CLINTON A. POFF

Areas of Practice:

  • Banking and Commercial Finance
  • Estate Planning/Estate Administration
  • Business and Commercial Law
  • Commercial Real Estate

Education:

  • J.D. Rutgers School of Law
  • B.S. Roanoke College, Magna cum laude – Major: history

Bar Admission:

  • New Jersey
  • District of Columbia

Court Admission:

  • United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

Affiliations:

  • American Bar Association
  • New Jersey State Bar Association
  • District of Columbia Bar Association

Civic Activities:

  • Served on Boards of various non-profit organizations including Visiting Nurses of Northern Bergen County
  • Supporter - Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey
  • Supporter – NY Aquarium
  • Sponsor - Boys & Girls Club of Paterson & Passaic
  • Sponsor - Lakeland Scholarship Charities

1600 Route 208 North
Hawthorne, NJ 07506
Telephone: 973-636-9770 x103
Facsimile: 973-636-9777
EMAIL:
cpoff@poffweber.com

Clinton A. Poff focuses his practice on clients’ personal and business legal matters. For over 30 years, he has provided legal advice and assisted clients in matters regarding estate planning and administration, personal and commercial real estate, and commercial lending.

Mr. Poff was born in Virginia and moved to New Jersey in the mid 1970s. He began his law career on the director’s staff at the NJ Division of Motor Vehicles. He went to work with Walter Weber, Jr. at Weber Muth & Weber in 1981, where he became a partner in the firm. Throughout the years, he has worked with Walter Weber Jr. to evolve and grow the firm to where it is today.

Mr. Poff has represented a wide variety of business entities and individuals in all aspects of business and finance, including mergers and acquisitions, contracts, member and shareholder agreements, leasing and real estate acquisition.

He has extensive business experience in all types of commercial lending, including construction loans, asset-based lending, multi-state transactions, tax-exempt loans and workouts. He has represented both lenders and borrowers. He has served as counsel for major national and regional financial institutions including Lakeland Bank, Sterling National Bank, TD Bank, Sun National Bank and Community Bank of Bergen County, N.J. By recent estimates, Mr. Poff has closed more than 4000 personal, business and financial transactions with an aggregate value in excess of $1.5 billion.

Mr. Poff’s clients have further benefited from his vast knowledge of estate planning and administration. His experience in estate planning includes life insurance trusts, survivorship insurance, generation skipping transfer tax planning, transfers to minors and irrevocable trusts. His experience in estate administration includes probate and other proceedings involving both New Jersey and out-of-state ancillary probate proceedings. He has participated in litigation involving will contests and contests over the disposition of the assets of a decedent’s estate. He also advises clients with respect to the critical issues of health care proxies, powers of attorney and living advance health care directives (living wills).