Lakewood is one of New Jersey’s fastest-growing communities and one of its most distinctive economies. Anchored by Beth Medrash Govoha — the largest yeshiva outside Israel — and a large, fast-growing Orthodox Jewish community, the township has built a dense base of schools, healthcare providers, kosher-food producers, retailers, construction firms, and professional practices. The firm represents both that workforce and the small and midsize employers that drive it.
The firm in Lakewood
Steven T. Auerbach is admitted to the Supreme Court of New Jersey and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and the firm has been profiled in JewishLink as employment and business-litigation counsel for New Jersey and Pennsylvania employers. Lakewood’s concentration of religious institutions, schools, healthcare organizations, and family-owned businesses produces a steady stream of employment and contract matters — on both the employee and the employer side — that fit the firm’s dual-sided practice.
Courts and tribunals
- Superior Court of New Jersey, Ocean Vicinage — Ocean County Courthouse, 100 Hooper Avenue, Toms River. State-court civil, employment, and business litigation for Lakewood matters.
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey — Ocean County falls in the Trenton vicinage, at the Clarkson S. Fisher Federal Building, 402 East State Street, Trenton. Federal employment, civil rights, and FLSA matters.
- New Jersey Division on Civil Rights — the state administrative venue for the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD).
- EEOC Newark Area Office — the federal administrative venue for New Jersey Title VII, ADA, and ADEA charges.
Local economy and employer mix
Lakewood’s economy is anchored by Beth Medrash Govoha and the surrounding network of yeshivas, day schools, and religious institutions, which together employ thousands of teachers, administrators, and staff. Beyond education, major employers and sectors include Church & Dwight (Arm & Hammer) manufacturing, a large healthcare and home-health sector, kosher-food production and distribution, the Lakewood Industrial Park, and construction and real-estate development tied to the township’s rapid residential growth, alongside a deep base of family-owned retail and professional businesses. That small-employer density is what makes outside general counsel such a natural fit here.
Practice areas that matter here
Workplace sexual harassment is the firm’s flagship matter type, represented on both sides — employees who experience it and employers responding to charges and conducting internal investigations. New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination is broader and more employee-protective than its federal counterpart, applies to employers of any size, and permits uncapped damages, so Lakewood employers carry real exposure and Lakewood employees have meaningful remedies. Beyond harassment, the firm’s Lakewood work clusters in outside general counsel for the township’s many small and midsize businesses, employment discrimination and wrongful-termination matters, workers’ compensation, and business and contract litigation.
Where the firm appears
The firm represents clients across Lakewood and the surrounding communities of Toms River, Jackson, Brick, Howell, and Manchester, as well as the broader New Jersey shore. Most consultations happen by phone or video; in-person meetings at the firm’s Bala Cynwyd office are available by appointment.
Talk to a Lakewood employment attorney
Call (484) 430-4391 or schedule a free consultation. Most consultations happen by phone or video; in-person meetings at the firm’s Bala Cynwyd office are available by appointment.