Atty. Dorit Kressel
Dorit Kressel has over 20 years of experience in public finance. She has served as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel in numerous transactions at the state and local level.
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Dorit Kressel is a business attorney based in Roseland, New Jersey, practicing at Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC. Educated at Fordham University (J.D., 1994). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Public Finance Law (2026), Best Lawyers in America — Additional Areas of Practice: (2026), and Best Lawyers in America — Banking and Finance Law (2026). Serands clients in Roseland, NJ and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- Dorit Kressel has over 20 years of experience in public finance
- She has served as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel in numerous transactions at the state and local level
- Dorit focuses her practice on complex financings for the State of New Jersey and its agencies and authorities, including the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank, the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency, the New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, the New Jersey Transportation Trust Fund Authority, the South Jersey Transportation Authority, the New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority, and others
- Her extensive experience includes advising on transactional and tax aspects of matters involving general obligation bonds, revenue bonds, private activity bonds, complex refunding and restructuring transactions, forward delivery structures, and interest rate hedging transactions
- Dorit has also assisted clients, including the State of New Jersey and the New Jersey Infrastructure Bank, in drafting enabling legislation for new financing initiatives
- Dorit served as a judicial law clerk to Associate Justice Gary S. Stein of the New Jersey Supreme Court
- She has also taught law courses to graduate and undergraduate business students at William Paterson University of New Jersey
- Dorit is a member of the Order of the Coif
- She graduated cum laude from Fordham University School of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Fordham Law Review
- Dorit received her LL.M., in Taxation, from New York University School of Law
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Jurisdictional Context
Why local counsel matters in New Jersey
Practicing law in New Jersey. Legal matters in New Jersey are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantive law. Cases originating in Roseland are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate New Jersey state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in New Jersey brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this andnue, and the substantive law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in New Jersey courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
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