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Nominations sought for Dispute Resolution Section Distinguished Service Award – Deadline for submissions is March 23
January 28, 2022 For Immediate Release Contact: Barbara Straczynski 732-937-7524 The New Jersey State Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section (DRS) gives an award annually or periodically to a member of the section, called the Lewis J....
Nominations sought for Dispute Resolution Section’s James B. Boskey Award – Deadline for submission is March 23
January 24, 2022 For Immediate Release Contact: Barbara Straczynski 732-937-7524 NEW BRUNSWICK - The New Jersey State Bar Association’s Dispute Resolution Section is seeking nominations for this year’s recipient of the James B. Boskey Award....
Nominations Sought for Young Lawyers Division Executive Committee
January 18, 2022 For Immediate Release Contact: Kate Coscarelli 732-937-7548 NOTICE TO THE BAR Nominations Sought for Young Lawyers Division Executive Committee The Nominating Committee of the Young Lawyers Division (“YLD”) of the New Jersey State Bar...
Board of Trustees Report, January 2022
Report of the NJSBA Board of Trustees January 2022 Note: This does not constitute official minutes. Fee-shifting retainer agreements: The Board made nine specific comments about proposals in a Court report related to fee-shifting retainer...
New Jersey State Bar Association Diversity Committee seeks nominations for Narol Award
December 16, 2021 For Immediate Release Contact: Paula Saha 732-214-8509 NEW BRUNSWICK - Commemorating Mel Narol’s commitment to the work of and enthusiastic support of the Task Force on Diversity, the NJSBA Diversity Committee’s Mel Narol...
Board of Trustees Report December 10, 2021
Note: This report does not constitute official minutes. Government Affairs: The trustees voted to support several pieces of legislation. They are: A set of bills, A-4275 (Sumter)/S-2587 (Singleton), to expand the categories of lists from which the juror source list is...
NJSBA Nominating Committee Seeks Candidates for Hunterdon County Trustee
December 1, 2021 For Immediate Release Contact: Kate Coscarelli 732-937-7548 The New Jersey State Bar Association’s Nominating Committee invites members to apply for a vacant position as a Hunterdon County Trustee. The post on...
NJSBA Nominating Committee seeks candidate to fill Nominating Committee vacancy
November 23, 2021 For Immediate Release Contact: Kate Coscarelli 732-937-7548 The New Jersey State Bar Association’s Nominating Committee invites members to apply for a candidate to serve as a member of the Nominating Committee for the...
Legal Community Urges Expansive, Thoughtful, and Comprehensive Effort to Reduce Bias and Discrimination in the Judicial System
November 15, 2021 For Immediate Release Contact: Kate Coscarelli 732-937-7548 NEW BRUNSWICK - The New Jersey State Bar Association urged the Judiciary to take a holistic and comprehensive approach in the effort to reduce bias in the jury selection...
NJSBA Nominating Committee Seeks Candidates for Leadership Positions
November 12, 2021 For Immediate Release Contact: Kate Coscarelli 732-937-7548 The New Jersey State Bar Association’s Nominating Committee invites members to apply for the following positions, which will be open in May 2022. Various positions...
Board of Trustees Report, November 11, 2021
Note: This report does not constitute official minutes. Government Affairs: The trustees voted to support the following pieces of legislation: • A-5468 (Conaway) / S-3344 (Rice) requires financial institutions to release records to adult...
NJSBA report on jury selection to Judicial Conference offers insights, recommendations
November 8, 2021 For Immediate Release Contact: Kate Coscarelli 732-937-7548 NEW BRUNSWICK - The New Jersey State Bar Association has submitted an extensive report on jury selection in advance of this week’s Judiciary Judicial Conference that will...
NJICLE consistently voted best continuing legal education provider in New Jersey
October 20, 2021 For Immediate Release Contact: Kate Coscarelli 732-937-7548 NEW BRUNSWICK - The New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE) was again voted the number one New Jersey-based continuing legal education (CLE) provider and...
Board of Trustees Report, October 15, 2021
New Jersey State Bar Association Board of Trustees Report October 2021 Note: This report does not constitute official minutes. Government affairs: The trustees voted to support the follow pieces of pending legislation: ...
Board of Trustees Report, September 17, 2021
New Jersey State Bar Association Board of Trustees Report September 2021 NOTE: This does not constitute official minutes. New trustee: President Domenick Carmagnola welcomed and swore in Frank D. DeRienzo, of Leary Bride Mergner & Bongiovanni...