Robert T. Regan
Robert T. Regan PC

Robert T. Regan has represented New Jersey municipalities for more than three decades and is presently the Borough Attorney for Harrington Park, Midland Park and Upper Saddle River. He also serves as Planning Board Attorney for Montvale, Old Tappan and Norwood. In addition to substantial experience in land use and municipal law, he has litigated several Mount Laurel II matters and has been appointed by the Superior Court as a special master and monitor in such litigation. He has been counsel of record in many reported cases in the fields of municipal and land use law. He has maintained his law practice in Westwood since 1977. He presently serves as Co-Chair of the Municipal Law Committee of the Bergen County Bar Association. In 2009 he received from the NJILGA the Fred G. Stickel Award for excellence in local government law.

Brian M. Guest
Parker McCay

Practice Areas:
Municipal Law; Redevelopment; Commercial Real Estate; Land Use; Non-Profit Organizations

Professional Experience:
Mr. Guest has represented municipalities, public utilities and private clients for over 35 years. He focuses his practice on government and administrative law issues, planning and zoning, redevelopment, land use, and commercial real estate. In addition, he represents non-profit organizations on a wide variety of issues. Mr. Guest serves as solicitor for Mount Holly Township and attorney for the Pemberton Township Municipal Utilities Authority. He has appeared before numerous government bodies and agencies.

Mr. Guest has been instrumental in many redevelopment projects and major land transactions. He has negotiated tax abatement agreements, redevelopment area designations and use of eminent domain procedures. Mr. Guest represents his clients in real property tax appeal issues, labor negotiations and employee disciplinary matters.

Community oriented, he is a member and past president of the Lester A. Drenk Board of Directors; the Drenk Foundation Board; a member of the Virtua Health Foundation and the Audit, Governance and Facilities Planning Committees of the Virtua Health System; vice chairman of the Virtua Health Audit Committee; and past president of the Burlington County Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Guest has taught the legal segment of the entrepreneurial classes offered by Burlington County College. He has also taught courses on the Municipal Land Use Law, the Open Public Records Act and attorney ethics.

Prior to joining Parker McCay, Mr. Guest was the managing partner with Bookbinder, Guest and Domzalski, and with Kearns, Vassallo, Guest, and Kearns.

Professional Activities and Memberships:

• International Municipal Lawyers Association
• Board member and Past Chairman of The Lester A. Drenk Behavioral Health Center, Inc.
• Board member of the Drenk Foundation, Inc.
• Trustee, New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys
• Audit, Governance and Facilities Planning Committees of the Virtua Health System
• Board member of the Virtua Health Foundation
• Vice chairman of the Virtua Health Audit Committee
• Past president of the Burlington County Chamber of Commerce
• American Bar Association (State and Local Government Law and Real Property Sections)
• New Jersey State Bar Association
• Burlington County Bar Association

Admissions:
New Jersey
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court

Education:
Boston University (J.D., 1973)
Rutgers College (A.B. with distinction, Political Science, 1970)

• Henry Rutgers Scholar

John C. Gillespie
Parker McCay

Practice Areas:
Municipal Law; Governmental Defense Litigation; Land Use and Development

Professional Experience:
Mr. Gillespie has represented public entities, as well as land use applicants, for over twenty-five years. He regularly represents national clients in processing development applications before local land use boards and has lectured extensively on matters of interest to municipalities and developers. He also represents dozens of public entities in defending class action lawsuits, police liability claims, constitutional law challenges, and various other actions against municipalities and counties.

Mr. Gillespie is the recent recipient of the Fred G. Stickel Award issued by the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys for excellence in local government law. He is also among the first-ever recipients of the International Municipal Lawyers Association Amicus Service Award. The award recognizes lawyers who have done exemplary work to protect and advance local government interests. In addition, Mr. Gillespie is a past recipient of the prestigious Robert W. Criscuolo Award, presented annually by the Burlington County Bar Association to a young attorney committed to the legal profession and the community.

