
Legal areas include Our clients benefit from the considerable
personal injury, civil litigation, medical Because Judge Lesnewich spent the majority experience in the private and public sectors
malpractice, dental malpractice, professional of his ten years as a judge officiating civil that our attorneys bring to the resolution of
liability, employment matters, property trials, managing complex cases and handling disputes . This includes former Appellate
disputes, liquidated ascertained damages, a significant motion docket, he provides Court Judge Victor Ashrafi, who served for
commercial, alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services 20 years as a Judge of the Superior Court of
corporate and contract disputes and nursing to parties involved in commercial litigation, New Jersey and was also an Assistant U .S .
home litigation . claims of personal injury, medical malpractice, Attorney for 12 years . Former Assignment
dental malpractice, legal malpractice, Judge Travis Francis served for 25 years
Our ADR team includes former judges, insurance coverage, contracts and on the bench in Middlesex County, and was
each bringing their own unique professional professional malpractice matters . He is also previously in the Middlesex County Public
background and knowledge: available to provide litigation strategy, complex Defender’s Office. Former Judge James
case management and act as a discovery Rothschild was elected by the Supreme Court
Hon. Kenneth J. Grispin (Ret.) master in such civil matters . to be the complex civil litigation judge in the
kgrispin@lawjw .com state’s busiest county. We also benefit from
Fisher Phillips will work with you upfront the guidance of Stewart Pollock, former New
Presiding Judge (Ret .), Union County Superior to craft effective ADR programs, including Jersey Supreme Court Justice and a Fellow
Court, Civil Division Former Certified Civil and binding arbitration agreements, that address of the American College of Commercial
Criminal Trial Attorney your specific needs, implement them across Arbitrators .
your organization, and vigorously enforce
Hon. Rachelle L. Harz (Ret.) them in any venue nationwide . We’ve Our ADR attorneys regularly serve as
rharz@lawjw .com represented clients in every industry in arbitrators, legal mediators and negotiators,
arbitrations, mediations, neutral evaluations and provide services in managing complex
Bergan County Superior Court, Civil Division in all relevant forums across the United cases, including serving as special masters
Former Civil and Multicounty Litigation Trial States (and many abroad) and have compiled and discovery masters . We also regularly
Judge an excellent record of obtaining successful conduct internal corporate investigations .
outcomes . Because we’ve opposed the
Hon. Marianne Espinosa (Ret.) leading plaintiffs’ firms many times in the past, Riker Danzig provides the complete range
mespinosa@lawjw .com we know the best ways to counter their tactics, of legal services in matters pertaining to,
including mass arbitration demands . corporate law, financial institutions, tax,
Union County Superior Court, Appellate trusts and estates, environmental law, public
Division (Ret .) Former Civil, Criminal and Our lawyers have represented many hundreds utilities, labor and employment, insurance,
Family Division of unionized businesses in labor arbitration Healthcare, bankruptcy and reorganization,
Trial Judge real estate, family law, intellectual property
proceedings involving all manner of disputes
ranging from discharge cases to cases with and governmental affairs .
(Please see our resume on page 127 for further tremendous potential exposure such as those
details.) involving plant closings, production standards, (Please see our resume on page 136 for further
severance pay, benefit plans and other related details.)
issues .

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