Florham Park, NJ (Aug 2024) – Bressler, Amery & Ross is pleased to announce that 44 of its attorneys have been included in the 2025 edition of the Best Lawyers in America, one of the oldest and most respected legal profession peer-review publications. 2 Bressler attorneys are being recognized for the first time in the 2025 list. Since it was first published in 1983, The Best Lawyers in America has become widely regarded as a respected reference guide to legal excellence. Attorneys named to The Best Lawyers in America are chosen as a result of peer review surveys in which lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers based on more than three million detailed evaluations of lawyers in the same and related specialties.
In addition to these rankings, Best Lawyers recognized Principal Diana C. Manning as a “Lawyer of the Year" for Professional Malpractice Law in Defendants in Newark; Principal Loren L. Pierce as a “Lawyer of the Year" for Litigation in Insurance in Newark; and Principal A. Inge Selden III as a "Lawyer of the Year" for in Arbitration in Birmingham. These Lawyer of the Year recognitions are awarded to individual attorneys with the highest overall peer feedback for a specific practice area and geographic region. Best Lawyers selects only one attorney in each practice category and designated metropolitan area as its "Lawyer of the Year," making this recognition especially noteworthy.
13 Bressler attorneys were named as Best Lawyers – “Ones to Watch,” which recognizes lawyers who are earlier in their careers. Recipients typically have been in practice for 5-9 years.
Selection for Best Lawyers is a nomination and peer-reviewed process designed to yield only the top 5% of the lawyers in each state. Best Lawyers lists have earned the respect of the profession, the media, and the public as a reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals.
A complete listing of the firm’s attorneys in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers, listed by state, is as follows:
Birmingham, AL
- Litigation - ERISA
- Litigation - Securities
- Litigation - Securities
- Arbitration
- Litigation - Securities
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Securities Regulation
- Louis F. Mendez (Ones to Watch)
- Litigation - Securities
- Laura Pizzitola (Ones to Watch)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Katelyn H. Wilson (Ones to Watch)
- Litigation – Securities
Florham Park, NJ
- Litigation - Securities
- Health Care Law
- Insurance Law
- Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
- Environmental Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Employment Law - Management
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
- Commercial Litigation
- Litigation - Trusts and Estates
- Trusts and Estates
- Litigation - Environmental
- Commercial Litigation
- Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants
- Environmental Law
- Litigation - Environmental
- Environmental Law
- Real Estate Law
- Real Estate Law
- Insurance Law
- Litigation - Insurance
- Commercial Litigation
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Environmental Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Trusts and Estates
- Insurance Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Insurance Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Trusts and Estates
- James Crowder (Ones to Watch)
- Litigation - Environmental
- Kathryn Burfitt Rockwood (Ones to Watch)
- Banking and Finance Law
- Litigation - Securities
- Zachary M. Rosenberg (Ones to Watch)
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Kyle A. Valente (Ones to Watch)
- Commercial Litigation
- Ed Velky (Ones to Watch)
- Commercial Litigation
Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Commercial Litigation
- Samuel S. Cohen (Ones to Watch)
- Insurance Law
- Gregory S. Hoffmann Jr. (Ones to Watch)
- Insurance Law
- Christina Roye (Ones to Watch)
- Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Miami, FL
- Litigation - Insurance
- Litigation - Securities
- Litigation – Insurance
- Bruno Garofalo (Ones to Watch)
- Insurance Law
New York, NY
- Benjamin E. Akselrad (Ones to Watch)
- Trusts and Estates
Dallas, TX
- Commercial Litigation
Houston, TX
- Commercial Litigation
This award is conferred by Best Lawyers in America. A description of the selection methodology is available here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Attorneys
- Benjamin E. Akselrad
- Brian F. Amery
- Cynthia J. Borrelli
- D.J. Camerson, II
- Mary Jo Cantu
- Samuel S. Cohen
- James W. Crowder
- Benjamin J. DiLorenzo
- MaryJane Dobbs
- David P. Donahue
- Andrew C. Egan
- Austin L. Flickstein
- Katie C. Gannon
- Bruno A. Garofalo
- Gregory S. Hoffmann
- Wes Holston
- Josh D. Jones
- John Kincade
- Diana C. Manning
- W. Preston Martin
- Keith P. McManus
- Louis F. Mendez
- Karen E. Murphy
- Michael L. Ostrowsky
- Loren L. Pierce
- Laura Pizzitola
- Risa D. Rich
- Kathryn Burfitt Rockwood
- Paul I. Rosenberg
- Zachary M. Rosenberg
- Christina Roye
- David P. Schneider
- Frederick K. Schoenbrodt, II
- A. Inge Selden, III
- Anita J. Siegel
- Sara Soto
- Susan Stryker
- Mark M. Tallmadge
- James E. Tyrrell, Jr.
- Kyle A. Valente
- Edward A. Velky
- Jordan S. Weitberg
- Katelyn H. Wilson
- Hope C. Zelinger