Norris McLaughlin, P.A. Welcomes New Honorees and Members

​The law firm of Norris McLaughlin, P.A., welcomed new member Leonard LaBarbiera to its Real Estate & Finance Group. LaBarbiera focuses his practice on real estate and finance matters, with an emphasis on affordable housing. Prior to joining Norris McLaughlin, he was special counsel to Windels Marx and served as associate general counsel at MTB Banking Corporation. He earned his bachelor of arts degree from Rutgers University, his master’s of business administration from Columbia University and his law degree from Fordham University School of Law. 

​The firm welcomed Shauna Deans as an associate, joining the firm’s Estate Planning & Administration Practice Group. She received her law degree from Howard University School of Law and her bachelor of arts degree from Spelman College. The firm also announced a number of appointments and honors. Firm member Svetlana (Lana) Ros has been named secretary of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Health Law Section. Member Peter Hutcheon has been appointed to a four-person ad hoc subcommittee of the State Regulation of Securities Committee of the American Bar Association’s Business Law Section to comment on the recently purposed Fiduciary Duty Rule of the New Jersey Bureau of Securities. Member Annmarie Simeone has been elected nominations co-director of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association for the 2019-2020 term. 

Danielle M. DeFilippis, a member of the firm and co-chair of its Intellectual Property Law Practice Group, has been named to New Jersey Law Journal’s 2019 list of “New Jersey Trailblazers.” Three firm lawyers were selected by The Best Lawyers in America as 2020 “Lawyers of the Year” in the Woodbridge area: Martha Donovan, Morris Bauer and William Dreier. Donovan and member Edward Hogan, co-chairs of the firm’s Environmental Law Practice Group, have been recognized in “WWL: Environment 2019” by Who’s Who Legal. Member Shana Siegel, chair of the firm’s Elder Care & Special Needs Law Practice Group, was named a 2019 Essex County Top Lawyer in Elder Law by Morris/Essex Health & Life.

Twenty of the firm’s lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2020 edition of The Best Lawyers in America: Bauer, Donovan, Dreier, Victor Elgort, Daniel Guadalupe, Edward Hogan, Barbara Hollenbach, Peter Hutcheon, Joel Jacobson, Steven Karg, James Laskey, Jack Lintner, Gary Marks, Kenneth Meskin, Richard Norris, Richard Schachter, Richard Somach, Lauren Sorrentino, Edward Sponzilli and Bruce Wisotsky. Norris McLaughlin also announced it has been awarded recertification in Meritas, a global alliance of independent business law firms, and reached the international cybersecurity standards for law firms set by Meritas.