Steven  L. Menaker

Drawing upon his almost 40  years of diverse trial experience, Steven maintains an active litigation practice in the State and Federal Courts, focusing upon the defense of criminal charges as well as the prosecution and defense of professional (medical, legal, engineering and architectural) malpractice, construction, business, commercial and employment law claims.

Steven’s extensive legal portfolio includes seven years of service as an Assistant District Attorney in the Office of the District Attorney of Kings County (Brooklyn, New York) where he served as a trial assistant in the homicide and narcotics bureaus and as the deputy chief of the Criminal Courts and Investigation Bureaus.

Following many years as a partner in a small Jersey City law firm, Steven joined Chasan, Leyner, Bariso & Lamparello, P.C. as a partner in 2001.  Since then, Steven – who was previously designated by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Certified Criminal Trial Attorney – added the designation of Certified Civil Trial Attorney and has been named by New Jersey Monthly Magazine as a Super Lawyer® in the field of General Litigation for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.  Steven holds an AV rating from Martindale Hubbell, Inc. for ethical standards and legal ability. A Martindale-Hubbell AV rating is a significant accomplishment — a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him or her at the highest level of professional excellence.

In addition to his litigation practice, Steven manages to find time to serve as President and a Master of the Hudson Inn of Court, to serve on the Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics, as Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s (NJSBA) Ethics Diversionary Committee and as a member of the NJSBA Professional Responsibility & Unlawful Practice Committee.  He is also Secretary of the Hudson County Bar Association Professionalism Committee.

A former chair and vice-chair of the New Jersey District VI Ethics Committee, Steven has been selected on several occasions by the New Jersey Supreme Court to act as a special ethics master in attorney disciplinary proceedings. 

In recent years, Steven has participated as a panelist on ethical issues for the New Jersey Institute on Continuing Education and for the New Jersey State Bar Association.