- DivorceStephanie is a member of the New York State Bar Association (Matrimonial/Family Law Section), New Jersey State Bar Association (Matrimonial/Family Law Section), and Collaborative Divorce Association for North Jersey and past member of the New York City Bar’s Matrimonial Committee. She is listed in Bergen’s Top Lawyers, 201 Magazine’s Top Lawyers, and Lawyers of Distinction through the American Bar Association.
- Paternity
- Premarital AgreementFara’s practice focuses on disputes involving divorce, distribution of marital and separate property assets, complex financial and custodial matters, parenting time, child and spousal support, paternity, and other areas of family and matrimonial practice, including without limitation, negotiating and drafting prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
- Guardianship
- Spousal Support
- Corporate Law
- Mergers and AcquisitionsShe defends and counsels clients in connection with ERISA litigation by multi-employer benefit funds to collect contributions or their assessment of withdrawal liability. She often works closely with members of our firm’s Real Estate Practice representing owners and operators of hotels, residential apartment buildings and commercial buildings with respect to the labor and employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, sales, reorganization and reductions in staffing.
- Business DisputesUniversity of Miami Business Law Review Vol 30, Issue 2, The Increased and Permanency of Technology: How Those Changes Impact Attorneys' Professional Responsibility and Ethical Obligations to Clients and Recommendations for Improvement, March 2022
- Limited Liability CompaniesThe U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a final rule (Final Rule) establishing a beneficial ownership information reporting requirement, pursuant to the Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 (CTA), that will require most corporations, limited liability companies, and other entities created in or registered to do business in the United States to file beneficial ownership interest reports (BOI Reports) with FinCen, which will contain information about their beneficial owners—the persons who ultimately own or control the company.
- Intellectual Property
- Unfair CompetitionPhillips Nizer LLP announces another victory in favor of its client TKH Security (formerly Park Assist) (“TKH”), and against its competitor Indect USA, Corp (“Indect”). The Phillips Nizer team received a favorable jury verdict following trial in the Southern District of California. The jury verdict rejected plaintiff Indect’s four year effort alleging unfounded unfair competition claims under the Lanham Act, denied Indect its alleged damages, and rejected Indect’s assertion that the patent was invalid.
- Antitrust
- Employment ContractRegina proactively engages with employers regarding compliance with federal, state and city laws; drafting and implementing effective handbooks, policies and procedures; drafting and reviewing restrictive covenants; drafting and reviewing employment contracts and severance agreements; and workplace health and safety programs.
- Employment LitigationRegina E. Faul is a partner in and chairs the Employment & Labor Practice at Phillips Nizer LLP. She has distinguished herself for over 30 years representing clients in the areas of employment law and labor law. Her practice focuses on advising management clients on day-to-day employee relations, representing management in connection with collective bargaining, employment litigation, including wage and hour litigation, acting as insurance defense counsel, and conducting presentations and training for our clients’ workforces.
- Severance Agreement
- Sexual Harassment
- Construction Litigation
- Real Estate TransactionsPhillips Nizer, founded in 1926, is a full-service, mid-size law firm representing domestic and international clients in business, finance and real estate transactions, intellectual property matters, commercial litigation, tax and estate planning, and private client services, with a particular focus on the entertainment, fashion, real estate and technology industries.
- Land Use and Zoning
- Condominium Law
- Personal InjuryScott Piekarsky is a partner in the Litigation and Real Estate Departments in the New Jersey office. He is certified as a civil trial attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court. Working on a large spectrum of litigation matters, Scott regularly handles cases involving general corporate and business law, professional liability, attorney ethics and professional licensing representation, expert review, community association, real estate, healthcare, nursing home and assisted living litigation, personal injury, chancery, commercial collections, probate and appellate law. Scott has decades of experience working on a vast array of defense insurance cases, and maintains an active practice providing legal counsel to community associations and homeowners associations. He is a Court Qualified Mediator and has served on many occasions as a court appointed attorney, guardian, special master and special fiscal agent.
- Estate PlanningAs part of their estate planning, elderly shareholders often want to transfer their shares into an entity for the benefit of their adult children or their grandchildren. For a long time, boards have tended to bar shareholders from transferring their shares to trusts.
- Wills
- TrustsMikhail E. Lezhnev (Mike) is an associate attorney in the firm’s Trusts and Estates and Tax Departments. Mike represents high-net-worth individuals and private businesses in the areas of estate and trust planning, tax law and related corporate law. Mike brings to his practice special expertise and experience in the estate planning and tax implications of cryptocurrency. In the area of estate planning, Mike advises on and prepares complex wills, revocable trusts, asset protection trusts, life insurance trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, other irrevocable trusts, related LLC operating agreements and other corporate documents, as well as the decanting and amendment of irrevocable trusts. Mike counsels clients about options for lifetime gifts and testamentary legacies and their gift, estate and income tax implications. He also represents executors and trustee in the administration of estates and trusts. Further, Mike advises clients in matters that require expertise in international estate planning and administration.
- Power of AttorneyDo you have a General Durable Power of Attorney ? It appoints someone to act for you in legal and financial matters, especially if you cannot do so, but also at other times if desired.
- Probate
- ForeclosureHe went on to say, “The lien has a priority over the first mortgage and tax liens. The association can pursue a foreclosure, and then a sheriff’s sale subject to the lien. In the end, if the foreclosure and sale are successful, the association gets the unit and the owner is out.” So, the process is not an eviction per se—but a means of removing a non-paying association member and recouping the monies owed.”
- Tax Law