Simon Law Group handles family law, estate planning, probate, personal injury, civil litigation, business, real estate, bankruptcy, foreclosure, workers' compensation, SSDI, and appellate matters in Essex County.
Essex County practice scope
Essex County matters are not all the same just because they share a county name. The useful local question is usually venue, court process, office access, records, travel, local property or employment patterns, and which Simon Law Group practice group should evaluate the issue first.
This page is the general Essex County service hub. The county-specific divorce page remains available for Family Part details, but Simon Law Group's local work is broader than divorce. We handle family law, estate planning, probate, personal injury, civil litigation, business litigation, legal malpractice, real estate, bankruptcy, foreclosure defense, workers' compensation, SSDI, appeals, criminal defense, DUI/DWI, expungement matters in this county.
County seat: Newark. Listed county court location: Essex County Wynona Lipman Family Courthouse, Newark. Nearby Simon Law Group location: Morristown office.
County facts
- County: Essex County, New Jersey
- Formed: 1683
- County seat: Newark
- Listed county court location: Essex County Wynona Lipman Family Courthouse, Newark
- Population: 896,379 (2025 Census estimate; source checked August 27, 2026)
- Nearby office: Morristown office
- Criminal/DUI: Accepted in this county in the practice areas the firm handles.
Known for
- Newark business and transit center
- arts and restaurant districts
- suburban commuter towns
- Seton Hall and university communities
Official starting points
How to use this county hub
Divorce, custody, support, or domestic violence
Use the Essex County divorce page for Family Part venue, local process, and county-specific family-law concerns.
Wills, trusts, probate, Medicaid, or tax planning
Start with estate planning or probate, then choose the trust, Surrogate, Medicaid/LTSS, or tax topic that fits your question.
Accident, premises, PIP, insurance, or damages
Start with personal injury, the car accident/PIP page, or the damages guide depending on whether the immediate issue is coverage, proof, or valuation.
Business, real estate, malpractice, foreclosure, or benefits
Use the practice-area hub to find civil litigation, business disputes, legal malpractice, real estate, bankruptcy, foreclosure, workers' compensation, SSDI, or appeals.
Essex County intake guide
Who this guide helps
Health care and information-sector employees, licensed professionals, practice principals, software workers, and people responsible for digital business or medical records.
What to sort out
Incentive compensation, practice interests, software assets, and digital records can be spread across employers, entities, platforms, and custodians. Information-sector employment grew 74.6% over the report’s comparison period, and those records typically live in cloud dashboards, version histories, and audit exports rather than filing cabinets.
Court and agency routing
This Essex County material is a routing aid for intake and does not assign a court division. The appropriate Family, Civil, Criminal, probate, or agency path depends on the matter, and the Essex Vicinage directory supplies official court information.
Official court source: NJ Courts Essex Vicinage.
Three intake decisions
- Clarify whether the person is an employee, clinician, practice owner, technology contractor, business principal, patient, customer, or fiduciary and who controls the relevant systems.
- Separate pay and incentive plans, ownership records, licenses, software agreements, access logs, exports, medical records, and preservation notices by custodian.
- Note whether the immediate question appears connected to Family Part, Civil Part, Criminal Part, probate or Surrogate processing, an agency, or another route to be confirmed during intake.
Official local evidence: The NJDOL Essex County report identifies a 74.6% increase in information-sector employment over the report comparison period ending in 2024. View the 2026 NJDOL county report using 2024 data.Source checked July 12, 2026.
Prepare for intake: Bring compensation and ownership records, relevant agreements, system or account exports, preservation notices, and any court or agency papers to an intake evaluation so record custody and routing can be assessed. Screenshots and sign-in logs go stale quickly, so capture them before accounts close.
Services in Essex County
Family law and divorce
County-specific Family Part issues, divorce, custody, support, alimony, mediation, domestic violence, and post-judgment work in Essex County.
Estate planning, probate, and elder law
Planning and administration work connected to Essex County families, homes, Surrogate filings, fiduciary duties, and long-term-care concerns.
Personal injury and insurance
Injury and insurance matters involving local roads, premises, PIP benefits, medical proof, damages, and post-accident documentation.
