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Federal and State Litigation and Appeals |
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Complex Business Litigation |
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Franchise Law |
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Securities Fraud |
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White Collar Criminal Litigation |
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New Jersey, 1971 |
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U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1971 |
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U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1976 |
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U.S. Supreme Court, 1977 |
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New York, 1983 |
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U.S. Court of Claims, 1994 |
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New York University Law School, J.D., 1971 |
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New York University, B.A., cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1968 |
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Email: mgreenberg@greenbergdauber.com
Phone: 973.643.3700, Ext. 19
| "We manage litigation differently here. Our focus is on obtaining results in the most direct and efficient way possible. We adopt a strategy after careful analysis and then pursue that strategy aggressively. The client is a critical part of the entire team. No strategy is adopted without client input and discussion of options. These guidelines have served both our clients and our firm well over the years. We tend to get results here and we tend to get those results expeditiously. That's probably why our best referrals are from existing clients.” |
Mel Greenberg, a founding partner of Greenberg Dauber Epstein & Tucker, is Chair of the Litigation Department. Mr. Greenberg has been a litigator for almost forty years, specializing in business litigation and appeals before both Federal and New Jersey State courts. He has argued many cases before the United States District Court, the New Jersey Supreme Court, the New Jersey Appellate Division and various Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal.
As acknowledgment of his stature in the legal community, Mr. Greenberg’s peers have voted him one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in New Jersey (2007-09). He is also listed in Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition, as a Business Litigator. Mr. Greenberg is also peer-listed in Best Lawyers in America, Business Litigation (2003-2010), New York Magazine’s Directory of Area’s Best Lawyers (2005-2009) and “Power of Attorney,” New Jersey Leading Lawyers, New York Magazine (March 2003).
Mr. Greenberg is a former federal prosecutor who participated in the prosecution of major political corruption, securities fraud and tax evasion cases as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Mr. Greenberg has represented businesses, professionals, banks and insurance companies in complex cases, including many matters which have resulted in reported decisions and the creation of new law. He has also represented various corporations and corporate officers in connection with Federal Grand Jury investigations as well as internal corporate investigations. Mr. Greenberg has gained a wide reputation throughout the State as a very formidable adversary, noted for his courtroom skills, his creative legal approaches and his skillful use of strategy in complicated and difficult cases.
A graduate of New York University Law School, Mr. Greenberg has been a trial lecturer for the prestigious National Institute of Trial Advocacy, a Teaching Master for the C. Willard Heckel Inn of Court in association with Rutgers University Law School, and has lectured on corporate litigation matters for the Institute for Continuing Legal Education. He previously was named by the New Jersey Supreme Court to serve as Chair of the District Ethics Committee. |
