2025 Land Use Update – Session 1
Date: Mar 21, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick,
Member Price: $195.00
Non-Member Price: $244.00
Section Price: $183.00
Areas of Law: Land Use
Earn up to 6.9 credits, including 1.2 in Ethics! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Alexander Fisher, Esq.
- Savo, Schalk, Corsini, Warner, Gillespie, O’Grodnick & Fisher, Somerville
Presenters
- Clint B. Allen, Esq.
- Archer & Greiner, Voorhees
- Jason A. Cherchia, Esq.
- Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A., Woodbridge
- Cosmas P. Diamantis, Esq.
- Cherry Hill Township, Cherry Hill
- Meryl A.G. Gonchar, Esq.
- Sills Cummis & Gross PC, Newark
- Cameron Macleod, Esq.
- Gibbons P.C., Trenton
- Jennifer Mazawey, Esq.
- K & L Gates, Newarkis a Partner in Genova Burns LLC in Newark, New Jersey, and a member of the firm’s Commercial Real Estate & Redevelopment, Environmental Law, and Land Use & Approvals Practice Groups as well as the Construction & Engineering, Education and Land Development Industry Groups. She concentrates her practice in commercial real estate, land use and construction law, and represents developers in all aspects of their development projects. Regularly appearing before planning boards and zoning boards of adjustment, Ms. Mazawey assists clients with permit acquisition, construction contracts and in construction-related disputes. She has also practiced education law and served as general counsel and special labor counsel to boards of education and boards of trustees throughout New Jersey.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Ms. Mazawey is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Land Use Law Section and a member of the Association’s Environmental and Women in the Profession Sections as well as the Renewable Energy, Cleantech and Climate Change Committee. She has served on the Women’s Leadership Committee of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association and has been President and Co-Director of Sponsorship for Commercial Real Estate Women, Inc. of New Jersey (CREW-NJ) as well as a member of the national CREW Network. She is also a former Trustee of the New Jersey Association of School Attorneys.
Ms. Mazawey is a co-author of “In the Election of 2002, the Voters of New Jersey Were the Winners,” (27 Seton Hall Legislative Journal 77, 2003). She has lectured for ICLE, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the New Jersey School Boards Association and other industry groups, and is the recipient of numerous honors.
Ms. Mazawey received her B. A. from Rutgers University and her J.D., cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law. After law school, she was Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Christine L. Miniman, J.S.C.
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Presented in cooperation with the NJSBA Land Use Law Section
Hundreds of land use attorneys attend the Land Use Update each year to gain a distinct practice edge and a nuanced understanding of the latest land use developments. Attorneys across New Jersey regard the event as the definitive source for current information about land use practice. Hear from the state’s leading land use attorneys about the recent regulatory, legislative and case law developments that every seasoned land use practitioner should know.
Register today to gain the essential information and strategies you will use immediately in your practice and receive an electronic copy of the latest “Land Use Citator”. Many thanks to Gregory Meese and Ed Purcell, of Law Office of Price, Meese, Shulman & D'Arminio, PC, for creating and updating this valuable document.
Note: This program is designed for those who already possess a general understanding of New Jersey land use law.
Program Agenda:
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9:00 | Welcome – Alexander Fisher, Esq.
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9:05 | Legislation and Regulatory Update – Clint B. Allen, Esq.
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9:20 | Challenges to Zoning Ordinances – Alexander Fisher, Esq.; Meryl A.G. Gonchar, Esq.; Jason A. Cherchia, Esq.
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10:20 | Challenges to Board Decisions – Cameron MacLeod, Esq.; Meryl A.G. Gonchar, Esq.
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11:00 | Break
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11:10 | Constitutional Challenges and Subdivision Approval – Clint B. Allen, Esq.; Jennifer Mazawey, Esq.
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11:50 | Lunch
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12:50 | Condemnation and Redevelopment; Extension of Approvals; Stop Work Orders – Jennifer Mazawey, Esq.; Cosmas P. Diamantis, Esq.; Alexander Fisher, Esq.
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1:20 | Affordable Housing – Cameron MacLeod, Esq.
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1:50 | Administrative Agency Action; Litigation and Settlement; Variances – Clint B. Allen, Esq.; Cosmas P. Diamantis, Esq.; Cameron MacLeod, Esq.; Meryl A.G. Gonchar, Esq.; Alexander Fisher, Esq.; Jason Cherchia, Esq.
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3:00 | Ethics – Discussion and Hypotheticals
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4:00 | Adjourn
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