General Info:
Since 1967, we've earned a reputation for knowledgeable and aggressive representation, fighting for our clients' Constitutionally-guaranteed property rights in many of New Jersey's landmark cases. We've helped hundreds of private individuals and businesses successfully challenge the government in eminent domain takings, property tax appeals and redevelopment issues. With McKirdy & Riskin you get unequalled know-how, experience and litigation prowess in these property rights matters. Appearing as counsel-of-record in numerous reported judicial decisions that guide future decisions in property rights law. Holding prestigious affiliations and designations, including admissions and membership to the New Jersey, New York, United States Supreme Court and American Bar Associations ; the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey ; the Association of Trial Lawyers of America ; the Urban Land Institute ; the New Jersey State Builders Association and the Community Builders Association. Further, our firm was selected as the New Jersey representative of Owners Counsel of America , an organization that brings together the most experienced eminent domain trial attorneys in the country, and the ONLY New Jersey law firm designated by Martindale Hubbell in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers in the field of eminent domain. As leaders in eminent domain, real estate tax appeals and redevelopment, McKirdy & Riskin attorneys have helped shape the legal landscape in property rights law and ownership rights both in New Jersey and throughout the United States. We are called upon to lecture and conduct educational forums for real estate and legal professionals nationwide, and frequently are asked by news media to provide comment and analysis on landmark land-use decisions. Firm founders Edward McKirdy and Harry Riskin, along with partner John H. Buonocore, Jr., co-authored the definitive book on New Jersey eminent domain law, New Jersey Condemnation Practice. Now in its second edition, the book serves as an integral part of the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education's curriculum, and but one of numerous books and articles authored by our attorneys. Respected by our peers, our attorneys have been recognized as New Jersey Super Lawyersin New Jersey Monthly Magazine and as Best Lawyersin New York Magazine.