Eight Pashman Stein Walder Hayden P.C. Partners Included in 2021 "Best Lawyers in America" List

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8.20.20

Pashman Stein Walder Hayden P.C. is proud to announce that eight of its partners were recently selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2021 Best Lawyers in America list. The eight attorneys are:

• Bruce J. Ackerman (Corporate Law). He chairs the firm’s Corporate/Commercial practice and has more than 30 years of experience advising clients on a wide variety of business-related matters. His practice centers on the formation, purchase, sale, financing, structuring and operations of businesses, associations, and professional practices; contractual undertakings; stock and asset sale transactions; mergers; corporate agreements; and business succession planning, as well as resolving business disputes for those clients.
• Joseph A. Hayden, Jr. (Criminal Defense: General Practice, Criminal Defense: White-Collar). His practice is largely focused in Criminal defense. He frequently tries cases with extensive media coverage and tried the first case in New Jersey with live television coverage by a major network. Joe has been involved in such high-profile cases as the trial of former pro-basketball star Jayson Williams, and successfully represented Joseph Ferriero, former Bergen County Democratic Chairman, in a federal prosecution.
• Sean Mack (Commercial Litigation). He is the co-chair of the litigation practice. He has substantial experience litigating complex business disputes in state and federal courts in New Jersey, New York and other jurisdictions. He has extensive experience representing companies and senior executives in lawsuits involving claims of breaches of fiduciary duties, theft of corporate opportunities, breaches of restrictive covenants and in partnership disputes and dissolution proceedings. He represents motor carriers in contract disputes and has provided advice on a variety of legal issues affecting motor carriers and the intermodal shipping industry. Sean advises businesses interested in applying for medical cannabis or hemp licenses in New Jersey and has represented other clients in appeals of the 2018 and 2019 rounds of medical marijuana license applications.
• Aidan P. O'Connor (Criminal Defense: White-Collar). He is a member in the Litigation practice and head of its Criminal Defense and Internal Investigations Division. He is a former Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey and served in the Criminal Division, on the Organized Crime Strike Force and as chief of the Violent Crimes Unit. He concentrates his practice on complex civil litigation, criminal defense and internal investigations, including securities fraud matters.
• Louis Pashman (Real Estate Law). He has extensive experience in corporate law, commercial transactions, estate planning, family law, and appellate matters. He advises the Firm’s business clients on a wide range of issues that affect their interests. He also has an active mediation and arbitration practice.
• Alan Silber (Criminal Defense: General Practice, Criminal Defense: White-Collar Forfeiture and Appellate). He concentrates his practice on federal and state complex criminal litigation, as well as representing lawyers in disciplinary cases.  He is the Third Circuit Vice Chair of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys’ (NACDL) Amicus Committee and Third Circuit Coordinator for NACDL’s Strike Force (representing members who receive subpoenas or threats of contempt).  He is also assisting with the Gary S. Stein Public Interest Center of our firm.  Alan has tried a variety of major white-collar cases involving RICO, bank, securities, telemarketing, health care, and wire and mail fraud. He has defended clients in money laundering cases of significant size and scope, kidnapping (representing a police officer), and murder. Alan is also experienced as counsel for claimants in civil and criminal forfeiture actions.
• Michael S. Stein (Commercial Litigation). He is the chairman of the firm and its managing partner. He specializes in general commercial litigation, chancery litigation, legal ethics and appellate advocacy and has substantial trial and appellate experience in both state and federal courts. Stein also serves as an advisor to the firm’s corporate clients on such matters as partnership and shareholder agreements, intellectual property rights, lender liability issues, land use requirements, contracts, restrictive covenants and chancery law.
• Justin P. Walder (Appellate Practice, Criminal Defense: White-Collar, Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law). He is the co-chair of the firm’s Litigation practice. He particularly enjoys litigating cases involving novel or complex questions of law and represented a judge of the New Jersey Superior Court in a successful challenge as to the constitutionality of increases of pension and health care costs for judges and justices of New Jersey. Also represented a lawyer in ethics matter in an unprecedented decision the New Jersey Supreme Court reinstated a previously disbarred attorney. He has been a leading advocate as to the importance of an independent judiciary.

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