July 27, 2007 - Lester E. Taylor III has joined Florio Perrucci Steinhardt & Fader, L.L.C., as an associate in the firm's Rochelle Park, N.J., office. Mr. Taylor will focus on the practice area of litigation defense, labor and employment, municipal, school board, and construction and public contracting law.

Mr. Taylor received a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Montclair State University and a Juris Doctorate from Howard University School of Law. While in law school, he served as a legislative associate for Dominion, a Virginia-based electric utility, in its Washington, D.C. office.

Following graduation from law school, Mr. Taylor served as a law clerk to the Honorable Zinora M. Mitchell-Rankin, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He then worked as an associate engaged in all phases of litigation with Hunt, Hamlin & Ridley in Newark, N.J., before joining Florio Perrucci Steinhardt & Fader, L.L.C.

Mr. Taylor is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Maryland.

Florio Perrucci Steinhardt & Fader, L.L.C. was founded by Governor James J. Florio who has extensive environmental and legislative experience and Michael J. Perrucci who is one of the Mid-Atlantic region's leading litigators. Douglas J. Steinhardt joined the firm as a named partner in August 2005, and Paul T. Fader joined as a named partner in January 2006. The firm has practice specialties in municipal, real estate and land use, labor and employment, environmental, litigation defense, government and regulatory affairs, construction and public contract, banking and commercial lending, and family law. Offices are located in Phillipsburg, Rochelle Park and Woodbury, N.J.; New York, N.Y., and Bethlehem, Pa. For further information on the firm, please visit the website at www.florioperrucci.com.