Attorneys

Our legal team includes:

• Jonathan I. Nirenberg
• David H. Ben-Asher
• Harold Rabner
• Eugenie F. Temmler
• Dennis H. Sabourin
• Elliot M. Baumgart (Retired)
• S. Robert Allcorn (In Memorium)

Jonathan I. Nirenberg, David H. Ben-Asher and Harold Rabner are New Jersey employment lawyers. They handle a wide range of employment law claims and issues on behalf of employees and other individuals, including negotiating, arbitrating and litigating matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, employment contracts, severance agreements, commissions, overtime pay, minimum wage, family and medical leaves, and other workplace disputes.

Our attorneys have been involved in numerous precedent-setting employment law cases, many of which have helped to advance workplace rights in New Jersey.

In addition to handling employment law matters, our attorneys handle business law and entrepreneurial matters, including once involving non-compete agreements and other restrictive covenants, unpaid commissions, stock options and other forms of equity, and oppressed minority shareholder disputes. 

In addition, Dennis Sabourin represents clients with tax and estate issues, and Jonathan I. Nirenberg and Eugenie Temmler handle appeals. Jonathan I. Nirenberg and David H. Ben-Asher are also experienced New Jersey employment law mediators in both court ordered and private mediations.

Attorneys at our New Jersey employment law firm have worked in both the private and public sectors. For instance, in addition to a successful career in private practice, David H. Ben-Asher served as Chief Counsel to, and later as a hearing examiner for, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights. Harold Rabner served as a clerk to the Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court and also is a former federal prosecutor.

The broad experience of our firm's lawyers is of great value to our clients' widely varied cases. Clients rely on us for the drive and perseverance our attorneys provide and the results we produce in employment discrimination, whistleblower retaliation, sexual harassment, and other employment-related cases, as well as in business law matters.

Highly Regarded by Our Clients and Peers

Jonathan I. Nirenberg and David H. Ben-Asher both have been included in Thomson Reuters’ New Jersey Super Lawyers for employment law for many years. Further, Jonathan I. Nirenberg, David H. Ben-Asher and Harold Rabner have each received AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Ratings from Martindale-Hubbell®. In fact, Jonathan I. Nirenberg (2023 and 2024) and David Ben-Asher are included in BERGEN magazine's Bergen County's Top Lawyers list in the category of labor & employment law. You can find information about the section process for Super Lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell® and Bergen County's Top Lawyers here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the New Jersey Supreme Court.

You can read what some of our former clients have said about our attorneys by visiting out Client Reviews page.

If you have a legal matter and would like to schedule an initial consultation with one of our attorneys to evaluate your potential legal claim or issue, we welcome you to either contact us online or call us at (201) 777-2250. We look forward to the opportunity to evaluate your legal issues and claims, and to help you figure out the best way to protect your legal rights.

From our office in Bergen County, New Jersey we serve clients throughout all of New Jersey, as well as in New York City, and Rockland and Westchester Counties in New York. Our main office is located at 135 Chestnut Ridge Road, Suite 230, in Montvale, New jersey. For your convenience, we offer consultations and meetings in person, as well as by Zoom video chat and over the telephone.