Partner Jose D. Roman Pursues Career in Public Service and Announcement of Newly Named Firm Powell, Kugelman & Postell

Aisha Postell • December 16, 2020




 

Partner Jose D. Roman, dedicated to providing legal services to low-income and underserved communities, is leaving Powell & Roman to focus those efforts full time at Central Jersey Legal Services, Inc. Jose has inspired our entire firm over his seventeen years at Powell & Roman with his selfless pro bono work, having received a commendation in 2017 from the Supreme Court of New Jersey for those efforts. With Jose as our inspiration, the attorneys at the newly named firm of Powell, Kugelman & Postell, will continue to dedicate time for pro bono work and will continue their efforts in providing quality legal services to all clients. Joseph M. Powell will remain the managing partner of the firm.

We are also excited to announce William R. Kugelman and Aisha Postell as named partners to the firm. Mr. Kugelman will continue to lead the firms commercial transaction and litigation practice, handling a diverse practice that includes transactional law, commercial and construction litigation. Mr. Kugelman is also a seasoned trial attorney who has handled commercial and corporate litigation matters for over thirty years. His vast experience allows him to provide a complete package of legal services to our corporate clients.

We easily identified Aisha Postell as on the partner track from the start of her legal career at the firm in 2014. Ms. Postell is a tenacious litigator whose hard work and tireless preparation enables her to achieve outstanding results for her clients. Ms. Postells two secondments working abroad with Certain Underwriters at Lloyds, London has given her invaluable insight into the practical day to day claims operations of the London market and its interaction with the various participants in United States surplus lines insurance.

Powell, Kugelman & Postell will continue to provide insurance litigation and consulting services in New Jersey and New York for its various domestic and international insurer clients. Our unique understanding of both admitted and surplus lines insurance markets allows us to provide unmatched litigation and consulting services to the various segments of the insurance industry including insurance brokers and agents, underwriters, carriers, third-party administrators and adjusters.

The firm will begin practicing as Powell, Kugelman & Postell, LLC beginning January 1, 2021.