Akshar U. Patel

Akshar Patel concentrates his practice in commercial litigation, representing individuals, businesses, shareholders, and executives in complex state and federal court matters. He has experience counselling clients through all phases of the litigation process.

Akshar’s work encompasses contractual disputes related to the enforcement of operating agreements, restrictive covenants, and other contracts, as well as oppressed shareholder cases, partnership disputes and consumer fraud claims. He has experience handling construction contract claims, including the prosecution and defense of liens under New Jersey’s Construction Lien Law. He also counsels clients in seeking and opposing matters involving emergent relief, and has been involved in matters brought before the New Jersey Appellate Division and the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Akshar drafts and argues motions for summary judgment and other dispositive motions, and has experience in drafting pleadings, settlement agreements, discovery requests and responses, taking and defending depositions, and in assisting with internal investigations. He has also represented clients in alternative dispute resolution forums, including mediation and arbitration proceedings.

While attending law school, Akshar served as a legal intern in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, where his work included assisting in a RICO case against a Newark street gang, an international drug transportation case, a healthcare fraud matter, and a mortgage fraud case. He was the Executive Editor of the Seton Hall Legislative Journal and volunteered with the Seton Hall Law Center for Social Justice’s Equal Justice Clinic and the Seton Hall Mock Trial Board. As an undergraduate, Akshar received the Presidential Volunteer Service Award and interned at the White House in the Office of Public Engagement

Prior to joining Norris McLaughlin, Akshar was an intern at the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, where he drafted trial motions, performed legal research, and contributed to trial preparation. He also interned in the Office of Public Engagement at the White House, where he assisted in drafting and preparing research and public policy memorandums. While in law school, Akshar was a member of the Seton Hall Law Mock Trial Board and the Seton Hall Center for Social Justice’s Equal Justice Clinic.

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