A Former Judge. A Father-Son Trial Firm. Fifty Years of New Jersey Practice.
Fifty years on trial across North New Jersey.
Avery & Avery, Esqs. is a two-attorney NJ trial partnership based in Ridgefield. Together, Robert W. Avery, Esq. and John S. Avery, Esq. carry a combined fifty-plus years of New Jersey trial practice across Bergen, Hudson, Essex, Passaic, Morris, and Sussex counties — the firm is not Bergen-only, and roughly half of the practice is built on matters from outside Bergen County.
This page introduces both attorneys. For matters in any of our eight practice areas, the partner who picks up your call is the partner who will work your file from intake to disposition.
Robert W. Avery, Esq.
Admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 1976, Robert W. Avery, Esq. is the firm’s senior partner. His career includes service as Borough Prosecutor for the Borough of Ridgefield, Judge of the Ridgefield Municipal Court for fifteen years (1986-2000), Ridgefield Borough Council member and Council President, and twice the Bergen County Republican Association’s nominee for county-wide office (Bergen County Freeholder, 2014; Bergen County Surrogate, 2016).
Robert’s trial record spans every level of NJ practice from Municipal Court through the New Jersey Supreme Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, with a published Hague Convention precedent in Delvoye v. Lee, 329 F.3d 330 (3d Cir. 2003).
His practice includes criminal defense, DWI, traffic, family law, domestic violence, estate planning and probate, landlord-tenant, construction litigation, fraud and recovery, and personal injury. He takes a generalist trial-firm approach because most Bergen County legal matters arrive in clusters — and a single lawyer who can work the cluster is the right shape for our clients.
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John S. Avery, Esq.
Admitted to the New Jersey Bar in 2012, John S. Avery, Esq. leads the firm’s criminal defense and constitutional-rights practice. John’s practice philosophy centers on accountability — he believes that police overreach is more common than it should be, and he provides passionate defenses against unjust criminal and drug prosecutions, against any charge where law enforcement has overstepped legal boundaries, and in any matter requiring a Fourth Amendment challenge under Terry v. Ohio or its NJ progeny.
His docket is heavy on Municipal and Superior Court criminal trial matters: DWI / Alcotest defense, drug possession under N.J.S.A. 2C:35-10, search-and-seizure suppression motions, refusal counseling under State v. Marquez, Pretrial Intervention applications, Conditional Discharge matters, and expungement work. He also handles personal injury, commercial litigation, and matrimonial matters in both Municipal and Superior Court venues.
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Working with Avery & Avery
When you retain Avery & Avery, you retain both attorneys’ bench depth. Robert’s institutional knowledge of Bergen and Hudson court practice informs every matter we handle, including matters John leads day to day. John’s constitutional-trial focus shapes the firm’s approach to every DWI and criminal matter, including matters Robert tries to verdict.
The two-attorney structure is intentional. It means we cap our docket at the matters we can fully work, we never run a “rainmaker delegates to associate” model, and we hold a depth of trial experience disproportionate to the firm’s headcount.
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