Dorf Nelson & Zauderer LLP, USA: Spotlight 2026

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Firm Overview:

Dorf Nelson & Zauderer LLP (“DNZ”) is a national law firm with offices in New York, California, and New Jersey. The firm’s diversified practice enables it to offer solutions to the most challenging legal and business issues in virtually every industry. The firm litigates regularly in both state and federal courts. DNZ delivers big‑law caliber litigation and transactional services with the responsiveness and accessibility of a mid-size firm across a broad set of practice areas by providing strategic and client-focused solutions to corporations, financial institutions, public entities, and high-net-worth individuals.

Main Areas of Practice:

Business/ Commercial Litigation:

The Chairs of DNZ’s Litigation Department are Jonathan B. Nelson and Mark C. Zauderer, both highly respected trial and appellate attorneys. Our litigators have decades of experience representing Fortune 500 companies, corporations, investors, top global law firms, real estate developers, public and non-profit entities, and high-profile individuals in an array of matters. They lead a cadre of litigators with significant experience litigating in state and federal courts across the country. The Litigation Department’s strengths include working with other law firms seeking to draw on our depth of experience, particularly in the New York courts.

Commercial Real Estate & Land Use:

The firm’s real estate and land use attorneys handle complex commercial transactions, including acquisitions, sales, leasing, and financing. With substantial experience in real estate development, zoning, and environmental law, the firm manages all aspects of the land use permitting process. The firm’s clients include borrowers, lenders, investors, developers, not-for-profits, municipalities, and cooperative and condominium boards.

Corporate:

The firm’s corporate attorneys bring decades of experience guiding public and private companies from seed financing to exit, as well as in their regular operations. They handle complex domestic and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, private security offerings, brand divestitures, and joint ventures and strategic alliances.

Fractional General Counsel:

The attorneys in this group offer fractional in-house counsel services, working collaboratively with internal teams to deliver experience-based and cost-effective services, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts, product regulatory compliance, governance, cybersecurity, data privacy and AI, and risk analyses, policies, reporting and training.

Intellectual Property:

The firm’s intellectual property attorneys advise clients on all aspects, from soft IP to complex technologies. Members of the patent bar, the firm’s attorneys serve clients across industries such as fashion, biotech, e-commerce, AI, and medical devices. Services include IP prosecution, due diligence and clearance, copyrights, trademarks, patents, life sciences and licensing and enforcement.

Labor & Employment:

The firm’s attorneys advise management across diverse industries. They guide clients on compliance with federal, state, and local labor laws and handle all aspects of labor and employment law. The attorneys in the group have litigated hundreds of discrimination cases, tried employment law cases in state and federal courts, and defended class actions and collective actions under the FLSA and ADEA. They also handle negotiations involving employment contracts and terminations.

Tax:

The firm’s tax attorneys provide planning and advice to individuals, multistate and multinational corporations, not-for-profits, partnerships, and financial institutions on all tax matters. They handle tax-efficient structuring, resolve disputes, and represent clients before federal, state, and local authorities. Because collaboration is key, the tax and corporate teams work together to navigate tax implications in mergers, acquisitions, and other growth strategies.

Social Impact Consulting:

DNZ’s Social Impact Consulting Group assists clients in creating and fostering inclusive workplaces. The attorneys tailor strategies to your goals and workforce. When required, the attorneys collaborate with DNZ’s Litigation and Labor & Employment teams for targeted investigations and litigation prevention.

Matrimonial & Family Law:

The firm’s matrimonial and family law attorneys are dedicated to guiding clients with understanding and a sense of empowerment. This group of seasoned litigators provides the full breadth of family law services, including divorce, custody and parental access, support, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, guardianship proceedings, and family law issues.

Trusts & Estates:

The attorneys in the firm’s trusts and estates group apply the firm’s philosophy of probing for innovative solutions beyond the obvious or legal answers to resolve disputes related to wills, trusts, estates and fiduciary issues in Surrogate’s Court and Supreme Court. The firm’s clients include individuals, families, and businesses.

Offices:

New York

The International Corporate Center

555 Theodore Fremd Avenue

Rye, New York 10580

P.(914) 381-7600

Email: [email protected]

New York

475 Fifth Avenue, 17th Floor

New York, New York 10017

P.(212) 485-0005

Email: [email protected]