Get to know the members of the Women Trial Lawyers Caucus.

Elise graduated from Brooklyn Law School and CUNY’s Zicklin School of business with a joint JD/MBA in 2010 and spent the first 8 years of her career as a certified financial planner at a large investment firm. In 2018, she switched careers back to law and opened her own practice in November of 2023. She specializes in personal injury, wrongful termination and discrimination, and breach of contract claims including large construction consumer fraud disputes. She also handles real estate transactions, and serves her business clients for their various business needs from formation to capitalization and everything beyond. She resides in Wayne with her husband, two young children, and their dog, a Pomeranian named Remington.

Q. What year did you join NJAJ?
A.  I joined in 2024 

Q. Why did you join NJAJ?
A. I joined NJAJ because as a solo I am often looking for support, advice, and friendship – and it has been invaluable to me in the short year that I have been a member.

Q. Why did you become involved in the WTLC?
A. I became involved with the WTLC because there is nothing like being involved with a group of supportive women on the same quest for greatness!

Q. Why did you become a lawyer?
A. I became a lawyer because I was obsessed with John Grisham as a kid, and my favorite movies (not just legal movies, favorite movies in general) were A Time to Kill and The Client, I used to watch them over and over again.

Q. Who is your favorite fictional legal character?
A. My favorite legal character has been and always will be, the infamous Reggie Love! I will never forget the scene when she marched in and put Tommy Lee Jones’s character in his place. I always wanted to be just like her. Those movies, novels, and characters inspired me to seek justice, no matter how small the client is, and to have faith in our legal system, even if it is not always perfect. I am very proud to be living that dream in my current practice, and hopefully to be able to share it with my son and daughter one day. 

Fav Quote: “It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, then everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.” Jimmy Dugan, A League of Their Own