Top Rated Eminent Domain Attorney in Florham Park, NJ

A partner at Carlin & Ward, P.C., James M. Turteltaub represents clients in matters of land use and redevelopment, real estate taxation and eminent domain. His service area includes the following New Jersey metropolitan areas: Bergen-Passaic, Jersey City, Middlesex, Somerset, Hunterdon, Newark, Trenton and New York, New York. Previous employment opportunities in the banking sector have given him unique insight into mergers and acquisitions, financial services, strategic planning, and liability and asset management.

Mr. Turteltaub is a member of the Morris County Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association Taxation Section and an affiliate member of the Appraisal Institute. An entertaining and engaging speaker and lecturer, he regularly speaks at continuing legal education courses for Certified New Jersey Assessors from the New Jersey Real Estate Appraiser Board. ICLE Development, National Association of Independent Fee Appraisers and New Jersey League of Municipalities are all presentations he has given.

Admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, Mr. Turteltaub first earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University in 1982. Moving on to the State University of New York at Albany, he earned a Master of Business Administration before earning a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School in 1992.

His practice areas extend to zoning and land use, title claims, mortgage loan fraud, access modification, brokerage commission claims, landlord-tenant disputes, tax foreclosures and anything related. Representing both private property owners and governing bodies, Mr. Turteltaub has extensive trial experience and is considered by the community to be well-versed in eminent domain acquisitions that have an environmental effect.