Stuart Pachman is the author of Title 14A Corporations, which he updates regularly and is recognized as an authority on corporate law in New Jersey. The book and his law review articles have been cited by New Jersey and federal courts as well as courts in other jurisdictions. Stuart focuses on counseling businesses, non-profit corporations and their officers; drafting complex and unusual agreements that successfully memorialize the business deal reached by the parties; structuring transactions; guiding business formations and breakups; advising executives on day-to-day issues including those involving employees, borrowings, and litigation at both the trial and appellate level. He has also served as a court appointed officer in business disputes.

PUBLICATIONS AND SPEECHES

Stuart has written for the Seton Hall Law Review on "Corporations Evenly Divided: Judicial Remedies for Equal Shareholders," "Accountants and Restrictive Covenants: The Client Commodity" and "Divorce Corporate Style: Dissension, Oppression and Commercial Morality."

In addition, Stuart has written the following:

• "Keeping Current: Fiduciary Duties," Business Law TODAY, October 2011
• "Counting Shareholders," New Jersey State Bar Association, Business Law Section Newsletter, January 14, 2011
• "Inspection of Corporate Books: A Powerful Tool for Discovery," January 10, 2011
• "Corporations, LLCs and Electronic Communication," New Jersey Law Journal, June 14 2010
• "Complex Corporate Governance Issues Often Require Legal Advice and Expertise," Commerce and Industry Association of NJ, April 22, 2010
• "The Corporate Law of Nonprofit Corporations, with Some Practical Nontax Insights," New Jersey Lawyer, April 1, 2010
• "The Limits of Limited Liability Beyond Piercing the Corporate (or LLC) Veil," New Jersey State Bar Association, Business Law Section, January 1, 2010
• "Your Unlimited Liability: Beyond Piercing the Corporate Veil," New Jersey Law Journal, June 8, 2009

PUBLISHED OR NOTEWORTHY DECISIONS

• Balsamides v. Protameen Chemicals, 160 N.J. 352 (S. Ct. N.J. 1999);
• Casey v. Brennan, 344 N.J. Super. 83 (App. Div. 2001);
• Sorentino v. Family and Children's Society, 74 N.J. 313 (S. Ct. N.J. 1977);
• In re Hoffman, 63 N.J. 69 (S. Ct. N.J. 1973);
• In re Miller's Estate, 90 N.J. 210 (S. Ct. N.J. 1982);
• Vornado, Inc v. Hyland, 77 N.J. 347 (S. Ct. N.J. 1973);
• Affiliated Distillers Brands Corp. v. Sills, 60 N.J. 342 (S. Ct. N.J. 1972);
• Red Devil Tools v. Tip Top Brush Co., 50 N.J. 563 (S. Ct. N.J. 1967);
• In re Adoption of a child by R.D., 127 N.J. Super. 311 (App. Div. 1974);
• Application of Summit and Elizabeth Trust Co., 111 N.J. Super. 154 (App. Div. 1970);
• Hoeganaes Corp. v. Director of Division of Taxation, 145 N.J. Super. 352 (App. Div. 1976);
• St. John's Greek Catholic Church v. Fedak, 96 N.J. Super. 556 (App. Div. 1967).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Stuart served as a trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association from 1993 to 1999 and is a former Chair and a Director Emeritus of its Business Law Section and a member of the Equity Jurisprudence Committee. Stuart has been peer review rated as AV Preeminent, the highest rating for professional excellence by Martindale-Hubbell. He has been recognized by his peers as as a New Jersey Super Lawyer in 2010, 2011 and 2012 in Corporate Law, and as among the Best Lawyers in America; he was also named the "Newark Area's Best Lawyer" in corporate law in 2010. Stuart was given the New Jersey State Bar Association Distinguished Legislative Service Award in 2010 "for his outstanding efforts in assisting the New Jersey State Bar Association to suggest and urge reforms in the law; aid in the administration of justice; and maintain the honor and integrity of the legal profession."