• Owen J. Lipnick is a Partner in the Firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Owen brings more than 20 years’ experience to the firm representing clients in a variety of sophisticated commercial, banking, consumer finance, real estate, unfair competition, employment, bankruptcy, insurance, corporate/partnership, fraud and contract dispute matters.  He’s practiced in federal and state courts in both New Jersey and New York and represented clients in arbitrations and administrative proceedings. He has successfully and aggressively litigated matters from beginning to conclusion. That includes obtaining emergency injunctions necessary for preserving clients’ businesses as well as several summary judgment rulings deciding matters without trials.  His clients broadly range from financial institutions, real estate developers and other large companies to individuals mired in shareholder disputes and other legal predicaments.  He prides himself on achieving cost-effective and practical solutions through skilled problem-solving tailored to his client’s needs and objectives.

    Prior to joining Schenck Price, Owen was an attorney at Bergen and Essex County firms. For several years Owen was also an Assistant General Counsel and Vice President of JPMorgan Chase Bank, where he helped direct and manage the Bank’s mortgage litigation, focusing on its appellate litigation, and defended the Bank in various consumer finance litigation matters.

    Owen is a past Vice President of the Board of Trustees and Finance Committee Chair of the Unity Charter School. He organized and participated in projects raising money to find causes for Sudden Unexplaine Death in Children, where he started his own non-profit corporation. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Owen achieved on another “court” leading the Rutgers University Tennis team as its captain and #1 singles player.

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    • Past Vice President of Board of Trustees and Finance Committee Chair, Unity Charter School
    • Previously formed a non-profit organization to fundraise and raise awareness for Sudden Unexplained Death in Children
  • •Defeated restraints sought by physician practice against practice’s former shareholder/physician that would enjoin physician from competing against his former practice and treating his former patients in his new practice;
    •Successfully obtained summary judgment dismissing complaint by company against former employee alleging misappropriation of company’s documents and violation of non-compete and non-solicitation clauses;
    •Defeated client’s former company’s request for an injunction barring client from working for competitor;
    •Successfully obtained restraints enforcing non-compete agreement against client’s two former employees who joined client’s chief competitor and thereafter settled matters that included money damages and enforcement of the non-compete agreement;
    •Successfully settled, on eve of trial, clients’ action against family member for disgorgement of vast sums of monies stolen by family member from corporation;
    •Obtained dismissal of lawsuit against national bank alleging that bank was liable for fraud against purchasers who wired funds to a fraudster in a real estate transaction;
    •Obtained an affirmance by the Appellate Division in national bank’s favor defeating borrower’s claims challenging the propriety of two foreclosures resulting from loan defaults exceeding $6 million;
    •Successfully tried matter for return of a security deposit resulting in imposition of double damages;
    •Successfully obtained arbitration award for full amount of landlord’s damages against commercial tenant for cleanup/environmental costs, among other claims;
    •Successfully settled in favor of sublessee its claims against sublessor resulting from claims that sublessor breached sublease causing the termination of the master lease and sublease; and
    •Successfully obtained recovery of approximately $200,000 from New Jersey’s Client Protection Fund for client victimized by attorney’s fraud in transferring non-existent real estate interest to him.
     

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