The team handling your case.

Mr. Simon is the firm's Managing Partner and the architect of its approach: serious preparation, plain answers, and a practice built around the people it serves. His path to the law was not a straight line, and the firm is better for it.

In his younger years, he chased the sun out to San Diego, California, with a stint in Germany that turned into a grand tour of Europe, because the scenic route has always suited him. He began in uniform, first as a police officer and then at NJ Transit, New Jersey's largest public transportation system. That public service gave him a working knowledge of how government power actually operates, and it left him a fierce, lasting advocate for First, Second, and Fourth Amendment rights.

His legal career began in the risk-management group of a New Jersey insurance brokerage, where he learned to read exposure the way carriers do. From there he moved to Wall Street as an attorney and Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at the second-largest brokerage in America, working on some of the largest corporate purchases and sales in the world. Few lawyers have seen both ends of that spectrum, street-level public service and boardroom-scale transactions, and it shows in how he sizes up a case: what it is really worth, what it will really cost, and what the other side is really prepared to do.

He founded Simon Law Group in 2008, building its first decade on real estate and criminal defense, including numerous high-profile matters. Today he leads the firm's estate planning practice, through which he has personally overseen more than 1,500 plans for New Jersey families. Those clients range from young parents writing a first will to multi-generational families coordinating trusts, property, and legacy, and his work spans the firm's real estate and personal injury matters as well. He is admitted in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and the District of Columbia, and before the federal district courts, the federal circuit courts, and the United States Supreme Court.

John Kelleher, Esq. brings more than 25 years of practical legal experience to Simon Law Group, with a career shaped by family law, civil practice, mediation, and public-service training across the New Jersey court system.

Admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1988, Mr. Kelleher developed a broad view of litigation and negotiation through internships in the New Jersey Superior Court, Family and Civil Law Divisions; clerkships with the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office and the Hon. Alexander J. Menza, J.S.C.; and intensive mediation training through the Institute for Dispute Resolution. He also holds a master's degree in psychology, giving him a practical understanding of the human dynamics that often drive matrimonial and family disputes.

Before retiring from active practice, Mr. Kelleher focused on matrimonial matters, including divorce, separation, child support, parenting time, and related family-law issues. That combination of courtroom experience, mediation training, and psychological insight helped him evaluate cases from several perspectives and develop strategies aimed at practical, durable resolutions.

Mr. Kelleher is an alumnus of Rutgers Law School.

For more than thirty-five years, Mr. Thyne has worked in one of the profession's most demanding specialties: representing clients in disputes with their own lawyers. Legal malpractice is a case within a case. You must first prove what the underlying matter should have been worth, then prove precisely where the first attorney fell below the standard, all against opposing counsel who are, by definition, lawyers defending lawyers.

His practice spans legal malpractice, attorney fee disputes, commercial litigation, and appeals. He has won precedential victories in the New Jersey Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, results that changed the law for the next client, not just the one in the room.

A graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School and of Tulane University (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), he brings a litigator's judgment and an appellate lawyer's precision to cases that turn on what another attorney should have done differently. His work reflects a simple conviction: the profession is strongest when it is willing to hold itself accountable.

Away from litigation, he is a classic-rock fan who loves the road, whether in his dual-motor Tesla or on his Polaris Slingshot.