2024 NJSBA Virtual Spring Conference

Presenters

Hon. Joseph Ariyan, J.M.C.

Palisades Interstate Court

Hon. Cassandra A. Corbett, P.J.M.C.

Union

Hon. Ashlie Gibbons, J.M.C.

Newark Municipal Court

Hon. Christine M. Heitmann, P.J.M.C.

Middlesex

Hon. Nelson Johnson (Ret.)

Author and Historian

Hon. Stephen L. Petrillo, J.S.C.

Complex Business Litigation Program Judge - Essex County
Superior Court of New Jersey

Dalvin Adebiyi, Esq.

Union County Prosecutor’s Office, Bloomfield

Louis J. Belasco, Jr., P.J.M.C, Esq.

, Wildwood

William S. Bloom, Esq.

Methfessel & Werbel, Edison

Derek M. Freed, Esq.

Ulrichsen Rosen & Freed LLC, Pennington

is the Managing Partner of Ulrichsen Rosen & Freed LLC in Pennington, New Jersey. He concentrates his practice in matrimonial and family law.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey, Mr. Freed is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Section and was a co-author of the Association’s amicus curiae brief to the New Jersey Supreme Court on the matters of Gnall v. Gnall and Bisbing v Bisbing. He is a Matrimonial Early Settlement Panelist in Mercer and Somerset Counties.

The recipient of the New Jersey State Bar Association Distinguished Legislative Service Award in 2023, Mr. Freed serves as an Associate Managing Editor of the New Jersey Family Lawyer and his articles have appeared in the magazine. He has lectured on family law matters for ICLE, the New Jersey State and Mercer County Bar Associations, and the New Jersey Association for Justice.

Mr. Freed received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary and his J.D., with honors, from Rutgers School of Law-Camden.

Tracey Goldstein, Esq.

Goldstein Kelin LLC, Livingston

is a Partner in Feinstein, Raiss, Kelin, Booker & Goldstein LLC in Livingston, New Jersey, where she represents and counsels multi-family apartment owners, property managers and developers in real estate-related litigation. Her areas of concentration include novel and complex landlord/tenant issues, contract and real estate disputes, residential and commercial evictions, rent control and housing discrimination matters, and toxic tort defense (mold and lead paint). She has been involved in several published decisions and also counsels the New Jersey Apartment Association (NJAA) on emerging landlord-tenant issues and key legislation.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, Ms. Goldstein is a member of the New Jersey State, Essex County, Hudson County and Creditor’s Bar Associations. She serves on the Board of Directors of the NJAA, is a member of the Property Owners Association and the New Jersey Affordable Housing Management Association, and has collaborated with the Office of the Governor. She has testified before the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee and has served as a panelist for the Division on Civil Rights.

Ms. Goldstein has lectured for ICLE, Rutgers Law School, the Hudson County Bar Association, NJ Cooperator, NJAA, the Property Owners Association and the New Jersey Affordable Housing Management Association. She is a sought-after media resource and has garnered numerous business and industry honors, and her articles have appeared in New Jersey Lawyer and the NJ Apartment Industry Magazine. In 2021 she was the recipient of ICLE’s Distinguished Service Award for her many years of service to the Institute.

Ms. Goldstein received her B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany and her law degree from Western New England School of Law.

Mollie Hartman Lustig, Esq.

Secretary, Cannabis and Psychedelics Law Special Committee, NJSBA, McLaughlin & Stern, Westfield

is a Partner in McLaughlin & Stern, LLP in Clark, New Jersey, and New York City, and is Chair of the Cannabis Practice Group. She has a comprehensive understanding of the existing laws and regulations governing cannabis cultivation, sale, use and legalization; practices traditional civil law with a focus in labor and employment issues for governmental entities; and represents clients in family law matters.

