Bullying, the Law and Your Clients 2025
Date: Aug 28, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
Member Price: $203.00
Non-Member Price: $254.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: School
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Keynote
Moderator
- Dr. Stuart Green, DMH, LCW
- Founder, NJ Coalition For Bullying Awareness & Prevention, Summita licensed clinical social worker and behavioral scientist, founded the New Jersey Coalition for Bullying Awareness and Prevention (njbullying.org) in Summit, New Jersey, where he has volunteered as Director and sole front-line worker, answered the hotline and managed the organization’s website. He has also been Associate Director of the Overlook Family Medicine Residency Program, a training program for family physicians at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, New Jersey, where he has helped develop the Palliative Care Program, and has been a behavioral scientist at Atlantic Health System.
Dr. Green was Chair of the New Jersey Commission on Bullying in Schools, co-authored its report There Isn’t a Moment to Lose (2009) and presided over forums to help the legislature formulate laws and regulations to prevent and address bullying. He helped develop the state’s new Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights, widely regarded as the strongest anti-bullying law in the United States. Dr. Green’s work as a clinician and medical director has included developing grant-funded educational and advocacy projects for children with Tourette Syndrome and adults with conditions including chronic pain, diabetes and breast cancer. He founded the Pathways Women’s Cancer Teaching Project, an organization which provides training for physicians and other health care professionals conducted by breast cancer survivors. He has served on the advisory boards of several organizations, including The Arc of NJ and the NJ School Age Child Care Coalition.
The recipient of the 2011 Social Worker of the Year Award bestowed by the New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, Dr. Green has also been honored by the Union County Human Relations Commission, the New Jersey Child Assault Prevention Program and the American Cancer Society (Judy A. Morrow Humanitarian Award). He has lectured on bullying to schools and other organizations, and has served as an expert witness and legal consultant. Having served as Clinical Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, he is the author of medical publications including an article on a Tourette Syndrome educational project in Teaching and Learning in Medicine: An International Journal (2014) and book chapters.
Dr. Green is a graduate of City College of New York and received his MSW from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, Yeshiva University. He received his M.A. in Psychology from Hunter College and his Doctorate in Medical Humanities from Drew University.
Presenters
- Elizabeth Athos, Esq.
- Education Law Center, Newark
- Robyn B. Gigl, Esq.
- Author of the Erin McCabe Series
Dilworth Paxson LLP, Freeholdis a Partner in Dilworth Paxson LLP in the firm’s Freehold, New Jersey, office. She handles complex litigation including employment law, commercial and business litigation, and white-collar criminal defense, and has more than 30 years of experience in representing clients in state and federal courts in New Jersey.
Ms. Gigl is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New Jersey and before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association LGBT Rights Section, former Vice Chair of the NJSBA Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee, and has been a member of the Association’s Women in the Profession Section and Diversity Committee. Appointed to the New Jersey Transgender Equality Task Force, she has served on the Executive Board of Garden State Equality and the Trans Affirming Alliance, and has been a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement.
Co-author of the chapter “Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964” in Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation in the Workplace (BNA, 2014), Ms. Gigl has contributed articles to New Jersey Lawyer and the newsletters of the LGBT Rights Section and the Diversity Committee. She has lectured on LGBT employment and discrimination issues for ICLE, the New Jersey Judicial College, the EEOC, the New Jersey State Bar Association, the New Jersey Judicial College, Rutgers University, Kean University and other organizations, and has been interviewed on NPR. Ms. Gigl has been honored by the ACLU-NJ and Pride Network for her work on behalf of the LGBTQ community, and is the recipient of several other honors. Her first novel, By Way of Sorrow, was released in March of 2021 and her second novel, Survivor’s Guilt, in January 2022.
Ms. Gigl is a graduate of Stonehill College and received her J.D. from Villanova University School of Law, where she was a member and Associate Editor of the Villanova Law Review. - Michael F. Kaelber, Esq.
- Coordinator of Continuing Legal Education and Research
Legal One/NJPSA/FEA, Woodbridgeis an educational law consultant and the Coordinator for Online Course Development for LEGAL ONE NJPSA/FEA in Monroe Township, New Jersey. He retired as Director of the New Jersey School Board Association (NJSBA) Legal and Labor Relations Services Department in Trenton, New Jersey, in 2017. A member of the NJSBA staff since March 1988, he previously served as an associate with the Woodbridge, New Jersey, law firm of Hutt, Berkow and Jankowski, and was a mathematics teacher in the Woodbridge Township School District from 1973 through 1986.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey, Mr. Kaelber is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s School Law Committee and the New Jersey Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), which named him to its Hall of Fame in 2011. He has served as staff liaison to several New Jersey School Board Association committees, has co-authored numerous NJSBA publications and has lectured on school law issues to the NJSBA and other educational and legal organizations. He is also the recipient of the New Jersey Association of School Attorneys Distinguished Service Award.
Mr. Kaelber received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Lafayette College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.S. in Statistics from Rutgers University and his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law - Sandra L. Lascari, Esq
- Law Offices of Sandra L. Lascari, LLC, Madison
- Kate Okeson
- Director, NJ Advisory Commission on Advancing LGBTQIA Equity and Inclusion in Schools
- Jeffrey R. Youngman, Esq.
- Feitlin Youngman Karas & Gerson, LLC, Glen Rock
Dr. Stuart Green and his panel of top anti-bullying experts are back for an important new update on school bullying in 2025 and with a look ahead to 2026.
This seminar will provide a comprehensive, up-to-the-minute look at school bullying. The panelists will examine current issues, the role of artificial intelligence and other technologies in exacerbating the harm caused by bullying. Hear experts delve into New Jersey’s legal landscape and examine how plaintiffs can best use the law and how the law can be improved, and provide concrete, practical strategies for lawyers to work with schools in preventing and reducing bullying incidents. The panel will also provide the latest on litigation tactics and a vital 2025 case law update.
Topics include:
- The impact of funding threats and changes to funding on the schools
- How changes in special education affect bullying
- Up to the minute update for laws and cases
- LGBTQ issues connected with bullying
- Cases, trials and settlements
- Hazing as a form of bullying.
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