Advocacy, Ethics and the NJSBA
Date: Nov 4, 2024 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $0.00
Non-Member Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Ethics
Keynote
Moderator
- Diana C. Manning, Esq.
- Bressler Amery & Ross, PC, Florham ParkCertified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, is a Principal of Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. in the firm’s Florham Park, New Jersey, office. She concentrates her practice in complex commercial litigation and appellate advocacy, and has represented clients in those matters for more than 25 years.
Ms. Manning is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Southern District of New York, the Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeals, the United States Bankruptcy Court and the United States Supreme Court. Past President of the Morris County Bar Association and Foundation, and Trial Attorneys of New Jersey (TANJ), she has served on TANJ’s Amicus Committee and is Secretary of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Ms. Manning has also been appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court as Chair of the District XA Ethics Committee and has been Vice Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Amicus Committee. Because of her depth of experience in the area of legal malpractice, she was also appointed to the NJSBA Blue Ribbon Panel Committee in Professional Malpractice.
Ms. Manning authored the “State of New Jersey” chapter of The Law of Lawyers’ Liability: Fifty-State Survey of Legal Malpractice (ABA/First Chair Press, 2012), which gives an overview of the laws governing attorney wrongdoing in each state, written by lawyers who practice in that state. She is a frequent lecturer for ICLE on legal malpractice and professional responsibility topics and the recipient of several honors.
Ms. Manning received her B.A. from Rutgers College and her J.D. from Rutgers School of Law-Newark.
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Presenters
- Sharon A. Balsamo, Esq.
- Assistant Executive Director and General Counsel, New Jersey State Bar Association, Milltown
- Michael G. Donahue, Esq.
- Stark & Stark, Hamilton
- Bonnie C. Frost, Esq.
- Chair, New JerseySBA Ethics Diversionary Program
Einhorn Barbarito Frost & Botwinick PC, Denville - Norberto A. Garcia, Esq.
- Certified By the Supreme Court of New Jersey As a Civil Trial Attorney
Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari, Chatham - Craig J. Hubert, Esq.
- Szaferman Lakind Blumstein & Blader PC, Lawrenceville
- Thomas J. Manzo, Esq.
- Treasurer, New Jersey State Bar Foundation
Szaferman Lakind Blumstein & Blader PC, Lawrenceville
NJ CLE: | NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.5 hours of total CLE credit, including 1.5 in Ethics (Full Credits Available: NJ Ethics: 1.5). |
NY CLE (t&nt): | NY Ethics Non-Transitional: 1.5 |
PA CLE: | PA Ethics Credit: 1.0
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program. |
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