Family Law

• Divorce
  With a family law group dedicated to the full realm of family law issues, our attorneys are sensitive to the needs of our clients and understand that every case is unique and must be approached individually. Our divorce lawyers in New Jersey work closely with our clients to achieve their particular goals, providing seasoned counsel in meeting present and future financial needs, and in resolving all issues concerning children, alimony, child support, medical coverage, education expenses, and equitable distribution of property. Our experience and knowledge of divorce law in New Jersey allow us to confidently guide our clients through the legal process.
• Child Support
  In addition to handling matters on behalf of our clients at the trial level, we have successfully represented clients in numerous appellate cases involving all aspects of family law, including in particular complex equitable distribution and valuation issues, custody relocation, child support, and alimony awards.
• Child Custody and Visitation
  We understand the emotions involved during a divorce; this is no truer than when children are concerned. Custody matters require special and unique legal skills, as well as sensitivity. We handle contested custody, change of custody, and relocation cases. We thoroughly investigate the needs of the child, the parent's availability, and childcare costs including education. In addition, we have been at the forefront of obtaining grandparent visitation rights and have represented clients in a variety of adoption issues.
• Adoption
• Guardianship
  In addition, we are well versed in the representation of beneficiaries and fiduciaries in estate and probate litigation, including will contests, questions of interpretations of wills and trusts, and guardianship proceedings.
• Spousal Support
  Often issues arise after the final judgment of divorce is entered. We handle the full array of post-judgment applications including modification issues concerning alimony, child support, changes in primary residence and changes in parenting time schedules.

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  Riker Danzig’s Cannabis Law Group combines the talents of seasoned attorneys from our Corporate, Tax, Governmental Affairs, and White Collar Criminal Defense and Investigations Practice Groups. Our cannabis attorneys are knowledgeable about the latest legal developments and trends related to lawful cannabis-related activity, and are well-equipped to provide counsel on the following legal matters...
• Wrongful Death
• Fraud
  We successfully represented LG Electronics in connection with a putative nationwide class action involving several hundred thousand allegedly defective refrigerator units, which were also the subject of a Consumer Products Safety Commission investigation.  The lawsuit, which involved alleged violations of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act (CFA), misrepresentations, and breach of implied warranty relating to the sale of the refrigerators, was settled favorably.
• White Collar Crimes
  The Firm has found that cyber issues often require a multi-disciplinary approach to contain and mitigate risk.  It is essential that cybersecurity attorneys coordinate the resources of a company’s technology experts, financial personnel, and executives to ensure that a cyber or technology problem has been addressed appropriately and efficiently, with a sensitivity to the privacy, regulatory, and liability exposures that these issues present. We are able to draw on attorneys from our practice groups who specialize in litigation, insurance, white collar crime, transactions, government affairs, intellectual property, and technology and emerging growth companies, to find workable and business savvy solutions for cyber-related problems.
• Restraining Order
  Our attorneys have won precedent-setting court decisions for Jersey Battered Women Services, protecting the privacy and safety of women in shelters. We assist our clients, both men and women, in obtaining and defending against domestic violence restraining orders.
• Money Laundering
  The rapidly growing, billion dollar legal cannabis market is having a far-reaching and dramatic impact on numerous industries.  Due to constantly changing state and foreign cannabis laws, and questions raised regarding the enforceability of federal anti-drug, anti-money laundering, and banking laws in light of state and foreign legalization, the lawful cannabis industry presents a complex landscape for investors, lenders, ancillary service providers, and impacted industries to navigate. Our Cannabis Law Group can provide clients with advice on the spectrum of issues that may arise for lawful businesses in, and impacted by, this area.

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  The members of our Corporate Law Group are seasoned business attorneys, with the experience to be both practical and creative in helping clients achieve their objectives.  Corporate lawyers in our New Jersey and New York offices represent clients in regional, national and international transactions. Our domestic and international clients include Global 500 and other large cap companies, middle market enterprises, emerging growth companies, private investors and experienced entrepreneurs.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Our blockchain attorneys have been involved in the formation of new entities doing business in the broader digital asset and blockchain space, including joint ventures, and debt and equity financing for those entities.  They have also handled other financing transactions involving digital assets, including transactions to be funded through the sale of tokens as well as mergers and acquisitions involving token issuers.
• Business Transactions
  Linda H. Prentiss, Counsel to the Firm, practices in Riker Danzig’s Financial Institutions Group. She has considerable experience in banking, commercial transactions, and corporate trust....
• Limited Liability Companies
  We counsel clients of all sizes and types, including large multi-national corporations, smaller publicly and privately held firms, investment banks, utilities, construction and engineering companies, insurance companies and brokers, trade associations and Nonprofit organizations, partnerships and limited liability companies.
• Construction Contracts
  While serving our clients, Riker Danzig construction attorneys have drafted and negotiated major construction contracts and agreements among and between architects, construction managers, owners and contractors; multi-prime agreements; claim resolutions; change orders; and access agreements. In addition, Riker Danzig has represented numerous clients in construction litigation and engineering litigation, arbitration and mediation proceedings, including actions under the Construction Lien Law and the Municipal Mechanics’ Lien Law, and cost recovery actions, including delay claims, extras and change order litigation/arbitration.
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
• Unfair Competition
  Edwin F. Chociey, Jr. maintains a diverse commercial litigation practice. He frequently litigates in the areas of trade secrets, restrictive covenants and unfair competition. He...
• Antitrust

