John P. Lacey began his legal career as the Law Clerk to the Honorable Charles L. Breant, former Chief Judge of the Southern District of New York. Thereafter, Mr. Lacey received his trial and appellate training from the prestigious U.S. Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute, in Washington, DC. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney for New Jersey, handling a large variety of successful high profile criminal prosecutions, asset forfeitures, as well as numerous successful appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. During that time, Mr. Lacey served under now Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr., of the Supreme Court of the United States and Secretary Michael Chertoff of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. 

Mr. Lacey, who joined Connell Foley LLP in 1991, concentrates his practice in federal litigation, complex commercial matters, employment law, white-collar criminal defense and internal and external corporate and government investigations.  He has appeared as a Legal Analyst for MSNBC News and Court TV. In 2002, the Essex County Bar Association awarded Mr. Lacey its Trial Attorney of the Year Award. Mr. Lacey is the former counsel for the New Jersey Republican State Committee.