|   | | Law Firm in Ocean Township, New Jersey | |
| (Formerly Abramoff, Fox, Zaro & Mc Govern and Anschelewitz, Barr & Ansell; Ansell Zaro Bennett & Grimm) |
| | Address | | 1500 Lawrence Avenue, CN 7807, P.O. Box CN 7807 | | Ocean Township, New Jersey 07712 | | (Monmouth Co.) | |  | Free Initial Consultation |
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(Main Office)
| Ansell Zaro Grimm & Aaron,
A Professional Corporation practices in the following areas of law:
General Practice. Corporation, Banking, Chancery, Negligence, Family, Commercial, Criminal, Probate, Real Estate, Condominium, Estate Planning, Municipal, Condemnation, Public Finance, Zoning, Environmental, Labor and Bankruptcy Law. Trials and Appeals. State and Federal Courts. | | Year Established: 1929 | | Firm Size: 34 | Representative Clients:
American Express Bank Ltd.; Summit Bancorp; First Fidelity Bank, N.A.; K. Hovnanian Companies (Real Estate Developers); Food Circus Supermarkets, Inc. (Foodtown); Elmhurst Dairy; Metropolitan Entertainment Bureau, Inc.; Entertainment Bureau, Inc.; John Scher Presents, Inc., (Rock Promoter); Township of Ocean; Borough of Belmar; Borough of Sayreville; Deal-Ocean Condominium Assn.; John C. Conover Agency (Realtor); Computer Processing Institute; Moder Collection Systems; Life Investors Insurance Co.; Seaboard Services Fuel Co.; National Sporting Goods Corp.; Electronics Associates, Inc.; M. Polaner, Inc.; Bloch & Guggenheimer; Poppe & Tyson Inc.; Pheasant Run Condominium Assn.; Sovereign Bank; PNC Bank; Fleet Bank. | Office Hours:
Monday: 09:00 AM - 05:15 PM
Tuesday: 09:00 AM - 05:15 PM
Wednesday: 09:00 AM - 05:15 PM
Thursday: 09:00 AM - 05:15 PM
Friday: 09:00 AM - 05:15 PM
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Fixed Hourly Rates
Fixed Fees Available
Free Initial Consultation
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Clifton, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.A.
| | Leon Anschelewitz (1905-1986). | | Max M. Barr (1902-1993). | | Milton M. Abramoff (1910-2004). | | Steven J. Brodman (1961-2006). | | David K. Ansell (Member) born Neptune, New Jersey, March 11, 1937; admitted to bar, 1962, New Jersey. Education: University of North Carolina (B.A., 1958); University of Virginia (LL.B., 1961). Member, Supreme Court Committee on Ethics Funding, 1983-1990. Member: Monmouth (Trustee, 1968-1990; President, 1981-1982), New Jersey State (Chairman, Family Law Section, 1985-1986; Trustee Representative, 1987-1991) and American Bar Associations. Fellow, Board of Managers and President, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 1983—. Practice Areas: Custody Law; Divorce Law; Domestic Relations Law; Family Law; Marital Law. | | Richard B. Ansell (Member) born Neptune, New Jersey, October 28, 1942; admitted to bar, 1968, New Jersey; 1979, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., 1964; J.D., 1967). Lecturer: Negligence Law; Products Liability Law; Medical Malpractice; Accident and Personal Injury. Law Secretary to Honorable Elvin R. Simmill, Superior Court of New Jersey, Assignment Judge, 1967-1968. Attorney, Borough of Eatontown, 1978-1982. Senior Partner and Chairman, Litigation Department. Past Member and Chairman, District IX Ethics Committee. Member: Monmouth and New Jersey State Bar Associations; American Association for Justice; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America - New Jersey; Million Dollar Advocates Forum; Master, Haydn Proctor American Inn of Court; American College of Barristers. (Certified Civil Trial Attorney, Supreme Court of New Jersey, Board on Trial Attorney Certification). Reported Cases: Largey v. Rothman, 110 N.J. 204 (1988); Erenberg v. Cordero, 294 N.J. Super. 352 (App. Div. 1996); Smith v. Kris-Bal Realty, Inc., 242 N.J. Super 346 (App. Div. 1990); Planned Parenthood of Monmouth County, Inc. v. Cannizzaro, 217 N.J. Super. 623 (App. Div. 1987); Hull v. Getty Refining, 202 N.J. Super. 461 (App. Div. 1985); Farhi v. The Commissioners of the Borough of Deal, 204 N.J. Super. 