Criminal Law

• Fraud
  When people hear the words “consumer fraud,” they often assume that the provisions of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act (CFA) protect only individuals, not business entities. Others think that the CFA applies to business entities as a matter of course because, after all, a business entity is often a consumer of goods and services. These are two extremes – the reality lies somewhere in the middle.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
• Business Disputes
  Commercial Litigation – We are prepared to handle contract disputes, issues of agency and corporate responsibility, intellectual property, and other business matters.
• Intellectual Property

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  All New Jersey employers are familiar with the requirement to maintain workers compensation insurance to provide medical treatment, income and other benefits to their employees injured on the job. However, it is not always clear when an employee injury is covered by an employer’s policy. The “coming and going” rule usually renders coverage inapplicable for […]
• Employment Discrimination
  New Jersey employers have long been aware that New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination (the LAD), which protects employees from unlawful discrimination by employers, labor organizations and employment agencies, contains protection for workers that in some respects exceeds the protection provided by Federal laws such as the Civil Rights Acts, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. New Jersey’s Conscientious Employee Protection Act, which has been described as one of the most far-reaching “whistleblower” protection statutes in the United States, prohibits an employer from retaliating against an employee who discloses wrongdoing on the part of the company.

Property Law

• Real Estate Transactions
  Marilyn started her practice with Whitman & Ransom, in New York City, where she specialized in corporation and securities law. Marilyn continues this practice in the Princeton area where she offers expertise in business contracts, real estate transactions, regulatory compliance, and financing transactions.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  In the present economic climate, many once-thriving businesses are having trouble paying their rent. An obligation that once seemed both reasonable and manageable may become difficult for a tenant whose business falls off and customers hold back. Leases entered into during boom times, when there was competition among tenants for premises and landlords had the upper hand, may come to seem to tenants unfair and unaffordable. In such circumstances, a tenant may seek the landlord’s agreement to a “work-out,” a reformation of the lease adjusting the rent, the size of the demised premises, the use of the premises, or other lease terms to help the tenant continue in business in the premises. Sometimes, the parties can agree to a new arrangement which benefits both landlord and tenant.

Health Law

• Personal Injury

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
• Wills

Finance Law

• Debt Collection