JOHN P. BELARDO specializes in representation of governmental entities. He presently serves as the Township Attorney for Bedminster and Bernards Townships in Somerset County, and as the Planning Board attorney for Raritan Township in Hunterdon County and for the Borough of Bound Brook. He is the Attorney for the Bernard Township Sewage Authority. Mr. Belardo previously served as the Township attorney for Warren and Franklin Townships in Somerset County. Mr. Belardo serves as Associate Counsel to the New Jersey League of Municipalities. Mr. Belardo holds a Diplomate in Municipal Law from the Rutgers University Center for Governmental Services.

Mr. Belardo also regularly represents private residential and commercial developers before planning boards and zoning boards of adjustment. He provides counseling advice to real estate clients on transactional, permitting and the approval process before all governmental agencies.

Mr. Belardo is a 1982 graduate of Lehigh University where he received the Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude, in Finance and Economics, and was elected a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma business honor society. He obtained his Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall Law School, cum laude, in 1985, where he was awarded the Seton Hall Alumni Plaque for having obtained the highest academic achievement of his graduating class in Constitutional Law. Mr. Belardo later attended New York University and was bestowed with a LL.M, Masters of Law in Taxation in 1988.

Mr. Belardo is admitted to the Bars of the States of New Jersey and New York, the United States District Courts of New Jersey and the Southern District of New York, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Tax Court and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the New Jersey, New York and Somerset County Bar Associations. Mr. Belardo has been recognized as a New Jersey Super Lawyer in the field of municipal law. Besides his American citizenship, Mr. Belardo is a citizen of the Republic of Ireland and the European Union.