THOMAS J. SUBRANNI

Thomas Subranni, Esq. is the senior partner in the firm of Subranni Ostrove & Zauber.

Mr. Subranni is a 1963 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, AB; 1966 Vanderbilt University, JD; and New York University School of Law, LLM (in taxation). He is admitted to the New Jersey and Pennsylvania bar. Mr. Subranni is also admitted to practice before the Federal District Court for the District of New Jersey, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and Pennsylvania and New Jersey Courts. He is the senior member of the Private Panel of Trustees for the District of New Jersey, and a charter member of the Lawyers Advisory Committee for the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey and former Chair of the District I Ethics Committee.

Mr. Subranni is active with the Bankruptcy Law Section of the State Bar Association and has spoken at several of the Annual Bench Bar Conferences and also as a panel member for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. He has also been selected as a mediator for the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey and is a member of the New Jersey Bankruptcy Inn of Court. He is the founding director of the New Jersey Bankruptcy Trustees' Association and served as its president. His legal practice concentrates in consumer and business Bankruptcy Law. His legal practice concentrates in all areas of Bankruptcy Law including Chapters 7, 11, and 13. Mr. Subranni can be contacted directly at Tom@subranni.com.

SCOTT M. ZAUBER

Scott Zauber is a partner with the law offices of Subranni, Ostrove & Zauber.  Scott is a proud graduate of Atlantic City High School, Richard Stockton College and Rutgers University School of Law-Camden.  He is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and all New Jersey state courts; he has appeared in bankruptcy courts throughout New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. 

Scott is active in the Bankruptcy Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and has lectured for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education on a regular basis since 2002.  He was a contributing author to the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education’s 2005 Bankruptcy Volume, and a co-editor of the 2006-2007 version, which included substantial revisions addressing the significant changes to bankruptcy law enacted by Congress in 2005.

Scott’s professional affiliations include the New Jersey Bankruptcy Inn of Court, where he serves as an assistant director and participates as a Master.  He has served as an adjunct professor for Atlantic Cape Community College since 2004, and the Richard Stockton College since 2008.  Scott’s contribution to the development of a financial education program by South Jersey Legal Services in Atlantic City earned the law firm an Equal Justice Award in 2005 from New Jersey Legal Services.  The judiciary’s confidence in Mr. Zauber is evidenced by his appointment as co-trustee of a deceased attorney’s practice by the Assignment Judge of Camden County.  Scott was selected as a New Jersey “Super Lawyer Rising Star” by Law and Politics magazine in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Scott’s representation spans from individual debtors to large corporations in cases filed under chapters 7, 11, and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code. He has significant experience representing trustees in chapter 7 and chapter 11 cases.  Scott is the primary contact person for representation in all chapter 11 and Chapter 13 matters and can be directly contacted at szauber@subranni.com.

JOHN LEON

John Leon was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1981.  He joined Subranni, Ostrove & Zauber in 2008, after ten years of practicing law as a partner with a national law firm.  John’s practice is concentrated in bankruptcy law, debtor-creditor law, and commercial litigation.  He has substantial experience litigating cases in bankruptcy courts in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, and in New Jersey state courts.  John has represented individuals, small businesses, public companies, creditor committees, commercial landlords, and shopping centers, as well as several national banks and other institutional lenders.  His litigation experience includes suits to obtain money judgments, mortgage foreclosures, replevin suits, business valuation disputes, preference cases, fraudulent transfer actions in state courts and bankruptcy courts, and numerous bankruptcy court adversary proceedings.  John has also represented clients involved in appeals from decisions of bankruptcy courts and New Jersey trial courts. 

John has served as lead counsel in cases involving the enforcement and restructuring of multimillion dollar mortgage and asset-based loans, and complex multimillion dollar leveraged buyout fraudulent transfer litigation.  He was litigation counsel to the Bondholders Committee in the Claridge Casino bankruptcy ($85 million claim), successfully defended a nine million dollar preference claim in the bankruptcy case of Hayes Microcomputer Products (inventor of the computer modem), and represented several preference claim defendants in the Enron Corp. bankruptcy. 

John was selected to participate in a bankruptcy court mediation program, and was among the first group of individuals certified as mediators by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey.  He also has substantial experience in commercial real estate matters, and in the negotiation and documentation of loan transactions and restructurings.

