News from the NJSBA
Get all the latest news from the NJSBA about the Association, it’s advocacy, people and happenings, as well as statements and press releases about current events.
NJSBA Offers Comments on Municipal Court Recommendations
October 1, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Wendy Solomon 732-937-7504 NEW BRUNSWICK - With few exceptions, the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) submitted comments last week in support of the Supreme Court’s recommendations from the...
NJSBA Asks For Uniformity in Safety at Workers' Compensation Courts
September 30, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Wendy Solomon 732-937-7504 NEW BRUNSWICK - The New Jersey State Bar Association urged the commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, Robert Asaro-Angelo, to address security issues within the...
Meet New Jersey State Bar Foundation’s Mary Jean Barnes, Director of Administration and Grant Programs
September 25, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Wendy Solomon 732-937-7504 NEW BRUNSWICK - Mary Jean Barnes is the New Jersey State Bar Foundation’s (NJSBF) new director of administration and grant programs where she manages the...
NJSBA Weighs in on Poaching Clients by Purchasing Internet Keyword Advertising
September 20, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Wendy Solomon 732-937-7504 NEW BRUNSWICK - The New Jersey State Bar Association filed an amicus brief to the New Jersey State Supreme Court where it argued permitting lawyers to purchase a competitor...
Board of Trustees Report, September 20, 2019
The following is a summary of the NJSBA’s Board of Trustees meeting. It does not constitute official minutes. Legislation: The Board of Trustees approved taking positions on several measures pending before the New Jersey Legislature. The board voted to support:...
NJSBA Seeks Amicus Status in Tort Claims Act Case
September 19, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Wendy Solomon 732-937-7504 NEW BRUNSWICK - The NJSBA submitted an amicus brief in Nieves v. Office of the Public Defender, which is pending before the state Supreme Court. The case asks whether legal...
Calling All New Jersey Lawyers to Fight Hunger
President's Perspective, "Calling All New Jersey Lawyers to Fight Hunger," New Jersey Lawyer No. 319/August, 2019 Message from NJSBA President Evelyn Padin Every year at Thanksgiving, before my family sits down to eat dinner, we spend the...
Association Offers Comments on Proposed Changes to Guardianship Laws
August 7, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Wendy Solomon 732-937-7504 NEW BRUNSWICK - The New Jersey State Bar Association submitted comments on the proposed New Jersey guardianship statutes and portions of Title 3B. The proposal is an...
Board of Trustees Report, July 18, 2019
The following is a summary of the action the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Board of Trustees took at its July meeting. This does not constitute official minutes. Government affairs: The trustees supported two pieces of pending legislation. The trustees...
Appellate Court issues opinion in case where NJSBA appeared as amicus party
June 18, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kate Coscarelli 732-937-7548 NEW BRUNSWICK - A state Appellate Division panel issued its opinion in Department of Children and Families v. L.O. The case focuses on whether fundamental fairness and due process...
Board of Trustees Report June 14, 2019
New Jersey State Bar Association Board of Trustees June 2019 Report Budget: The trustees approved the 2019-2020 budget for the NJSBA. The roughly $12 million budget includes several proposals to help members, including a plan to allow young lawyers to join substantive...
Association files amicus brief in DWI case pending before NJ Supreme Court
June 1, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Kate Coscarelli 732-937-7548 NEW BRUNSWICK - In a case that focuses on how drug recognition experts evidence is used, the NJSBA asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to grant it friend-of-the-court status in State...
First Latina becomes NJSBA President in Association’s 120-year History
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEContact Kate Coscarelli732-937-7548 Evelyn Padin was sworn in last night as president of the New Jersey State Bar Association. She took the oath of office at the association’s annual dinner and installation of officers at the...
Middlesex County attorney is NJSBA first vice president
May 18, 2018 Contact: Paula Saha Director of Communications 732-214-8509 ATLANTIC CITY - Kimberly A. Yonta was sworn in last night to serve as first vice president of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA). The Middlesex County lawyer...
NJSBA first vice president is Morristown attorney
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Kate Coscarelli 732-937-7548 A former New Jersey State Bar Association trustee was sworn in as the organization’s second vice president last night. Domenick Carmagnola, whose firm is in Morristown, is on...