Alan Pralgever

Alan Pralgever: A business litigator in New Jersey and New York

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I have handled a wide variety of complex commercial and corporate litigation in state and federal courts, as well as arbitrations. My practice concentrates in several areas include corporate, partnership, small company, and medical practice dissolutions, Estate litigation, Matrimonial, personal injury, contruction, and corporate and business disputes. I have long been involved in construction law and related areas, about which I have written and lectured extensively, representing owners, general contractors, and public institutions such as school boards. I  also handle defense of employment discrimination matters, intellectual property-restrictive covenant, and  corporate lending disputes. I frequently appear in arbitration matters, and in the past was appointed to the panel of arbitrators before the American Arbitration Association for commercial and construction matters. I am an accredited Mediator in New Jersey. I also won Balsamides vs. Perle,160 NJ 352(1999)-the leading New Jersey Supreme Court oppressed shareholder(corporate and partnership split up ) and valuation case in New Jersey and several other states. The case deals with the use of "marketability" and "minority" discounts. The IRS has even used it as a standard. I represented Metem v.Chen I  successfully tried a case to recover intellectual property and buy out a minority for three and a half months in Morris County Superior Court.  I also won Barry v. Arrow Pontiac,  which is a Consumer Fraud Act case which keeps dealers from advertising that that they are selling for "cost" when they collect holdback allowances given the number of cars they sell from the manufacturers making the real profit on the cars they sell significantly higher.

Partner at Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

August 2008 - Present | Roseland, New Jersey

Business and Commerical Litigation , Corp., Parnerships, and Small Co. Split-Ups,Employment, Estate Litigation, Class Action, Mediation/Arbitration, Contruction, Intellectual Property-Customer List-Restrictive Covenants, Matrimonial/Divorce,Personal Injury, Healthcare Issues.

Partner at Wolf Block Brach Eichler

January 2004 - August 2008

Business and Commerical Litigation, Health Care, Employment, Estate Litigation, Contruction

Partner at Brach Eichler Rosenberg Silver Bernstein Hammer & Gladstone, PC

1990 - 2008

Chief Business-Commercial Litigation Partner 1992 to 2004

Deputy Attorney General at New Jersey Attorney General's Office

September 1980 - June 1984 | Newark, New Jersey

Deputy Attorney Genearal Representing the Department of Consumer Affairs, the Bureau of Securities, and the Board of Public Utiilities; Won a leading Consumer Fraud Case-NJ Supreme Court(1981)-Barry vs. Arrow Pontiac dealing with pricing fraud in the automobile industry

Antioch School of Law

1976 – 1979

JD

Concentration: Public Interest Law Clinic

Activities: I won a Law Students Civil Rights Research Grant for work in mental health law; and submitted a Petition for Certiiorari to the US Supreme Court, Doe v. McMillan, concerning the alleged defamation of DC school children on the floor of the House of Representatives as an exception to "speech and debate" immunity as the Congressional Record was republished inter alia in 32 Depository Librairies across the county.

Columbia University in the City of New York

1973 – 1975

M.A.

Concentration: History

Activities: American History

Lafayette College

1969 – 1973

BA

Concentration: History and Literature

I enjoy golf, tennis, movies,books,and travel.