Practice Areas: Real Estate; Zoning, Planning and Land Use; Commercial Litigation; Commercial Transactions Law School:  Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1968 College: University of Michigan, B.A., with distinction, 1965 Email: medelson@hlgslaw.com

Michael Edelson's areas of practice include commercial real estate, municipal land use law, corporate and employment law, and chancery, appellate and commercial litigation He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi, and served as law clerk to Judge Morris Pashman in Superior Court of New Jersey in1968-69.

Mr. Edelson has served as a consultant on six-member juries for the New Jersey Criminal Law Revision Commission, as Assistant Municipal Attorney and Municipal Attorney of the Township of Maplewood, New Jersey, and currently serves as Planning Board and Zoning Board of Adjustment Attorney for the Township of Maplewood. He has been a member of the Supreme Court of New Jersey District Fee Arbitration Committee for Essex County, and served as Vice-Chair, District VA and Chair, District VA.

Mr. Edelson is a member of the Bars of New Jersey and the federal trial and appellate courts in New Jersey and is admitted to the bar of, and has argued before, the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Edelson has been selected for inclusion in New Jersey Super Lawyers for 2010 and 2011.