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Meryl A. G. Gonchar is a partner of the firm in its Real Estate Department and chair of its Land Use Practice Group. She concentrates her practice in land use and zoning and land use litigation. She has appeared before planning and zoning boards throughout the state and administrative agencies on behalf of developer clients in connection with all types of residential, commercial and industrial projects. She also represents clients in land use, condemnation and related litigation before the Superior Court of New Jersey. In addition to land use work, Ms. Gonchar has represented lenders and borrowers in all types of real estate based financing. Her diversified experience enables her to assist clients throughout the various stages of a project’s development, from acquisition through approvals and permitting, financing, leasing or sales, providing extensive knowledge and continuity throughout the often long and complicated process of land development. Ms. Gonchar is listed in Chambers USA - America’s Leading Business Lawyers 2005-2006 in the Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use practice area and The Best Lawyers in America in the Real Estate category. She has spoken and written on a variety of land use related topics and has served as a lecturer for the New Jersey Association of Realtors - Graduate Realtor Institute, the Atlantic Builders Conference, the Institute for Continuing Legal Education and before various financial institutions and professional organizations. She has been a panelist and moderator for the annual Land Use Update presented by the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Institute for Continuing Legal Education. Ms. Gonchar is the co-author of Zoning and Land Use Litigation, Chapter 12 in Matthew Bender & Co., Inc., New Jersey Land Use and Environmental Law, 1993. She is a past chair of the Board of Directors of the Land Use Law Section and a member of the Legislative Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association. She also is a member of the Section of Urban, State and Local Government Law of the American Bar Association. Ms. Gonchar served for a number of years as a member of the Board of Directors of Industrial/Commercial Real Estate Women - New Jersey (ICREW-NJ) in the positions of President, Director of Programming and delegate to CREW Network, the national organization. Ms. Gonchar is a member of the Executive Board of The Jewish Federation of Greater Middlesex County. She is also a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. Ms. Gonchar is a 1981 graduate of Rutgers School of Law in Newark. She joined the firm as an associate in March 1984 and became a partner on January 1, 1990. She is admitted to practice in New Jersey (1981). | 