Ms. Hartman Lustig is admitted to practice in New Jersey and Massachusetts, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the District of Massachusetts. Secretary of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Cannabis Law Special Committee (CLSC), she has been a member of the Committee since 2017, co-chairs the CLSC’s Social Justice and Equity Subcommittee and sits on the Municipal and Land Use Subcommittee. She is an instructor at Rutgers Law School, has lectured for ICLE and is the recipient of several honors.

Ms. Hartman Lustig received her B.A. from the University of Rochester and her J.D. from Suffolk University School of Law, where she served as a Rule 3:03 Certified Student Attorney for the Suffolk University Legal Services and completed a concentration in Civil Litigation. She clerked for the Honorable Claude M. Coleman, J.S.C. and the Honorable Craig R. Harris, J.S.C., Essex County Superior Court, where she served as a Court-Certified Mediator in child custody and parenting cases.
(9/23)

Robert B. Hille, Esq.

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis, Roseland

Certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, is a Partner in Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP in Morristown, New Jersey. He concentrates his practice in insurance and healthcare law and has litigated a number of insurance defense and coverage, healthcare, professional liability defense, fraud and abuse, and regulatory matters. He has also been involved in a number of reported decisions.

Mr. Hille is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Past President of the Bergen County Bar Association, he is Past President of the New Jersey State Bar Association, where he has chaired the Insurance Benefit and Amicus Committees, continues to serve on those committees and is a member of the Malpractice Insurance Committee and the Health and Hospital Law Section. He has been a member of the Health and Tort Law Sections of the American Bar Association as well as the New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Practice Committee.

Mr. Hille has lectured widely on insurance and healthcare law topics. His articles have appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal and other publications, and he is the recipient of several honors.

Mr. Hille received his B.A. from Bucknell University and his J.D. from Seton Hall Law School. He served a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Keven M. O’Halloran.

Stephen Hunter, Esq.

Office of the Public Defender, Trenton

W. Lois Kahagi, Esq.

W.Lois Kahagi Family Law Services, Iselin

Kaitlyn A. Lapi, Esq.

Hagan, Klein & Weisberg, LLC, Cedar Knolls

Cameron Macleod, Esq.

Gibbons P.C., Trenton

Steven G. Mlenak, Esq.

Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis, LLP, Roseland

Mike Mooney

Senior Vice President and Professional Liability Practice Leader
USI Affinity, Newtown Square

Derek W. Orth, Esq.

Inglesino Webster Wicyskala & Taylor, LLC, Parsippany

Kimberly M. Parson, Esq.

Rebar Kelly, Princeton

Michael G. Perez, Esq.

Staff Attorney, Community Health Law Project, Trenton

Joshua H. Reinitz, Esq.

Law Offices of Gina Mendola Longarzo, Chatham

Certified as a Municipal Court Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, is a Partner in Iacullo Martino & Reinitz, LLC in Nutley, New Jersey, where he concentrates his practice in the defense of clients facing criminal or quasi-criminal charges in the municipal and Superior Courts of New Jersey. He has also been a municipal prosecutor and municipal public defender in multiple municipalities in New Jersey.

Admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New Jersey, Mr. Reinitz is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Municipal Court Practice Section, was elected its Legislative Coordinator and is a member of the NJSBA’s Standing Committee on Legislation. He was selected to serve in the inaugural class of Fellows in the NJSBA Leadership Academy and has served on the Selection and Advisory Committees, and on the Office of Attorney Ethics District V-C Fee Arbitration Committee. Mr. Reinitz was selected by Chief Justice Rabner to serve on the Supreme Court’s Municipal Court Practice Committee and the Court’s Working Group on Municipal Court Reform. He has been a Councilman in the Borough of Fair Lawn, has lectured for ICLE and is the recipient of several honors, including the New Leader of the Bar Award bestowed by the New Jersey Law Journal and the 2019 NJSBA Municipal Court Practitioner of the Year.

