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Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C., is a mid-sized general practice law firm, located in Central New Jersey. We provide litigation and transactional counsel to a broad spectrum of clients, including global private and public corporations, national commercial insurance firms, health care institutions, school boards, trade associations, banks and financial institutions, nonprofit organizations, privately held businesses, professional corporations, and individuals in the New Jersey and Mid-Atlantic region. We are committed to providing quality legal representation with a focus on personalized service, while maintaining a firm commitment to practicing law with the highest of ethical standards.
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Number of Attorneys: 64
Year Established: 1954
Member: LEGUS (http://www.leguslaw.com)
Areas of Practice:
General Practice
Alternative Dispute
Resolution
Antitrust & Trade
Regulations
Appeals
Automotive Law
Banking and Finance
Bankruptcy & Creditor’s Rights
Business Counsel &
Transactions
Business Planning &
Succession
Civil Litigation
Commercial Law
Construction Law
Contracts
Corporate Law
Divorce & Family Law
Divorce Mediation
Early-Stage Businesses
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Education Law
Elder Law
Employee Benefits
Employment Law and
Litigation
Energy & Utility Law
Environmental Law
Equine Law
ERISA
Estate Planning
Executive Compensation
Fidelity and Surety
Franchises &
Distributorships
Health Care
Immigration & Citizenship
Information Technology
Insurance
Insurance Coverage &
Defense
Intellectual Property
Labor
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Litigation
Matrimonial Law
Medical Malpractice Defense
Mergers, Acquisitions and
Divestitures
Municipal Law
Nonprofit Organizations
Nursing Practice Law
Personal Injury
Personal Services
Probate
Products Liability
Professional Liability
Public Safety
Real Estate - Commercial
and Industrial
Regulatory Law
Securities
Tax
Wills, Trusts and Estates
Zoning, Planning & Land Use
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Jurisdictions in which Attorneys are Admitted to Practice:
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, Florida, North Carolina.
Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as Civil Trial Attorneys:
Representative Litigation Matters:
- Negotiated a $1.2 million settlement with the School Development Authority for contract funds and change orders due, including a claim for general conditions due to project delays.
- Obtained judgment for majority shareholders’ right to buy out minority shareholder in corporations valued at $3.2M.
- For a fiduciary liability insurance carrier, negotiated complete withdrawal of $930,000 claim against single employer pension plan for alleged plan losses claimed by U.S. Dept. of Labor.
- Obtained a $1 million settlement on behalf of a construction client for contract funds owed, including disputed work items.
- Negotiated a settlement of $2.5 million with a self-storage company in an oppressed shareholder’s suit.
- Settlement of claimed IRS liability of more than $300,000 for $9,600.
- Selected for national representation of a major insurance carrier placed in conservatorship proceedings, with aggregate claims well into eight figures.
- Successful defense through trial of multi-million dollar claim asserted for breach of a software development contract.
- Successful defense (dismissal on summary judgment) of an insurance company client and its chemical company insured in a federal superfund litigation involving a site with a past and projected cleanup cost of over $30 million.
- Commercial arbitration of multiple claims and issues arising under a $30 million acquisition agreement and associated vendor and other agreements.
Representative Transactions:
- Represented owner of New Jersey-based biomedical company in a $55 million stock sale.
- Represented purchasing entity in the privatization of a county-owned long-term care facility.
- Hospital consolidation involving Helene Fuld Medical Center and Mercer Medical Center.
- Obtained a Private Letter Ruling for a New Jersey hospital which allowed for use of $16 million in additional tax exempt bond proceeds.
- Represented a hospital system in a $755 Million mortgage loan to finance the construction of a new state-of-the-art hospital.
- Represented a New Jersey chemical manufacturing company in a $16.5 million senior credit facility.
- Represented a large industrial power user who achieved nearly $1 Million in annual savings in its electric bill by purchasing generation from a supplier other than its local utility.
- Represented a New Jersey telecommunications company in its $22 million asset sale.
- Represented a New Jersey pest control company in its $110 million asset sale.
- Served as hospital counsel for a New Jersey hospital’s $131 million bond issue, the largest New Jersey Health Care Facilities Authority hospital bond issue in the state in 2003.
- Negotiated the elimination of a $250,000 withdrawal liability claim made by a collectively bargained pension plan against a national manufacturing corporation selling a subsidiary.
