The Firm: This group concentrates wholly on counseling employers, and has expertise across the entire range of management side issues. Areas of strength include litigation and traditional labor relations and collective bargaining matters, as well as employee benefits and corporate immigration law. The 30-strong New Jersey group is able to draw upon the resources and support of its colleagues in the firm's national labor and employment practice, which it enables it to represent clients within and outside New Jersey. These include Prudential Financial, HSBC and Bristol-Myers Squibb among others.

Sources Say:"The lawyers are incredibly pragmatic and incredibly business-savvy - understanding their clients is the cornerstone of the practice." 

Key Individuals: Marvin Goldstein is the group's leading traditional labor attorney. He has nearly 40 years of experience and recently successfully represented Honeywell in two union-organizing drives at a New Jersey subsidiary. Interviewees describe him as "a great guy, and an excellent lawyer." Lawrence Sandak heads the New Jersey labor and employment practice and is the Newark office's managing partner. He receives much market respect for his employment litigation expertise.