PARSIPPANY — Gerald R. Salerno has joined Einhorn, Barbarito, Frost, Botwinick, Nunn & Musmanno, P.C. as a partner at the firm’s office at 4 Campus Drive, Suite 300.
Salerno focuses his practice on complex civil and commercial litigation, commercial real estate and transactional matters, zoning and land use, and redevelopment matters. He represents businesses, developers, redevelopers, financial institutions, municipalities, and local boards throughout New Jersey.
He currently serves as Borough Attorney for East Rutherford, Land Use Board Attorney for Wood-Ridge, Planning Board Attorney for Rutherford, and Acting Public Defender for the Pascack Joint Municipal Court. His prior public-sector roles include Special Redevelopment Counsel to the Lodi Planning Board, counsel to the Upper Saddle River Zoning Board of Adjustment, and prosecutor for the boroughs of Wood-Ridge and Oradell.
Salerno is a past president of the Bergen County Bar Association and served for six years as the Bergen County representative to the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee. He has been named to New Jersey Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of bet-the-company litigation and commercial litigation.
Salerno earned his law degree from Georgetown University in 1985 and graduated magna cum laude from Seton Hall University in 1982. He previously served as law clerk to the Honorable Charles R. DiGisi, presiding criminal judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County.
