DWI Institute 2025

Presenters

Hon. Harry D. Norton, Jr., J.M.C. (Ret.)

Hall Booth Smith, PC

is a Partner in Hall Booth Smith P.C. in Paramus, New Jersey, where his practice areas include insurance defense, litigation of personal injury protection and reimbursement claims, the defense of Title 59 defendants, the defense of uninsured and underinsured claims, and the investigation and prevention of insurance fraud on behalf of insurance carriers. In addition to his private practice, Judge Norton serves as a Municipal Court Judge in six municipalities and has served as Borough Attorney or Special Counsel to Saddle River, Ramsey and Ridgefield Park as well as the cities of Hackensack, Clifton and Paterson. He has served as an Arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, the Superior Court of New Jersey and the United States District Court; is recognized as a Rule 1:40 Qualified Mediator; and is frequently appointed by the Court to mediate complex commercial disputes.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court, Judge Norton has been a Trustee of the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys and has also served by appointment of the Supreme Court as a Volunteer III Investigator for the Office of Attorney Ethics. He has been a member of the Bergen and Passaic County Bar Associations, the Defense Research Institute and the New Jersey Defense Association; has served in several sections of the American Bar Association; and has been Co-Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Automobile Litigation and No-Fault Committee. He is Past Chair of the District XI Ethics Committee.

Judge Norton has served on the Faculty of the National Business Institute and is the recipient of the Bergen County Bar Foundation’s Lawyer Achievement Award, among other honors. He has lectured at both the New Jersey State Bar Association Annual Meeting in Atlantic City and the Mid-Year Meeting in Rome, Italy, as a panelist on the program Hot Topics for Civil Litigators.

Judge Norton received his B.A. from Lafayette College and his J.D. from Seton Hall University Law School. He served as Law Secretary to the Honorable John L. Ard, J.A.D.
(9/23)

Hon. Daniel F. Sahin, J.M.C.

Jackson, Manchester, Seaside Heights and Others

Connie Bentley McGhee, Esq.

Connie Bentley McGhee, Attorney At Law, West Orange

Jason Gooberman

Owner, Interlock Device of New Jersey LLC

Steven W. Hernandez, Esq.

The Hernandez Law Firm, PC, Toms River

Certified as a Municipal Court Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey, is President of the Hernandez Law Firm, P.C. in Toms River, New Jersey, and concentrates his practice almost exclusively in DWI defense.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Supreme Court, Mr. Hernandez has been a member of the National College of DUI Defense (NCDD) and the American, New Jersey State and Ocean County Bar Associations. He is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Municipal Court Practice Section and has served as Co-Chair of the Municipal Court Practice Section of the Ocean County Bar Association. He is also Certified as a DUI attorney by the National College of DUI Defense.

Mr. Hernandez has lectured for ICLE and other organizations, and is the author of Inside the Minds: Negotiating a Plea Deal in DUI Cases (Aspatore Publishing, 2011) and the New Jersey DWI Book, the Law and Practice (Lawyers & Judges Publishing, 2016), among other publications. He has been qualified by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the International Association of Chiefs of Police as a Standardized Field Sobriety Test Instructor. He is also the only attorney in New Jersey to receive a Forensic Sobriety Assessment (FSA) Certificate and is a certified operator of the Alcotest 7110 breath-testing instrument.

Mr. Hernandez received his B.S. from Rutgers Business School and his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law-Camden. He has received advanced training in drug-related DWI’s, especially those arrests involving a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE), has taken more than 100 hours of forensic chromatography courses and has passed the American Chemical Society Lawyer-Scientist examination.
(9/23)

S. Emile Lisboa, IV, Esq.

Galantucci & Patuto, Hackensack

William J. Quirk, Esq.

, Hackensack

Raymond S. Santiago, Esq.

Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, Freehold

is the founder of Santiago and Associates, P.C. in Freehold, New Jersey, where he concentrates his practice in criminal law, immigration, civil litigation and personal injury matters.

Mr. Santiago is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Eastern District of New York, and the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey and the Southern District of New York. He was formerly a County Prosecutor for the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.

Mr. Santiago received his J.D. from the City University of New York School of Law at Queens College.
(9/23)

Steven A. Zabarsky, Esq.

Citta Holzapfel & Zabarsky, Toms River

is a Partner in Citta, Holzapfel & Zabarsky in Toms River, New Jersey, where he represents clients in divorce, custody, visitation and adoption proceedings in trial and appellate courts, and is a certified Divorce Mediator. He is a former Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor, has served as a Municipal Prosecutor for numerous municipalities throughout Ocean and Monmouth Counties, and has prosecuted more than 1000 DWI cases.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Mr. Zabarsky is a member of the New Jersey State and Ocean County Bar Associations, and the NJSBA Family Law Section and the OCBA Municipal Court Committee. He has been a panelist for the Ocean County Early Settlement Program since 1985 and is the recipient of a Certificate of Appreciation from the Supreme Court of New Jersey for contributions to the ESP Program. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Ocean County College, where he has been teaching Constitutional Law since 1987.

Mr. Zabarsky received his B.S. from George Washington University, where he was a federal intern for Congressman James J. Howard, and his J.D. from Western New England College of Law, where he served as a Legal Intern in the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. He also served as a Judicial Clerk in the Ocean County Superior Court, which included a criminal rotation for Judges Huber, Addison and Giovine.
(9/23)