At the 2023 New Jersey Legal Awards earlier this year, the Law Firm of the Year winner was announced from a slate of three finalists. Pashman Stein Walder Hayden of Hackensack won based on its attorneys achieving recognitions in numerous other categories: Litigation Departments of the Year (as a finalist), New Leaders of the Bar, Mentors and Unsung Heroes.

Pashman Stein was recognized for, among other accomplishments, its victories at the New Jersey Supreme Court in the multimillion-dollar shareholder dispute Sipko v. Koger, as well as in Rivera v. Union County Prosecutor’s Office, a case concerning police internal affairs investigations.