Largest Black-Owned and Operated Law Firm SSW Law Expands

SSW Regulation Group (SSW), a Black and woman-owned regulation agency primarily based in Newark, New Jersey, has added two new workplaces in New York and Pennsylvania and has expanded to kind a nationwide agency, merging to now embrace a crew of practically 40 staff. The regulation agency now gives intensive experience in Actual Property/Financial Improvement, Training, Litigation, and Authorities Affairs.

“SSW believes the authorized illustration of city communities throughout the nation ought to instantly replicate their id and values,” stated Calvin Souder, Co-founder and Managing Member of the regulation agency. With this enlargement, we’re constructing an establishment that’s uniquely positioned to serve the all-encompassing wants of our neighbors in cities nationwide.”

In 2015, Calvin Souder, Esq., Khalifah Shabazz, Esq, and Kyana Woolridge, Esq. fashioned SSW, which elevated their capability to answer aggressive contracts. The formation of their regulation agency supplied the required profound expertise to deal with the difficult wants of city New Jersey. With this enlargement, SSW Regulation Group will now have workplaces in Newark, Manhattan, and Philadelphia to raised tackle the wants of their purchasers throughout the nation.

“The institution of SSW has at all times been about extra than simply practising regulation; it’s been about making a legacy of inclusion and excellence within the authorized subject. We’re excited to embark on this new chapter and reinforce our dedication to creating a distinction by devoted and culturally competent authorized illustration,” stated Kyana Woolridge, Esq. SSW Co-founder. 

“With our geographical development, we’re strengthening our capability to advocate for instructional and financial empowerment on a broader scale,” stated Khalifa Shabazz, Esq. SSW Co-founder.

As a nationwide agency, SSW will deepen its focus throughout areas they’ve efficiently represented:

• Actual Property: Founding Member Calvin Souder has efficiently represented large-scale mixed-use, municipal, industrial, and industrial developments, together with advising HBCU Presidents on increasing the usage of public-private partnerships.

• Authorities Affairs: Member James Gee and Member Jay Redd signify the New Jersey City Mayors Affiliation in addition to quite a few pharmaceutical and biotech firms all through the nation.

• Training/Nonprofit: Founding member Khalifah Shabazz offers counsel to nearly all of city faculty districts in New Jersey, together with the Patterson Board of Training and the event of Hinchliffe Stadium.

• Litigation: Member Philip Hamilton and Member Lance Clarke have efficiently negotiated a settlement on behalf of the Property of Eric Garner. 

• Well being/Hashish: Member Jorge Vasquez secured preferential rights for previously incarcerated people to open hashish dispensaries.

“SSW attorneys exemplify that there is no such thing as a restrict to the heights that may be reached when expertise meets alternatives,” stated Backyard State Bar Affiliation President James Lewis, Esq. “For therefore many people, seeing is believing, and SSW opens its doorways to Backyard State Bar Affiliation members, together with future attorneys from various backgrounds, to see that there’s room for them on the highest ranges of the career.”

The American Bar Affiliation has discovered that of the 40,800 attorneys within the state of New Jersey, solely 4.5% or 1,836 are Black. Of that quantity, over 25% are solo practitioners, with a median of lower than one Black legal professional at every of the ten,482 regulation companies within the state.

In response to the SBA, over 8 out of 10 small companies haven’t any staff. Out of the 33.2 million small companies, 27.1 million are run by a single proprietor and haven’t any staff. Simply 16% of all small companies within the U.S. have 1-19 staff.

This information was first reported by blackbusiness.com