- Hospital consolidation involving Elizabeth General Medical Center and St. Elizabeth Hospital
- $20 million securities offering by regional education business to raise expansion capital
- $40 million acquisition of company with operations in 23 states for healthcare client
- $10 million sale–leaseback financing for private education company
Business Organizations to Which We Are Legal Counsel:
Nonprofit Boards on Which Attorneys Serve:
- Cancer Hope Network - John H. Schmidt, Jr., Immediate Past President/General Counsel
- Children’s Specialized Hospital - John R. Blasi, Trustee (former Chairman)
- CPC Behavioral Healthcare - Kathleen M. Connelly, Member
- Community YMCA, Red Bank - Joseph J. Colao, Jr., Secretary
- Court Appointed Special Advocates of Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren Counties - Richard R. Width, Founder, Trustee, & President
- Eastern Monmouth Chamber of Commerce - Kathleen M. Connelly, Member
- Elizabethtown Healthcare Foundation - Richard R. Width, Trustee
- Enright Foundation - Elizabeth E. Manzo, Trustee
- Family Service of Morris County Corporate Leadership Counsel - Anne S. Burris, Member
- Gateway Regional Chamber of Commerce - Elizabeth E. Manzo, Member, Board of Directors
- Good Grief, Inc. - Robert W. Anderson, Chairman
- Hemophilia Services, Inc. - William R. Watkins, Board of Trustees
- Henry H. Kessler Foundation - James K. Estabrook, Trustee
- Homefirst: Interfaith Housing & Family Services - Eric B. Levine, Trustee
- Homing Corporation (Spring House) - Joseph J. Colao, Jr., President
- Hummingbird Foundation, Inc. - John R. Blasi, Trustee
- John F. Byrne Foundation, Inc. - John R. Blasi, Trustee
- Lauren Danis Eldernet Project - Gary F. Danis, Chairman
- Linden Industrial Association - James K. Estabrook, Secretary
- New Jersey Community Resource Center, Inc. - Robert S. Burney, Trustee
- New Jersey Society of Women Environmental Professionals - Monica Perez, scholarship committee member
- New Jersey Trust for Public Land - John J. Delaney, Jr., Advisory Board
- Overlook Hospital Foundation - John W. Cooper, Board of Trustees
- Planned Giving Committee of the Overlook Hospital Foundation - John W. Cooper, Member
- Recreation, Youth & Senior Services Task Force of the City of Summit - John W. Cooper, Member
- Regional Plan Association - Jerry Fitzgerald English, Trustee
- River Valley Waldorf School - David R. Pierce, Board of Trustees
- Robert Wood Johnson Healthcare Corporation - John R. Blasi, Trustee
- Robert Wood Johnson Health Network - John R. Blasi, Trustee
- Rumson Business Association, Inc. - Frederick W. Rose, President
- SAGE Eldercare - John W. Cooper, Member
- SarahCare Adult Day Health Center - Elizabeth E. Manzo, Member, Advisory Board
- Scudder Family Foundation - Frederick W. Rose, Secretary
- Summit Area Public Foundation - John W. Cooper, President and Member
- Union Center National Bank - John J. Delaney, Jr., Board of Directors
- Union County Alliance - James K. Estabrook, Trustee
- United Way of Greater Union County - James K. Estabrook, Trustee
- Visual Arts Center of New Jersey - Gary F. Danis, Trustee
- Westfield Area YWCA - John H. Schmidt, Jr., Member Board of Directors
- Westfield Board of Adjustment - Kenneth J. Soriero, Member
- Westfield United Fund - John H. Schmidt, Jr., Vice President of the Board of Trustees, and Kenneth J. Soriero, Member
Other Official Positions Held by Attorneys:
- Borough of Mountainside - James D. DeRose, Municipal Judge
- District XII Ethics Committee - Anthony J. LaRusso, Chairman, 2007-2008
- District XII Ethics Committee - Jay Lavroff, Chairman, 1996-1997
- District XII Ethics Committee - James McGlew, Chairman, 1999-2000
- District XII Fee Arbitration Committee - John M. Boyle, Panel Chair
- New Jersey State Bar Association - Robert S. Schwartz, Former Chair, Tax Section
- Special Ethics Master of the New Jersey Supreme Court - Jay Lavroff, 1998-present
- Union County Bar Association - Jay Lavroff, President , 2003
- Union County Bar Association - James McGlew, President , 2004
- Union County Bar Association - John M. Boyle, President, 1979
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