Vida Joins
Glen J. Vida provides legal services in the areas of environmental litigation and complex commercial matters, as well as residential and commercial closings. Prior to joining Post Polak, he had a distinguished career as a solo practitioner for over 35 years.
Glen has focused his practice on actions involving environmental remediation, recovery claims against insurance companies and direct polluters, prosecuting as well as defending environmental matters, and statewide cleanup actions. He has represented both individual operators as well as large corporations. He has prosecuted claims against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and defended actions commenced by them.
In commercial cases, Glen has litigated multi-state claims involving insurance companies, prosecuting, and defending claims on behalf of a variety of clients, including pharmaceutical distribution companies, insurance agencies and individual business operators. He has negotiated commercial Leases and litigated to enforce or to challenge them.
He has appeared before the New Jersey trial courts, appellate division and the State Supreme Court, as well as the Federal District Courts in New Jersey and New York.
ROI Influencers Recognize Attorneys
ROI-NJ has just published ROI Influencers: People of Color 2023. Included on the list this year are Post Polak Shareholder Marsha M. Moore and Of Counsel Baye Adofo-Wilson, who is also Founder & CEO of BAW Development.
Says ROI, “New Jersey, one of the few minority-majority states, proudly embraces its diversity. Our sixth annual ROI Influencers: People of Color list honors that spirit with recognition of some of the people who have great impact in business, academia, nonprofit and governmental sectors.”
Marsha was recognized in the list of some of New Jersey’s most prominent names as Chair of the Post Polak Redevelopment and Land Use Practice. They noted, “The Jamaican-born attorney has represented major developers (Hanini Group, RBH Group, L+M) on large-scale, mixed-use projects throughout the state and in many of Newark’s major land-use projects in the past 20+ years.” Marsha joined Post Polak in 2016 and was a trailblazer, starting Post Polak’s Redevelopment and Land Use Practice, which is now one of the leading practice groups within the Firm.
Baye was recognized for his leading role in rebuilding Hinchliffe Stadium (the last remaining Negro Leagues stadium), thus “providing a path for a bright future in Paterson.” Marsha also served as land use counsel for the Hinchliffe Stadium project.
Congratulations to Marsha and Baye on this well-deserved recognition!
Lendor Joins
Post Polak is pleased to welcome Anton L. Lendor as Of Counsel.
Anton is involved in Post Polak’s Land Use / Redevelopment, Commercial Real Estate and Municipal Law practices.
Anton has provided legal services regarding the designation of redevelopment areas, rehabilitation areas, and redevelopment plans. He also defended against various challenges to redevelopment designations and redevelopment plans at both the Law Division and the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court. He also negotiates redevelopment agreements and financial agreements for both public and private clients.
Prior to joining Post Polak, Anton was a partner with DeCotiis, FitzPatrick, Cole & Giblin, LLP. He has significant experience with the construction phase of redevelopment/development. He holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering with an emphasis on construction management.
For more information on Anton, click here.
Sanders Begins Term on Ethics Committee
As of September 1, 2023, Bill Sanders is beginning a two-year term as Chair of the District X-B Ethics Committee of the New Jersey Supreme Court. The Committee hears grievances against attorneys who practice in Sussex County and all of Morris County, except for Morristown and Florham Park, which have their own Committee, District X-A.
