What DiFrancesco, Bateman, Kunzman, Davis, Lehrer & Flaum does

DiFrancesco, Bateman, Kunzman, Davis, Lehrer & Flaum, P.C. is a New Jersey-based law firm founded in 1917, organized as a professional corporation under NJ law and headquartered in Warren, Somerset County. The firm operates 36 attorneys across three offices (Warren, Sparta, Brick) with stated coverage of all 21 New Jersey counties, providing legal services to municipalities, public entities, school districts, businesses, and individuals. Five core practice areas — Litigation; Labor, Employment and School Law; Business Law & Transactions; Land Use & Real Estate; and Governmental Law — are delivered as an integrated platform rather than as standalone products.

Revenue is generated through professional services fees, including hourly billing, fixed fees for specific matters, and contingency arrangements where applicable; no pricing is publicly disclosed. GTM motion is sales-led and relationship-driven, with client acquisition occurring through referrals, longstanding municipal appointments, and brand reputation in the NJ legal market. Named clients include NJM Insurance, AIG, Chubb, ACE, Bank of America, Maersk, Veolia Water, the Diocese of Metuchen, and multiple boroughs and school districts, supported by partners with prior government service including a former NJ Governor and a sitting State Senator.

The firm uses standard legal practice management and office systems with no proprietary technology, no AI/ML tooling, no disclosed API, and no external funding; it operates as an independent multi-partner PC. Recent operating activity has centered on associate hiring (three additions in 2023–2025) and a planned leadership transition for the South Plainfield borough attorney role in late 2025. Revenue figures are not publicly disclosed, and there is no indication of private equity backing, institutional investors, or pending M&A.

Name

DiFrancesco, Bateman, Kunzman, Davis, Lehrer & Flaum

Legal name

DiFrancesco, Bateman, Kunzman, Davis, Lehrer & Flaum, P.C.

Website

https://newjerseylaw.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

1917

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

DiFrancesco Bateman is a 100-plus-year-old New Jersey law firm with 36 attorneys in three offices, providing litigation, municipal, land use, school, and business law services to municipalities, public entities, businesses, and individuals statewide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Services

NAICS

Offices of Lawyers (541110)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111)

akta.pro primary industry

Corporate & Commercial Law (BPAHAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Employment & Labor Law (BPAHAAAD), Environmental & Energy Law (BPAHAAAO), Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) & Securities Law (BPAHAAAI)

Keywords

• Litigation services
• Municipal law
• Land use law
• School employment law
• Business transactions

Headquarters

HQ city

Warren

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Legal Services: Full-service law firm providing legal services to businesses, public entities, and individuals. Services include litigation, business law, land use, governmental law, school employment law, and real estate transactions. Revenue is generated through legal fees including hourly rates, fixed fees for specific matters, and contingency arrangements where applicable.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

DiFrancesco, Bateman, Kunzman, Davis, Lehrer & Flaum is a full-service New Jersey law firm providing legal services across five core practice areas: Litigation, Labor/Employment and School Law, Business Law & Transactions, Land Use & Real Estate, and Governmental Law. The firm serves businesses, public entities, school districts, and individuals throughout New Jersey with offices and attorneys located across all 21 counties of the state.

Product overview

DiFrancesco, Bateman, Kunzman, Davis, Lehrer & Flaum is a multi-practice New Jersey law firm providing comprehensive legal services. The firm operates as a unified platform of complementary practice areas rather than distinct standalone products. The five core practice areas—Litigation Practice, Labor/Employment and School Law, Business Law & Transactions, Land Use & Real Estate, and Governmental Law—work together to serve clients across business, public entities, and individual legal needs throughout New Jersey.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Litigation Practice

Quantifiable outcome

• Breast cancer fundraiser raised over $5,000 for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Saiber LLC: Florham Park-based NJ mid-size firm with overlapping business, litigation, employment, and real estate practices; similar profile of serving NJ-based middle-market and public-sector clients in the same geographic footprint.
• Brache Eichler LLC: Roseland-based New Jersey law firm of comparable size with a similar municipal, regulatory, business, and litigation mix. Directly competes with DiFrancesco Bateman for municipal, real estate, and mid-market corporate work across New Jersey.
• Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC: Lyndhurst-based NJ firm of broadly comparable size with overlapping business, litigation, real estate, and municipal-adjacent practices; competes for similar North-Central New Jersey mid-market clients.
• Genova Burns LLC: Newark-based NJ firm with strong public-sector, real estate, and litigation practices, including K-12/school law overlap. Direct competitor for New Jersey municipal counsel and education-law engagements.
• Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer PA: Woodbridge-based NJ firm with a comparable mix of commercial litigation, real estate, land use, and public-sector work; longstanding competitor in the Middlesex/Somerset County business and municipal market.
• Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC: Florham Park-based full-service NJ firm with overlapping practice areas including commercial litigation, real estate, employment and business transactions. Comparable mid-market full-service platform serving NJ-based businesses and public entities.
• Lindabury McCormick Estabrook & Cooper: Westfield-based New Jersey firm with similar mid-market positioning in business, employment, litigation, and real estate. Both firms compete for Somerset/Union/Middlesex County-based middle-market and public-sector work.
• Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP: Iselin-based NJ full-service firm with broadly comparable real estate, business, litigation, and family law practices. Serves many of the same Middlesex and Monmouth County business and municipality clients as DiFrancesco Bateman.
• McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP: Morristown-based NJ firm of comparable scale with similar commercial litigation, insurance defense, municipal, and employment practices; commonly competes for the same insurance panel work and public-entity engagements.

Broad incumbents

• Fox Rothschild LLP: Much larger national firm with deep New Jersey presence (Princeton, Atlantic City) practicing across litigation, real estate, employment, and government services. Competes with DiFrancesco Bateman for mid-market and public-sector matters while offering national reach they cannot.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/newjerseylaw

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles25 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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