New Partners & Lawyers at WJ&L
 2007 been a particularly exciting and growth year for WJ&L. On the 1st of May, AnnMarie Smits joined our firm as a partner to head much our expanded “Tax, Trusts and Estates” Department. AnnMarie's practice is concentrated in the fields of tax and estate planning and trust and estate administration.
When AnnMarie joined our firm, she brought with her Pat Hopp, a longtime paralegal in her area. With Pat's addition to our staff, we expanded our TT&E practice so that we are now able to complete Estate Tax Returns in-house. Rounding out our TT&E Department are paralegal, Janice Thill, and a new secretary, Erin Larkins. Associate, Andrew Kohut, and associate, Nicole Cleenput, also do work in this area.
 Nicole Cleenput is one of two new associates who has just recently joined our firm. Nicole is a 2006 graduate of Seton Hall Law School, and her name will be familiar to our Paramus clients as she is the daughter of the Cleenput family that has owned and operated the Paramus Dairy for several generations. Nicole, Tom Wells, Stu Liebman and Marcia Geller, make up our small but mighty stable of Paramus High School graduates (yes…..Nicole graduated much later than the rest of us!). Nicole will be practicing in the Tax, Trusts and Estates and Transactional areas, and is really enjoying being back in her hometown.
 We are delighted to have these reinforcements at a time when our firm continues to be busy, and as always, deeply committed to providing top service to our clients.
Darrell Felsenstein, who joined WJ&L as an Associate in 1998, and Ken Porro, who came on board “Of Counsel” two years ago, both became Partners of WJ&L on May 1st of this year. We are proud to have both of them join the partnership ranks. Ken serves as the Chairman of our Litigation Department, and  Darrell serves as the Administrative Chair of the department. We are pleased to have our Litigation Department now spearheaded with such fire power! |  |
