Larry Orloff, a co-founder of the Firm, has functioned as one of the leading litigators in the State for many years. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Essex County Bar Association and the New Jersey Law Journal, awards that are given to a very limited number of attorneys. He is a Fellow of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers; has also been listed in the Best Lawyers in America every year since 1989 in the area of Business Litigation/Commercial Litigation, and, over many years, in the category of Bet the Company business litigation.
Larry's practice focuses on closely held business, commercial, shareholder, and partnership disputes; probate litigation; and real estate litigation. He has also been involved in the representation of lawyers and law firms, both in the defense of legal malpractice actions and in law firm break up proceedings. He represented a prominent private wealth management firm in litigation and arbitration arising out of the Bernard Madoff scandal.
Larry also represented owners of a vast local airport property in successfully resisting the pretextual condemnation of their property by the municipality, a thirteen-year battle that twice traversed both trial and appellate courts.
- Harvard Law School, J.D., 1960
- Columbia College, B.A., 1957
- New Jersey, 1960
- New York, 1983
- United States District Court, District of New Jersey
- United States District Court, Southern District of New York
- United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
- United States Court of Appeals, Second and Third Circuit
- United States Tax Court
- United States Supreme Court
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OLSS Attorneys Recognized by Super Lawyers in 2024
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Recognition by Best Lawyers in America® 2024 Edition
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OLSS Attorneys Recognized by Super Lawyers
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
- Identified in Best Lawyers in America (Woodward-White) every year since 1989 for Business Litigation/Commercial Litigation and more currently also listed in Bet-The-Company Litigation
- Included in Chambers, USA directory
- Included in New Jersey Super Lawyers
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- Representation of joint venturer in $5 million breach of fiduciary duty recovery, including $3.5 million of punitive damages
- Representation of airport owners in resisting pretextual condemnation of their property
- Representation of hedge funds in Madoff-related malpractice action against major public accounting firm
- Representation of hedge funds in successful arbitration proceeding involving Madoff-related feeder fund manager
- Representation of prominent law firm in defense of high-volume frivolous litigation assertion
- Defense counsel in major legal malpractice action resulting in 11-week trial, with appeals to intermediate appellate court and New Jersey Supreme Court
- Representation of casino director in licensing proceedings before New Jersey Casino Control Commission
- Representation of major law firm in dispute with former partners
- Representation of former bank directors in litigation with federal regulators
- Representation of state trooper as beneficiary of $2 million estate in prominent Will contest
- Representation of Johnson & Johnson heir in fiduciary litigation
- Representation of commercial lender in industry-wide case involving late fees and default interest
- Representation of lawyers and law firm in successful trial of legal malpractice action
- Representation of Holiday Inn affiliate in Atlantic City joint venture dispute with Donald J. Trump affiliate
- American Bar Association, member
- New Jersey State Bar Association, member
