Scotch Plains Government Lawyers, New Jersey


Scott Kessler Lawyer

Government, Employment, Disability

Scott Kessler specializes in Personal Injury matters, including Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slip and Fall Accidents, Truck Accidents, and Dog Bite cases. Mr. Kessler also specializes in Workersโ€™ Compensation cases, and was for ten years recognized by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Workersโ€™ Compensation Law Attorney. Mr. Kessler has been named a total of thirteen times to the annual โ€œSuper Lawyersโ€ list published in New Jersey Monthly Magazine, for his work in the areas of both Workersโ€™ Compensation and Personal Injury law. Appearing in the New Jersey Supreme Court, Mr. Kessler successfully fought to establish new legal precedents and expand the rights of injured workers in the Supreme Court case of Sager vs. O. A. Peterson Construction Co., and has appeared in New Jerseyโ€™s Appellate Division on several additional matters. He was the Acting Municipal Prosecutor for Freehold Borough from 1990 โ€“ 1991, and has also served as a Monmouth County Public Defender Pool Attorney, and as a private Criminal Defense attorney. Mr. Kessler has been the Managing Shareholder of Team Law since 2012, and has been the Managing Attorney of the Team Law Workersโ€™ Compensation Department since 1991. Mr. Kessler graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980, and received his Juris Doctor degree from New York Law School in 1988. He became licensed to practice law in the State of New Jersey and the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, in 1988. He has served as a Vice-President of The New Jersey Advisory Council on Safety and Health, a workersโ€™ rights advocacy group, since 2008, and is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and the New Jersey Association of Justice.

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Litigation, State and Local, Employment, Personal Injury
Dispute Resolution, State and Local, Workers' Compensation, Insurance
Estate Planning, Family Law, Litigation, Municipal
Criminal, Federal Trial Practice, Mental Health, Health Care
Government, Employee Rights, Employment, Personal Injury
Motor Vehicle, Government, Employment
Motor Vehicle, Employee Rights, Employment, Criminal, Government
Employment, State & Local Agencies, Government, Labor Law