Chancery Division or Civil Division: Knowing Where to File
Date: Aug 25, 2026 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $143.00
Non-Member Price: $179.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Equity Jurisprudence
Earn up to 2.4 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Hon. Harriet F. Klein, J.S.C. (Ret.)
- Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP
Presenters
- Hon. Andrea J. Sullivan, J.S.C.
- Middlesex County Superior Courtappointed to the bench by Governor Murphy, sits in Family Part, Middlesex County, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She was formerly a Partner in the Litigation and Family Law Departments of Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP, where her practice included commercial litigation, estate litigation, matrimonial litigation, chancery litigation and alternative dispute resolution; and she also represented professionals in actions from professional malfeasance to claims of fraud, and in cases of alleged professional malpractice.
A Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of American, Judge Sullivan is Past President of the Middlesex County Bar Association and has been Chair of the Women Lawyers Section and several of the Association’s committees. She was a member of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey State Bar Association, a former Trustee of the Women in the Profession Section and a former member and Vice Chair of the Equity Jurisprudence Committee. Past President of the Middlesex County Bar Foundation, Judge Sullivan has been Chair of the Foundation’s Finance Committee and a member of the Scholarship Committee, and has served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Mandatory Continuing Legal Education. She has also been a member of Executive Women of New Jersey, served on the Supreme Court Committee on the Rules of Evidence and is Past President of Central Jersey Legal Services.
Judge Sullivan has lectured for ICLE and the New Jersey State and Middlesex County Bar Associations, and authored New Jersey Business Litigation (New Jersey Law Journal Books, 2012-2022 Editions) and Guidebook to Chancery Practice in New Jersey (ICLE, 10th Edition, 2018). She is the recipient of the 2010 Robert J. Cirafasi Chancery Practice Award bestowed by the Middlesex County Bar Association as well as several other honors.
Judge Sullivan received her A.B., cum laude, from Mount Holyoke College and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and the recipient of an Alumni Senior Prize. She was Law Clerk to the Honorable Eriminie Lane Conley, Chancery Division, General Equity Part, Superior Court of New Jersey. - R. James Kravitz, Esq.
- Certified By the Supreme Court of New Jersey As a Civil Trial Attorney
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Come to this seminar to learn everything you need to know to confidently decide whether a case belongs in the chancery division or the civil law division. Walk away with the understanding about the types of cases for each division and the key distinctions between equitable and legal remedies. The panel will also review the filing requirements and strategic considerations for each. Register today.
Program Agenda:
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10 | Introduction
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10:05 | Panel discussion on the following topics:
- Rule 4:3-1 and the standard of primary right or principal relief
- The benefits/detriments of general equity jurisdiction - Types of equitable remedies
- Common mistakes
- Cases frequently misfiled in general equity
- Common pleading errors - Requests for emergent relief
- Orders to Show Cause as original process
- With or without temporary restraining order – R. 4:52-1
- Orders to Show Cause for summary relief – R. 4:67-1(a)
- Order to Show Cause use, fundamentals and procedures - Jury trial demands and implications
- Transfer of cases to law division
- Rule 4:3-1 and the standard of primary right or principal relief
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12 | Adjourn
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