Professional Activities and Memberships:

• Associate Counsel to the New Jersey State League of Municipalities
• Third Circuit Regional Vice President for the International Municipal Lawyers Association (“IMLA”)
• Mr. Gillespie has lectured to Joint Insurance Fund organizations, police associations, and on behalf of the New Jersey State League of Municipalities, the New Jersey Association of Counties, and the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education on such topics as federal constitutional law issues, suits brought under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, the New Jersey Tort Claims Act, Transfer of Development Rights legislation, “Pay to Play” issues, class action lawsuits, and civility in local government dialogue. Mr. Gillespie has also given presentations at IMLA conferences on the “Section 1983 Implications of Everyday Municipal Actions” and on “Cell Tower Siting: Zoning and Planning Law Implications.”
• Trustee of the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys
• Served two terms as a trustee of the Burlington County Bar Association

Admissions:
New Jersey
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York

Education:
Villanova University School of Law (J.D., 1980)
Trinity College, Connecticut (B.A., 1977)

Saul A. Wolfe

Saul Wolfe has devoted his practice to real property tax appeals and condemnation for more than forty years, achieving tens of millions of dollars in property tax savings for his taxpayer clients and representing more than sixty municipalities in defense of many of the most complex cases in the state including refineries, casinos, and automobile assembly plants. As attorney for condemnees, he has obtained many millions of dollars in excess of the taking entities’ appraised values, and he has represented condemnors in such unique matters as acquiring privately owned beaches for the City of Cape May. He serves as property tax counsel to the NJ State League of Municipalities and is a former Tax Assessor of the City of Newark and former counsel to the Association of Municipal Assessors of New Jersey and the NJ Conference of Mayors. A former President of the NJ State Bar Association, he was honored in 2003 by the New Jersey State Bar Foundation with its Medal of Honor for his significant contribution toward improving our New Jersey justice system.

Donald Scarinci
Scarinci Hollenbeck

Over the years, Mr. Scarinci has achieved a high level of recognition for his work with public entities throughout the entire state of New Jersey. He has worked with some of the largest New Jersey municipalities and counties, as well as numerous planning and zoning boards, economic development authorities, school boards, utility authorities, and other public sector entities at every level of municipal, county, regional and state government.

Mr. Scarinci served as counsel to the Democratic members of both the Congressional and Legislative Redistricting Commissions in New Jersey in 2001. Mr. Scarinci has been designated as a Diplomate in Municipal Law, is an Associate Counsel to the New Jersey League of Municipalities, a Trustee of the Institute of Local Government Attorneys, and was formerly Counsel to the New Jersey State Assembly.

Mr. Scarinci has lectured and written extensively on subjects such as campaign finance reform and municipal law. He is the author of “David Brearley and the Making of the United States Constitution,” a historical biography about David Brearley, signer of the Constitution from the State of New Jersey and the first Federal District Court Judge for the District of New Jersey (1789).His new book, “Redistricting and the Politics of Reform,” was published in 2010.

Steven W. Kleinman

STEVEN W. KLEINMAN currently serves as in-house Special Counsel to the County of Monmouth, where he is responsible for handling labor and employment matters involving the County’s 3,000+ employees and 26 bargaining units. From April 2007 through December of 2009, he was the City of Hoboken’s Corporation Counsel, where he argued and won a precedent-setting open public records case before the New Jersey Supreme Court, Mason v. Hoboken, 196 N.J. 51 (2008). Mr. Kleinman started his legal career in private practice at the prominent Bergen County firm of Scarinci Hollenbeck, where he helped establish that local government attorneys are protected from Federal civil rights lawsuits for actions taken in furtherance of a representation in Loigman v. Township Committee of Tp. of Middletown, 185 N.J. 566 (2006). Mr. Kleinman is a cum laude graduate of Wake Forest University and a cum laude graduate of Seton Hall University School of Law, where he was a member of the Seton Hall Law Review. A Hoboken resident, Mr. Kleinman has been a Hudson County Trustee to the NJILGA since 2007.

