The Hill Wallack LLP Land Use Litigation Group pursues and defends lawsuits arising from zoning-related disputes and the denial of land use permits. Our trial attorneys are prominent throughout the country for their leadership in pioneering new legal theories in the field of land use law. Our litigation has included challenges to zoning affecting a client’s property; suits to reverse the approval or denial of a development application by a planning board, zoning board or other governmental agency; exclusionary zoning ("Mount Laurel") litigation; and a variety of other disputes that result from the planning and zoning processes.

Our significant strides in exclusionary zoning litigation have been noted by both national and state publications, bar associations, and trade organizations. Our practice includes representation of clients’ interests before the Council on Affordable Housing, which is responsible for processing much of the exclusionary zoning litigation in New Jersey, and we have also been active in litigating financial assessments imposed against developers and landowners for a variety of governmental purposes.

We recognize that litigation should be avoided whenever possible, but when such a course is deemed necessary, our attorneys will pursue legal relief resourcefully and aggressively.