Employment Law

• Employment Discrimination
  We have argued precedent-setting decisions in cases involving employment discrimination, public utilities, environmental law, condemnation, lender liability, and creditor rights.
• Employment Contract
  Negotiating and drafting executive employment agreements, and change in control provisions in view of Code section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code
• Non-compete Agreement
  We regularly counsel clients on the corporate structure that best capitalizes on their IP assets, providing assistance with licensing, selling, marketing and other commercial uses.  We have been involved in development and other service agreements involving the creation of new digital asset-related technologies, and in the licensing and sale of those technologies.  We routinely assist with technology transfers and acquisitions, including the creation of joint ventures, partnerships, and other strategic alliances.  Our attorneys also advise on licensing agreements and the contractual agreements necessary to protect proprietary information, including non-disclosure and non-compete agreements.
• Severance Agreement

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Joshua M. Greenfield is a Partner in the Firm’s Real Estate Group. Josh has experience in complex commercial real estate matters, including acquisition and sale,...
• Construction Litigation
  Riker Danzig offers a broad spectrum of legal services to construction and engineering clients. Bringing a unique insight into the practice of engineering and the construction industry, Riker Danzig serves as general and/or special counsel on construction law and engineering related legal matters for clients ranging from start-up entrepreneurial enterprises to established, publicly-listed corporations and numerous public entities.
• Real Estate Transactions
  We were retained by a title insurance company in connection with a scheme by a hacker who succeeded in having funds from a real estate transaction wired into his account.  International hackers compromised the email account of the seller’s attorney in a significant real estate transaction and, using an email address similar but not identical to the seller’s attorney’s address, misdirected the entire sales proceeds to the hacker’s account instead of the intended seller’s attorney’s account.  We have filed suit against various parties to the sales transaction to determine ultimate liability, raising novel issues concerning responsibility for the accuracy of wiring instructions.
• Eminent Domain
  The work of Riker Danzig's Eminent Domain Group is a natural outgrowth of the firm's comprehensive and diverse real estate practice. We have handled numerous large-scale projects involving the exercise of the power of eminent domain by both public and private bodies. We possess a high level of expertise, having extended our reputation for thorough and efficient legal representation into this specialized field. Over the past 20 years, Riker Danzig has been involved in or prosecuted condemnation matters as far south as Salem, Gloucester and Burlington Counties and as far north as Sussex and Bergen Counties. Our eminent domain attorneys in New Jersey have appeared in court in virtually every county in the state.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
• Property Damage
  We possess extensive experience in construction defect suits, involving bodily injury and property damage claims, as well as disputes that arise in such lawsuits over the scope of indemnification clauses and additional insured requirements.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  Riker Danzig has a long and successful history of representing a broad variety of clients in class action litigation and complex commercial litigation in the federal and state courts, including numerous cases involving allegations of consumer fraud and product defects, as well as cases in the insurance, banking and securities, and employment contexts.  We serve as primary or New Jersey counsel for major drug, electronic, chemical and tobacco manufacturers, defending wrongful death and personal injury claims in both individual and “mass tort” settings.  We also represent foreign manufacturers in class actions brought before U.S. courts, and have successfully argued class certification issues in several federal and state courts.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Many of our closely held business and estate planning clients rely on us as their principal advisors and confidantes. Our clients benefit by the one-on-one relationships they develop with our estate planning attorneys, such as those you would expect to develop in a smaller firm, but with all the advantages of a large, sophisticated, full-service firm.
• Wills
  Our clients range from entrepreneurs and family businesses to corporate executives, and include world-renowned individuals of significant worth as well as clients with more modest estates. Always cognizant of tax consequences and legal costs, we provide a high degree of sophistication in preparing the requisite legal instruments to implement wills and trust agreements, gift programs, corporate benefit plans and retirement plans. The firm's clients benefit from our resourcefulness in identifying tax savings, and have come to rely on our expertise in dealing with taxing authorities.
• Trusts
  The breadth of Riker Danzig's practice allows us to offer unique services to those seeking alternative methods of resolving disputes. In many instances, clients prefer to settle disagreements outside of a courtroom.  In providing those services, our attorneys bring broad experience in matters pertaining to employment, intellectual property, construction, healthcare, trusts and estates, insurance, real estate, personal injuries, family and environmental law.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
  Riker Danzig's experience and knowledge in bankruptcy litigation, corporate reorganization, real estate restructurings, and nonbankruptcy insolvency proceedings allow us a strong practice on a national platform. Our bankruptcy lawyers have been recognized by a number of outside sources for its strength in New Jersey, as well as in the Northeast United States. For example, our bankruptcy law group has been highly ranked among New Jersey bankruptcy practices by
• Foreclosure
  Advising lenders and borrowers on environmental matters arising from default and foreclosure, including lender liability protection under federal and State law
• Tax Law
  Our Corporate Law Group has extensive experience representing clients in a broad range of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, equity investments, debt financings, technology licensing arrangements, outsourcings of business operations and public securities transactions.  We also assist enterprises in their daily operations, and advise clients with respect to entity structuring and formation, tax matters, strategic planning, corporate governance, equityholder disputes, compliance, internal investigations and other entity and operational matters.