DWI Institute 2024

Presenters

Hon. Daniel Sahin, J.M.C.

Jackson, Manchester, Seaside Heights and Others

Connie Bentley McGhee, Esq.

Connie Bentley McGhee, Attorney At Law, Newark

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)

Rachel L. Kugel, Esq.

The Kugel Law Firm, New York

S. Emile Lisboa, Esq.

Galantucci & Patuto, Hackensack

Stephen M. Lukach, III, Esq.

Lukach Law, P.C., Haddon Heights

Kevin P. McKernan, Esq.

The Law Firm of Kevin P. McKernan, Staten Island

John Menzel, Esq.

Law Offices of John Menzel, Asbury Park

is an attorney in private practice in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He has tried thousands of drunk driving cases and argued more than one hundred appeals before the New Jersey Superior Court’s Law and Appellate Divisions and the New Jersey Supreme Court. He was lead attorney in State v. Chun and State v. Foley, the seminal cases on the Alcotest 7110 MK-III-C in New Jersey.

Mr. Menzel 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 Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Municipal Court Practice Section. A sustaining member and former New Jersey State Delegate for the National College for DUI Defense (NCDD), he is Certified by the NCDD in DUI Defense Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Practice Division, the Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys of New Jersey and the Monmouth and Ocean County Bar Associations.

Mr. Menzel has been an associate member of the New Jersey Association of Forensic Scientists and an adjunct instructor at Ocean County College. He has held seminars on New Jersey’s drunk driving laws, breath testing instrumentation and trial techniques. Throughout his career Mr. Menzel has received training from the National Association for DUI Defense and has attended training for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration DWI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing. He was named the 2015 Municipal Court Practitioner of the Year by the New Jersey State Bar Association and was the 2017 recipient of the National College for DUI Defense Mentoring Award.

Mr. Menzel received his B.F.A, summa cum laude, from the New York Institute of Technology and his J.D. from New York Law School.
(9/23)

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)