575 (Law Div. 1985). Practice Areas: Negligence Law; Product Liability Law; Medical Malpractice; Zoning Law; Accident and Personal Injury. Email: Richard B. Ansell | | Jerold L. Zaro (Member) born New York, N.Y., May 10, 1951; admitted to bar, 1976, New Jersey; 1989, New York. Education: Boston University (B.A., 1973); Boston College (J.D., 1976). Treasurer and Staff Counsel, Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau, Inc., 1974-1976. Staff Editor, Bender's Uniform Commercial Code Reporters-Digest, 1976. Law Secretary to Hon. Thomas F. Shebell, Jr., Superior Court, Monmouth County, 1976-1977. Township Attorney, Ocean Township, New Jersey, 1991-1992. Member, Ocean Township Community Services Council, 1979. Councilman, Township of Ocean, 1984-1986. Chairman of the Board, Ocean Independent Bank, 1988-1994. Member: Board of Directors, First DeWitt Bank, 1994-1997; Board of Directors, Commerce Bank/Shore NA, 1999-2008 ; Board of Trustees, Monmouth Medical Center Foundation, 1993—; Board of Trustees, The Forman School, Litchfield, Connecticut, 2005-2006. Commissioner, 1991-2003 and Chairman, 2002-2003, New Jersey Highway Authority; Commissioner, New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, 2004—. Member: Monmouth (Trustee, 1987-1989; Chairman, Real Estate and Land Development Committee, 1985-1988; Member, By-Law and Public Relations Committee, 1978-1995; Chairman, Legislative Committee, 1991-1996), New Jersey State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Real Estate; Commercial Law; Banking and Finance. Email: Jerold L. Zaro | | Peter S. Falvo, Jr. (Member) born Long Branch, New Jersey, September 14, 1942; admitted to bar, 1967, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey;1974, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: St. Anselm's College (A.B., 1964); Suffolk University (J.D., 1967). Adjunct Professor, Real Estate Law, Monmouth University. Instructor, Real Estate Law, Kislak Real Estate Institute at Monmouth University, 2007—. West Long Branch Borough Attorney, 1975. Attorney, Board of Adjustment, West Long Branch, 1976. Assistant Counsel, Monmouth County, 1981. Regional Staff Attorney, Public Sector Labor Relations, New Jersey Education Association, 1968-1981. Special Counsel, Borough of Sea Bright, Land Use issues, 1989-1991. Attorney, West Long Branch Board of Education, 1989-2000. Member: Monmouth (Member, Board of Trustees, 1974-1978; Board of Directors, Real Estate and Land Use Sections), New Jersey State (Member: Board of Directors, Land Use Law Section; Board of Consultors, Real Estate, Probate and Trust Section, 2001—) and American Bar Associations; American Arbitration Association (Member, Board of Arbitrators, 1974—; National Construction Panel, 1974—; Labor Panel, 1977—). Reported Cases: Red Bank Regional Educational Association vs. Red Bank Regional Board of Education, 78 N.J. Super. 122 (1978). Transactions: Chelsea Properties Co. (A Simon Company)/Jersey Shore Premium Outlet Mall/ Tinton Falls, NJ; Expansion of Monmouth Mall for Vornado. Practice Areas: Zoning, Planning and Land Use; Commercial Real Estate; Residential Real Estate; Real Estate Tax Appeals; Business Organization. Email: Peter S. Falvo, Jr. | | James G. Aaron (Member) born Long Branch, New Jersey, November 21, 1944; admitted to bar, 1969, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1994, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: Dickinson College (B.A., 1966); New York University (J.D., 1969). Law Clerk to the Hon. Leon S. Milmed, Superior Court, 1970-1971. Attorney, Long Branch Board of Adjustment, 1978-1980. Municipal Prosecutor, City of Long Branch, 1986-1992. City Attorney of Long Branch, 1994—. City Attorney of Asbury Park, 1998-2000. City of Asbury Park Redevelopment Counsel, 2001—. Member, Board of Directors, Central Jersey Bank Corp. Bankruptcy Counsel, Township of Millstone, 2001—. Member: Monmouth County Bar Association; New Jersey State Bar Association. [With USAR., 1968-1974]. Practice Areas: Municipal; Bankruptcy; Commercial Litigation; Chancery Litigation. Email: James G. Aaron | | Peter B. Grimm (Member) born Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1955; admitted to bar, 1985, New Jersey. Education: Tufts University (B.A., cum laude, 1977); Seton Hall University (J.D., 1984). Trust Officer, First Fidelity Bank, 1979-1984. Member: Monmouth (Chairman, Probate Committee, 1990-1994) and New Jersey State Bar Associations; Monmouth