Hoboken Lawyers

Juris Doctor, Seton Hall University School of Law; former Municipal Prosecutor, North Haledon & Woodland Park

Erika is an experienced litigation attorney practicing before New York State Courts, New Jersey State Courts, the United States District Court, and administrative agencies. Her practice focuses on employment litigation matters, protecting the rights and interests of individuals in the workplace. Her clients include victims of harassment, discrimination, and other individuals who have been wrongfully terminated. She also helps indivduals recover compensation for owed wages, including unpaid overtime or minimum wage violations, and for violations of federal, state, and local leave laws including the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

L. Michael Krieger is a law, business, and economics trained executive: Fordham Law School J.D.; Baruch M.B.A.; and, Columbia College B.A. Michael is known for leading sustainable projects from concept to implementation. He has organized structured, negotiated and mediated complex private/public business arrangements involving multiple governmental jurisdictions, including environmental agencies. Michael is internationally known as an expert in the waterfront development field. Further, Michael has significant experience in trust and estate planning, administration, and as a fiduciary. Michael’s accomplishments include effectuating multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional public/private arrangements, creating, managing and disposing of revenue producing and public purpose ventures; involving negotiations,...

Dominique Tonacchio, Esq., is a partner with the law firm of Tonacchio, Spina and Compitello. Dominique graduated from Holy Trinity High School in New York and attended The Pennsylvania State University in State College, Pennsylvania, where she graduated with a dual Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Law and Sociology, with a minor in Women’s Studies. Dominique graduated on the Dean’s list at The Pennsylvania State University. Dominique then attended Roger Williams University School of Law, where she earned her Juris Doctorate. While at Roger Williams University School of Law, Dominique was the Executive Vice President of the...

Güvenç Acarkan is an Immigration, Business, and Tax Attorney licensed in USA (District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York), England & Wales, and Turkey. He is an internationally focused attorney with wealth of experience in cross-border matters. He holds a JD degree from Rutgers University and a Turkish Bachelor of Law Equivalency degree from Galatasaray University, Turkey. He holds an MBA degree from Georgia College, Georgia USA and a BA degree in Psychology from Koç University, Turkey. He is a graduate of American Collegiate Institute, ?zmir.

Dhruv Patel is a personal injury attorney with Brandon J. Broderick, Attorney at Law specializing in PIP Arbitration and motor vehicle claims. Dhruv focuses on the complex issues of New Jersey’s PIP Arbitration process such as medical necessity, causation, termination of benefits, and improper applications of penalty. Through medical research, he builds a client’s case to prove medical necessity for treatments after an injury. Dhruv successfully represented a number of clients through PIP arbitration since joining the firm. Dhruv graduated cum laude and received a J.D. from Widener University Delaware Law School where he was a member of the Transactional...

Brian W. Banasiak is a skilled negotiator and trial lawyer with the law firm Brandon J. Broderick, Attorney at Law. For more than 25 years, Brian has represented individuals injured due to negligence of others, amassing more than $40 million for his clients. After graduating law school, Brian served as a Law Clerk for two Superior Court judges in Union County, New Jersey, and at the same time assisted the now retired Justice Virginia Long. During work breaks, he learned litigation and negotiation strategies by watching portions of jury trials and listening to settlement negotiations. He then went out to...

Oscar J. Barbosa founded Diaspora Law aiming at connecting community-oriented attorneys to provide comprehensive immigration services. He brings his previous experience to provide the assistance the community currently seeks. Mr. Barbosa speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese (Conversational). Mr. Barbosa sees immigration as a human rights-oriented practice. As an organizer, he previously worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as a Legal Assistant and with the Service Employees International Union. As an Immigration Attorney, he has been able to explain complicated options in understandable terms to his clients. His previous academic and work experiences have taken him for extended periods to...

Karen Laifer received her Juris Doctorate degree from New York University School of Law in 1990 and graduated magna cum laude in 1987 from Barnard College, Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. While in law school, Ms. Laifer clerked for the Hon. Kathleen Roberts, S.D.N.Y., and upon graduation, she worked as an associate at Milbank,Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. In 2006, Ms. Laifer founded her own private practice in Teaneck, NJ, focusing solely in the area of divorce and family law, custody, post judgment family law matters, parent coordination, mediation, and collaborative law. Her practice extends to...

A seasoned and compassionate attorney specializing in municipal court, criminal law, personal injury and medical malpractice.Specialties include helping teenagers with drug and alcohol offenses get on the right path. Women with breast cancer should contact the firm to see if a delay in diagnosis contributed to necessary radical surgery and chemotherapy. Telephone consultations are free of charge on any legal issue. The firm has a wide referral network to handle all legal problems.

As a former federal prosecutor and an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, I also understand how the other side thinks. With ten of my 30 years of legal experience devoted to prosecution, I have unique insight into how both New Jersey state and federal authorities bring charges and how they argue cases.