Comme Ci, Comme Ca: A Comparison of the New Jersey and Frenc
Date: Nov 8, 2023 10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $0.00
Non-Member Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: For All Attorneys
Keynote
Moderator
- Thomas H. Prol, Esq.
- Sills Cummis & Gross, PC, Newark
Presenters
- Hon. Evelyn Padin, U.S.D.J.
- United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- Hon. Andrea J. Sullivan, J.S.C.
- Middlesex Family Courhouseappointed 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. - Tracey Goldstein, Esq.
- Goldstein Kelin LLC, Livingstonis a Partner in Feinstein, Raiss, Kelin, Booker & Goldstein LLC in Livingston, New Jersey, where she represents and counsels multi-family apartment owners, property managers and developers in real estate-related litigation. Her areas of concentration include novel and complex landlord/tenant issues, contract and real estate disputes, residential and commercial evictions, rent control and housing discrimination matters, and toxic tort defense (mold and lead paint). She has been involved in several published decisions and also counsels the New Jersey Apartment Association (NJAA) on emerging landlord-tenant issues and key legislation.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, Ms. Goldstein is a member of the New Jersey State, Essex County, Hudson County and Creditor’s Bar Associations. She serves on the Board of Directors of the NJAA, is a member of the Property Owners Association and the New Jersey Affordable Housing Management Association, and has collaborated with the Office of the Governor. She has testified before the New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee and has served as a panelist for the Division on Civil Rights.
Ms. Goldstein has lectured for ICLE, Rutgers Law School, the Hudson County Bar Association, NJ Cooperator, NJAA, the Property Owners Association and the New Jersey Affordable Housing Management Association. She is a sought-after media resource and has garnered numerous business and industry honors, and her articles have appeared in New Jersey Lawyer and the NJ Apartment Industry Magazine. In 2021 she was the recipient of ICLE’s Distinguished Service Award for her many years of service to the Institute.
Ms. Goldstein received her B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany and her law degree from Western New England School of Law.
Comme Ci, Comme Ca: A Comparison of the New Jersey and French Legal Systems
Nov. 8 | 10 – 11:15 a.m. | Chopin
Don’t let practicing in a foreign country result in a dangerous liaison.
International legal issues now permeate even the most local of practices, from personal injury to business disputes, environmental law to product liability, from cybersecurity to privacy law. The differences in systems and practice may be dramatic, particularly in terms of discovery, privilege, service and cultural issues. This program explores various points of similarity and difference in the practice of law in New Jersey and France, illustrating more broadly and comparatively the divergence between the common law and civil law systems.
Learn about what every New Jersey attorney needs to know, including the differences between civil and common law, data privacy issues, attorney/client privilege or the lack of it, how judges are chosen, the impact of the Hague Treaty and how all of this will impact your practice.
Moderator/Speaker:
Thomas H. Prol Esq., NJSBA Past President
Sills Cummis & Gross, PC, Newark
Speakers:
Hon. Evelyn Padin
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
NJSBA Past President
Hon. Andrea J. Sullivan, J.S.C., Middlesex
Tracey Goldstein, Esq.
Feinstein Raiss Kelin Booker & Goldstein LLC, Livingston
NJ CLE: This program has been approved for 1.5 credits (50 minute hour)
NY CLE (Non-transitional): 1.5 professional practice credits
PA CLE: 1.0 substantive credit pending ($4 fee – separate check payable to NJICLE must be submitted at the end of the program)
| NJ CLE: | NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.5 hours of total CLE credit (Full Credits Available: NJ General: 1.5). |
| NY CLE (t&nt): | NY Professional Practice Non-Transitional: 1.5 |
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