Edward H. Herman is a  partner of Hill Wallack LLPand a member of the firm's Management Committee. He is a member of the Litigation Division and  partner-in-charge of the firm's Workers' Compensation Practice Group, representing major self-insured corporations, insurance companies, and clients of third-party administrators in the defense of workers' compensation claims, as well as defense of tort liability and environmental litigation. He is also partner-in-charge of the Automotive Dealers Business & Liability Practice Group.

Mr. Herman has been practicing law for over 40 years, concentrating primarily in Workers' Compensation Law, Tort Liability and representation of many automobile dealers throughout New Jersey. He is a recognized authority throughout New Jersey on the law and practice of workers' compensation matters. Among his clients are pharmaceutical, transportation, car dealers, fast food, hotel, department stores, school boards and manufacturing companies.

A frequent speaker on and author of related issues concerning workers' compensation, Mr. Herman regularly writes a quarterly update describing new developments in this area for his many clients

Mr. Herman is presently a member of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Defense Association, having served as its President in 1995-96. He is past-chair of the NJDA Workers' Compensation Section. Mr. herman has served as a member of the Governor's Special Advisory Committee on Workers' Compensation. He is a member of the Workers' Compensation Association of New Jersey, the Defense Research Institute, and the American Trial Lawyers' Association. He is group leader of the James H. Coleman  Workers' Compensation Inn of Court and is a frequent guest lecturer throughout New Jersey.

He has presided as Municipal Court Judge in Spotswood since 1987, Highland Park since 2001 and Plainsboro and Cranbury Municipal Courts since 2004. He has also been appointed by the New Jersey Chief Justice as arraignments/first appearance Judge at the Middlesex County Jail. He also served as Judge in Helmetta from 1999 through 2004.

Mr. Herman was educated at Albright College (B.A.) and Rutgers University School of Law (J.D.). He began his legal career as law clerk to the Hon. Samuel V. Convery, J.S.C., and the Hon. Dubois Thompson, J.S.C., of the New Jersey Superior Court, and then served as associate with Cohen, Hoagland, Cohen & Keefe, in New Brunswick. From 1972-92, Mr. Herman was a managing partner in the East Windsor firm of Newman and Herman, which merged with Hill Wallack in April 1992.

Mr. Herman is an active member of numerous community activities and professional organizations, including the American Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Mercer and Middlesex County Bar Associations, the New Jersey Self Insurers' Association and the New Jersey Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Herman is admitted to practice before the New Jersey Supreme Court (1967), the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1967), and the U.S. Supreme Court (1977).