Rankings: New Jersey Powerhouses

  • September 05, 2025

    New Jersey Powerhouse: McCarter & English

    McCarter & English LLP assisted several major clients as they did business in New Jersey over the past year, earning a victory before the state's Supreme Court on the enforceability of stand-alone class action waivers and a triumph that clarified the scope of the Garden State's wiretapping law.

  • September 04, 2025

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Cole Schotz

    Flexing its legal muscle in high-stakes matters, Cole Schotz PC had a standout year — steering major companies such as Rite Aid, WeWork and Sam Ash through Chapter 11 proceedings, representing a professional soccer club in a significant investment deal, advising on real estate transactions valued in the hundreds of millions and blazing a trail in New Jersey's cannabis industry.

  • September 03, 2025

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Chiesa Shahinian

    Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC is helping Hollywood heavyweights Netflix and Lionsgate expand in New Jersey, the state manage Atlantic City's financial recovery and one of the biggest high-rise developments in state history navigate the current immigration landscape.

  • September 02, 2025

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Fox Rothschild

    By spending the past year representing such prominent names as Hard Rock International, Rutgers University and up-and-coming lottery courier Jackpot.com, Fox Rothschild LLP's New Jersey attorneys reinforced their prominence in the Garden State and landed the firm on Law306's Regional Powerhouses list.

  • August 29, 2025

    The 2025 Regional Powerhouses

    Law360's annual list of regional powerhouses reflects not only the work of exemplary firms, but also emerging legal trends in each state, from matters involving Colorado's growing life sciences industry, to an uptick in bankruptcies in Delaware, to the continued flurry of intellectual property litigation in California.

  • September 19, 2024

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Duane Morris LLP

    Duane Morris LLP assisted several major clients as they did business in New Jersey over the past year, working on deals such as the $34 million acquisition of an insolvent cannabis operator and an online sportsbook's $225 million expansion into 14 additional jurisdictions.

  • September 18, 2024

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Gibbons PC

    Gibbons PC has spent the past 12 months firming up its status as one of New Jersey's go-to firms for dealing with complex litigation in both the public and private sectors, making noteworthy additions to its already impressive roster, including two attorneys with serious experience in the courtroom, and helping bring the 2026 FIFA World Cup Final to the Garden State.

  • September 17, 2024

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Seeger Weiss

    Seeger Weiss LLP had a standout run of success throughout the past year, including a record $6 billion settlement for military veterans who suffered hearing damage because of defective 3M Co. earplugs, a billion-dollar agreement to compensate users of Philips CPAP machines and a multimillion-dollar settlement for users of proton pump inhibitor medication.

  • September 16, 2024

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Sills Cummis & Gross

    Big appellate wins, including a high-profile employment case involving a New Jersey Catholic school, have helped put Sills Cummis & Gross PC on Law360's 2024 New Jersey Regional Powerhouses list.

  • September 13, 2024

    The 2024 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2024 Regional Powerhouses reflected the local peculiarities of their states while often representing clients in deals and cases that captured national attention.

  • August 24, 2023

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Riker Danzig

    Riker Danzig LLP scored numerous major court wins and deal closings throughout the past year for its clients across multiple industries, helping the New York Red Bulls secure a site for its incoming 80-acre soccer complex, recovering over $17 million in a complicated securities fraud case, and spearheading Crum & Forster's triangular merger with an insurance firm.

  • August 23, 2023

    New Jersey Powerhouse: McCarter & English

    McCarter & English LLP's reputation for solving the most complex legal problems gained traction in 2023, a year that saw the Garden State-anchored firm go before the nation's highest court in an effort to help free the state from a pact to police the shipping port it shares with New York.

  • August 22, 2023

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Gibbons PC

    Gibbons PC recently won a "DEI trailblazer" award from the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey and the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce, a recognition that reflects the firm's broader diversity efforts as it represents clients across New Jersey industries including pharma, medical devices and universities.

  • August 21, 2023

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Chiesa Shahinian

    Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC assisted several large clients as they did business in New Jersey over the past year, working on projects such as the redevelopment of a former military base into a media production facility and a former housing project into a film studio complex.

  • August 18, 2023

    NJ's Powerhouses Put Clients And Consistency First This Year

    New Jersey's top law firms found ways to keep up in the state's competitive market by seizing opportunities to move into new industries, deepen their relationships with their clients and look inward for ways to put their employees first over the past year.

  • August 18, 2023

    The 2023 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2023 Regional Powerhouses are handling some of the biggest deals and most high-profile courtroom battles across 11 states, offering clients regional expertise and making a lasting impact on the law at the state and local level.

  • August 12, 2022

    NJ Powerhouse: Wilentz

    Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer PA had a jam-packed year serving as bond counsel to the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, representing Total Eye Care in an acquisition and guiding an $85 million commercial loan on behalf of Investors Bank.

  • August 11, 2022

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Riker Danzig

    Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP has delivered a number of victories over the past year for its wide-ranging client roster, notching a win for nuclear energy giant Holtec International in a $260 million tax credit case, representing the New York Red Bulls in the development of a new training facility and securing an appellate victory on behalf of a shopping center in an environmental cleanup case.

  • August 10, 2022

    NJ Powerhouse: Gibbons

    Gibbons PC scored a major win at the New Jersey Supreme Court this year, ending the mandatory prison sentence of 30 years without parole for juveniles convicted of murder, while also seeing its work have seismic impacts on combating a lead contamination crisis and redeveloping a former baseball stadium property in the Garden State's largest city.

  • August 09, 2022

    NJ Powerhouse: Duane Morris

    Duane Morris LLP delivered life sciences giant Catalent Inc. a major win with an $80 million carveout acquisition of Acorda Therapeutics Inc.'s manufacturing and packaging operations, while also helping to guide the closure of New Jersey's last two coal-fired power plants.

  • August 08, 2022

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Chiesa Shahinian

    Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC has served as the lead in several high-profile New Jersey cases over the past year, spanning the consolidated litigations of sexual assault claims at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, the Title IX case against William Paterson University and the development of American Dream, the second-largest shopping mall in the United States.

  • August 05, 2022

    NJ Powerhouses Leave Mark On Garden State's Legal Scene

    A broad swath of clients from corporate behemoths and developers to hospitals and government agencies had Law360's New Jersey Powerhouses at their side over the past year to navigate the Garden State's regulatory and judicial waters, advance major real estate projects and secure courtroom victories on issues ranging from tax credits to mandatory prison sentences.

  • July 31, 2022

    The 2022 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2022 Regional Powerhouses are handling some of the biggest deals and most high-profile courtroom battles across nine states, offering clients regional expertise and making a lasting impact on the law at the state and local level.

  • August 06, 2021

    New Jersey Powerhouse: Riker Danzig

    Over the course of the past year, Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti LLP has notched several notable wins, including in a significant New Jersey Supreme Court case for the Bank of New York and a precedent-setting appeal in the state's high court answering questions relating to Consumer Fraud Act claims.

  • August 05, 2021

    New Jersey Powerhouse: McCarter & English

    McCarter & English LLP scored state appellate decisions knocking down multimillion-dollar product liability verdicts against Johnson & Johnson and C.R. Bard Inc. after closing a complex deal to sell a Rutgers University medical research lab and moving in federal bankruptcy court to acquire a building for St. Joseph's University Medical Center.