Mr. Reinitz is a graduate of Rutgers College and Rutgers School of Law-Newark. He was a law clerk to the Honorable Eugene H. Austin, J.S.C., Bergen County.
(8/23)

Margarita Rivera

Supervisor, Assistant Prosecutor
Essex County Prosecutor’s Office

Akil Roper, Esq.

Senior Vice President, Legal Services of New Jersey, Edison

Sheryl J. Seiden, Esq.

Seiden Family Law, LLC, Cranford

is the founding Partner of Seiden Family Law, LLC in Cranford, New Jersey. She is a seasoned matrimonial lawyer, having practiced family law exclusively since January 2000. Prior to forming Seiden Family Law, Ms. Seiden was a Partner at a boutique law firm in Summit, where she practiced family law for thirteen years.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, Ms. Seiden is Past Chair of the Family Law Section Executive Committee (“FLEC”) of the New Jersey State Bar Association and a Trustee of the Association. She is a past Co-Chair of the Young Lawyer Family Law Subcommittee for FLEC, and has been a member of FLEC since 2008. An officer and Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers– New Jersey Chapter (“AAML-NJ”), Ms. Seiden has served on the Board of Managers for several years and is slated to be sworn in as the President of AAML-NJ in June 2024. She is also a member of the Union and Essex County Bar Associations. In November 2014 Ms. Seiden argued as amicus curiae for AAML in Gnall v Gnall before the Supreme Court of New Jersey. She has been an Early Settlement Panelist for the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Family Part, Union County, and has been asked to serve as a blue-ribbon panelist on several occasions by the Early Settlement Panel for the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division, Family Part, Essex County.

Ms. Seiden has moderated and spoken on many panels for the Family Law Symposium on topics involving creative support awards, child support, emancipation and special needs trusts, alimony issues, legislative issues affecting family law, and reexamining relocation laws. She has also been a speaker at the Friday night program for the Family Law Symposium on several occasions. Ms. Seiden is co-author of Marriage, Divorce and Dissolution (Gann Publishing, 2019, now in its 3rd Edition). She often lectures and educates junior lawyers and paralegals on how to prepare Case Information Statements, and has also lectured on the relocation laws in New Jersey as well as parental alienation.

Ms. Seiden received her B.A., cum laude, from American University and is a magna cum laude graduate of New York Law School, where she served as the Managing Editor of the New York Law School Law Review.

Diane K. Smith, Esq.

, GREEN BROOK

Stuart I. Teicher, Esq.

, East Brunswick

Anthony C. Valenziano, Esq.

Sherman Atlas Sylvester & Stamelman LLP, Florham Park

David L. Wikstrom, Esq.

Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, PC, Springfield

Certified as a Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, is a Partner in Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, P.C. in Springfield, New Jersey. He concentrates his practice primarily in the representation of clients in legal malpractice, product liability, dramshop, employment discrimination and personal injury litigation.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Supreme Court, Mr. Wikstrom is Past President of the Union County Bar Association, Past Chair of the Essex County Bar Association’s Product Liability Section and has been a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s and the ABA’s Standing Committee on Legal Malpractice Litigation and Insurance. He is a former Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Past Chair of the Union County Bar Association’s Civil Practice Committee and has served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Civil Trial Certification. He has also been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocacy (ABOTA), the American Bar Association, the American and New Jersey Associations for Justice, and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

A Master of the Richard J. Hughes American Inns of Court, Mr. Wikstrom regularly lectures on legal ethics and legal malpractice for ICLE, NJAJ and other organizations. He has been an adjunct professor at Union County College, where he has taught business law.

Mr. Wikstrom received his B.A., with honors, from William Paterson University and his J.D., cum laude, from Quinnipiac School of Law, where he was Symposium Editor of the Quinnipiac Law School Law Review and the recipient of several additional honors. He interned for the Honorable Alan H. Nevas, United States District Court, District of Connecticut.
(9/23)

Richard J. Williams, Jr., Esq.

McElroy, Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, Randolph