Michael S. Karpoff is a partner of Hill Wallack LLP  and is a member of the firm's Community Association Law Practice Group. He is certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a civil trial attorney and concentrates his practice in the areas of community association law, administrative law, real estate, zoning and planning, and commercial law.

Previously, as a New Jersey Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Karpoff represented professional licensing and regulatory boards and other state agencies before entering private practice in 1984. He also served as the attorney for the Highland Park Zoning Board of Adjustment from 1987 until 1996.

Mr. Karpoff is a member of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) and CAI's College of Community Association Lawyers. He is a director of the New Jersey Chapter of CAI and a member of the national organization’s Amicus Curiae Advisory Group. He also belongs to the American Association for Justice, the American Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the Middlesex County Bar Association. In 2000 and 2001, he chaired the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Common Interest Ownership Committee. He was a member of the Highland Park Rent Leveling Board for nine years and held the position of chairman from 1994 through 1996. He serves as a coach and judge in the New Jersey State Bar Foundation’s annual Vincent J. Appruzzese High School Mock Trial Competition.

He is a regular contributor of articles for Community Trends, the magazine of the NJ Chapter of CAI, and was named author of the year in 1999. He is a lecturer for CAI and the NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE); and author of various CAI and NJICLE course and seminar materials. He also has taught at Seton Hall Law School and served as a member of the Editorial Board and the Peer Review Panel of the Journal of Community Association Law.

A graduate of Rutgers College, Mr. Karpoff received a Master’s Degree in Public Relations from Boston University, and earned his Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers Law School - Newark. He is admitted to practice law in New Jersey (1980), Pennsylvania (1992), and New York (1989) and also before the United States Supreme Court (1987), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1988), and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (1980).