Louis N. Rainone is one of the most well known and accomplished municipal attorneys in New Jersey. He has served as counsel for many of the state’s largest municipalities, including: Newark, Edison, Trenton, Franklin, Marlboro, Long Branch, Perth Amboy, Clifton, Brick, Piscataway, Rahway, Sayreville, Bound Brook and Green Brook. He has also served as special counsel to the County of Essex, The Essex County Improvement Authority, The Bergen County Sheriff and the North Jersey District Water Supply Commission. Mr. Rainone currently serves as the Director of Law for the City of Rahway, City Attorney for the City of Long Branch, Township Attorney for the Township of Franklin, Somerset County, the Director of Law for the Township of Marlboro and Counsel to the Middlesex County Improvement Authority. He is also Special Labor Counsel to the Township of Brick, Township of Piscataway, Borough of Somerville, and City of Trenton. He along with the firm’s other members counsel’s its municipal client’s on significant redevelopment projects in Newark, East Brunswick and Burlington City.

In addition to his legal career, Mr. Rainone has had an extensive and varied career in public service. He served as Legislative Assistant to the Chairman of the New Jersey General Assembly Committee on Taxation and in the same capacity to the Vice Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Mr. Rainone was named a Super Lawyer by New Jersey Magazine. He was both a member and Secretary of the Matawan Borough Zoning Board of Adjustment. In January of 1987, as a result of his representation of public entities, he was selected as one of the “50 People to Watch in New Jersey Business” by the Business Journal of New Jersey. He has also received an AV Peer Rating from Martindale-Hubble.

Louis N. Rainone serves as the firm’s managing partner. Mr. Rainone practiced law for 17 years in Middlesex County as the Partner of former Assembly Speaker Alan J. Karcher. Prior to forming the firm Mr. Rainone was the Co Chairman of the Municipal Law Section at DeCotiis FitzPatrick and Cole.

Mr. Rainone received his B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University in 1977. He graduated from Seton Hall Law School in 1980, where he was a member of the Legislative Journal. Following law school, he served as a clerk in the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office, as a legislative aide to State Senator Richard Van Wagner, Middletown, New Jersey and on the staff of Assembly Speaker Alan J. Karcher. He has been a New Jersey resident for over 50 years.