- DivorceKraemer Burns attorneys have successfully mediated dozens of business, divorce and trust and estate disputes. Please contact us for mediation services -- Arnold Mytelka for business disputes, Ellie Cohen for divorce mediation and Bob Marcus to mediate trust and estate matters.
- FraudRepresentation of asset based lender which had provided funding to mortgage lender against borrower's consumer fraud and civil RICO claims;
- Theft
- Corporate LawKraemer Burns provides sophisticated, practical advice in all aspects of creditors' rights, bankruptcy, insolvency, and commercial law. We represent companies across a wide range of industries, including energy companies, equipment financing companies, landlords, property owners, franchisors and general unsecured creditors, as well as individuals in both debtor and creditor matters and serve as national bankruptcy counsel to several major companies. We represent our clients in all matters related to financial distress including corporate governance, business finance, insolvency related asset purchases and other distressed M & A, reorganizations and workouts, corporate acquisitions, commercial litigation, debtor-in-possession financing and complex credit and other financings inside and outside of bankruptcy and insolvency settings.
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Business Formation
- Business DisputesKraemer has tried numerous jury and non-jury trials and has argued many appeals in the Appellate Division, the New Jersey Supreme Court and in the Third Circuit. His name appears in 34 published opinions. Most of his representation has been on behalf of corporate clients in matters as diverse as antitrust, employment, product liability, corporate mergers, proxy litigation, RICO, contract disputes and eminent domain proceedings. Representative cases include...
- Business TransactionsKraemer Burns represents clients in many kinds of business transactions ranging from simple business formations to complex acquisitions and divestitures. By way of illustration, Kraemer Burns has...
- Intellectual Property
- Antitrust
- Employment ContractOur goal is to help our clients avoid litigation whenever possible and to negotiate the constantly changing field of employment law. Kraemer Burns' attorneys counsel employers in diverse areas of employment law such as employment agreements and restrictive covenants, and in complying with laws against discrimination, harassment, family leave, disability, wage and hour compliance, performance evaluations, drug and alcohol use, employee privacy, workplace investigations and violence.
- Employment LitigationOur attorneys have extensive experience in employment litigation and have successfully represented management in federal and state court trials, before juries and judges, as well as before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New Jersey Division of Civil Rights, US and New Jersey Departments of Labor, among others.
- Severance AgreementWe routinely advise executive and high level management employees in reviewing their employment agreements, about issues regarding restrictive covenants, and in severance agreements.
- Sexual HarassmentOur firm has provided workplace training for management and workforce, in diversity, discrimination, sexual harassment and other workplace issues, as well as workplace investigations.
- Real Estate LitigationKraemer Burns' attorneys have represented parties in disputes arising out of the sale and purchase of substantial commercial properties. The firm has also represented commercial lessors and lessees in disputes involving assignments, options, rent escalations, maintenance of premises, and the condition of the premises returned to the lessor at the end of the lease term. Our attorneys are experienced in actions to quiet title and in condominium disputes. Kraemer Burns also has experience with guaranty claims, such as a recent action where summary judgment was obtained on behalf of a landlord against a foreign guarantor of the lessee's obligations regarding a Manhattan theatre, after process was served in India pursuant to the Hague Convention and a jurisdiction motion was overcome. A microcosm of our cost-effective approach, the contested case was won without any discovery being taken.
- Construction LitigationKraemer Burns' attorneys have represented owners, construction managers, general contractors, and subcontractors in claims involving contracts, warranties, construction defects, disputes over scope of work and extras, property damage and delay damages. Our attorneys have also represented an environmental remediation contractor in claims by owners and subcontractors, and claims against subcontractors, as well as personal injury and property damage claims.
- Real Estate TransactionsA District Ethics Committee recommended to the Disciplinary Review Board that a lawyer be disciplined as the result of his handing of a real estate transaction. Kraemer Burns represented him before the Disciplinary Review Board. The DRB found no unethical conduct and praised the lawyer for his efforts in handling the transaction.
