Steven K. Mignogna

Steven K. Mignogna serves as both Co-Chair of Archer’s Estates and Trusts Department and Chair of the firm’s Estate and Trust Litigation Group. Steve specializes in commercial litigation, including litigation involving probate matters, estates, trusts, gifts, fiduciaries, guardianships, and real estate, handling cases in the state and federal courts, at both the trial and appellate levels. Representing both institutions and individuals, Steve’s clients include banks, corporate fiduciaries, investment companies, educational and charitable institutions, and real estate firms, as well as beneficiaries of estates and trusts, executors, trustees, guardians, incapacitated persons, surviving spouses, and persons having an interest in real estate.

Steve serves on the Advisory Committee of the Heckerling Institute. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), where he is the ACTEC State Chair for New Jersey. Steve is the Vice Chair, and in 2021 will be the Chair, of ACTEC’s Fiduciary Litigation Committee. Steve is active in ACTEC in several other areas, which include the Professional Responsibility Committee, Program Committee, Joint Task Force of ACTEC and the National College of Probate Judges, and Advisory Committee to ACTEC’s Mid-Atlantic Fellows Institute.

Active in the American Bar Association (ABA), Steve has held leadership roles in the ABA’s Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section, including: Chair of the Litigation, Ethics and Malpractice Group, as well as Chair of the Group’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and Probate and Fiduciary Litigation Committee; Section Liaison to the ABA Dispute Resolution Advisory Committee; and several administrative Committees in the Section.

Steve is a national lecturer and author. He has lectured and published for the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, the Heckerling Institute, the National College of Probate Judges, the New Jersey Bar Association, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education Group, the American Bar Association, the Duke University Estate Planning Conference, the Delaware Trust Conference, and Estate Planning Councils around the country. He authors the treatise, Estate and Trust Litigation, and is the editor and contributing author of The New Jersey Estate Planning Manual and New Jersey Probate Procedures Manual. In 2017, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education honored him with the Distinguished Service Award. Steve is also a Senior Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a national honorary society for trial lawyers.

Steve has been with Archer & Greiner since 1988, when he joined the firm as a law clerk. He remains active in various charitable and community organizations, including the Philly Pops, Alicia Rose Victorious Foundation, the Loyola Executive Council and the Barbelin Society of St. Joseph’s University, the Chevaliers du Tastevin, and the Knights of Columbus. In 2020, Steve was recognized by the Camden County Bar Association as the Professional Lawyer of the Year, through the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law. In 2017, Steve received the Excalibur Award from the Bishop Eustace Preparatory School Alumni Association, recognizing his lifetime achievement in civic, religious, humanitarian, and professional endeavors.