2024 Attorney Rankings and Awards Recap

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1.2.25

Thirty-eight lawyers at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden P.C. received many highly regarded industry rankings and awards in 2024. Chambers USA, the New Jersey Law Journal, New Jersey Super Lawyers®, Best Lawyers in America®, InsiderNJ, the League of Women Voters of New Jersey, NJBIZ, and the New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Trial Lawyers have recognized our attorneys for their work in a broad array of practice areas. We are proud to work with such an impressive group of professionals and are grateful for their dedication to our clients and firm.

Bruce J. Ackerman

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Corporate Law
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Business/ Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Real Estate: Business

Samantha T. Alexander

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 “Ones to Watch” list - Corporate Law
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 Rising Star list – Real Estate

Darcy Baboulis-Gyscek

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 “Ones to Watch” list – Commercial Litigation
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 Rising Star list – Civil Litigation: Defense

Joseph C. Barsalona II

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 “Ones to Watch” list – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Raymond M. Brown

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list – Cannabis Law, Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Criminal Defense: General Practice, and Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Criminal Defense: White Collar, General Litigation

Oren M. Chaplin

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Business/Corporate, Closely Held Business, Mergers & Acquisitions

David N. Cinotti

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Business Litigation, Appellate

Jhanice V. Domingo

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list – Family Law, Family Law Arbitration, and Family Law Mediation
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list – Family Law

Matthew E. Frisch

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 Rising Star list - Business Litigation
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 “Ones to Watch” list – Commercial Litigation

CJ Griffin

• Included in InsiderNJ’s 2024 “LGBT Out 100 Power List”
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Media and Advertising, Appellate, Cannabis Law, Civil Rights, Communications
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list – Appellate Practice, Civil Rights Law, Media Law
• Included in NJBIZ “2024 Law Power 50” list
• Recipient of the ‘Making Democracy Work Award’ from the League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Daniel R. Guadalupe

• Ranked in the 2024 Chambers USA Guide for New Jersey: General Commercial
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Commercial Litigation and Litigation – Construction
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Construction Litigation: Business, Business Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Included in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers® list as “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation - Construction for the Hackensack region

Joseph A. Hayden, Jr.

• Ranked in the 2024 Chambers USA Guide for New Jersey: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list – Criminal Defense: General Practice and Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Included in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers® list as “Lawyer of the Year” for Criminal Defense: General Practice and Criminal Defense: White Collar for the Hackensack region
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Criminal Defense: White Collar, Civil Litigation: Defense, Criminal Defense
• Recipient of the Francis X. Dee Award from the New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Trial Lawyers for 2024
• Named to InsiderNJ’s 2024 “Insider 100: Power List”
• Named to New Jersey’s Irish American Leaders list 2024 by InsiderNJ

Henry J. Jaffe

• Ranked in the 2024 Chambers USA Guide for Delaware: Bankruptcy/Restructuring

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Litigation - Bankruptcy

Hon. Ellen K. Koblitz (Ret.)

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list – Family Law and Family Law Arbitration

Deanna L. Koestel

• Included in 2024 Super Lawyers New York Metro List - Business Litigation; Construction Litigation: Business; and Civil Litigation: Defense
• Included in 2024 Super Lawyers New York Metro: Women’s Edition List
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list – Commercial Litigation, Construction Law, Litigation – Construction
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list – Business Litigation, Construction Litigation, General Litigation
• Included in NJBIZ’s 2024 Leaders in Real Estate, Construction and Design list - Attorney

Yelena Yukhvid Levine

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 “Ones to Watch” list – Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 Rising Star list – Civil Litigation: Defense

Zachary Levy

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 Rising Star list - Business Litigation

Scott R. Lippert

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list – Real Estate Law

Sean Mack

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Commercial Litigation
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Business Litigation, Cannabis Law, Appellate
• Included in NJBIZ “2024 Law Power 50” list

Timothy P. Malone

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 “Ones to Watch” list - Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation, and Litigation – Environmental

Amanda J. Massey

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 “Ones to Watch” list – Family Law

Dillon J. McGuire

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 Rising Star list - Criminal Defense
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 “Ones to Watch” list – Commercial Litigation

Aidan P. O’Connor

• Ranked in the 2024 Chambers USA Guide for New Jersey: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Criminal Defense: White Collar, General Litigation, Business Litigation
• Named to New Jersey’s Irish American Leaders list 2024 by InsiderNJ

Amy M. Oden

• Included in 2024 Super Lawyers New York Metro List – Creditor Debtor Rights
• Included in 2024 Super Lawyers New York Metro: Women’s Edition List

Howard Pashman

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 Rising Star list – Civil Litigation: Defense

Louis Pashman

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Real Estate Law

James A. Plaisted

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Criminal Defense: White Collar, Civil Litigation: Plaintiff, Class Action/Mass Torts: Plaintiff, Personal Injury – General: Plaintiff

Roger Plawker

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Business Litigation, Administrative Law, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Intellectual Property

Bruce S. Rosen

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Communications, Business Litigation, General Litigation, Constitutional Law
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, First Amendment Law, Litigation – First Amendment

Samuel J. Samaro

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Employment & Labor: Employer, General Litigation

Hon. Ronny Jo Siegal (Ret.)

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Family Law

Alan Silber

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Criminal Defense: General Practice and Criminal Defense: White-Collar

Michael S. Stein

• Ranked in the 2023 Chambers USA Guide for Litigation: General Commercial
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Appellate Practice, Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law and Commercial Litigation
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Business Litigation, Appellate
• Recipient of the Service Member Patriot Award, awarded by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, a Department of Defense office
• Named Finalist for Office Managing Partner of the Year by the New Jersey Law Journal as part of its 2024 New Jersey Legal Awards

David B. Stratton

• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Ranked in the 2024 Chambers USA Guide for Senior Statesman for Delaware: Bankruptcy/Restructuring

Justin P. Walder

• Ranked in the 2024 Chambers USA Guide for Senior Statesman for New Jersey: White-Collar Crime & Government Investigations
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Appellate Practice, Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list - Criminal Defense: White Collar, Business Litigation, Administrative Law
• Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the New Jersey Law Journal as part of its 2024 New Jersey Legal Awards

Brendan M. Walsh

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 list – Business Litigation, Civil Litigation, Appellate

John W. Weiss

• Included in 2024 Super Lawyers New York Metro List – Bankruptcy: Business; Business Litigation; and Creditor Debtor Rights: Business
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 list - Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law, and Litigation-Bankruptcy

Marc M. Yenicag

• Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers 2024 Rising Star list – Business Litigation
• Included in Best Lawyers in America 2025 “Ones to Watch” list – Commercial Litigation

Methodologies

The New Jersey Legal Awards are published by the New Jersey Law Journal. A description of the selection methodology can be found at Methodology: New Jersey Legal Awards (NJLA) 2024.

The Chambers USA ranking list is published by Chambers & Partners. A description of the selection methodology can be found at https://chambers.com/about-us/methodology

 The New Jersey Super Lawyers list is issued by Thomson Reuters. A description of the selection methodology can be found at http://www.superlawyers.com/about/selection_process.html.

The New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Star list is issued by Thomson Reuters. A description of the selection methodology can be found at http://www.superlawyers.com/about/selection_process.html.

The Best Lawyers list and the Ones to Watch list are issued by BL Rankings, LLC. A description of the selection methodology can be found at https://www.bestlawyers.com/About/MethodologyBasic.aspx

The “2024 Law Power 50” List is published by the NJBiz. A description of the selection methodology can be found here.

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