Before attending law school, Mr. Leanza was employed by New Jersey Bell Telephone Company as an engineer and construction supervisor. Prior to launching his own firm in 1984, he worked for a major Bergen County law firm. Mr. Leanza previously served as counsel for the North Hudson Sewerage Authority since 1988 and as counsel for the West New York Housing Authority Counsel since 1996. He served as Municipal Judge in Guttenberg from 1990 to 2013 and as Town Attorney in Secaucus from 2000 to 2010. Mr. Leanza graduated from Newark College of Engineering, summa cum laude, with distinction in humanities in 1972 and graduated from Rutgers Law School, Newark, with honors, in 1978. Mr. Leanza also earned a Masters Degree in management science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1979 and an advanced law degree in taxation from New York University in 1984.