Michael Stein

Practice Areas

Appellate Advocacy

Litigation

Local Counsel

Attorney Ethics & Professional Misconduct

Business Divorce & Ownership Disputes

Trusts, Estates & Fiduciary Litigation

Career

Michael S. Stein is the firm’s chair and managing partner and serves as member of the firm's Executive Committee. He specializes in general commercial litigation, chancery litigation, legal ethics, and appellate advocacy. He has substantial trial and appellate experience in both state and federal courts, concentrating his practice primarily on complex and sophisticated corporate, business and probate disputes. He also serves as an advisor to the firm’s corporate clients on a wide variety of matters, including partnership and shareholder disputes, intellectual property rights, antitrust matters, professional malpractice, chancery litigation, legal ethics, land use and restrictive covenants.

Clients come to Mike for matters big and small, knowing that he will roll up his sleeves, sweat the details, always make himself available to offer careful and thoughtful counsel from beginning to end, and be fully prepared to aggressively try the case should settlement efforts prove unsuccessful. In addition, Mike is routinely engaged as counsel and local counsel by major multinational AmLaw 100 firms to meet their regional litigation needs. The combination of Mike’s years of experience, his work ethic, his knowledge of New Jersey’s judicial culture, and, most importantly, the depth and strength of the Firm’s litigation bench makes him a go-to litigator in New Jersey for major “bet the business” litigations.

Professional Memberships

Past Member, Editorial Board, New Jersey Law Journal

Member, Vineyard Power Cooperative’s Advisory Committee

Past Member, Professional Responsibility Rules Committee

Past Member, Civil Practice Rules Committee

Past Chair, District II-B Ethics Committee

Supreme Court Approved Mediator

Past Chair and Member, Montclair Cooperative School, Board of Trustees