West Orange, New Jersey

Our firm’s New Jersey attorneys serve West Orange, New Jersey, in Essex County.  We represent West Orange’s residents and businesses on a wide range of legal matters.

West Orange’s legal needs are as diverse as its people.  McLaughlin & Nardi’s attorneys have decades of experience which make us uniquely equipped to meet these needs.  We are a general service law firm which handles a wide range of matters for people and businesses. 

We represent people who need estate planning, or who need representation in Municipal Court.  We represent employees who have been harassed or wrongfully fired.  We help people plan their estates so that their heirs receive assets with the least possible tax bite.  We represent homeowners on tax appeals and real estate closings.  We represent people in financial distress obtain relief through Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy.  We represent people on a wide range of legal matters. 

We represent businesses on transactional issues.  We draft and negotiate contracts.  We handle relations with employees.  Our tax attorneys represent businesses on payroll tax audits.  We represent restaurants and taverns on liquor license issues.  In short, we represent businesses in every phase of their life and operations, from start-up to liquidation, and everything in between.

The West Orange Municipal Court handles traffic offenses, local ordinance violations and minor criminal matters.  Civil cases, West Orange expungements, and landlord/tenant disputes are heard by the Superior Court of New Jersey, sitting in Newark, New Jersey.   Appeals are handled by the Superior Court’s Appellate Division and New Jersey’s Supreme Court.  The United States District Court in Newark hears West Orange federal cases, and some state cases which are removed to federal court.  The United States Bankruptcy Court, also in Newark, hears West Orange bankruptcies.  West Orange zoning matters and variances are heard by the West Orange Zoning Board.  West Orange land use planning and subdivision matters are handled by the West Orange Planning Board.

West Orange is a township of 46,207 people in central Essex County.  West Orange has a remarkable range of neighborhoods, from the gated community of Llewellyn Park, home to residents  Thomas Alva Edison and Whoopi Goldberg, to suburban and urban neighborhoods.  In addition to Edison and Whoopi, notable current or former residents include former governors Brendan Byrne and Richard Codey; former Partridge David Cassidy; astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly, the only brothers to go into space; Union general and New Jersey governor George B. McClellan and singer and songwriter Carole King.

To learn more about what we can do to help, please e-mail us or contact one of our West Orange lawyers at (973) 890-0004.