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Practice areas

• Administrative law
• Appellate practice
• Labor and employment
• Civil litigation
  
• ERISA litigation
• Public pension plans
• Civil rights

Admitted

• New Jersey, 1972
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1975

Education

• Washington College of Law, J.D.

Associations & memberships

• American, New Jersey State and Essex County Bar Associations

Biographical details

Phi Delta Phi. Law Clerk to Superior Court Chancery Division Judge Ward J. Herbert, 1971 - 1972. Lecturer,
Interrelationship Between Workers Compensation and Pensions, American Trial Lawyers Association of New Jersey Convention, 1994. Lecturer, Pension Practice, Office of Administrative Law, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2003. Deputy Attorney General, New Jersey, 1972 - 1980.

Cases

• Pinto v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, 156 F.3d 225 (3d Cir. 1998), 214 F.3d 377 (3d Circ. 2000) James v. Board of Trustees, Public Employees' Retirement System, 323 N.J. Super. 100 (App. Div. 1999), certif. granted, 162 N.J. 133 (1999), reversed 164 N.J. 396 (2000)
• Corvelli v. Board of Trustees, Police & Firemen's Retirement System, 130 N.J. 539 (1992)
• Steinmann v. State, Dept of Treasury, etc., 116 N.J. 564 (1989)
• Rokos v. State Dept of Treasury, etc., 236 N.J. Super. 174 (App.Div. 1989)
• Szczepanik v. State Dept of Treasury, etc., 232 N.J. Super. 491 (App.Div. 1989)
• Fiola v. State Dept of Treasury, Div. of Pensions, 193 N.J. Super. 340 (App.Div. 1984)
• Starkey v. State Dept of Treasury, etc., 183 N.J. Super. 1 (App.Div. 1982), certif. den., 91 N.J. 190 (1982)
• McGowan v. NJR Service Corporation, 423 F. 3d 241 (3d Cir. 2005)
• Harris ex rel Harris v. Board of Trustees of the Public Employees' Retirement System, 378 N.J. Super. 459 (App. Div. 2005)
• Hemsey v. Board of Trustees, Police & Firemen's Retirement System
• Keenan v. Board of Trustees, Police & Firemen's Retirement System, 393 N.J. Super. 524 (App. Div. 2007) (consolidated cases), reversed (Hemsey only), 198 N.J. 215 (2000)
• Bueno vs. Board of Trustees, Teachers' Pension & Annuity Fund, 404 N.J. Super. 119 (App. iv. 2008), certif. denied, __ N.J. __ (2009)