Douglas S. Stanger

Doug S. Stanger has focused his career on representing business entities and their principals in effectuating their goals and meeting their challenges.  His extensive experience in entity development, contracts, real estate, tax, liquidations, and workouts has enabled him to add substantial value to his client’s endeavors. Mr. Stanger prides himself in assisting small developing, and in certain cases, distressed entities.   One of those companies that Doug had worked with for over 10 years recently sold their majority interest for over 150 million.  

Doug has served as past chair of the firm's Bankruptcy, Financial Restructuring and Risk Management Department and is a former member of the firm's Board of Directors. He currently concentrates his practice on corporate, real estate, property tax law, and bankruptcy.  

Mr. Stanger has authored articles about business, real estate, and bankruptcy. He also speaks at conferences and workshops on related topics each year.    

Since the beginning of his career, Doug proudly devotes time to being an active leader in many professional and community organizations. Mr. Stanger was the recipient of the Atlantic County Bar Association’s “Honorable Benjamin A. Rimm Award” for Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year and, in the years following, proudly presented, as Chairman of that Award, this same award to other young lawyers.  Doug was also the recipient of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division “Service to the Community Award.”  

• Effectuating sales in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases
• Representing creditors and debtors in multiple industries
• Completing preferential/fraudulent conveyance actions in substantial and complex matters
• Part of a team of multidisciplinary attorneys in the representation of a provider of Medicare benefit solutions in connection with its recapitalization project with a private equity firm. The complex transaction entailed significant M&A, asset protection, estate and income tax planning.

• Named an Awesome Attorney, Bankruptcy & Creditor-Debtor Rights Law, South Jersey Magazine, 2020
• Named an Awesome Attorney, Business Litigation Law, South Jersey Magazine, 2018 & 2019
• Top Attorney List, SJ Magazine, 2014
• Atlantic County Bar Association’s “Honorable Benjamin A. Rimm Award” for Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year 
• New Jersey State Bar Association – Young Lawyer’s Division, Service to the Community Award 

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• Atlantic County Bar Association 
• New Jersey State Bar Association 
• National Association of Bankruptcy Trustees 
• New Jersey Bankruptcy Trustees Association 
• Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce 
• United States Department of Justice Panel of Bankruptcy, Trustee  
• United States Department of Justice Panel of Bankruptcy of Chapter 11 Subchapter V, Trustee  
• Bankruptcy Court, Mediator 

• South Jersey Legal Services
  • Private Involvement Program Volunteer
• Congregation Beth Judah (Ventnor, NJ)
  • Past president

•   Rodef Shalom (Atlantic City, NJ) 

  • Board Member 

• Jewish Family Services of Atlantic and Cape May Counties 
  • Past president
• Community Justice Institute of Atlantic County, NJ
  • Past president
• Anti-Defamation League - Eastern Pennsylvania/Southern New Jersey/Delaware Region
  • Member of Executive Committee
• Anti-Defamation League - National
  • Board Member