Law Offices of Philip E. Mazur, Esq.

Mr. Mazur has handled numerous complex litigation  matters and has achieved successful results for his clients in those  matters.  Mr. Mazur focuses on brining "big firm" quality litigation  expertise with the value and personal attention provided by a small  firm. 

He has represented a majority shareholder in a  dispute between shareholders in a business with tens of millions of  dollars in revenue, where he successfully defeated efforts to compel  distributions, defeated efforts to compel reinstatement of employment,  effectively compelled a buyout of the adverse party’s shares, and  negotiated the purchase price of those shares. 

In a related defamation suit brought by the adverse  shareholder against his shareholder client, Mr. Mazur obtained complete  dismissal of the suit before any discovery was conducted.  That  dismissal was affirmed on appeal. 

In another matter involving a clothing producing  entity of the same economic magnitude, he defeated efforts by the  adverse shareholders to compel the sale of his client’s shares, while  prevailing on his client’s cross motion to compel the adversaries to  sell their shares.  He also defeated the adverse shareholders’ efforts  to obtain reinstatement of employment and to compel the distribution of  profits.  The payment of legal fees on behalf of the majority  shareholders by the corporate entity was also found to be appropriate in  that matter, despite the challenge made by the adversaries.  Mr.  Mazur’s client’s removal of the adverse shareholders from the governing  board was also upheld despite the adversaries’ challenge to that  action.  

In yet another matter involving a warehouse  business, the majority shareholders, who were denied access to  information, books and records and had had little prior experience and  participation with the business, were granted full control of the entity  (including all bank accounts and monies) within weeks of filing suit,  as a result of an Order to Show Cause filed by Mr. Mazur. 

In a case involving an entity that develops, owns,  rents, and sells commercial real estate, Mr. Mazur successfully  negotiated a buyout upon terms favorable to his clients. 

Mr. Mazur’s experience and success in litigating or negotiating disputes between closely-held shareholders is unmatched. 

OTHER SUCCESSES

Mr. Mazur prevailed on behalf of the owners of Solberg Airport in the published August 19, 2009, opinion in Readington Township v. Solberg Aviation Company, et al.,  409 N.J. Super. 282 (App.Div. 2009), involving the Township’s attempt  to take the Airport property by eminent domain.  In that opinion, the  Appellate Division held that the court below improperly granted summary  judgment to the Township on the issue of whether the Township had the  authority to take the property for the purported purpose of “open  space”, or whether “open space” was a pretext designed to disguise the  Township’s actual unlawful purpose of restricting the growth of the  Airport.  The Appellate Division remanded the matter back to the trial  court with lengthy instructions as to the limits on the Township’s  authority to take the property.  The Appellate Division also held that,  contrary to the holding of the court below, the Township could not  impose property taxes on the Airport owners for the time during which a  Declaration of Taking, giving title to the Township, remained of  record. 

Mr. Mazur has successfully handled numerous  employment-related suits and claims, including a number of claims  asserted against Municipal entities.  Mr. Mazur has represented both  employers and employees in discrimination and employment related  lawsuits. 

Mr. Mazur has also succeeded, on behalf of  employer-clients, in enjoining former employees from competing in  violation of a non-compete agreement.  Conversely, on behalf of  employee-clients, Mr. Mazur has prevailed in having competition  restraints rendered void, or substantially limited so as to allow the  employee to continue working in a successor job. 

Mr. Mazur has litigated numerous contract disputes,  including multi-million dollar contract disputes between commercial  entities. 

Mr. Mazur obtained favorable settlements on behalf  of Nestle Waters (maker of Poland Spring Water) in a number of class  action consumer fraud-type lawsuits that challenged the veracity of  Poland Spring advertising.  Those favorable settlement terms were  obtained following a number of legal rulings on motions by Mr. Mazur  that eroded the plaintiffs’ claims and substantially reduced the value  of those claims. 

Mr. Mazur won the Morris County Bar Association Mock Trial Contest for young attorneys in 2001. 

Mr. Mazur also serves as an Adjunct Professor at  Seton Hall Law School, where he teaches Appellate Advocacy, and has done  so since 2002. 

In 2014, Mr. Mazur was selected as a Superlawyer Rising Star.

The above constitutes a mere sample of Mr. Mazur’s achievements in the practice of law.