Attorney Profile
Experience
- Over 10 years conduction real estate transactions
- Twenty three years of experience as a superior court trial/litigation attorney, including:
- Jury trials including, but not limited to, first-degree armed robbery and carjacking
- Received a 15-minute not guilty verdict on first-degree armed robbery
- Dismissals after successfully challenging the lawfulness of police search and seizure
- Planning, implementing, and supervising, in the defense role, the first Monmouth County Drug Court
- Planning, implementing, and maintaining, in the defense role, the first Monmouth County Pre-Indictment Court
- Received a certificate of appreciation from Depression After Delivery, a nonprofit group supporting sufferers of postpartum depression after zealously representing a defendant who suffered from postpartum and shot her boyfriend's lover
- Invited to speak at a panel at Division of Developmentally Disabled training in New Brunswick for zealous advocacy of the developmentally disabled
- Associate at Waldman, Moriarty & Halfacre, Red Bank, NJ
- Handled matters in various areas of the law, including divorce, municipal utility law, bankruptcy law, personal injury, and worker's compensation
- Worked for Daniel Waldman, Judge of the Superior Court, Monmouth County, NJ, Charles Moriarty, and Michael Halfacre
- Law clerk to the Honorable Vincent E. Hull, retired judge of the Superior Court, Criminal Division, Monmouth County, NJ
Academic Achievements
- Adjunct Professor, Monmouth Univerity, West Long Branch, NJ
- Instruct the Law of Evidence
- Graduate of Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, DE
- Magna cum laude
- Graduated 6th out of 289 students
- Received the certificate of achievement (best score in class) for secured transactions, federal income tax, and equal protection law
- Competed at the national level in Trial Competition sponsored by the American Bar Association
- Instructed classes in core courses for students in academic difficulty
- Published author "Statutory Immunity for Volunteer Physicians: a Vehicle for Reaffirmation of the Doctor's Beneficent Duties- Absent the Rights Talk"
- Graduate Drew University, Madison, NJ