Walter T. Wolf

Mr. Wolf has over 45 years of legal experience in South Jersey.  He concentrates in construction, surety, engineering, architecture, commercial, business, real estate and professional malpractice cases.

Mr. Wolf resides in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.  In 1958 he graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.S. degree in Engineering and a Bachelor of Laws.  Mr. Wolf was a senior partner at FARR, WOLF & LYONS in Bellmawr, New Jersey, for twenty-five years before starting his own firm, Wolf Professional Association, in 1989, now Walter T. Wolf, LLC. 

Mr. Wolf was admitted to practice in New Jersey in 1959 and in the District of Columbia in 1960. Several of his articles have been published in condominium and construction publications and he has written a chapter in Wiley Publications’ Trial Strategies and Techniques In Construction Litigation.  Mr. Wolf’s memberships in professional associations include the New Jersey, Camden County and American Bar Associations, the Construction Forum and Litigation Section of the American Bar Association and Mr. Wolf has been an active member in the Community Associations Institute, Fidelity and Surety and Public Contract and Construction Committees of the New Jersey State Bar Association.  He also served on the Board of Directors of the Certified Trial Attorney Section of the New Jersey State Bar. 

EDUCATION: 

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 
Bachelor’s of Science in Engineering 1958 

Notre Dame Law School, Notre Dame, Indiana
Bachelor of Laws 1958 

BAR ADMISSIONS: 

New Jersey State Bar 1959 

District of Columbia Bar 1960 

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey 1961 

United States Supreme Court 1966

Third Circuit Court of Appeals 1977 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (Past & Present): 

American Bar Association 

Committee on Business Torts Litigation 

Committee on Construction Litigation 

Committee on Professional Liability 

Accountants Liability Subcommittee 

Attorneys’ Liability Subcommittee 

Insurance Coverage Subcommittee 

Senior Lawyers Division 

New Jersey State Bar Association 

Committee on Construction & Public Contract Law 

Section of Certified Civil Trial Attorneys 

Executive Committee of the Certified Trial Attorneys Section 

Committee on Construction and Public Contract Law 

Fidelity & Surety Law Committee 

ATLA 

Section of Commercial Litigation 

Section of Insurance 

Section of Professional Negligence 

Supreme Court Appointments 

New Jersey Superior Court Arbitration Program 

New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Model Civil Jury Charges 

Camden County Bar Association Appointments 

Judicial Selection Committee 

Attorney Arbitration Committee 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: 

Attorney with over 45 years’ experience with Southern New Jersey law firms specializing 

in financial, commercial, business, real estate, surety, and construction litigation.  Extensive 

experience in analyzing, planning and litigating complex factual and legal issues, advising 

clients in these matters, developing strategies to resolve disputes, devising support systems 

for this litigation, and managing and supervising attorneys, paralegals, law clerks and staff. 

Areas of Experience: 

• Presented and defended significant architectural/engineering malpractice cases involving both personal injury and economic losses. 
• Lead counsel in litigation of defective construction claims against builders/developers. 
• Lead counsel in lender liability cases. 
• Significant participation in litigation aspects of financial workouts for banks.
• Experienced in commercial contract litigation including trials involving commercial impracticability issues in the context of long term supply contracts and analysis of technical data. 
• Lead counsel in accounting malpractice and legal malpractice cases. 
• Lead counsel in prosecution of civil embezzlement cases. 
• Defense of health care professionals in wrongful termination cases. 
• Successfully represented several attorneys in ethics proceedings at the district, central ethics and Supreme Court levels. 
• Successfully represented professionals before the Engineering, Plumbing, Architectural, Medical, Chiropractic, and Dental Boards. 
• Successfully represented Bonding company insured workouts. 

Litigation Cases: 

• Counsel defending title company against claims made by Republic of Philippines to real estate titled in Marcos family names, but allegedly purchased with government funds. 
• Lead counsel representing developer in Bankruptcy Court in successful arrangement under Chapter XI involving largest single land assemblage in New Jersey (C.F. Seabrook Estate). 
• Successfully defended corporate contractor in criminal bribery indictment related to alleged payments to state highway inspectors who had pleaded guilty. 
• Lead counsel in prosecuting successful civil claim for damages against developer in the defective construction of warehouses. 
• Lead counsel in successful claim for property damage to large commercial farms suffering water damage over a period of years (Russo Farms v. Vineland Board of Education). 
• Lead counsel in successful claim for homeowners arising from the flood of August, 1998 in Atlantic County in recovering full economic losses (Poblete v. Smithville). 

 PUBLICATIONS: 

• CAI NEWS - “Board Members- Know Your Property” January/February 1989 
• Wiley Publications -  “Construction Litigation: Trial Strategies & Techniques” 
• Chapter 11 - Court Trials 1989 
• NJBA Construction & Public Law Contract Committee Newsletter - ”Buy American Act” January 1992 
• Construction Today (GBCA) - “Get Your Interest?” Winter Issue 2002 

 GUEST LECTURER: 

• Philadelphia Chapter of the National Association of Demolition Contractors- ”Demolition Contract Pitfalls” June , 1990 
• New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education - Panelist December, 1991 “New Jersey Construction Law” 
• Rotary International - Haddonfield Chapter - “The Buy American Act” February, 1992 
• Building Contractors Association - Key Biscayne, Florida,  “The Comprehensive Liability Insurance Policy in Construction Disputes” January, 1995 
• New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants Issues - Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting; The Expectation Gap When Accountants Testify as Experts Witness; Ethical and Liability Issues Concerning Expert Witness” Regency Palace, Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, September, 1997 
• Building Contractors Association of South Jersey - 1997 Construction Conference ”Risk Allocation in the Construction Contract Scenario” Hyatt Regency Hotel, Cerromar Beach, Puerto Rico, March , 1997 
• Panelist, Lorman Education Services, “Public Contract Code and Competitive Public Bidding in New Jersey”, Seminar, September 2002 

PUBLISHED OPINIONS: 

STATE OF NEW JERSEY (Borough of Haddon Heights) v. WILLIAM A. STOCKL, JAMES B. RICHARDS and WILLIAM A. HOLZWORTH, 85 N.J. Super . 591, 205 A.2d 478 (Law Div. 1964) 

In the Matter of WILLIAM M. ROSENBLATT, 60 N.J. 505, 291 A.2d 369 (1972) 

DAVID LABREE v. MILLVILLE MANUFACTURING, INC, WAWA INC et al., 195 N.J. Super. 575 , 481 A. 2d 286 (App. Div. 1984) 

RUSSO FARMS, INC et al. v. VINELAND BOARD OF EDUCATION, 280 N.J. Super. 320, 655 A.2d 447 (App. Div. 1995) 

RUSSO FARMS, INC et al v. VINELAND BOARD OF EDUCATION, 144 N.J. 84, 675 A. 2d 1077 (1996) 

POBLETE v. TOWNE OF HISTORIC SMITHVILLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, 355 N.J. Super 55, 809 A. 2d (App. Div.  2002) 

SOCIETY HILL CONDOMINIUM ASS’N, INC., v. SOCIETY HILL ASSOCIATES, 347 N.J. Super. 163, 789 A.2d 138 (App. Div. 2002)

UNPUBLISHED OPINIONS: 

STUBEE, ALBERT adv. BUREAU OF CODE SERVICES (App. Div. Feb. 4, 2004) Docket No. A-3140 -01T1