2025 NJ Premises Liability

Dennis A. Drazin is president of Drazin and Warshaw, P.C., a full-service firm specializing in personal injury, medical malpractice, and commercial law. The firm has offices in four locations in Monmouth and Ocean Counties.

A graduate of Ohio State University (B.A. 1972) and Dickinson School of Law (J.D. 1975), Mr. Drazin has been a member of the New Jersey Bar since 1975 and the New York Bar since 1981. He is also admitted to practice in the Federal courts in New Jersey and New York. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Drazin served as law secretary to the Honorable Clarkson S. Fisher, Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Mr. Drazin is certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, and is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the New Jersey Association for Justice, as well as the Monmouth County, State, and American Bar Associations. He lectures frequently for all of those organizations and regularly conducts a trial advocacy seminar at Harvard Law School.

Gerald H. Baker graduated from Cornell University (B.A. 1964) and Yale Law School (J.D. 1967). After law school, he served in the United States Air Force Reserves and clerked for the Honorable Robert Mathews, New Jersey Superior Court, Chancery Division, Hudson County. He practiced law in Hoboken with his father, Nathan Baker, a prominent maritime attorney, for 15 years. He was the managing partner of Baker, Pedersen & Robbins in Hoboken for 25 years and joined the law firm of Javerbaum, Wurgaft, Hicks, Kahn, Wikstrom & Sinins in Springfield as counsel in 2011.

Mr. Baker is an experienced personal injury litigator who has been certified as a Civil Trial Lawyer by the New Jersey Supreme Court. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New Jersey, the State of New York, the United States District Court, the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.

He specializes in automobile, premises, aviation, railroad, construction, products, and medical malpractice cases. He has litigated many personal injury cases before juries and has argued many appeals, either as counsel to the plaintiff or amicus curiae, before the New Jersey Appellate Division and the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Mr. Baker is a frequent lecturer for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the New Jersey Association for Justice. He presents a biannual seminar on Automobile Insurance and Premises Liability for ICLE. He is the author of the annual Automobile Insurance Update for the New Jersey Law Journal.

Mr. Baker is active in the legal community. He is co-sponsor of the Nathan Baker Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School; the sponsor of the Nathan Baker Trial Competition at Rutgers Law School; and the sponsor of the Gerald Baker Trial Advocacy Program at Rutgers Law School.