On The Move
New Partner for Cooper Levenson
Victor P. Wasilauskas III Photo Credit: AlexAnton 2014.Cooper Levenson brought on new partner Victor P. Wasilauskas III to the employment law and casino and hospitality defense litigation practice groups in the Atlantic City office. Wasilauskas primarily serving clients in the casino industry, concentrating on the areas of negligence defense, premises liability defense, and other personal injury claims. He graduated from Liberty University with a B.S. in government and from Regent University School of Law with a J.D. Wasilauskas serves on the board of trustees of the Atlantic City Rescue Mission.
Pashman Stein Promotes Two
Pashman Stein Walder Hayden in Hackensack promoted Naomi Becker Collier and David N. Cinotti to partner as of Jan. 23.
Naomi Becker Collier
Collier joined the firm in 2016. She handles trust and estates, with an emphasis on advising aging individuals, people with disabilities, and their families. Collier’s elder and disability law practice focuses on estate and lifetime planning, elder law counseling, asset preservation planning, special needs planning, planning for incapacity, trust and estate administration, Medicaid planning and applications, and guardianships. Her trust and estate practice includes tax minimization strategies, drafting and reviewing complex wills, revocable trusts, GRATs, QPRTs, insurance trusts, dynastic trusts, powers of attorney and health-care directives. Collier earned her J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law and her B.A. from North Carolina State University.
David N. Cinotti
Cinotti joined Pashman Stein in 2017. He focuses on commercial litigation, international and domestic arbitration, and appellate litigation. Cinotti has represented clients in the financial services, hospitality, e-commerce, real estate, and health-care industries, litigating and arbitrating disputes involving breach of contract, business torts, civil rights, privacy and data protection, bankruptcy, complex financial transactions, and cross-border and multi-jurisdictional issues. He was previously counsel at Venable, and clerked for Judge Joseph M. McLaughlin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and U.S. District Judge Richard Conway Casey of the Southern District of New York. He earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, and his B.A., summa cum laude, from the College of the Holy Cross.
Sills Cummis Welcomes Abrams as Counsel
Matthew B. Abrams
Sills Cummis & Gross added Matthew B. Abrams as of counsel to the firm’s tax, trusts and estates practice group in the Newark office. He focuses his practice on trusts and estates matters, including estate planning, probate, administration and surrogate’s court litigation. Abrams received his J.D. from New York Law School in 2007 and his B.A. from Columbia University in 2004. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia.
Associate Young Joins Sherman Wells Trusts & Estates Group
Ann Young
Ann Young joined the trusts and estates practice group at Sherman Wells Sylvester & Stamelman in Florham Park as an associate. She assists clients by preparing complex instruments to implement a range of estate-planning strategies, including wills, revocable trusts, insurance trusts, grantor-retained annuity trusts and dynasty trusts. She also advises fiduciaries in all aspects of estate and trust administration. Prior to joining Sherman Wells, she was a senior associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York.
