Thomas Daniel McCloskey

Partner

Tom’s practice involves a broad range of complex commercial litigation as well as business and real estate matters, with an emphasis on:

• arbitrations and alternate dispute resolution
• building/construction
• COAH approvals and exclusionary zoning litigation
• commercial and residential real estate development
• corporate and business disputes
• chancery practice
• disaster recovery and rebuilding/consultation services
• insurance coverage litigation
• land use matters
• mortgage and land financing
• planning
• planned real estate and condominium development
• trials (both jury and non-jury) and appeals in state and federal courts
• zoning

Beyond Fox Rothschild

Tom is a past member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. He has served as a trustee for the Southern New Jersey Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and on its President’s Advisory Council. Tom is also co-founder and former Executive Producer/Co-Race Director of the New Jersey Shore Marathon and formerly served as an active member of the Board of Trustees for the United Way of Hunterdon County.

In addition, Tom serves as President of Readington Township Junior Baseball League, Inc. (previously serving a 2-year term as the Executive Vice President of League Operations).  He is also a Certified Youth Baseball Coach under the Babe Ruth League/Cal Ripken Youth Coaching Certification Program, and is an active travel baseball and basketball manager/coach in his hometown sports programs.

Tom is a Certified Spinning Instructor and serves as a Fitness Instructor/Indoor Cycling at the Hunterdon County YMCA (Deer Path Branch).

Professional Accomplishments

Tom’s professional accomplishments include:

• Included in a list of Top-Rated Lawyers in Land Use and Zoning by Martindale-Hubbell (2013)
• Included in a list of "New Jersey's Top Rated Lawyers" by Inside Jersey Magazine and the Newark Star-Ledger for his practices in Buisness and Commercial Law and Zoning, Planning and Land Use (August 2012)
• numerous published decisions to his credit from the appellate courts of New Jersey
• serving as lead counsel and special litigation counsel to major New Jersey and national builder/developers
• serving as consultant, lead counsel, and special litigation counsel to several out-of-state builder/developers in the prosecution, defense, and successful settlement of defective fire-retardant treated (FRT) plywood roof sheathing claims, both statewide and nationwide

Honors and Awards

• Martindale-Hubbell "AV" rated

• Recipient of the 2001 Walter T. Wittman Award for Legal Writing from the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys for article entitled, "Public Bidding Alert: Beware of the Trip-Wires in New Jersey's New PWCR Act," published in the New Jersey Municipal Law Review, Vol. 24, Number 2, June 2001