DWI Forum 2025 – The Essential Advanced Practitioner Update
Date: Jun 7, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $177.00
Non-Member Price: $209.00
Section Price: $157.00
Areas of Law: Municipal Court Practice
Earn up to 4.5 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Greggory M. Marootian, Esq.
- Marootian Law Office, Livingston
- Donna Sigel Platt, Esq.
- Donna Sigel Platt, P.C., Stratford
Presenters
- Hon. Jonathan H. Rosenbluth
- Presiding Municipal Court Judge
Madison Joint Municipal Court - Peter J. Bonfiglio, III, Esq.
- Hoffman DiMuzio, Turnersville
- Tamra Katcher, Esq.
- Rem Weis Katcher Duarte, Attorneys At Law, Hackensackis a Partner in Rem Weis Katcher Duarte, Attorneys at Law, in Hackensack, New Jersey, where she concentrates her practice in criminal defense litigation, including minor criminal matters, DWI and motor vehicle offenses.
Ms. Katcher is a former Assistant Prosecutor with the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and the City of Newark. In the latter position she assisted in organizing and supporting the City’s Quality of Life Program as well as working with the Port Authority Police to prosecute illegal limousine activity at Newark Airport. She has served as an adjunct professor for the Criminal Justice Departments at Kean University, the County College of Morris and the College of St. Elizabeth, and has been a Senior Instructor for Garden State CLE since 2012.
Ms. Katcher received her B.S. from Miami University and her J.D. from New York Law School. She interned at the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. - Rachel L. Kugel, Esq.
- The Kugel Law Firm, New York
- Herbert H. Leckie, JD
- DWI-DRE Consulting Services, Lebanon
- Evan M. Levow, Esq.
- Levow DWI Law, P.C., Cherry Hill
- Brian W. Mason, Esq.
- Mason Thompson LLC, Dover
- Ashley E. Shapiro, Esq.
- Stradley Ronon, Philadelphia
Presented in cooperation with the Municipal Court Practice Section
In this annual program, New Jersey’s top experts highlight current topics and essential updates every DWI practitioner should know. If you are a judge, prosecutor, or DWI defense attorney, you won’t want to miss out on this important seminar to keep you at the very top of your game!
Hot button issues of 2025 will be discussed.
Topics include:
- The NEW Alcotest 9510 - details, defenses and issues
- Out-of-state drivers’ reciprocity
- IDRC issues for multiple offenders
- Judicial perspectives on motions and trials
- Pre-disposition IID installations and credits
- The impact of plea bargaining
- DWI defenses
- Trends in the case law and new 2024/2025 cases
- DRE post-Olenowski
- Ethical consequences/issues in the DWI arena
- Hot tips for DWI practitioners and prosecutors
Program materials will include charts of DWI-DUID penalties, IID requirements and credits; Sample letters to clients re: DWI-DUID penalties and consequences, DRE, IDRC and PCR documents, and more.
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