Civil, business, and real estate
Disputes involving contracts, businesses, professional duties, real estate, title issues, appeals, and damages.
Financial and benefits matters
Financial distress, foreclosure, workplace injury, and disability-benefit matters where court deadlines, agency rules, and records matter.
Criminal defense and DUI/DWI
Criminal-defense and DUI/DWI work is accepted in Essex County in the practice areas the firm handles, along with the firm's civil, family, estate, injury, business, real estate, benefits, and appellate practices.
Local issue patterns
High-volume urban and suburban court calendars, professional practices, transit corridors, and dense commercial activity often shape Essex County cases. These local facts are not a substitute for legal analysis, but they help identify which documents, valuations, medical records, account statements, court filings, or agency records should be gathered first.
Communities served
Simon Law Group handles Essex County matters involving clients in Newark, Montclair, Livingston, Millburn, West Orange, Bloomfield, Belleville, Nutley, South Orange, Maplewood, and nearby communities where venue or client needs connect the matter to this county.
Essex County questions we are asked
Where are Essex County divorce and family law cases heard?
Essex County divorce, custody, and support matters are heard in the Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family Part at the Essex County Wynona Lipman Family Courthouse, 350 University Avenue in Newark. Essex County is a single-county vicinage and its Superior Court work is spread across several Newark buildings, so the building named on the court notice is the one that governs. Which county a divorce is filed in is set by court rule, not by where either spouse lives today, so a recent move can change the answer. Confirm venue with a lawyer before filing.
Which courthouses serve Essex County?
The Essex Vicinage sits in Newark across several buildings, including the Essex County Historic Courthouse at 470 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., the Essex County Veterans Courthouse at 50 West Market Street, the Essex County Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Justice Building at 495 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., and the Essex County Wynona Lipman Family Courthouse at 350 University Avenue. Which building hears a matter depends on the division, so the court notice and the NJ Courts vicinage directory at njcourts.gov are the reliable guides for a specific case.
Where is a will probated in Essex County?
Probate for an Essex County estate opens at the Essex County Surrogate's Office at 495 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, Newark, NJ 07102. Probate of wills, estate administration (appointment of executors and administrators), and applications for letters of guardianship of a minor are filed with the County Surrogate's Office; an adult guardianship case is filed there and heard in Superior Court. Which county's Surrogate opens the estate is set by where the decedent was domiciled at death, and where domicile is unclear that is a question for counsel. That office keeps its own hours, published on the NJ Courts County Surrogates directory at njcourts.gov.
What does Simon Law Group handle in Essex County?
The Morristown office serves Essex County across the practice areas the firm handles, including family law, estate planning, probate, personal injury, civil and business litigation, real estate, bankruptcy, foreclosure defense, workers' compensation, Social Security Disability, criminal defense and DUI matters, and appeals. Newark spreads its Superior Court work over several named buildings, so an Essex County intake usually starts by identifying which division a matter belongs to before anything else.
What helps an Essex County file stay organized between court dates?
Court offices ask for organized financial disclosures, focused certifications, and proposals a court can actually enter, and an Essex County file that arrives in that shape gives everyone less to argue about. In professional and business disputes it also means preserving digital records early, since employment here increasingly runs through cloud systems whose access logs and exports go stale on their own schedules.
Useful resources for Essex County matters
Resources library
Guides, newsletters, eBooks, and public legal resources.
Damages explained
How tort, contract, punitive, treble, insurance, and proof issues affect case value.
Probate, trusts, and administration
When New Jersey probate is manageable and when trust planning helps.
Estate and inheritance taxes
New Jersey inheritance tax and federal estate/gift/GST planning anchors.
Post-accident evidence playbook
Evidence steps after an accident, including records, photos, symptoms, and insurance communications.
DUI / DWI defense
Criminal/DUI work is accepted in Essex County in the practice areas the firm handles.
Expungement
Eligibility, Clean Slate, petitions, objections, and court handling.
Discuss an Essex County matter
Start with a consultation request. We keep everything you send confidential. Formal attorney-client privilege begins once an engagement is in place, so keep this first message general and save the full details for your consultation. If you schedule a phone consultation, call the firm at the appointment time.