Philip concentrates in counseling family owned and small businesses. I am one of the last of a vanishing breed - a primary care business lawyer. In an age when so many lawyers specialize from their first days in practice, my experience and skill-sets run wide and deep. This enables me to provide clients with a broad range of counsel, but I also know when to bring in lawyers with specialized knowle
dge. I am primarily a transaction lawyer, yet I understand litigation very well. I bring an insightful touch in assisting clients in structuring their relationships, carefully articulating their written arrangements and effectively dealing with controversies that arise. For more than 30 years I have received an AV rating (highest) in Martindale-Hubbell, and for 18 years I have been listed as one of New Jersey’s best business lawyers in Best Lawyers in America. For the last eight years I have been selected to the New Jersey Super Lawyers list. The lawyers were selecgted by their peers in an extensive nomination aned polling process conducted by the research team at Super Lwyers, a service of Thomson Reuters, Legal Division, bsed on Egan, Minnesota. Specialties:Shareholder and LLC agreements; buy-sell agreements; buying/selling a business or franchise; drafting, enforcing or resisting enforcement of confidentiality & non-compete agreements; employment, sales representative, distributorship agreements; buying, selling and leasing real estate; listing and commission agreements with real estate brokers; and legal issues involved in voluntary auctions of real estate. I also mediate business disputes, including disputes among business owners.
