Mr. Kozyra is a graduate of the University of Chicago (B.A. with Honors in The College and in American History 1975) and Rutgers Law School - Newark (J.D. 1978). He is admitted to the bars in New Jersey and New York, the Second, Third, and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal, and the United States Supreme Court, and has handled federal and state litigation at both the trial and appellate levels. Mr. Kozyra has been responsible for legal matters involving the areas of contract, commercial, corporation and partnership, land use planning and development, criminal defense, professional licensing (legal, medical, pharmaceutical and others), attorney ethics, family (divorce, custody and adoption, domestic violence, pre-marital, co-habitation and post-nuptial agreements), insurance, environmental protection, malpractice (legal, accounting and medical), real estate and condominium, federal and state constitutional, employment and tort law. Mr. Kozyra has also served as a privately retained estate administrator, mediator, and arbitrator and as an expert witness in legal malpractice and other cases, as well as a legal consultant and strategist on cases in a wide variety of practice areas.

Mr. Kozyra has been named as a 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 "Super Lawyer" in the Super Lawyers Magazine.** Mr. Kozyra was the recipient of the 2018 Essex County Bar Association Professional Lawyer of the Year Award, cited for his exemplary conduct, competence, diligence, demeanor, and being a positive example for others. Mr. Kozyra was a recipient of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Service to the Bar Award and the Essex County Bar Association's General Practice Achievement Award. Mr. Kozyra was the recipient of the 2018 Nutley Elks Citizen of the Year Award.

Mr. Kozyra is a member of the American Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the Essex County Bar Association (Chairman of the Criminal Law Section, 1988-1989). Mr. Kozyra is Attorney for the Township of Nutley Planning Board, a Mediator for the New Jersey State Chancery and Law Divisions of the Superior Court, Discovery Master, Estate Administrator, Statutory Receiver and Special Fiscal Agent for the New Jersey State Superior Court Chancery Division, Federal Arbitrator, United States District Court of New Jersey, Federal Mediator, United States District Court of New Jersey, Panelist in the Essex County Family and Chancery Early Settlement Programs, Essex County Contract Arbitrator and an Essex County Condemnation Commissioner.

He has been an invited speaker and panelist on a wide variety of legal topics before various professional and lay organizations, including the New Jersey State Bar Association in Sorrento, Italy, “The Parmalat Fraud: When Italy’s Sour Milk Reached New Jersey – What Lessons Were Learned from Europe’s Biggest Fraud?” (October 2025). He is a former trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Legal Services Corporation of New Jersey and former Chairman of the St. Clare Church Finance Committee (2007-2013), President of the Filomena Coppola Memorial Scholarship Fund, Inc., former member of the Township of Nutley Planning Board, and former Chancellor of the Nutley Historical Society. He is a contributor to Forensic Accounting in Matrimonial Divorce, (Co-Author, Litigating and Proving Child Support in High Asset or High Income Cases: What to Do When a Heavy Hitter is at the Plate), R.T. Edwards, Inc. (2005) and a Lecturer, What Corporate Lawyers Need to Know About Reading Financial Statements – Understanding the Most Important Parts of Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements That Impact Corporate Lawyers & Their Clients (ExecSense Corporate Law Webinars) (2009).

Mr. Kozyra is AV Peer Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Reported Cases

 500 Park Ave. Equities, LLC v. Williams, 2024 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2361, 2024 LX 188848 | 2024 WL 4447107 (App. Div.); Ludwig v. OwlPoint, LLC, 2024 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1229, 2024 WL 3022356 (App. Div.); Gallagher v. Adamas Building Services, 2022 WL 4115748; Zois v. Kean University, 2020 WL 54572 (App. Div.); Pierson v. United States Internal Revenue Service, 2018 WL 2422016; Schubert v. Coster, 2015 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2397, 2017 WL 1228856 (App. Div.); Goodman v. Merlino, 2015 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2397, 2014 WL 10537362 (App. Div.); O'Shea v. Accord Enterprises, LLC, 2014 WL 463316; Shanus v. Robert Edward Auctions, LLC, 2012 WL 1044316 (D.N.J. March 28, 2012); State v. Assets and Accounts in Name of Sussman Drugs, 2010 WL 3184997 (N.J. Super. App. Div.); Corin-Bonder v. Bonder, 2009 WL 1617656 (N.J.Super. App. Div.); Thomson v. Toolan; 2007 WL 1287839; State v. DiGabriele, 2006 WL 3511421 (N.J.Super. App. Div.); Dhinsa v. Herrera, 173 Fed.Appx. 630, 2006 WL 897654 (9th Cir. Cal.); In The Matter Of the Suspension or Revocation of the License of Paul J. Caragine, Jr., M.D. to Practice Medicine and Surgery in the State of New Jersey, 2001 WL 34595744 (N.J. Adm.); Goldman v. Estate of Goldman, 97 F.Supp.2d 370 (S.D.N.Y. 2000); Croucher v Worldwide Flight Services, Inc. 111 F.Supp.2nd 501 (D.N.J. 2000); In re Caragine, 63 Fed. R. 51592 (1999); Goldman v. Walder, Sondak & Brogan, P.A.,1998 WL 213789 (S.D.N.Y. 1998); Walder, Sondak, Berkeley & Brogan v. Lipari, 300 N.J. Super. 67 (App. Div. 1997); DaSilva & Asuncion vs. Repinski et al, 18 NJ. J.V.R.A. 9:C2 (1997); Cooper Sportswear v. Hartford Insurance Co., 818 F. Supp. 721 (D.N.J. 1993); Kozyra v. Allen, 973 F2d 1110 (3d Cir. 1992); Rodriguez V. Fu Chen Shine Mach. Works & Co., Ltd., 1991 WL 452280 (N.J.Super. L. Div.); Ritter v. Georgia Gulf Corp., 755 F. Supp. 637 (D.N.J. 1991); Brown v. Roth, 729 F. Supp. 391 (D.N.J. 1990); In re Case, 684 F. Supp. 109 (D.N.J. 1988); Tuscan v. Division of Taxation, 4 N. J. Tax 92 (1982); State v. Peterson, 181 N.J. Super. 261 (App. Div. 1982); In re Toth, 175 N.J. Super. 254 (App. Div. 1980); In re Kaufman, 81 N.J. 300 (1979).

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