ROI Influencers: Law 2022 — Gary Wingens
Gary Wingens
Lowenstein Sandler
Managing partner
Harvard Law School
The managing partner since 2008, under his direction, the firm has experienced substantial growth, and now comprises over 350 lawyers in offices in New Jersey; New York; California; Utah; and...
ROI Influencers: Law 2022 — Crystal West Edwards
Crystal West Edwards
Porzio, Bromberg & Newman
Principal
Penn State Dickinson Law
West Edwards’ compassion, positivity and perseverance come out in her work. As chair of the Wealth Preservation team at Porzio, she is a pivotal leader in...
ROI Influencers: Law 2022 — Gary Werner
Gary Werner
Schenck Price
Managing partner
Rutgers Law School – Newark
Werner has more than three decades of experience in all types of complex commercial litigation. He has extensive jury trial experience and has litigated in both state and...
ROI Influencers: Law 2022 — Peter Verniero
Peter Verniero
Sills Cummis & Gross
Business litigation
Duke University School of Law
Verniero chairs the firm’s in-demand Appellate Practice Group and Corporate Investigations and Integrity Practice Group, where he has advised entities in matters pending before various...
ROI Influencers: Law 2022 — Lee Vartan
Lee Vartan
Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi
Litigation, cannabis
Harvard Law School
Vartan is widely recognized as one of the state’s premier criminal defense and trial attorneys. He regularly represents individuals and companies in high-stakes investigations and prosecutions in...
ROI Influencers: Law 2022 — Peter Torcicollo
Peter Torcicollo
Gibbons
Managing director
Rutgers School of Law – Newark
Recently took over as managing director of the firm, but Torcicollo has long been involved in building the firm. He took the lead on most hiring in...
ROI Influencers: Law 2022 — Dennis Toft
Dennis Toft
Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi
Environmental
Columbia Law School
The chair of the firm’s Environmental Law Group, Toft is highly regarded as one of the state’s leading Brownfields redevelopment practitioners. He played a key role in the...
ROI Influencers: Law 2022 — Dan Stolz
Dan Stolz
Genova Burns
Bankruptcy
New York Law School
His impact at Genova Burns has been almost immediate. Less than a year after he arrived — and started the bankruptcy practice — Stolz and Genova Burns were chosen...
ROI Influencers: Law 2022 — Michael Stein
Michael Stein
Pashman Stein
Chair and managing partner
Rutgers Law School – Newark
Stein specializes in general commercial litigation, chancery litigation, legal ethics and appellate advocacy. … He has substantial trial and appellate experience in both state...
ROI Influencers: Law 2022 — Nancy Erika Smith
Nancy Erika Smith
Smith Mullin
Employment, civil rights
Rutgers School of Law – Newark
She is the co-founder of the firm she started with Neil Mullin in 1986 — a firm now nationally known and respected as a...