
Education
- Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2003)
- Princeton University (B.A., cum laude, 2000)
Admissions
- New Jersey
- New York
- Won an acquittal at trial on first-degree public corruption charges for the founder of a New Jersey special needs school, State v. Eisemann, 18-04-00059
- Serving as the state-designated trustee for Eldorado Resorts, Inc.’s $1.85 billion acquisition of Tropicana Entertainment Inc. in Atlantic City
- Serving as counsel for one of the defendants charged in the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) prosecution brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn, United States v. Webb, et al., 15-252
- Representing one of the highest-ranking officials at a state public university in a criminal investigation where the official began as the target, but was later proven to be the victim
- Serving as counsel for one of the defendants charged in a $50 million healthcare fraud case brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey, United States v. Hickman, et al., 19-191
- Serving as counsel for a leading New York and New Jersey automobile dealership in a False Claims Act (FCA) investigation by the New York Attorney General
- Serving as counsel for a leading debt relief company in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) class action in federal court
- Serving as counsel for a not-for-profit in a lawsuit alleging a New Jersey hospital breached an agreement with the not-for-profit to build a hotel valued at over $100 million on the hospital’s campus
- Serving as counsel for several physicians in investigations being conducted by the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners
- Successfully served as counsel for a multinational artificial turf company in investigations conducted by federal and state regulators and the New Jersey Legislature
- Successfully served as counsel for several witnesses in the “Bridgegate” investigation and prosecution brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey, United States v. Baroni, et al., 15-193
- Successfully served as counsel for one of the country’s leading hotel companies in a 47-state, multi-state attorney general investigation into allegations of consumer fraud
- Won a complete victory for the son of a former high-ranking official in the New York City mayor’s office wrongly indicted for manslaughter, State v. Noerdlinger, 16-492
- Obtained a gubernatorial pardon for a police officer, which allowed the officer to return to his department and resume his career
- Served as counsel for one of the country’s largest utility companies in a construction defect case
- Secured a probationary sentence for a physician in one of the largest federal Anti-Kickback prosecutions in the country, United States v. Hamdan, et al., 17-208
- Successfully represented a former state assemblyman in an investigation by the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation
- Successfully served as counsel for a leading jewelry designer in a False Claims Act investigation by the Department of Justice
- Successfully recovered several million dollars in assets wrongly seized by the federal government from a Texas company, United States v. One 2014 Black Porsche Cayman Coupe, et al., 15cv5814
- Conducted an internal investigation for a multinational, geophysical services company into allegations that employees were colluding with certain vendors to pay inflated contract prices as a means to defraud the company
- Conducted an internal investigation for a New Jersey Township into alleged violations of the Township’s Anti-Harassment and Non-Discrimination Policy
December 13, 2021
CSG Law cannabis client secures New Jersey dispensary license
August 20, 2021
CSG's Vartan Named to The InsiderNJ 100: Cannabis Power List
April 7, 2021
NJICLE: 3rd Annual Cannabis Law Symposium
February 18, 2021
Law360: NJ's Pot Stalemate Puts Legalization On The Edge Of Collapse
January 25, 2021
ROI-NJ: How do you serve those in the cannabis industry?
October 2, 2019
NJ Cannabis Insider Live
September 30, 2019
Capital considerations gleaned after another productive RFA process
September 19, 2019
One-on-One with Lightshade's Rohan Marley
April 25, 2019
CSG Achieves High Rankings in 2019 Chambers USA
March 19, 2018
Cannabis 101: What's to come in New Jersey
January 28, 2019
Three predictions for NJ's cannabis industry in 2019
November 21, 2018
One-on-One with Cresco Labs' Jason Erkes
September 10, 2018
NJBIZ: Where is NJ with legal marijuana, and will NY steal our thunder?
May 15, 2018
Daytop New Jersey Opioid Epidemic Summit
March 19, 2018
CSG Launches Cannabis Law Group
November 16, 2017
NJAJ Criminal Law - Meadowlands Seminar 2017
September 7, 2017
Lawline Webinar Ethics and the Criminal Law Attorney
September 6, 2017
CSG Bolsters White Collar Practice, Welcomes Lee Vartan as Member
- The National Law Journal, Cannabis Law Trailblazer (2020)
- New Jersey Super Lawyers, Criminal Defense: White Collar (2020-2022)
- Chambers USA, New Jersey – Litigation: White-Collar Criminal Defense & Government Investigations (2018-2022) and Nationwide: Eastern US – Cannabis Law (2021-2022)
- Daytop New Jersey, Vice-Chair, Board of Trustees