Ethics in Appellate Practice
Date: Nov 19, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
Member Price: $179.00
Non-Member Price: $318.00
Section Price: $239.00
Areas of Law: Appellate Practice, Ethics
Earn up to 3.3 credits, including 3.3 in Ethics! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Bruce D. Greenberg, Esq.
- Blogger, New Jersey Appellate Law Blog
Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC, Newarkis a Member of Lite DePalma Greenberg Afanador, LLC in the firm’s Newark, New Jersey, office. He handles consumer, antitrust and securities class actions, generally for plaintiffs, in state and federal courts. He has also served as an expert witness regarding class counsel’s attorneys’ fees.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey 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, Mr. Greenberg is Past Co-Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Class Actions Committee and a past Chair of the NJSBA Appellate Practice Committee. He was appointed to the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Character in 1991, is a founding member and Past Chair of the New Jersey Law Firm Group and is a member of the NJSBA Land Use Law Section.
Mr. Greenberg is the author of the “Supreme Court Review” chapter of every edition of ICLE’s New Jersey Appellate Practice Handbook since 1999 as well as the New Jersey appellate law blog (www.appellatelaw-nj.com), which was cited in the briefs of both parties in Carrera v. Bayer. Mr. Greenberg is the co-author of the chapter on class action litigation in New Jersey Federal Civil Procedure (New Jersey Law Journal Books) and the author of an article about objectors to class action settlements which appeared in the St. John’s Law Review. He has also lectured on appellate practice for ICLE, the New Jersey State Bar Association and county bar associations, and has moderated the Appellate Bench-Bar Conference of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
Mr. Greenberg received his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Writing and Research Editor of the Columbia Journal of Law & Social Problems. He clerked for Justice Daniel J. O’Hern of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
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Presenters
- Hon. Katie A. Gummer, J.A.D.
- New Jersey Superior Court Appellate Division
- Rebekah R. Conroy, Esq.
- Stone Conroy LLC, Florham Park
- Natalie H. Mantell, Esq.
- McCarter & English, Newark
- Ezra D. Rosenberg
- Director of Appellate Advocacy, ACLU of New Jersey, Newark
- Christina Vassiliou Harvey, Esq.
- Lomurro Munson, LLC, Freeholdis a Partner in Lomurro, Munson, Comer, Brown & Schottland, LLC (Lomurro Law) in Freehold, New Jersey. She focuses her practice in appellate matters, personal injury litigation, disability matters, attorney ethics and horseracing law, and has experience litigating personal injury case for both the plaintiff and defense sides, medical malpractice cases for plaintiffs, commercial disputes, and prosecuting and defending insurance brokers and attorneys in claims of professional negligence.
Ms. Harvey is admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania at the trial and appellate levels, and before administrative agencies. A former Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association, she has been a member of the New Jersey Law Journal’s Young Lawyer Advisory Board and is Past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division. Having served as President of the Mercer County Women Lawyers Caucus, she is a founding board member of the Community Justice Center, a non-profit organization that assists disabled veterans in obtaining disability benefits.
Ms. Harvey has authored articles for the New Jersey Lawyer newspaper, NJ Esq., The Affiliate, The Young Lawyer and the New Jersey State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Newsletter. She has lectured for ICLE on professional responsibility as part of the Skills and Methods course and for the NJSBA and other organizations on ethics, collections and client relations. She has received three "Star of the Quarter" awards and one “Star of the Year” award for her work in the American Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and was the recipient of the Service to the Bar Award in 2009 and the Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award in 2013 from the NJSBA-Young Lawyers Division.
Ms. Harvey received her B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University. She was a contract specialist for the United States Navy before attending Rutgers University School of Law and receiving her J.D. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dorothea O’C. Wefing, Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.
Learn how to navigate the territory of ethics in appellate practice. An esteemed panel of appellate attorneys and an Appellate Division judge will address attorney ethical obligations, starting with the decision to file an appeal. Acquire knowledge about the duties of diligence, competence, and communication as applied during the appellate process. Discover attorney responsibilities under the Rules of Professional Conduct regarding candor to the tribunal. Gain information on what to do when a client wants an attorney to raise a frivolous argument on appeal. Listen to riveting panel discussions about ethical responsibilities through each phase of the appellate process. Register today!
Program Agenda:
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9:00 | Introduction – Bruce D. Greenberg, Esq.
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9:05 | Should there be an appeal? – Panel
- Ethical issues, conflict of interest, R. 1:4-8(a)(1), (2)- (a), effect of signing, filing or advocating a paper; applicable RPC’s (Appellant) Fed. R. Civ. P. 11
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9:35 | Duty of Diligence (both sides), Duty of competence (both sides), and Duty of Communication (both sides) – Panel
- Applicable RPC’s, Use of AI in appellate practice in an ethical manner
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10:25 | Break
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10:35 | Candor to the tribunal (both sides), Applicable RPC’s – Panel
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11:15 | Obligation to argue points raised by client that counsel deems frivolous? – Panel
- Civil cases- R. 1:4-8; Fed. R. Civ. P. 11; RPC 3.3(a)(1) -
11:50 | Q&A
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12:00 | Adjourn
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