Replay – Keys to Practicing in Special Civil Part
Date: Oct 22, 2023 9:00 a.m. – 12:35 p.m.
Location: Online
Member Price: $190
Non-Member Price: $240
Areas of Law: Civil
Earn up to 4 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Gerard J. Felt, Esq.
- Pressler Felt & Warshaw LLP, Parsippanyis a Partner in Pressler, Felt & Warshaw, LLP in Parsippany, New Jersey, where he has concentrated his practice in legal collections for 30 years. He has also promoted and fought legislation involving legal collections and collection practices.
Admitted to practice in New Jersey, Mr. Felt has been a member of the New Jersey State and Morris County Bar Associations, the Commercial Law League, the New Jersey American Collection Association and the National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys (NARCA). He has been President of the New Jersey Creditors Bar Association. He has sat on the Board of Directors of the Consumer Credit Association of Metropolitan New York and is a member of the Commercial Lawyers Bar. A founder and the Chief Administrator of the New Jersey Creditors Bar Association, Mr. Felt has been a member of the New Jersey Association of Collection Agencies and has served as Chair and Legislative Liaison for the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Special Civil Part Committee. He has served as a member of the Supreme Court Rules Committee on the Special Civil Part and has been appointed to the Supreme Court Special Advisory Committee on Information Technology.
A long-time lecturer for ICLE’s Skills and Methods Course on Collection Practice, Mr. Felt has also lectured for the New Jersey State Bar Association, Lorman Education Services and the New Jersey Judicial College Conference on Best Practices in the Special Civil Part. He was a panelist on the Supreme Court’s Workshop on Post Judgment Enforcement and has testified before State Legislative bodies as the Special Civil Part representative for the New Jersey State Bar Association and the New Jersey Creditors Bar Association.
Mr. Felt received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Albany and his J.D. from Ohio Northern University.
(8/23)
Presenters
- Hon. William Anklowitz, J.S.C.
- Special Civil Part Supervising Judge - Mercer County
Mercer County Courthouse - Melissa A. Czartoryski, Esq.
- Administrative Office of the Courts
- Danielle Reso
- Administrative Office of the Courts
- Sung Lo Yoon, Esq.
- Ehrlich, Petriello, Gudin, Plaza & Reed, P.C., Newark
Best of NJICLE Replay
Don't miss this opportunity to catch up on the Keys to Practicing in Special Civil Part program you missed!
Special Civil Part practice is unique. There are set types of cases that can be heard in this forum that carry specific filing fees and jurisdictional limits on recovery. You also must be aware of and comply with the Best Practice Rules that apply to the Special Civil Part. In order to expedite your cases through the Special Civil Part you also need to understand the differences involved when handling Small Claims Court cases, Special Civil Part cases and Tenancy matters.
In this replay, our panel of Special Civil Part experts will share practice tips with you as they provide a road map for practicing in Special Civil Part.
Topics to be presented include:
- Best Practices in Special Civil Part
- Small Claims: Summons, answer, fees, time limitations for discovery, adjournments, appearances, defaults and more
- Tenancy: Summons, answer, filing fees, and more
- Special Civil Part: Jurisdictional limits, summons, answer, fees, discovery, settling and mediating cases, trials, and defaults
- Electronic filing
- …and more!
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