Civil Court Rules Update 2024
Date: Nov 16, 2024 9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $159.00
Non-Member Price: $199.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Civil
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Keynote
Moderator
- Hon. Jack M. Sabatino, P.J.A.D.
- Superior Court- App. Div.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.
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Presenters
The Civil Court Rules Update returns!
The New Jersey Supreme Court has adopted a series of amendments to the Rules Governing the Courts of the State of New Jersey. Some changes simply revise existing rules, while others are substantive. In order to be an effective advocate for your client, it is imperative that you are aware of the amended rules and understand how to apply them in your cases.
Join a panel led by Presiding Judge of the Appellate Division Jack Sabatino as they review the amendments and provide some important practice tips.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to comply with the revised rules and improve your practice.
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