Stephen N. Dratch
dratch@njcounsel.com
Admitted: 1973
Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation, Criminal Law, Casino Law, Employment Law
Law School: Rutgers University School of Law
Undergraduate: Brooklyn College
Position: Partner
Stephen N. Dratch, one of the firm's senior litigators, has practiced since 1973 in all trial, chancery, criminal and appellate forums. He has expertise in the areas of corporate deadlock situations and has developed a nationwide reputation in casino and gaming related litigation. Mr. Dratch served as Legislative Aide to New Jersey State Senator Martin L. Greenberg (1973-74). While in Law school he was a research assistant to then Professor and now United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Mr. Dratch is counsel of record in more than 40 published opinions of state and federal trial and appellate courts. Furthermore, he has handled numerous labor related matters representing Unions Local 1099J and Local 262 of the Retail Clerks, and its members in arbitrations and before the NLRB. In addition Mr. Dratch has represented employees with regard to discrimination and wrongful discharge.
He graduated with a B.A. degree, with honors in 1970 from Brooklyn College of City University of New York and received his J.D. degree from Rutgers University School of Law (Newark) in 1973. In addition to being admitted to the New Jersey State Bar and to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit he is admitted to the New York State Bar, the United States District Courts for both the Southern District of New York and for the Eastern District of New York, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is also admitted to the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Dratch has tried cases by special permission in California, Colorado, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico. He is a member of the Essex County, New Jersey State, and the American Bar Associations and of the American Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Dratch is of-Counsel to Trademark Counselors of America, 915 Broadway in New York specializing in trademark and intellectual property.
