Kasuba Named As Law Firm Partner
Plainsboro resident Robert Axel Kasuba has joined the Bisgaier Hoff real estate and land-use law practice as a partner. The firm represents residential and commercial clients.
Kasuba has extensive experience representing property owners and developers in a broad range of real estate, land use, and regulatory matters.
He was named a 2010 Rising Star by New Jersey Super Lawyers and has achieved victories on behalf of numerous clients in trial and appellate courts. In addition to his litigation experience, he is known for shepherding development projects through New Jersey’s regulatory maze.
Kasuba has written numerous articles and is regularly quoted in the media regarding local real estate projects and broader development issues affecting New Jersey. Over the past several years, he has been a regular speaker at seminars regarding development in New Jersey.
“Robert is the perfect fit for Bisgaier Hoff because of his extensive experience in New Jersey land use and affordable housing law,” said Richard Hoff Jr., a founding partner of the firm. “He shares our commitment to serving private developers and landowners, ensuring their rights are protected in a climate of inconsistent and ever-changing statutes, ordinances, rules and regulations.”
Kasuba earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers and his law degree from Boston University School of Law. He and his wife, Asma, have two sons — Deen, 6, who attends Town Center Elementary, and Aydin, 4. Kasuba’s father was a sales engineer, and his mother was a high school English teacher.
He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association; Board of Directors, Land Use Section. Kasuba is also a member of the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties and the New Jersey Builders Association.
Band Trip Abroad
Emily Mae Deamond of West Windsor will perform on the flute with the Marching Royal Dukes of James Madison University in the 25th annual London New Year’s Day Parade on the band’s European tour, December 27 to January 4.
The Marching Royal Dukes join about 24 other bands in the silver anniversary parade, which is expected to draw more than 8,000 performers from throughout the world.
The event, recognized as the second biggest single-day event in London’s calendar — close behind the London Marathon — attracts more than 500,000 spectators, according to parade organizers.
In 1994 the John Philip Sousa Foundation named the band recipients of the Sudler Trophy, known as the Heisman Trophy of college marching bands. The band performed in the inaugural parades of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, as well as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2001 and 2008.
Bank Association President Named
Michael Schutzer, president and CEO of Harmony Bank with headquarters in Jackson, has been named president of the Community Bankers Association of New Jersey. He has been a West Windsor resident for 25 years.
CBANJ, formed in 1994, is made up of chief executive officers and bank presidents of almost 40 community banks in central and northern New Jersey with total assets ranging between $50 million and $9 billion. Schutzer previously served on the executive board of CBANJ as treasurer.
A graduate of Bucknell University, Class of 1979, with a bachelor’s degree in Russian, he earned his M.B.A. in accounting and finance from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1983.
Schutzer has served as the president and CEO of Mariners Bank and the head of institutional real estate lending in the Northeast for PNC Bank. Schutzer joined Harmony Bank at its inception in 2007, obtaining regulatory approvals, raising capital, and coordinating the construction of the banks headquarters. Schutzer is a member of the planning and advisory board of Monmouth University Real Estate Institute, the N.J. Bankers Association, the Independent Community Bankers of America, and the American Bankers Association.
An avid golfer, Schutzer is a licensed N.J.S.I.A.A. basketball referee. He has also coached and directed youth sports. His wife, Wendy, is the director of the Cherry Tree Club, a preschool program for homeless and at-risk children based in West Windsor. They have two college age children.
