On The Move: New Partners Announced at NJ Firms

Charleston, West Virginia-based Bailey & Glasser promotes Patricia Kipnis in the firm’s Haddonfield office. She concentrates her practice on complex litigation and appellate advocacy, including mass torts, consumer rights litigation, class actions and contract disputes…Cole Schotz welcomes retiring U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Donald Steckroth, who will be based in Cole Schotz’s New York and Hackensack offices. During his 14-year tenure with the District of New Jersey, Steckroth presided over bankruptcy proceedings and related litigation that have drawn national attention across many industries. He joins Cole Schotz’s bankruptcy and corporate restructuring practice, with an emphasis on complex in- and out-of-court corporate restructurings, state and federal insolvency proceedings and high-stakes bankruptcy litigation. Prior to his appointment to the bench, Steckroth was an attorney at Gibbons in Newark for 28 years…Hill Wallack in Princeton promotes Jonathan Katz and Eric Kelner. Katz is a member of the firm’s community associations practice group. He concentrates his practice in the areas of community association law and general litigation, representing condominium and homeowners associations throughout New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania. Kelner is a member of the firm’s creditors’ rights/bankruptcy and hospitality practice groups. His creditors’ rights clients include state chartered banks, regional banks, national banks, equipment financing companies, servicers, receivers, federal agencies, quasi-governmental lenders, commercial landlords, asset purchasers, hedge funds and individual creditors in all matters of creditor’s rights and bankruptcy…K&L Gates in Newark promotes of counsel Marina Solo. She represents private and public companies in the areas of general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, health law, life sciences, and technology law…Keith McWha has joined the intellectual property law firm of Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik in Westfield as a partner in the firm’s pharmaceutical and transactional practices. He was formerly a partner at McCarter & English in Newark. Prior to entering private practice, he served as in-house counsel at Becton Dickinson and Company in Franklin Lakes.

New Firm

Anthony Suarez, formerly of Dario Albert Suarez & Eyerman in Hackensack, and Juan Carlos Moran, formerly of Levy Konigsberg in New York City, have formed a new partnership, Werner Suarez & Moran, located at 1 University Plaza, Suite 117, Hackensack, N.J. 07601; Phone: 201-487-4111; Fax: 201-487-4979; Anthony Suarez [email protected]. They specialize in civil litigation, personal injury, workers’ compensation, real estate transactions and government law.

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