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- David Stein: Chief Financial Officer
Skinder-Strauss LLC is a third-generation, family-owned enterprise providing information and support to the legal community. Skinder-Strauss focuses on litigation support. Services range from Web-based software, mobile products and legal directories to private investigators, process servers, court clerical staff and couriers. Its business units
operate in New York and New Jersey. Clients include law firms from solo practitioners to the Am Law 200 as well as other non-legal industries.
Skinder-Strauss has roots dating back to 1929 as the New Jersey Lawyers Service.
Aaron Skinder and Frieda Pickman graduated law school in New York City in 1929. Instead of practicing law, they decided to create a firm that would provide products and services to the legal community.
They began a courier service in Newark, N.J., running papers between firms and courts. In 1939, they launched a directory of legal community members to facilitate the sending of documents. In addition to starting their firm, they married and started a family.
Their directory became quite popular and began to take on a life of its own. The two attorneys then purchased a statewide attorney directory and legal guide that was first published in 1888 and continues today as the New Jersey Lawyers Diary and Manual.
Over time, Aaron and Frieda, along with their children and grandchildren, created several other directories.