- Eminent DomainKraemer Burns has a long history of representing both property owners and governmental entities in eminent domain (condemnation) proceedings. It all started representing the Garden State Parkway at its inception, handling or supervising the acquisition of the many hundreds of parcels needed for the right of way. Among our higher profile cases are the following...
- Land Use and ZoningKraemer Burns represented a major flavors and fragrance company in expanding its corporate campus. It started with obtaining the approvals to expand a small building the company initially purchased and ended 40 years later with a complete corporate campus replete with several manufacturing buildings, research buildings and a North American headquarters building. Each of these many projects involved multiple land use issues including the obtaining of all requisite municipal approvals.
- Landlord-Tenant Disputes
- Property DamageKraemer Burns' attorneys have extensive experience representing corporate and commercial clients in the defense of product liability claims, as well as injured claimants who have suffered serious personal injury or property damage from defective products or inadequate warnings. These claims have been handled in the state and federal courts of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court, and the United States Supreme Court.
- Personal InjuryKraemer Burns gives each personal injury case personal attention both with respect to evaluating and documenting the fault of the other party and documenting the injuries sustained by our clients and the impact the injuries have had on their life. By giving each matter a high level of personal attention, Kraemer Burns attorneys have achieved successful outcomes for our clients. Our high level of success is also based upon the fact that our attorneys have had experience representing clients as defendants. This means Kraemer Burns attorneys understand and can evaluate a case based upon how insurance companies and defense attorneys are looking at a case.
- Estate PlanningWith more than 40 reported cases to his credit, Arnold Mytelka is a well known and respected litigator. He has represented clients in complex corporate and commercial cases, trust and estate disputes, professional ethics matters and employment disputes, as well as in significant land use cases. The scope of his experience is uniquely varied, especially in chancery, appellate and administrative litigations. Mr. Mytelka has been appointed by judges to serve as special fiscal agent, trustee, mediator and the like. In recent years he has mediated many disputes and acted as special fiscal agent to help stabilize businesses while litigation is in process.
- WillsKraemer Burns' litigators have experience in probate and fiduciary litigation. These cases include not only will contests—for example, challenges based on undue influence or defective wills—but a range of other actions involving wills, trusts and gifts. These litigations may include estate and trust accountings as well as claims of executor and trustee malfeasance. The issues in these cases may be complex and fiduciaries may be exposed to personal liability. Because the disputes usually involve family members and significant assets, the litigation is often emotionally charged. Where the assets involve family enterprises, ownership or control may be at stake.
- TrustsThese same clients turn to Kraemer Burns for estate and trust planning and eventually assist in both estate and trust administration including probate, federal estate and state estate and inheritance tax planning as well as the preparation of federal and state estate and trust tax returns. Our attorneys work with clients' accountants, insurance brokers, financial consultants and other advisors and managers to establish and implement business and personal financial goals. When requested to do so, Kraemer Burns attorneys have served as fiduciaries for clients' families and future generations. Our attorneys have served multiple generations of family clients.
- Probate
- Bankruptcy
- ForeclosureOur Bankruptcy/Creditors' Rights group aims to streamline negotiations and, where possible, achieve a consensual resolution. When necessary, however, our lawyers will not hesitate to enforce clients' rights in all facets of state and federal litigation, including enforcement of contractual rights, mortgage and lien foreclosure, contested bankruptcy sales, judgment enforcement, contested plans of reorganization, valuation hearings, the prosecution and defense of preference and fraudulent transfer actions, and the assumption and/or rejection of executory contracts and leases.
- Tax LawKraemer Burns represents residential, commercial and industrial property owners before county tax boards and the New Jersey Tax Court challenging real property assessments. These cases range from the representation of over assessed homeowners to complex matters involving such issues as contaminated property and and a functionally obsolete nuclear facility. During 2015 the firm represented property owners in 159 tax appeals.