Mark Tabakin has joined Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC alongside a team that includes (clockwise, from top left): Wendy Rubinstein Quiroga, Sean M. Pena, Joseph F. Ranieri, Jessica Cunha Nicholas R. Wall and Deanna M. Digori.
By Joshua Burd
A seasoned legal team led by Mark Tabakin has joined Scarinci Hollenbeck LLC, bolstering the Little Falls-based firm across several key practice areas.
Tabakin, a partner focused on labor, employment, regulatory and public sector matters, comes to the post with more than three decades of experience counseling private companies, family-run businesses and public entities throughout New Jersey. He arrives at the firm alongside fellow partners Wendy Rubinstein Quiroga and Sean M. Pena as well as Joseph F. Ranieri, Deanna M. Digori, Nicholas R. Wall and Jessica Cunha.
Scarinci said the team significantly strengthens its labor and employment, litigation, land use, and environmental practices for private and public entities across New Jersey.
“Mark Tabakin is one of the most respected attorneys in New Jersey, full stop,” said Donald Scarinci, Scarinci Hollenbeck’s managing partner. “He has led a firm. He has counseled the businesses, school boards, municipalities and authorities that hold this state together. And he understands what those clients need because he has carried that same responsibility himself. Bringing Mark and his team into Scarinci Hollenbeck is a defining moment in our vision of a statewide practice rooted in trusted, business-minded counsel.”
According to a news release, Tabakin advises employers on the full range of labor and employment matters, defending complex litigation in state and federal courts and counseling clients through high-stakes regulatory and governance issues. He has served as general counsel, special counsel, education counsel, labor counsel and chief negotiator for public entities across the state, guiding them through governance, employment and collective bargaining matters.
Tabakin is also a seasoned litigator with extensive experience before federal and state administrative agencies, including the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Labor Relations Board and the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission, Department of Education and School Ethics Commission, the news release said.
“Donald Scarinci and I share a vision for what a statewide practice should look like, one that serves private businesses and public entities with the same depth across New Jersey,” Tabakin said. “That vision, and the platform Scarinci Hollenbeck has built to deliver it, is what drew me here. I leave a firm I respect deeply, and I bring with me a team I have trusted for years, to help build what comes next.”
Quiroga, meantime, will focus on public law, affordable housing, land use, environmental matters, while Pena will practice in the areas of commercial and civil litigation and public entity defense. Ranieri will serve as counsel in the redevelopment, tax appeals and public housing groups, while Digori is a senior associate on the firm’s labor and employment and education law teams.
Wall and Cunha have both joined Scarinci as associates. Wall focuses on municipal litigation and land use, while Cunha serves clients in education, labor and employment.
The team’s arrival builds on what the firm described as a period of significant momentum for its practice, adding to its standing as a full-service business law firm serving the institutions and enterprises that shape the state. Earlier this year, Scarinci added four new attorneys across its business law, bankruptcy, litigation and real estate teams, while it has also welcomed Dorian J. Smith as a senior associate in the labor and employment and public law groups in Little Falls.
Smith joins the firm from former Gov. Phil Murphy’s office, where he served as senior counsel in the Authorities Unit from May 2022 through January 2026. The practice, which has additional offices in Red Bank and New York City, has also launched its 2026 Summer Associate Program with two law students joining for the summer.
