Steven Eisenstein

Steven J Eisenstein is a graduate of Montclair State University where he received the singular honor of being named outstanding graduate of that University, and of Brooklyn Law School where he served as an editor of the Law Review and the school newspaper as well as President of the Moot Court Honor Society.

He is a former judicial clerk to the Honorable Henry Bramwell, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

He is a member of the firm’s Business Group with a concentration in environmental law and transactional matters. He has pioneered the use of creative means to resolve environmental matters and was the first New Jersey attorney to utilize the technical dispute review process with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. He has appeared before planning and zoning boards throughout the State of New Jersey.

He also has significant experience in the negotiation and resolution of transactional disputes. He has also developed a specialty in the representation of self-storage businesses in several states.

He also has significant experience in business law including the formation of and transactions involving businesses in all forms from corporations to limited liability companies. His practice also includes counseling participants in those businesses, and he has experience in litigation including both disputes among the participants and by and against the businesses themselves.

He also has a significant practice in real estate tax appeals with over 30 years of experience before the Tax Court of New Jersey and County Boards of Taxation involving properties ranging from high value residences to office buildings, shopping centers and factories.

He is former Chair of the Essex County Bar Association Committee in Environmental Law and a member of the Board of Directors and immediate past Chair of the Business Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. He is the President of the New Jersey Inn of Transactional Counsel.

He is former Chair of the Internet and Computer Law Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association and is now Chair of AI Committee of the Bar. He was formerly a member of the Nominating Committee and of the Pandemic Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and was one of the authors of the Committee’s report on returning to the office, and is a member of the District Fee Arbitration Committee.

He is chair of the By-Laws Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association and a member of the Editorial Board of New Jersey Lawyer magazine as well as a frequent writer for that publication. He is a Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Additionally, he is active in numerous civic, charitable and business activities. He is a past president of the Newton Lions Club and member of the Newton Historic Preservation Commission.