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About Our Practice
 The law firm of
Schablik & Knapp, P.A. was founded in 1981
as Noel E. Schablik, P.A. and has been delivering high quality legal services ever since.
Our credo is to provide legal services of the highest quality
possible at cost efficient pricing. Each of our attorneys is
highly skilled in the areas of practice which he/she undertakes
and we commit ourselves to your aggressive and professional
representation.
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 Our practice includes various types of personal injury and
business litigation and counseling, including automobile,
product liability, carbon monoxide poisoning; medical
malpractice; legal malpractice; discrimination or harassment in
the workplace and wrongful discharge litigation; contract
negotiation and litigation; business disputes between or among
shareholders, partners or limited liability members; automobile
franchise counseling and litigation; franchise/licensee
counseling and litigation; probate proceedings; matrimonial
counseling and litigation; attorney ethics proceedings on behalf
of attorneys and grievants and appeals in the state and federal
courts.
The firm of Schablik & Knapp, P.A. has an active trial and
appellate practice throughout northern New Jersey. Our
experienced attorneys can help you:
- Determine if you or a loved one has a potential personal
injury or economic loss claim arising from an automobile
accident, a product failure or the conduct of a medical
professional, and represent you in pursuing your remedies
- Determine whether you have a potential claim against an
attorney or attorneys who represented you or who gave you
advise on which you relied, and represent you in pursuing your
remedies.
- Determine whether you have a potential claim arising form
harassment of or discrimination against you in the workplace,
or whether you were wrongfully discharged from employment, and
represent you in pursuing your remedies.
- Determine whether your corporate co-shareholders or
business partners are abusing the trust you placed in them,
and represent you in pursuing a full accounting and damages.
- Determine whether a contract to which you or your business
entity are a party has been breached and, if so, represent you
in pursuing your remedies.
- Determine whether there was impropriety in connection with
the execution of the last will of a loved one and represent
you in pursuing your remedies.
- Determine whether the executor of an estate, or the
trustee of a trust of which you are a beneficiary, has acted
inappropriately and represent you in pursuing your remedies.
- Counsel you in connection with the amicable dissolution of
your marriage or domestic partnership and represent you if
negotiations fail.
- Represent you in connection with an ethics grievance filed
against an attorney or, if you are an attorney, defend you
against an ethics grievance.
- Determine the merits of a proposed appeal of a judgment
entered against you, or defend on appeal a judgment which you
obtained against another or others.
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Noel E. Schablik, Esq.
Noel E. Schablik, Esq., a graduate of the University of
Massachusetts in Amherst and Seton Hall Law School (cum laude ‘73).
After serving a one-year judicial clerkship with now retired Appellate
Division Judge John F. Crane, he entered private practice and is the
founding member of Schablik & Knapp, P.A.
He has been appointed to and served on District Ethics Committees
in two counties; is an appointed member to the Morris County Chancery
Practice Committee and is recognized by New Jersey Monthly Magazine as
one of New Jersey’s top 100 lawyers in the area of business
litigation. His experience includes a vast number of trials,
arbitration hearings, ethics hearings and appeals. Mr. Schablik
frequently is called upon to serve as an expert witness in legal
malpractice matters.
Although he has vast experience in all areas of the firm’s
practice, Mr. Schablik currently focuses on professional malpractice,
professional ethics, business litigation, toxic tort litigation,
probate litigation and appeals. He has more than 30 years’ experience
as a trial and appellate attorney and provides a huge resource to all
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Joseph P. Kreoll, Esq.
Joseph P. Kreoll, Esq., is an associate with Schablik & Knapp, P.A.
He received his undergraduate degree from Valparaiso University where
he graduated with honors. He graduated from Valparaiso University
School of Law in 1989. While at Valparaiso University School of Law,
he served as Articles Editor for the Valparaiso University Law Review.
Invitation to the Law Review is limited to students in the top15 % of
their class who write a legal article deemed publishable by the Law
Review.
After graduating law school, Mr. Kreoll clerked for the Honorable
William R. Albrecht of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Warren
County. Following his clerkship, Mr. Kreoll began his legal career
working for Noel E. Schablik, P.A., the predecessor firm to Schablik &
Knapp, P.A. He has also worked for several other firms,
including a law firm recognized statewide for its work in employment
and civil rights matters.
Mr. Kreoll has gained extensive experience in all phases of
litigation in both state and federal courts. His experience includes
both bench and jury trials, arbitration and mediation hearings,
appeals, motions and depositions. He has experience in many areas of
litigation including personal injury, employment, business,
matrimonial, civil rights, and professional malpractice.
His current practice focuses on the primary practice areas of the
firm, which include, professional malpractice, business litigation,
personal injury, matrimonial/dissolution and appeals.
Mr. Kreoll is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York, the
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United
States Supreme Court. He is a member of the New Jersey State, New York
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John. T. Knapp, Esq.
John T. Knapp, Esq. is a partner at the firm of Schablik & Knapp,
P.A. He received his undergraduate degree from Montclair State
University and his law degree from Seton Hall University School of
Law, where he was the recipient of a faculty scholarship.
Mr. Knapp became employed by the firm of Noel E. Schablik, P.A.,
(as it was then known) as
a law clerk while attending law school. Following graduation he
became employed as a fulltime associate attorney. He is admitted to
the bars of the State of New Jersey and the United States District
Court for the District of New Jersey. Mr. Knapp is experienced in all
phases of litigation , including bench and jury trials, arbitration
and mediation hearings, appeals, motions, depositions and settlement
negotiations. He has handled matters involving professional
negligence, personal injury, business disputes, civil rights
violations, matrimonial and grandparent visitation rights.
Mr. Knapp has served as a mediator for the New Jersey Superior
Court, Special Civil Part. He is a member of the Morris County, New
Jersey State and American Bar Associations as well as the Association
of Trial Lawyers of America.
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