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VerifiedLawFirms editorial: Where the practice is based — Two offices anchor this New Jersey practice. One sits in Jersey City, the other in Montclair.

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About Freeman Law Center

Freeman Law Center, LLC is a New Jersey law firm with offices in Jersey City and Montclair. The firm handles family law matters including divorce, child custody, child support, parental relocation, property settlement, name changes, and domestic violence. It also represents clients in personal injury cases such as car accidents, slip and fall injuries, dog bites, and workers' compensation claims.

Additional practice areas include DUI defense, municipal court and traffic matters, landlord and tenant disputes, consumer fraud, wills and estate planning, and business law such as business formation and contract matters. The firm is led by Brian Freeman, who has more than 30 years of experience and is admitted to the bars of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and the United States Supreme Court. The practice includes several of counsel attorneys and offers services in English and Spanish. It serves clients throughout Hudson, Essex, Passaic, Bergen, Union, Middlesex, and Morris Counties. Initial consultations are offered at no charge.

Editor's Review

VerifiedLawFirms editorial

Where the practice is based

Two offices anchor this New Jersey practice. One sits in Jersey City, the other in Montclair. Both keep the firm close to the courts and communities of the state's northern counties.

Freeman Law Center, LLC lists work across seven counties. Those are Hudson, Essex, Passaic, Bergen, Union, Middlesex, and Morris. That reach covers a wide slice of northern and central New Jersey. It also means clients outside the two office towns can still find help within a reasonable distance.

Language access gets attention here too. The firm notes bilingual paralegal staff who work in Spanish and English. For families more comfortable in Spanish, that support can make the first steps of a case less daunting.

Focus and practice areas

Family and domestic matters

Family law forms a large share of the work. The firm handles divorce, child custody, and child support. It also takes on parental relocation, which comes up when one parent wants to move with a child, and property settlement, which divides assets after a marriage ends.

The same group covers name changes, domestic violence matters, and adoption. Cases like these tend to be personal and time sensitive. Having one firm handle the range of them can spare a client from moving between offices as circumstances shift.

Injury and general practice

Personal injury is the second main line. It covers car accidents, slip and fall injuries, dog bites, and workers' compensation claims. Matters like these often rest on records, deadlines, and clear proof of what happened.

The firm reaches past those two areas as well. It works on DUI defense, municipal court and traffic matters, landlord and tenant disputes, consumer fraud, wills and estate planning, and business law such as business formation and contracts. In my opinion, that spread fits a general practice built to serve a local community rather than one narrow slice of the law.

How the team is built

Brian Freeman heads the firm as partner. The site credits him with more than 30 years of experience. He is admitted to the bars of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, and to the United States Supreme Court.

His background reaches into public service. He is a former deputy attorney general for the State of New Jersey. He also serves as a trustee for the Hudson County Bar Association, and he belongs to the American Association for Justice. That mix of court admissions and bar service points to a lawyer who has worked on both sides of the public and private divide.

Five more attorneys round out the roster. Kisha J. Pinnock works as an associate. Michael J. Cicala, Christian Campaniolo, Nilaja Ford, and Michael Wiseberg are listed as of counsel. The firm does not publish detailed bios for these five, so their individual focus is not stated on the pages I reviewed.

What the record shows

The public pages stay close to the facts. They name the attorneys, the two offices, the counties served, and the areas of law. They do not list case results, settlement figures, or awards. As a reviewer, I would rather see that restraint than inflated claims a reader cannot check.

What a prospective client gets is a clear map of the firm's scope. A single, long-serving partner leads a small group that covers family law, injury work, and several everyday legal needs. The bilingual support and the wide county coverage suggest a practice shaped around access for local residents.

For someone in Hudson or Essex County weighing where to begin, this reads as a steady, general-purpose option. The detail is heaviest around the lead partner and the list of services, and lighter on the rest of the team. A caller may want to ask which attorney would handle their particular matter, since the site sets out the range of work without pinning each area to a named lawyer.

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Brian Freeman Partner

Brian Freeman has over 30 years of experience and leads the firm. He is a former deputy attorney general for the State of New Jersey, a trustee for the Hudson County Bar Association, a member of the American Association for Justice, and a former president of the Garden State Bar Association. He has served as a legal commentator on WWRL's radio show and speaks at local colleges and universities.

Practice focus

  • Family law
  • Divorce and separation
  • Child custody
  • Child support
  • Personal injury
  • Landlord-tenant disputes
Christian Campaniolo Of Counsel

Christian Campaniolo is Of Counsel at Freeman Law Center, LLC in Jersey City, New Jersey, and concentrates his practice on family law, including divorce, child custody, and restraining orders. He earned a B.A. from Montclair State University in 2011 and a J.D. from Rutgers University in 2015, after which he participated in the Rutgers Law Associates Fellowship Program representing low to moderate income clients. He has also handled civil litigation matters such as contract disputes, landlord and tenant disputes, and transactional disputes, and has represented clients through trial, arbitration, and mediation. Before law school he worked for New Jersey's Division of Youth and Family Services and as a law enforcement officer with the state parole board, and he served a six-year enlistment in the New Jersey Air National Guard.

Practice focus

  • Family Law
  • Divorce
  • Child Custody
  • Alimony
Kisha J. Pinnock Associate

Kisha Pinnock is an attorney with Freeman Law Center, LLC in Jersey City, New Jersey. Her practice includes family law and criminal defense matters.

Practice focus

  • Family Law
  • Criminal Defense
Michael J. Cicala Of Counsel

Michael J. Cicala earned his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2003 and holds a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University. He served a judicial clerkship with Daniel P. Mecca, P.J.S.C. in Bergen County, then worked at the firms Sodini and Spina and Wilson Elser representing banking and commercial clients before starting his own practice. He is Of Counsel at Freeman Law Center in Jersey City, where he handles family law litigation, commercial and foreclosure matters, landlord/tenant issues, residential real estate closings, and estate planning. He is also an adjunct professor of Legal Studies at Sussex County Community College.

Practice focus

  • Family law
  • Commercial litigation
  • Foreclosure
  • Landlord/tenant matters
  • Residential real estate closings
  • Estate planning
Michael Wiseberg Of Counsel

Michael Wiseberg earned a JD/MBA from Rutgers Law School. He practices at the Law Offices of Michael Wiseberg in Hackensack, New Jersey, where his work focuses on personal injury, litigation, divorce and separation, and medical malpractice matters. Earlier in his career, he worked as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and as a commercial loan analyst at the Bank of Nova Scotia.

Practice focus

  • Personal Injury
  • Litigation
  • Divorce and Separation
  • Medical Malpractice
Nilaja Ford Of Counsel

Nilaja S. Ford attended law school in the evening while working full time as a Human Resources Manager at Rutgers University. She began her legal career as a judicial law clerk at the Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex County Vicinage, in the Criminal Division, and later served as a Special Deputy Attorney General and Acting Assistant Prosecutor handling bail reform, special victims, domestic violence, and juvenile matters. She founded the Law Office of Nilaja S. Ford and is currently Of Counsel at Freeman Law Center, LLC. Her practice covers family law, domestic violence, and litigation.

Practice focus

  • Family Law
  • Domestic Violence
  • Litigation

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Address

97 Newkirk Street
Jersey City, NJ 07306

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