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Practice Areas: Business Litigation; Criminal Defense; RICO; Insurance Coverage; Securities Fraud; Legal Ethics

Additional Information: New Jersey State (Federal Practice and Procedure Section Chair, 2002-2004) and American Bar Associations.

Speaks: Hebrew

Recognized by New Jersey Super Lawyers 2008 in the area of Business Litigation. Recognized by New Jersey Super Lawyers 2009 in the areas of Business Litigation, Criminal Defense: White Collar and Appellate. Author: "The United States Versus the Liquidators of Insolvent Insurance Companies: One Elephant, Two Roads, Three Circuits and a Little Bit of Law," 13 Ins. Lit. Rep. 467 Shepards/McGraw-Hill 1991 (with D. Howard). Co-Author: "The Scope of Discovery in the Federal Courts," ABA Section of Litigation, 1998; "Court Eases Standard on Naming Receivers," 4 N.J. Lawyer 295, 1995. Lawyers Division, New Jersey Chapter of The Federalist Society. Former Member, Lawyers' Advisory Committee, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 2003-2004.

Merin v. Yegen Holdings Corp., et al., 573 A.2d 928 (N.J. App. 1990); United States v. A Parcel of Land, 937 F.2d 98 (3rd Cir. 1991); Rumbauskas v. Cantor, 649 A.2d 853 (N.J. 1994); Spencer Savings Bank v. Excell Mortgage Corp., 960 F.Supp. 835 (D.N.J. 1997); Rose Art Industries, Inc. v. Raymond Geddes & Co., 31 F.Supp. 2d 367 (D.N.J. 1998); U.S. v. Paster, 173 F.3d 206 (3rd Cir. 1999); AT&T Corporation v. New York City Health & Hospitals Corp. v. NEC Business Network Solutions, Inc., 72 F. Supp. 2d 398 (S.D.N.Y. 1999); Colon v. City of Rochester, 307 A.D.2d 742 (N.Y.A.D. 2003); Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc. v. New Jersey Sports Authority, 848 A.2d 793 (N.J. App. 2004).

Mr. Stone graduated from New York University School of Law in 1987, where he was a teaching assistant in both legal writing and civil procedure. He has extensive experience in business litigation and criminal defense, including motions, trials, chancery proceedings, criminal sentencing proceedings, and appeals (including the New Jersey and U.S. Supreme Courts). His practice areas include business disputes, contracts, real estate, securities, insurance, RICO, civil procedure, and legal ethics. He has written articles about federal sentencing guidelines, insurance company insolvencies, rent receivers, and other topics, and is the co-author of "The Scope of Discovery in the Federal Courts," a report published in 1998 by the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation. In 1994, he briefed, argued and won an invasion-of-privacy case before the New Jersey Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Bar Association (including the Litigation Section and the RICO Committee), the Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey, and the Federal Bar Association. He is the former Chair of the Federal Practice and Procedure Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association (2002-2004). He is a former member of the Lawyers' Advisory Committee, United States District Court, District of New Jersey (2003-2004). Shalom Stone was recognized by New Jersey Monthly magazine's "Super Lawyers" 2008 in the area of Business Litigation. He was again recogznied by New Jersey Super Lawyers in 2009 in the areas of Business Litigation, Criminal Defense: White Collar and Appellate.

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Firm Members: Alan Silber