County Estate Planning Counsel. Languages: German. Practice Areas: Estates Law; Trusts Law; Wills Law; Commercial and Residential Real Estate Law; Brokerage Law. | | Robert I. Ansell (Member) born Neptune, New Jersey, June 27, 1939; admitted to bar, 1963, New Jersey; 1966, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1971, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Virginia (B.A., 1960); Yale University (LL.B., 1963). Phi Beta Kappa. Member, Raven Society. Assistant Instructor of Law, Yale Law School, 1962-1963. Law Secretary to Judge Milton B. Conford, New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division, 1963-1964. Assistant Bar Examiner, New Jersey State Board of Bar Examiners, 1967-1970. Chairman, Monmouth County Narcotics Council, 1971-1973. Member: Monmouth, New Jersey State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Criminal Law. | | Mitchell J. Ansell (Member) born Long Branch, New Jersey, September 7, 1962; admitted to bar, 1987, New Jersey. Education: Syracuse University (B.A., 1984); Dickinson School of Law (J.D., 1987). Law Secretary to Honorable Alvin Yale Milberg, Superior Court of New Jersey, Assignment Judge, 1987-1988. Prosecutor: Township of Colts Neck, 1989-1993; Borough of Sea Bright, 1990-2000; Boro of Englishtown, 1989-1994; Township of Manalapan, 1997-2000; Township of Hazlet, 1989-1990; Boro of Keyport, 1989-1990. Borough Attorney, Borough of Englishtown, 1992-2000. Township Attorney, Township of Ocean, 1992-1999. Member: Monmouth (President, 2006; First Vice-President, 2004-2005; Chairman, Young Lawyers Committee, 1989-1991; Trustee, 1990—; Treasurer, 2002—) and New Jersey State Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Municipal and Superior Court Criminal Defense; Criminal Defense; DWI. Email: Mitchell J. Ansell | | Brian E. Ansell (Member) born Long Branch, New Jersey, March 10, 1964; admitted to bar, 1989, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1996, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Hartford (A.A., 1984); George Washington University (B.A., special honors in Political Science, 1986); Dickinson School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1989). Delta Theta Phi; Order of the Barristers; The Woolsack Honor Society. Member: Dickinson Law Review; Appellate Moot Court Board; National Trial Team (Regional Champion 1989). Recipient, Louis F. Powell Medalia for Excellence in Trial Advocacy. Law Secretary to the Honorable Lawrence M. Lawson, Superior Court of New Jersey, 1989-1990. Prosecutor, Borough of Englishtown, 1993-2000. Member: Monmouth County Bar Association (Member, Committees on: Civil Practice; Criminal Practice; Judicial Appointments); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Criminal Defense; Municipal Court; Chancery Law; Civil Litigation. Email: Brian E. Ansell | | Allison Ansell Ryan (Member) born Long Branch, New Jersey, November 9, 1964; admitted to bar, 1991, Massachusetts and New Jersey. Education: American University (B.A., 1987); Western New England College (J.D., 1990). Law Secretary to the Honorable Alexander D. Lehrer, Presiding Judge, Family Part, Superior Court of New Jersey, 1991-1992. Member: Monmouth County and New Jersey State Bar Associations; American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Practice Areas: Family Law. Email: Allison Ansell Ryan | | Michael V. Benedetto (Member) born Red Bank, New Jersey, March 15, 1968; admitted to bar, 1994, New Jersey; U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; Pennsylvania. Education: Monmouth College (B.S., 1990); Widener University School of Law (J.D., 1994). Member: Monmouth County and New Jersey State Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Real Property(85%); Corporations(5%); Contract(5%); Banking Law(5%). Email: Michael V. Benedetto | | Harold Goldman (Member) born Passaic, New Jersey, April 2, 1941; admitted to bar, 1968, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1972, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Rutgers University (B.A., 1962); American University, Washington College of Law (LL.B., 1965); New York University (LL.M., 1974). Recipient, Lawyers Co-op Publishing Award-Highest Grade in Procedure. Author, "Cruel...Not Unusual" (Punishment-Death