Francis J. Brennan, III is a graduate of Dickinson College, cum laude, where he majored in Policy and Management with a concentration in Public Policy and Environmental Studies, was a Nisbet Scholar and elected a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, a national leadership honor society. As an undergraduate, he participated in a semester long program in Public Administration at American University in Washington, D.C. during which he interned with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Mr. Brennan earned his law degree from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where he was selected as a member of the Jessup Moot Court Team and the American Inns of Court.

During law school and for several years after admission to the bar, Mr. Brennan was associated with the Trenton firm Picco Mack Herbert. Thereafter, he became associated with and rose to Partner and then Managing Partner for the Trenton office of a New York law firm. Since 1996, Mr. Brennan has been the principal of his own three attorney firm in Cranbury, New Jersey. Mr. Brennan is a member of the Federal and State bars in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and is admitted to practice before the Federal Courts for the District of New Jersey, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Brennan has substantial experience in the areas of complex real estate and business transactions including the purchase, sale and leasing of commercial, office and industrial properties, farms and undeveloped sites; commercial transactions such as the purchase and sale of businesses; land use, zoning, planning and historic preservation law; commercial loan transactions and construction/development financing; employment law; corporate law; estate planning; and business succession issues. Mr. Brennan has both prosecuted and defended numerous complex environmental litigation matters including insurance coverage disputes, and clean-up cost recovery actions pursuant to the New Jersey Spill Compensation and Control Act, New Jersey's Underground Storage Tank Act, and the New Jersey Environmental Rights Act. Mr. Brennan devotes a portion of his practice to regulatory affairs at the State level including the regulation of underground storage tanks; the New Jersey Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA, formerly ECRA); Spill Act violations and claims; cleanup actions; permitting issues; the Pineland's Protection Act; New Jersey's Farmland Protection Act; and the Right to Farm Act. Mr. Brennan authored the briefs in the published Federal Court decisions in Clement v. Conrail, et al, 130 F.R.D. 530 (D.N.J. 1990); and, Clement v. Conrail, 734 F. Supp. 151 (D.N.J. 1989).

A frequent speaker on legal issues, particularly those involving business-related, environmental and transactional matters, and listed in Who's Who in American Law, Mr. Brennan has served on the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Membership Committee and as Vice-President for the Southern Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the American Bar Association, New Jersey State Bar Association, Middlesex County Bar Association, Petroleum Equipment Contractors Association of New Jersey, Cranbury Lions Club, Cranbury Historical Society, the Cranbury Business and Professional Association, New Jersey Farm Bureau, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. An Eagle Scout, Mr. Brennan serves as an Assistant Scoutmaster with Boy Scout Troop 52, on the Finance and Planning Committee for his church, and has served as a youth sports coach.

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David R. Forrey, a partner with the firm, is a graduate of Dickinson College and Rutgers University School of Law, and is admitted to the Federal and State bars in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Following law school, Mr. Forrey clerked for Joseph Green, a Superior Court Judge, in the Civil Division, Camden County, New Jersey. Mr. Forrey is a trial attorney who focuses his practice in complex civil litigation matters, environmental and toxic tort litigation, commercial collections, commercial litigation, bankruptcy disputes, insurance defense litigation, insurance coverage disputes, appellate practice, and complex landlord-tenant issues. Mr. Forrey has substantial experience in the Appellate Courts and before the New Jersey Supreme Court and has several published opinions.

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Robert F. Morris, an associate with the firm, is a cum laude graduate from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Business School, with concentrations in Finance and Transportation, where he lettered in swimming and participated in Army R.O.T.C. Mr. Morris received his law degree from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. He is licensed to practice in New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia. Following law school, Mr. Morris joined the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps and was assigned to the Army Armor Center, Fort Knox, Kentucky. During his first two years JAG Corp., Mr. Morris prosecuted offenses under the Uniform Military Code of Justice in military Courts-Martial, and civilian misdemeanor offenses in U.S. Magistrate's Court. Subsequently, Mr. Morris was assigned to the Administrative Law division where he advised the Chain-of-Command on a wide variety of legal issues, including civilian labor law, equal employment opportunity, military prisoner legal complaints, and military personnel issues. After he completed his military service, Mr. Morris was associated with Hoagland, Longo in New Brunswick prior to his affiliation with this firm. Mr. Morris' practice includes commercial litigation, complex real estate transactions; commercial transactions such as the purchase and sale of businesses; commercial loans and financing; estate planning, wills and trusts; employment law; and, construction litigation.

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Jennifer L. Cicchetti, a paralegal with the firm, earned her Associate's Degree in Applied Sciences from Middlesex County College, where she majored in Paralegal Studies and was named to the Dean's List. Prior to joining the firm she served as an Assistant Treasurer with 1st Constitution Bank in Cranbury, New Jersey. Ms. Cicchetti is an Associate Member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and assists with complex commercial transactions; environmental litigation and regulatory affairs; estate planning; land use, zoning and planning; insurance coverage disputes; and, corporate law.

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