Rocky L. Peterson
Hill Wallack LLP

Rocky L. Peterson is a partner of Hill Wallack LLP and is in charge of the firm’s Municipal Law Practice Group and a member of its Litigation Division. He represents Public Entities in corporate, litigation, employment and labor relations matters. He has served as Director of Law, Counsel and Labor Counsel to municipalities, housing authorities, school boards, redevelopment corporations, a community college, and a condominium association. He has published opinions in the United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit, U.S. Federal District Court of New Jersey, New Jersey Supreme Court, and in Appellate Division and Office of Administrative Law and also is a Diplomate in Municipal Law. A lecturer for ICLE and the Lorman Institute, he has been named a “Super Lawyer” (for methodology, see http://www.superlawyers.com) and Professional Lawyer of the Year by the Garden State Bar.

Dennis A. Estis
Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

Dennis A. Estis is a partner in the Litigation Department and Chair of the Local Government Practice Group. He has extensive experience in municipal law representing towns and authorities. Mr. Estis has served as counsel to numerous New Jersey municipalities, one of the major sewerage authorities in the state and a private school. He served as lead public entity counsel in the largest landfill case ever conducted in Middlesex County, New Jersey. Mr. Estis’s practice focuses on complex litigation, particularly relating to construction, local government law, general business disputes and alternate dispute resolution (ADR). Mr. Estis is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Local Government Attorneys and is listed in The Best Lawyers In America in the Construction Law category. Mr. Estis is a charter Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America and a former President of the Middlesex County Bar Association. Mr. Estis received his BA in 1969 from Johns Hopkins University and his JD in 1972 from New York University School of Law.

Dominick M. Manco

Dominick M. Manco graduated Seton Hall University, B.A. cum laude & and Seton Hall Law Center, and admitted to practice before the New Jersey Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He is also a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Monmouth County Bar Association, N.J. Institute of Local Government Attorneys Monmouth County trustee, and the subject of a biographical entry in Marquis Who’s Who in American Law 1987-88. Mr. Manco is experienced in municipal law, real property tax appeals and land use law matters and has served various municipalities in various capacities in his nearly 30 years as a practicing attorney, including Colts Neck, Highlands Borough, Howell Township, Lakewood Township, Lakewood Industrial Commission, North Brunswick Zoning Board, Marlboro Township, the Sayreville Economic and Redevelopment Agency, and the East Brunswick Sewerage Authority. In addition to his municipal law experience, Mr. Manco is engaged in general practice and handles workers compensation cases, as well as commercial and residential real estate matters.

John L. Kraft
Lomurro, Davison, Eastman & Munoz, P.A.

John L. Kraft heads the Public Finance Law Department of Lomurro, Davison, Eastman & Munoz, P.A. Mr. Kraft established the first nationally recognized Bond Counsel practice in the State of New Jersey in 1971. He has served as Bond Counsel for 18 of the 21 counties and hundreds of municipalities, school districts and authorities in New Jersey. He graduated Georgetown University, cum laude, in 1958. This was followed by three years in the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant. He then attended and graduated from Yale Law School in 1964, where he was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal and was enrolled in the Order of the Coif. Mr. Kraft serves as a member and Trustee of New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys. In 2004, he received the Fred G. Stickel Award from the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys.

John P. Jansen
Jansen & DeBona, LLC

John P. Jansen is a Partner with the firm of Jansen & DeBona, LLC in Boonton, New Jersey. Mr. Jansen practices in the areas of Local Government and Land Use law. His professional experience includes the following: present firm since 1994; Of Counsel, Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander and Ferdon 1990-1994; Edwards, Villoresi and Jansen and predecessor firms, partner 1984-1990; Villoresi and Buzak, associate 1977-1984. Mr. Jansen was born in 1952 in Morristown, New Jersey. He received his B.A. from Villanova University in 1974 and his J.D. from Seton Hall Law School in 1977.

Richard P. Cushing
Gebhardt & Kiefer, P.C.

Richard Cushing, of Clinton, New Jersey, is municipal attorney for six municipalities and is assigned by joint insurance funds and insurance companies to defend public entities and their officials throughout the State of New Jersey when they are sued for land use, civil rights, sexual-harassment, RLUIPA, personnel, sewer and water issues. He is a 1972 cum laude graduate of Seton Hall Law School and clerked for Justice Mark Sullivan of the New Jersey Supreme Court. He formerly served as municipal judge for the City of Lambertville and West Amwell Township. He has spoken and written extensively on issues pertaining to public entities. He can be reached at rcushing@gklegal.com.

William R. Holzapfel
City of Elizabeth

William R. Holzapfel has been the City Attorney of Elizabeth, New Jersey, since 1993. Mr. Holzapfel received his B.A. from Union College and his L.L.B., cum laude, from Albany Law School where he was an Associate Editor of the Albany Law Review. Mr. Holzapfel is a past President of the Union County Bar Association. He was a member and Chair of the District XII Ethics Committee and Trustee and Chair of the Clients Security Fund, now known as the Lawyers Fund for Client Protection. He is a former Chair of the Public Utility Law and Local Government Law Sections of the New Jersey State Bar Association and former Chair of the NJSBA Government and Public Sector Lawyers Committee. Mr. Holzapfel is the recipient of the Diplomat designation in Municipal Law and has received the Distinguished Service Award from the New Jersey Utilities Association for his work on the New Jersey Digest of Public Utility Decisions. In 2000, he received the Professional Lawyer of the Year Award for Union County from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law on the recommendation of the Union County Bar Association and he has also been elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Mr. Holzapfel is a retired Colonel in the United States Marine Corps Reserve.

Steve P. Goodell
HERBERT, VAN NESS, CAYCI & GOODELL
22 Chambers Street
Princeton, NJ 08542
(609) 924-2495
sgoodell@hvcglaw.com


Steven P. Goodell has been an attorney since 1984. He is licensed to practice law in New Jersey and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Goodell attended Bucknell University, earning an A.B. with honors in English (1980), and attended the University of Texas School of Law, where he was the recipient of the A.P. Jones Scholarship Award (1984). While in law school Mr. Goodell clerked for the Environmental Protection Division of the Texas Attorney General’s Office. Mr. Goodell began his legal career at the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. From 1991 to 1998, Mr. Goodell was an associate and then partner in the litigation section of Picco Herbert Kennedy, in Trenton. With his current partners he founded Herbert, Van Ness, Cayci & Goodell on January 1, 1998.

Mr. Goodell now serves as the Hopewell Township Attorney, Special Counsel to the Diocese of Trenton, Associate Counsel to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association, attorney for the Delaware Township Zoning and Planning Boards and Cranbury Township Zoning Board, and Labor Counsel to Montgomery Township. He handles litigation for other municipalities and serves as Special Counsel on Telecommunications Issues for the New Jersey State League of Municipalities. He also serves as local New Jersey counsel for several national law firms.

Edward J. Kologi

Michele R. Donato
Michele R. Donato graduated from Rutgers Law School, where she was an editor of the Rutgers Law Review. She clerked for the Honorable Merritt Lane, Jr., who handled the prerogative writ calendar for Monmouth County.

She currently represents the Planning Boards in the Boroughs of Shrewsbury and Roosevelt and the City of Plainfield and is special counsel to several municipalities for land use, environmental and historic preservation matters.

Ms. Donato has represented municipal agencies, developers and citizen groups throughout her career. Her practice is almost exclusively devoted to land use, historic preservation and environmental law.

Ms. Donato is Assistant Counsel to New Jersey Planning Officials and a Trustee for the Institute of Local Government Attorneys. Ms. Donato is the Ocean County Chair for the Citizens’ Campaign. She is an Adjunct Professor with Rutgers University, Bureau of Local Government Services, and she teaches and lectures frequently for organizations and agencies throughout the State.

Ms. Donato participated in the prestigious Oxford University Roundtable. She received the Monsignor Harding Award of Merit from Saint Peter’s School. The League of Women Voters also honored her with an award for her work in preserving the environment.

William L. Horner
William L. Horner is an attorney with offices in Salem, New Jersey. He has represented planning boards, zoning boards, and development applicants for the past fifteen years, and he currently serves as solicitor for the Pittsgrove Township Planning Board and the Township of Mannington. He also serves as Assistant Counsel to the New Jersey Planning Officials organization, and as a Trustee of the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys.

Lawrence P. Cohen
Lawrence P. Cohen has been named as a Super Lawyer in the New Jersey Super Lawyers since its inception in 2005 in the field of Business Litigation.*

Lawrence P. Cohen is the senior partner who heads the Litigation Department of the firm. Mr. Cohen has a substantial practice in commercial litigation in both the Federal and State Court systems. He coordinates court matters with a number of attorneys in the firm who specialize in various aspects of litigation. Mr. Cohen has represented commercial enterprises, individuals and government agencies.

