Todd W. Heck

I have been a partner at the firm for 17+ years. I have a broad-based commercial and estate law practice, with an emphasis on business dispute resolution (corporations, creditors' rights, commercial, tax, and estate litigation), transaction planning (contracts, loan documentation, tax and estate planning), and local government law. In that last capacity, I have served as solicitor or assistant solicitor to numerous local public agencies, including Cumberland County College, the Cumberland County Improvement Authority, the Cumberland County Agricultural Development Board, Deerfield Township, the Buena Borough Municipal Utilities Authority, and the Maurice River Township Zoning Board. I have also served as local bond counsel to the Washington Township (Gloucester County) Municipal Utilities. Currently, I also serve as special tax counsel to the City of Vineland.

I've served as a business law instructor at the Cumberland County College. I've also been active over the course of my 27 years in the County in pro bono work for local non-profit organizations and public/private partnerships, including the Landis Theater Foundation, (on whose Board of Directors I also serve), the U.S. Wild and Scenic Rivers System Task Force, Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River, and the Cumberland County Ad Hoc Committee on Hazardous Waste. In these latter capacities I received distinguished service recognition from the Cumberland County Board of chosen Freeholders and the U.S. Congress.

I earned a post-graduate law degree, a Masters in Taxation, from New York University in 1983. My primary law degree was earned at the Villanova University School of Law in 1979. I also attained a B.S. in Management from Lehigh University in 1976 after three years of study. I am admitted to practice before numerous State and Federal Courts, and am a member of the bar in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. My appellate practice has included appearances before the New Jersey Supreme Court and the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

My professional associations include the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Cumberland County Bar Association (including six years of service on the County Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee).