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25Aug, 2022

Steven K. Warner to be installed as SCBA President

Somerset County Bar Association & Bar Foundation will install Steven K. Warner, Partner at Savo Schalk, as President of the Bar Association on September 21, 2022 at Neshanic Valley Golf Course. Please join us as we congratulate Steve on his installation as president! More information can be found at https://somersetbar.com/

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26Jul, 2022

Savo Schalk Welcomes Steven K. Warner as Partner

Savo Schalk is pleased to welcome Steven K. Warner as a Partner/Shareholder with the firm. Mr. Warner’s practice encompasses all facets of civil litigation in both federal and state court at both the trial and appellate levels, and he specializes in complex commercial and estate and trust litigation.  He also has a state-wide reputation as […]

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27Jun, 2019

$20 Million Victory

On June 25, 2019, after four years of litigation and a trial that spanned eleven trial days from February to May, Essex County Chancery Division Judge Jodi Lee Alper issued a fully favorable verdict in favor of our clients, the Board of Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church in Newark. In this highly contentious and […]

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11Feb, 2019

Partner Michael P. O’Grodnick, Esq. prevails at Trial before the Tax Court

After a multi-year battle with the Township of Franklin (Somerset), Mr. O’Grodnick prevailed after a Trial before the Hon. Michael J. Gilmore, J.T.C. in the Tax Court of New Jersey.  Mr. O’Grodnick represented an owner of a residential house on land that was previously condemned by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Agency.  The […]

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11Feb, 2019

Partner Michael P. O’Grodnick, Esq. named as Municipal Prosecutor for Raritan Township and Hampton Borough Courts

By Resolution dated February 5, 2019, the Raritan Township Committee appointed Michael P. O’Grodnick, Esq. and the Savo Schalk firm as the municipal prosecutor for the Raritan Township and Hampton Borough Joint Municipal Courts.  Mr. O’Grodnick has also previously been appointed as the municipal prosecutor in South Plainfield in Middlesex County.

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11Dec, 2018

Firm Helps Clients Save Their Homes

Thanks to the excellent work of John Bracaglia, we have had good success in mortgage modifications. Recently, we had five clients who each came to us with their properties listed for sheriffs sale. In these instances, John was able to stop the sale and successfully negotiate modifications which lowered the interest rate on their mortgages […]

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5Dec, 2018

Firm Assists More Higher Level Education Students

The firm has recently continued its success in representing higher level education students. With his strong advocacy, Charles Schalk was successful in reinstating a nursing student who was wrongfully dismissed from a local university and she was happily able to resume her academic career. In another remarkable achievement, Mr. Schalk was able to reinstate a […]

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21Feb, 2018

We Are Pleased to Announce Alexander G. Fisher, Esq. Appointed Planning Board of Adjustment Attorney in Springfield

Springfield, NJ – Mauro Savo is pleased to announce that firm attorney Alexander Fisher has been appointed as Planning Board attorney in the Township of Springfield (Union County). Springfield, a municipality of approximately 15,817 in Union County, is one of the main suburban enclaves along New Jersey’s busy Route 78 corridor. Just miles from the […]

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21Feb, 2018

In a Span of One Week, Charles Z. Schalk, Esq. Settles two Law Against Discrimination Claims for $230,000.00

Somerville, NJ, October 10, 2016 – Managing Partner Charles Z. Schalk, Esq., of the law firm of Savo, Schalk, Gillespie, O’Grodnick & Fisher, recently settled two law suits on behalf of wrongfully-terminated workers within the span of one week for an aggregate amount of $230,000. The two separate claims were filed pursuant to New Jersey’s […]

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21Feb, 2018

Fisher Wins Landmark Telecommunications Case

East Brunswick, NJ, August 18, 2016 – Mauro Savo is pleased to announce that firm partner Alexander G. Fisher prevailed in a landmark land use case concerning the construction of commercial cell towers in residential zones. The matter, New York SMSA LTD Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wirless v. Zoning Board of Adjustment of the Township of East […]

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