Todd W. Heck - a Vineland, United States Business Transactions Lawyer

Vineland Business Transactions Lawyer

Updated: 03/10/2026

Areas of Practice

Business Transactions
Commercial Litigation
Estate Planning & Administration
Taxation
Real Estate
Creditors' Transactions and Litigation
Legal Government Law

Attorney Information

Overview

I have been a partner at the firm for 17+ years. I have a broad-based commercial and estate law practice, with an emphasis on business dispute resolution (corporations, creditors' rights, commercial, tax, and estate litigation), transaction planning (contracts, loan documentation, tax and estate planning), and local government law. In that last capacity, I have served as solicitor or assistant solicitor to numerous local public agencies, including Cumberland County College, the Cumberland County Improvement Authority, the Cumberland County Agricultural Development Board, Deerfield Township, the Buena Borough Municipal Utilities Authority, and the Maurice River Township Zoning Board. I have also served as local bond counsel to the Washington Township (Gloucester County) Municipal Utilities. Currently, I also serve as special tax counsel to the City of Vineland.

I've served as a business law instructor at the Cumberland County College. I've also been active over the course of my 27 years in the County in pro bono work for local non-profit organizations and public/private partnerships, including the Landis Theater Foundation, (on whose Board of Directors I also serve), the U.S. Wild and Scenic Rivers System Task Force, Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River, and the Cumberland County Ad Hoc Committee on Hazardous Waste. In these latter capacities I received distinguished service recognition from the Cumberland County Board of chosen Freeholders and the U.S. Congress.

I earned a post-graduate law degree, a Masters in Taxation, from New York University in 1983. My primary law degree was earned at the Villanova University School of Law in 1979. I also attained a B.S. in Management from Lehigh University in 1976 after three years of study. I am admitted to practice before numerous State and Federal Courts, and am a member of the bar in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. My appellate practice has included appearances before the New Jersey Supreme Court and the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

My professional associations include the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Cumberland County Bar Association (including six years of service on the County Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee).

Education

Legal Education
- Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1979
  J.D.
- New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1983
  LL.M.
  Major: Taxation
Non Legal Education
- Lehigh University, 1976
  B.S.
  Honors: With High Honors
  Major: Management

Current Employment Position(s)

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Partner
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Past Positions

Basile & Testa, PA, Associate, 1990 - 1996
Rothenberg Hyett Eisen & Lang, P.A., Associate, 1983 - 1990

Pro Bono Activities

Landis Theater Foundation
U.S. Wild and Scenic Rivers System Task Force
Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River
Cumberland County Ad Hoc Committee on Hazardous Waste

Representative Clients

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Sun National Bank
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Cumberland County College
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Ogura Industrial Corporation
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City of Vineland
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Representative Cases

Cumberland County Improvement Authority v. GSP Recycling Inc.
- Citation: 818 A.2d 431
- Court: App. Div. N.J. Superior Court
- Year: 2003
First Union National Bank v. Penn Salem Marina Inc.
- Citation: 190 N.J. 342
- Court: NJ Supreme Court
- Year: 2007
RTC Mortgage Trust - 1995 S/NI v. Avena
- Citation: 178 F.3d 1280
- Court: U.S. 3rd Cir. Crt of Appeals
- Year: 1999

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania, 1979
New Jersey, 1980
New York, 1990
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
U.S. Tax Court
U.S. Court of Federal Claims, 1987

Other Affiliations

New Jersey State Bar Association
Cumberland County Bar Association

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Vineland, NJ

424 West Landis Avenue
Vineland, NJ 08360

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Phone: 856-899-5327

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