Park Ridge Lawyers

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...

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...

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.

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

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,...

Marc S. Borden is a personal injury attorney with Brandon J. Broderick, Attorney at Law representing plaintiffs in motor vehicle accidents, falls, assaults, and other personal injury actions. Marc’s previous experience as defense counsel for insurance companies in a number of prominent labor law and serious injury matters in New York and New Jersey gives him an edge in building a case and anticipating the other side’s next steps. He also serves as Attorney Ambassador for our firm and engages with the legal and medical communities to forge alliances between our firm and other distinguished organizations. Mr. Borden aggressively pursues cases...

Paul F. Romano is a personal injury attorney with Brandon J. Broderick, Attorney at Law, where he brings more than 20 years of deep experience in personal injury litigation. He specializes in commercial trucking, automobile accidents, premises liability, and construction defect/workplace accident litigation. Aggressive, diligent and hardworking, Paul has tried multiple cases to a successful verdict and won millions of dollars in compensation for his injured clients. Previously, Paul was a Partner with a New Jersey law firm where he defended insurance companies in personal injury cases. Today, he brings that background and experience to his approach fighting for justice for...

Bianca Cuellar is a personal injury attorney with Brandon J. Broderick, Attorney at Law. Bianca brings a compassionate and nurturing approach to client care -- and to the negotiation table where she uses it to her client’s advantage. Her tough-but-friendly approach has proven successful, especially in cases where the insurance company initially denied a claim. Bianca has won settlements and compensation paid in full on behalf of her clients. Bianca received her J.D. from Western Michigan University - Thomas M. Cooley Law School where she was a member of Moot and Mock Trial clubs. Ms. Cuellar was declared a top...

Thomas E. Napolitano holds a BA degree from Georgetown University. He received his basic law degree (J.D. cum laude) from New York University (NYU) where he received a Founder’s Day award and was a member of the Order of the Coif, a national legal honor society. Mr. Napolitano received a Masters in Law (LLM in taxation) from NYU. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1972.

My passion is representing temporary and permanent Immigrants to America. I have been practicing exclusively Immigration Law for more than 45 years in New York City, NY, Newark, NJ, Miami & Orlando, Fl.

I was honored to serve as the Chairperson of the New York Chapter of The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). AILA is the most important Immigration Bar membership for Immigration Lawyers in America.

I have experience in almost all areas of Immigration Law.

I have acted as a consultant to other Immigration Lawyers in complicated Immigration Law matters.

These are challenging times for immigrants to America. However, I believe in...