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

Event Code: I147725

Areas of Law: Municipal Court Practice

Earn up to 4.5 credits! (More Information)

Faculty

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, Hackensack
is 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.

CLE Credits
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 4.5 hours of total CLE credit (Full Credits Available: Municipal Court DWI Refusal: 4.5, NJ General: 4.5).
NY CLE (t&nt):NY Professional Practice Non-Transitional: 4.5
PA CLE:PA Substantive Credit: 3.5
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program.

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