Penalty), Volume 1, No. 4, Hudson County Bar Association Citator, 1970. Committee Member, 1980-1984 and Chairman, 1983-1984, Passaic County Ethics Committee. Former Senior Partner, Goldman, Carlet, Garrison & Klein, 1968-1990. Partner: Goldman & Zolotorofe, 1992-1993; Goldman Zolotorofe & Corcoran, P.C., 1993-2005. Presiding Judge, Passaic Municipal Court, 1990-1993. General Counsel, Passaic Valley Water Commission, 1976-2004. Member: Passaic County and New Jersey State Bar Associations. [U.S. Army (Military Police), 1966-1968; Captain, Awarded Bronze Star; Vietnam Service Award with Oak Leaf Cluster]. Reported Cases: State v. Szima, 70 N.J. 196 (1976) cert. den. 429 U.S. 259; Kutzin v. Pirnie, 124 N.J. 500 (1991); O'Keefe v. Passaic Valley Water Commission, 132 N.J. 234 (1993); Clifton, et al v. Passaic Valley Water Commission, 115 N.J. 126 (1989); Techniscan v. Passaic Valley Water Commission, 113 N.J. 233 (1988); Bumbaco v. PERS, 325 N.J. Super 90 (App. Div. 1999), cert. denied 163 N.J. 71 (1999); State v. Flint, 126 N.J.Super, 182 (AD 1973), 64 N.J. 313 (1974) Practice Areas: Real Estate; Commercial Litigation; Matrimonial Law; Contracts; Lender Law; Finance; Appellate Practice; Corporate Law. Email: Harold Goldman | | David B. Zolotorofe (Member) born White Plains, New York, August 31, 1960; admitted to bar, 1986, New Jersey. Education: State University of New York at Oswego; University of Hartford (B.S., 1982); Pace University School of Law (J.D., 1986). Member, International Council of Shopping Centers. President, Northern New Jersey Chapter, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Associate: Goldman Carlet Garrison & Klein, Esqs., 1987-1990; Mandelbaum Salsburg Gold Lazris Discenza & Steinberg, P.C., 1990-1993. Managing Partner, Goldman Zolotorofe & Corcoran, P.C., 1993-2005. Member: Passaic County, New Jersey State and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate; Residential Real Estate; Banking Law; Complex Commercial Litigation. Email: David B. Zolotorofe | | Donna L. Maul (Member) born Brooklyn, New York, March 23, 1956; admitted to bar, 1984, New Jersey. Education: Seton Hall University (B.A., 1978); Seton Hall Law School (J.D., 1981). Family Mediator, New Jersey Supreme Court, 2001—. Member: Monmouth County (Member, Family Law Committee and Judicial Selection Committee) and New Jersey State Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Family Law; Litigation; Mediation. Email: Donna L. Maul | | Rick Brodsky (Member) born Baxley, Georgia, September 3, 1962; admitted to bar, 1988, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1989, New York and U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third District. Education: Wesleyan University (B.A., 1984); Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 1988). Member, Brooklyn Journal of International Law. Assistant Corporation Counsel, New York City Law Department, 1988-1990. Member, Middletown Township Committee, 1996-2003. Deputy Mayor, 1997, 2000 and 2001, Mayor, 1998, Middletown Township. Member: Monmouth County (Chair, Committee on Real Estate and Land Development; Member, Committee on Banking, Commercial Law and Local Government Law), New Jersey State and New York State Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Real Estate; Land Use; Zoning; Commercial Transactions; Real Estate Litigation; Real Estate Tax Appeals. Email: Rick Brodsky | | Lawrence H. Shapiro (Member) born Neptune, New Jersey, November 7, 1968; admitted to bar, 1994, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; 1996, New York. Education: Pennsylvania State University (B.S., 1991); Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University (J.D., 1994). Law Secretary to the Honorable Ira E. Kreizman, Superior Court of New Jersey, Criminal Division, 1994-1995. Counsel to: Neptune Township Historic Committee, 2000-2001; Neptune Township Fire District Board Number 1, 2000-2003. Assistant City Attorney, City of Long Branch, 1996—. Member: Monmouth County Bar Association. Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Chancery Practice; Condemnation; Construction Litigation; Municipal Law; Condominium Law; Bankruptcy. Email: Lawrence H. Shapiro | | George G. Whitmore (Member) born Hackensack, New Jersey, June 12, 1936; admitted to bar, 1970, New Jersey. Education: Rutgers University (B.S., 1958); Seton Hall University Law School (J.D., 1970). Associate, 1970-1973 and Partner, 1973-1980, Parsons, Canzona, Blair & Warren, Red Bank, New Jersey. Attorney, Borough of Little Silver, 1976-1980. Partner, Vernon, Whitmore & McGuire, Shrewsbury, New Jersey, 1980-1983. Owner, George G. Whitmore, P.A., Red Bank, New Jersey, 1983-2002. Member, Ansell Zaro Grimm & Aaron, 2002—. Former Fellow: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Member: Monmouth (Former Chair, Family Law Committee) and New Jersey State (Former Member, Executive Committee, Family Law Section) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Matrimonial Law(100%). | | Edward J. Ahearn (Member) born Westwood, New Jersey, May 15, 1960; admitted to bar, 1993, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey. Education: Spring Hill College (B.S., 1982); Seton Hall University (J.D., 1993). Member, Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal, 1990-1991. Participant, Prince National Evidence Competition, 1992. Appointed Arbitrator, Superior Court of New Jersey, Monmouth County, 2004—. Member: Monmouth County Bar Association; Member, Worker's Compensation Committee, 2006—; American Bar Association. Practice Areas: Negligence Law; Product Liability Law; Workers' Compensation; Civil Practice. | | Jennifer S. Krimko (Member) born Long Branch, New Jersey, May 6, 1970; admitted to bar, 1998, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey. Education: Monmouth University (B.A., 1993); Rutgers School of Law, Newark (J.D., 1998). Former Law Clerk to the Hon. Lawrence M. Lawson, Assignment Judge, Superior Court of New Jersey. Member: Monmouth County (Member, Young Lawyers Committee, Real Estate and Land Development Committee), New Jersey State (Member, Land Use Law Section) and American Bar Associations; Women Lawyers in Monmouth; Haydn Proctor Inn of Court. Practice Areas: Land Use; Zoning Law; Real Estate. | | Robert A. Honecker, Jr. (Member) born Plainfield, New Jersey, February 22, 1953; admitted to bar, 1981, Pennsylvania. Education: Franklin & Marshall College (B.A., 1975); Delaware Law School of Widener University (J.D., 1981). Assistant Prosecutor, Monmouth County, 1982-2006. Member: Monmouth Bar Association; New Jersey State Bar Association. (Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Criminal Trial Attorney). Practice Areas: Criminal Litigation; Civil Litigation. Email: Robert A. Honecker, Jr. | | —————————— | | Frederick C. Raffetto (Associate) | | Kristine Marie Bergman (Associate) | | Jason S. Klein (Associate) | | Melanie J. Scroble (Associate) | | Barry M. Capp (Associate) | | Lynne Petillo (Associate) | | Douglas A. Davie (Associate) | | Greg S. Gargulinski (Associate) | | Hussam Chater (Associate) | | Bridget K. Dorney (Associate) | | COUNSEL | | Gordon N. Litwin (Counsel) born Newark, October 13, 1929; admitted to bar, 1956, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: Syracuse University (B.A., 1950); Harvard University (LL.B., 1953). Mayor, Little Silver, New Jersey, 1968-1969. Attorney: Sea Bright Borough, Board of Adjustment, 1970-1972; Borough of Keyport, 1978-1985. Chairman, Board of Trustees, Brookdale Community College, 1980-1987. Member: Essex County, Monmouth County, New Jersey State and American Bar Associations. (Resident, Newark Office). Practice Areas: General Civil Practice; Environmental Law; Commercial Law; Real Estate Law. | | Lisa D. Goldwasser (Counsel) admitted to bar, 1982, New York; 1984, New Jersey. Education: Johns Hopkins University (B.A., with honors, 1978); Yeshiva University (J.D., 1981). Member: Blue Key Society; Senior Editor, Moot Court Board. Author: Condominium Law and Practice, Rohan and Reskin, Matthew Bender, January, 1989. Practice Areas: Commercial Law; Residential Real Estate Law; Zoning and Planning Law; Land Use Law. | Other Office Addresses: Links to Other Offices
Newark, New Jersey Office: The Military Park Building, 60 Park Place. Telephone: 973-642-1801. Fax: 973-642-0310.
Clifton, New Jersey Office: 341 Broad Street, 07013. Telephone: 973-247-9000. Fax: 973-247-9199.
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