Certified Civil Trial Attorney Exam Preparation Course and Recertification Refresher

Presenters

Hon. Jack M. Sabatino, P.J.A.D.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division

temporarily assigned to the New Jersey Supreme Court, has been Deputy Presiding Judge for Administration, Appellate Division, and sat in Trenton, New Jersey. Prior to that he was a trial judge in Mercer County, where he presided over more than 100 civil jury trial and also sat in the Family Part. Prior to his appointment to the bench he was Associate Dean at Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey, where he taught courses on evidence, civil procedure, alternative dispute resolution, professional responsibility, products liability and the New Jersey State Constitution.

A member of the American Law Institute and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, Judge Sabatino has been Chair of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Civil Practice and has served on numerous law-related committees, including the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Committees on Evidence and Judicial Education. A former New Jersey State Attorney General, he also served on the United States District Court’s Advisory Committee on the Implementation of the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990.

Judge Sabatino has lectured to judges and practitioners on topics including legal ethics, evidence and state constitutional law for ICLE, the Federal Judicial Center, the New Jersey Judicial College and other professional audiences. The author of a number of articles and more than two dozen judicial opinions, he was a member of the Editorial Board of the New Jersey Law Journal and has served Rutgers School of Law-Camden as an Adjunct Professor. He has also been a guest faculty member for the Winter Trial Advocacy Workshop at Harvard Law School.

Judge Sabatino received his B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable H. Curtis Meanor, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, and thereafter as the first Law Clerk to the Honorable Marie L. Garibaldi, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of New Jersey.
(9/23)

Norberto A. Garcia, Esq.

President, New Jersey State Bar Association
Blume Forte Fried Zerres & Molinari, Jersey City

Bhaveen R. Jani, Esq.

Certified By the Supreme Court of New Jersey As a Civil Trial Attorney
Stark & Stark

Diana C. Manning, Esq.

First Vice President, New Jersey State Bar Association
McCarter & English, LLP, Newark

Certified 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.
(8/23)

Monique Moreira, Esq.

Certified By the Supreme Court of New Jersey As a Civil Trial Attorney
Moreira Sayles Ramirez LLC

James M. Savio, Esq.

Certified By the New Jersey Supreme Court As a Civil Trial Attorney
GMS Law

Sarabraj S. Thapar, Esq.

Certified By the New Jersey Supreme Court As a Civil Trial Attorney
Sabbagh Thapar