The Firm practices primarily in New York and New Jersey and, through its of-counsel attorneys, manages cases in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Missouri. For the past 40 years Junge & Mele and its predecessor firms have successfully represented many of the largest maritime companies in the world, both in litigation and transactional matters.
Our clients include domestic and international shipping companies, cruise lines, marine terminal operators, ocean transportation intermediaries, P & I Clubs and shipping trade associations. We are specialists in Jones. Junge & Mele represents a wide array of domestic and international clients involved in commercial disputes.
Our clients include domestic and international shipping companies, cruise lines, marine terminal operators, ocean transportation intermediaries, P & I Clubs and shipping trade associations. We are specialists in Jones. Junge & Mele represents a wide array of domestic and international clients involved in commercial disputes.
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Junge & Mele's attorneys are seasoned litigators, with trial and appellate experience, and they are trusted business advisors. Our history dates back 40 years, to our predecessor firms Lilly Sullivan, Barkan & Junge and Lambos & Junge. Many of the clients who started with us during those earlier incarnations are still with us today.
Throughout his distinguished legal career, Mr. Junge has been a prominent figure in the admiralty bar and has acted as lead counsel in numerous landmark maritime cases. His loyal clients include shipowners, cruise lines, marine terminal operators, and P & I Clubs.
For decades, Mr. Junge's clients have steadfastly looked to him to defend Jones Act and cargo claims, to handle complex charter party disputes and to oversee substantial transactional matters.Mr. Junge graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy and holds both a Master's License, Any Tonnage- Inland, as well as a New York Harbor Pilots license.
For decades, Mr. Junge's clients have steadfastly looked to him to defend Jones Act and cargo claims, to handle complex charter party disputes and to oversee substantial transactional matters.Mr. Junge graduated from the United States Merchant Marine Academy and holds both a Master's License, Any Tonnage- Inland, as well as a New York Harbor Pilots license.
Mr. Mele has been successfully representing a wide variety of corporate and individual clients as a litigator and trusted business adviser for more than 20 years. He has extensive experience as lead trial counsel in state and federal courts in matters involving complex commercial disputes, serious personal injuries cases-both plaintiff and defendant, maritime litigation, insurance disputes, and bankruptcy adversary proceedings.
Barbara P. Lazaris graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and the Massachusetts School of Law. With almost 20 years experience as an attorney, her practice focuses on residential real estate transactions representing buyers, sellers, and lenders and the zealous plaintiff representation on the trial level.
Mr. Rubin has had extensive trial experience in State and Federal Court in complex commercial, real estate, and corporate litigation for more than 20 years. He began his career associated with the Manhattan law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and later practiced with the Connecticut law firm of Schatz & Schatz, Ribicoff & Kotkin before he started his own law firm in 1996.
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