John has conducted seminars on bankruptcy topics for attorneys and clients, and previously served as an adjunct professor of Business Law at Glassboro State College.  He is a 1978 magna cum laude graduate of Glassboro State College (now Rowan University) and received his J.D. from Rutgers University in 1981.  While at Rutgers, John was a member and Associate Editor of the Rutgers Law Journal, and served as an intern to United States District Court Judge Stanley Brotman.  Upon graduation, John served as a law clerk to New Jersey Superior Court Judge Rudolph J. Rossetti.  John is admitted to practice in all New Jersey and Pennsylvania state courts, the United States District Courts for the District of New Jersey and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.  He participates as a Master in New Jersey’s Bankruptcy Inn of Court program, and serves as a speaker for the Financial Literacy Project of the New Jersey Bankruptcy Lawyers Foundation.

Contact John directly at jleon@subranni.com.

NONA L. OSTROVE

Nona Ostrove, Esq. is admitted to practice before the Federal District Court for the District of New Jersey, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ms. Ostrove is active in Bankruptcy Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and Debtor-Creditor Section of the Camden County Bar Association. She has been a panelist at four of the past five Annual New Jersey Bankruptcy Bench Bar Conferences and has recently been selected as a mediator for the Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey. She has also organized and operated a joint Camden/Burlington Bankruptcy Conference for the past three years and spoken at seminars for the National Business Institute, Inc. on foreclosure and repossession. Her legal practice concentrates in Bankruptcy Law.

JEANIE D. WIESNER

Jeanie Wiesner joined the law firm of Subranni Ostrove & Zauber in 2008.  Prior to joining the firm, she was a partner in a small general practice firm for six years, where she focused on bankruptcy matters. Jeanie is admitted to practice before all New Jersey state courts, and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. She has appeared in state and federal courts throughout the State of New Jersey.

Jeanie graduated with high honors from Rutgers University–Camden, and earned her J.D. from Rutgers University Law School–Camden.  While an undergraduate, Jeanie was inducted into the Atheneum Honors Society, published various pieces of short fiction, and received the James Saunderson Humanities Award.  While attending Rutgers Law School, Jeanie was awarded a Dean's Scholarship, and served as a leader of the Tax Pro Bono Program, as well as president of the Entertainment Law Society; she also clerked for Cherry Hill Municipal Court Judge Jeffery Karl, and a prominent human rights law firm in Philadelphia, PA.

Jeanie is a Barrister with the Bankruptcy Inn of Court.  Her practice primarily focuses on consumer Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases.  She assists her clients with her knowledge of bankruptcy law, municipal court matters, and general wills and estate law.  Please feel free to contact Jeanie directly at jwiesner@subranni.com.

MARGARET A. HOLLAND (Of Counsel)

Margaret Holland is of Counsel to the law firm of Subranni Ostrove & Zauber.  Before joining the law firm she was a Deputy Attorney General in the office of the New Jersey Attorney General - Division of Law.  After twenty five years of service, she retired as the Assistant Chief of the Treasury Section, where she was responsible for supervising bankruptcy assignments, providing bankruptcy advice, and litigating claims of New Jersey governmental agencies, such as the Departments of Banking and Insurance, Community Affairs, Health and Senior Services, Human Services, Labor and Workplace Development and Treasury; the Divisions of Medical Assistance and Health Services, Purchase and Property, Workers Compensation; the Motor Vehicle Commission; the Higher Education Student Assistance and Health Care Facilities Financing Authorities.

Meg has litigated claims of state agencies in cases filed under chapters 7, 11 and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code.  She has represented clients in bankruptcy courts in New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York, as well as United States District Courts and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.  Her experience includes the following high profile corporate Chapter 11 cases:  R.H. Macy’s Co. (eight million dollar tax claim), Caldor Inc. (two million dollar tax claim), A.H. Robins, Inc. (immunity issue with a fourteen million dollar tax refund claim), Worldcom (fifty-two million dollar tax claim), Enron Corporation, and cases involving various healthcare providers.  She has also tried and appealed state tax cases in the New Jersey Tax Court, the Appellate Division, and the New Jersey Supreme Court for her primary state agency client, the Division of Taxation.

Upon graduation from law school Meg served as law clerk to the Hon. L. Anthony Gibson in the Chancery Division – General Equity Part, New Jersey Superior Court.  She is admitted to practice in all New Jersey and Pennsylvania state courts, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.  Meg participates in the Bankruptcy Inn of Court and the Haneman American Inn of Court as a Master, and is a member of the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, the Financial Literacy Project of the New Jersey Bankruptcy Lawyers Foundation, New Jersey Association of Public Accountants and the Atlantic County Bar Association.  Meg has written articles on bankruptcy issues for several newsletters and has been a speaker at many bankruptcy seminars, including seminars presented by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute (“Bankruptcy Primer for Government Attorneys”), the New Jersey Division of Taxation (“Treatment of Tax Claims in Bankruptcy Cases”) and the National Association of Attorneys General.  Her legal practice concentrates in bankruptcy, tax, and government law.  Meg can be contacted directly at mholland@subranni.com

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