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Donald B. Brenner

Shareholder
dbrenner@stark-stark.com
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T: 609.895.7330
 F: 609.896.0629

993 Lenox Drive
Lawrenceville, New Jersey 08648

Donald B. Brenner is a Shareholder in the Business Litigation Group at Stark & Stark and is Chair of the firm’s Construction Litigation Group. Mr. Brenner has broad experience in handling complex construction litigation on behalf of community associations, developers and other plaintiffs. Mr. Brenner is the co-founder of www.njconstructionlawblog.com. and www.NJEIFS.com. Mr. Brenner has been interviewed on television about EIFS and construction litigation issues and has been quoted in the New York Times. He received intensive training in exterior insulation and finish system at the Exterior Design Institute. Mr. Brenner has also written and lectured extensively on construction litigation issues. He is a member of the Forum on Construction Law of the American Bar Association and the Construction Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Mr. Brenner is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and the United States Supreme Court.

Education

J.D., Rutgers University School of Law - Camden, 1982
Editor, Notes and Comments, The Rutgers Law Journal

B.A., State University of New York at Albany, 1979
Magna cum laude

Bar Admissions

New Jersey
Pennsylvania

Professional Organizations

American Bar Association's Forum on Construction Law

Construction Defect Litigation Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America

Commercial Law Journal
Contributing editor

Community Trends, the Community Associations Institute Magazine
Former contributing editor

The Lawyer's Advisory Council of the New Jersey Banker's Association
Former member

National Editorial Board of Advisers to Lender Liability News
Former member

New Jersey State Bar Association

Mercer County Bar Association

Published Articles

Homowner's Association Standing To Assert Without Joining the Homeowners, New Jersey Law Journal, March 24, 2008

EIFS Cases: Is it Preferable to Bring Them as Class Action Suits or as Individual Suits?, Journal of Community Association Law, 52, Vol. 6, No. 2, (2003)

Consider Conflicts of Interest Before Representing A Developer and A Community Association, Journal of Community Associations Law, 51 (No. 2, 2000)

Minority Shareholder Oppression Under the Business Corporations Act, New Jersey Law Journal, Vol. CLVII, No. 7, Index No. 641 (August 16, 1999)

There Is a Developing Trend Among Courts of Making Choice of Forum Clauses in Franchise Agreements Presumptively Invalid, Vol. 102, No. 1, Commercial Law Journal (Spring, 1997)

Attorney Negligence in Commercial Transactions: An Ever-Widening Spectrum of Liability, Vol. 101, No. 1, Commercial Law Journal (Spring, 1996)

Vanished Collateral: Fifth Amendment Concealment, Banking Law Journal, October, 1995

New Jersey Supreme Court Rules that Foreclosing Mortgages Are Subject to the Anti-Eviction Act in Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Actions, Vol. 100, No. 2, Commercial Law Journal (Summer, 1995)

The Right of Access to Civil Courts Under State Constitutional Law: An Historical and Current Perspective, Vol. 13 Rutgers Law Journal 399 (1982)