Attorneys

Rabner Baumgart Ben-Asher & Nirenberg, P.C. provides high-caliber legal services by drawing on the diverse skills of its broadly experienced legal team. The firm’s attorneys have been trained at prominent universities and law schools and have demonstrated accomplishments in the areas of employment, business and family law, appellate practice and tax and estate planning.

The firm's legal team includes:

• Harold Rabner
• Elliot M. Baumgart
• David H. Ben-Asher
• Jonathan I. Nirenberg
• Eugenie F. Temmler
• S. Robert Allcorn
• Joseph S. Fine
• Omar A. López
• David Owen
• Dennis H. Sabourin

Five of our attorneys, Elliot Baumgart, David Ben-Asher, Jonathan Nirenberg, Eugenie Temmler, and Joseph Fine are employment lawyers. They handle a wide range of employment law issues, including negotiating, arbitrating and litigating matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, employment contracts, severance agreements, non-compete agreements, overtime, minimum wage and family and medical leaves.

Our attorneys also handle business law and entrepreneurial matters, family law disputes, tax and estate matters, land use law issues and appeals. In addition, eight of our attorneys are experienced mediators.

Our firm's lawyers 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. Elliot M. Baumgart served as the Director of Essex County Legal Services. Harold Rabner, hard of the firm's entrepreneurial services group, 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 employment attorneys is of great value to our clients' widely varied employment law 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 our comprehensive representation of entrepreneurs and small businesses in corporate and commercial matters. From our office in Upper Montclair, we serve all of New Jersey and represent clients employed in New York.

Five of our lawyers, Elliot Baumgart, David Ben-Asher, Jonathan Nirenberg, Harold Rabner and S. Robert Allcorn have received AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Ratings from Martindale-Hubbell®. Likewise, four of our attorneys, Elliot Baumgart, David Ben-Asher, Jonathan I. Nirenberg and Omar A. Lopez have been listed in Thomson Reuters’ New Jersey Super Lawyers regarding employment law. Information about the methodology for the section process is available, respectively, on the Super Lawyers and Martindale-Hubbell website. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the New Jersey Supreme Court.

From our office in Upper Montclair, New Jersey we serve clients throughout New Jersey as well as in New York City, Rockland and Westchester Counties in New York.

If you have a legal matter and would like to schedule an initial consultation with one of our employment attorneys to evaluate your potential legal claim or issue, we welcome you to either contact us online or call us at (973) 744-4000.