Mr. Cohen's achievements as a trial attorney have been recognized by the New Jersey Supreme Court in designating him as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney. This is a designation awarded to only a relatively few number of trial attorneys in the State of New Jersey. Mr. Cohen also has an active practice in municipal law and has been a municipal attorney for a number of municipalities. Mr. Cohen has significant experience in zoning and planning matters with emphasis on litigation. He is a member of the New Jersey State, Morris County and Warren County Bar Associations, as well as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey.

Mr. Cohen is a trustee of the New Jersey Institute of local government attorneys and served on various boards, including the Board of Visitors of Syracuse UniversityCollege of Law and the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Lawyer.

*No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court.

Bruce Bergen
Bruce H. Bergen is a partner in the law firm of Krevsky, Silber & Bergen in Cranford, New Jersey. He has served as the Township Attorney for the Township of Springfield for 17 of the past 18 years, drafting numerous ordinances and resolutions; representing Springfield in various litigation matters, including tax appeals, civil rights and employment matters, and OPRA complaints; successfully defending a builders’ remedy suit and obtaining COAH approval of Springfield’s affordable housing plan; and overseeing a comprehensive ordinance recodification. Over the years, he has also served Springfield as Board of Health Attorney, Rent Leveling Board attorney and has served as special counsel and special litigation counsel for various other municipalities. Bergen also represents individuals before local boards and in land use litigation.

In 2005, Bergen was awarded a Diplomate in Local Government Law by the NJILGA, and he has served as an Associate Editor of the Local Government Law Review since March 2006. He is a second term member and former Chair of the District XII Ethics Committee and a long-time member and current President of the Board of Central Jersey Legal Services.

Dominic P. DiYanni
Dominic P. DiYanni, Esq. is a graduate of Quinnipiac University School of Law and a graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA where he studied political science. Mr. DiYanni is currently the senior associate at the firm and has been working with the firm and working closely with Mr. Semrau on all municipal matters for seven years. Mr. DiYanni has knowledge and experience in the areas of municipal and land use law, assists in drafting legal opinions regarding OPRA and disclosure of public documents, the Local Public Contracts Law, Pay-to-Play, Local Lands and Buildings Law, prosecutes and defends Orders to Show Cause, engages in extensive motion practice, drafts and reviews bid specifications, and assists in the preparation of Resolutions and Ordinances and any amendments thereto. In addition, Mr. DiYanni does extensive tax appeal work for various municipalities and works as a litigator providing the defense on a large percentage of the litigated cases for the Morris County Municipal Joint Insurance Fund, EJIF and MEL. Furthermore, Mr. Diyanni has also successfully defended and argued appeals on behalf of municipalities in the Appellate Division of the State of New Jersey. Mr. DiYanni is a husband and devoted father of one.

George Botcheos
Born 1946, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Graduated Camden Catholic High School 1964, Rutgers College of Arts & Sciences 1972, Rutgers Law School 1975. U.S. Army 1966-1969. Graduate of Artillery Officer Candidate School 1967. Admitted to practice of law in New Jersey 1976. Member of County and Municipal Government Study Commission 1973-1976. Served as Assistant to Governor Cahill 1973-1974. Municipal Court Judge Stratford and HiNella 1985-1994, Logan Township 2004-2009. Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Diplomate New Jersey Municipal Law.

William F. Ziegler
Admitted to Bar: New Jersey/Pennsylvania, 1995. Education: Rutgers School of Law. Served as Law Clerk to Hon. John D. Holston, Jr. Partner at Holton, MacDonald, Uzdavinis, Ziegler & Lodge specializing in local government, land use, zoning and planning, affordable housing, redevelopment, constitutional law and complex civil litigation including personal injury. Currently serves as Solicitor to Franklin Township, Gloucester County, as Solicitor to Lower Alloways Creek Planning Board, Salem County and as a Trustee to the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys. Formerly Solicitor to the Washington Township Zoning Board of Adjustment.