- Essex County Bar Association, member
- Morris County Bar Association, member
- American Bar Foundation, fellow
- Rutgers Law School, Adjunct Professor (1989 - 2020) teaching Appellate Advocacy
- Brennan/Vanderbilt Inns of Court, master
- New Jersey State Bar Association, Equity Jurisprudence Committee
- New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, lecturer on trial advocacy, business litigation issues and other programs
- Formerly Vice-Chair of Editorial Board of New Jersey Lawyer - The Newspaper (no longer in circulation)
- Wital Corp. v. Denville Township, 93 N.J. Super. 107 (App. Div. 1966)
- In re Harbor Tank Storage Company, 385 F. 2d 111 (3d Cir. 1967)
- Bean v. Strelecki, 101 N.J. Super. 310 (App. Div., 1968)
- S. v. Turner, 421 F. 2d 1251 (3d Cir. 1970)
- International Controls Corp. v. Vesco, 490 F. 2d 1334 (2d Cir. 1974)
- Leone Management Corp. v. West New York, 144 N.J. Super. 353 (App. Div. 1976)
- Floral Park Tenants Assn. v. Project Holding, Inc., 152 N.J. Super. 582 (Ch. Div. 1977)
- North Jersey Suburbanite Co., Inc. v. State of NJ, 154 N.J. Super. 126 (App. Div. 1977)
- Levin Computer Corp. v. IBM, 579 F. 2d 271 (3d Cir. 1978)
- Project Holding, Inc. v. Smyth, 166 N.J. Super. 354 (App. Div. 1979)
- Whippany Paperboard Co., Inc. v. Alfano, 176 N.J. Super. 363 (App. Div. 1980)
- Fair Lawn Shopper, Inc. v. Director, Division of Taxation, 98 NJ 64 (1984)
- NUI Corp. v. Kimmelman, 593 F. Supp. 1457 (D. Ct. NJ 1984)
- NUI Corp. v. Kimmelman, 765 F. 2d 399 (3d Cir. 1985)
- New Jersey Life Insurance Company v. Meier, 101 NJ 597 (1986)
- Karl's Sales and Service, Inc. v. Gimbels, Inc., 249 N.J. Super. 487 (App. Div. 1991)
- Jacob v. Norris McLaughlin, 128 N.J. 10 (1992)
- Heller v. Hartz Mountain Industries, Inc., 270 N.J. Super. 143 (Law Div. 1993)
- Resolution Trust Corp. v. Moskowitz, 1994 WL 229812 (D. Ct. NJ 1994)
- Conklin v. Hannoch Weisman, 145 N.J. 395 (1996)
- Matter of Johnson Trust, 299 N.J. Super. 415 (App. Div. 1997)
- Ross v. Ross, 308 N.J. Super. 132 (App. Div. 1998)
- Apfel v. Budd Larner, 324 N.J. Super. 133 (App. Div. 1998)
- Met Life Capital Financial Corp. v. Washington Ave. Associates, Ltd., 159 N.J. 484 (1999)]
- Main Events Productions, LLC v. Lacy, 220 F. Supp. 2d 353 (D. Ct. NJ 2002)
- Panix Productions, Ltd. v. Lewis, 106 Fed. Appx. 757, 2004 WL 1922197 (2d Cir. 2004)
- Sullivan v. Aslanides, 374 N.J. Super. 68 (App. Div. 2005)
- Angrisani v. Financial Technology Ventures, L.P., 402 N.J. Super. 138 (App. Div. 2008)
- Township of Readington v. Solberg Aviation Co., 409 N.J. Super. 282 (App. Div. 2009)
- Cargill Global Trading v. Applied Development, 706 F. Supp. 2d 563 (D. Ct. NJ 2010)
- Lerner v. Heidenberg, 2013 WL 1830808 (App. Div. 2013)
- Estate of Cohen ex rel. Perelman, 2013 WL 50476569 (App. Div. 2013)
- Bleeker v. Borough of North Haledon, 2014 WL 4745544 (App. Div. 2014)
- Pinnacle Ins. Solutions, LLC v. Kolbe, 2014 WL 1272212 (D. Ct. NJ 2014)
- Township of Readington v. Solberg Aviation Co., 2015 WL 11751623 (Law Div. 2015)
- Township of Readington v. Solberg Aviation Co., 2019 WL 994105 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. March 1, 2019)
- Devli v. Tasci, 2019 Unpub. LEXIS 4005 ((N.J. Super. Ct. Law Div. (2019)
- Garden State Check Cashing Service, Inc. v. N.J. Dept. of Banking and Insurance, 237 N.J. 482 (2019)
- Estate Capital Group, LLC v. Alliance Healthcare, Inc., 2020 WL 4217633 (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. July 23, 2020)
- Cornerstone Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Weber, Shapiro & Co., LLP, 842 F. App’x 732 (3d Cir. 2021)
- Devli v. Tasci, 2021 WL 1650788 (N.J. Super. Ct., Law Div. 2021)
- Erol Devli v. Norman David Tasci, 2022 WL 17491290 (Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, December 8, 2022)