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Practice areas

• Banking law
• Administrative law
• Appellate law
• Municipal and governmental law
• Energy law

Admitted

• New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1967
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1969

Education

• Boston University, J.D.

Associations & memberships

• Somerset County Bar Association
• New Jersey State Bar Association (Chairman, 1978 - 1979 and Member, Executive Committee, 1975-1981, Banking Law Section; Chairman, Administrative Law Section, 1983 - 1985; Member, Public Utilities Law Section, 2000)
• American Bar Association

Biographical details

Published Articles: "The State's Tendency to Take from the Municipal Tax Pie," NJ Municipalities Magazine, April 2010; "Protecting Municipalities From the Telecom Tax Fight," NJ Municipalities Magazine, February 2009; "Earn Some Green by Going Green," NJ Municipalities Magazine, November 2008; "Demand Response: Drawing Savings From the Grid," NJ Municipalities Magazine, February 2007; "Conservation and Innovation — It's Time to Apply Master Planning Principles to Energy," NJ Municipalities Magazine, February 2006; "Municipal Energy Aggregation - Let's Get it Right This Time," NJ Municipalities Magazine, June 2003; "Energy Competition: Prepare For A Price Shock," NJ Municipalities Magazine, October 2002; "Universal Service: The Board of Public Utilities New Top Priority," NJ Municipalities Magazine, February 2002; "League Weighs in on Energy Deregulation," NJ Municipalities Magazine, May 2001; "Energy Deregulation — Prepare for a Price Shock," NJ Municipalities Magazine, March 2001; "From Success to Failure and the Way Back, a Short History of Municipal Energy Aggregation in New Jersey," NJ Municipalities Magazine, May 2000; "Beyond Aggregation — Conserve and Generate Your Own Electricity," NJ Municipalities Magazine, December 1999; "Electric Aggregation and the Monroe Experience," NJ Municipalities Magazine, April 1999. Member, Roxbury Defender Project, 1965 - 1966. Deputy Attorney General, State of New Jersey, 1968 - 1970. Chief Counsel, State Department of Banking, 1968 - 1970. Mayor, 1970 - 1974; Commissioner, 1974 - 1976; Mayor, 1980 - 1984; City of Orange Township, Essex County, New Jersey. Director of Law and Township Attorney, Township of Monroe, Middlesex County, New Jersey, 1988. League Energy Counsel, New Jersey State League of Municipalities, 2000 - 2009. League Special Utility Counsel, New Jersey State League of Municipalities, 2009. Judge Advocate, Military Order of the World Wars, New Jersey Chapter, 2008.

Military Service

• Capt., U.S. Army, 1966 - 1968

Cases

Appeal of Township of Monroe, 289 N.J. Super. 138 (App. Div. 1995); South Brunswick Associates v. Township Council of Monroe, 285 N.J. Super. 377 (Law Div. 1994); Application of Orange Sav. Bank, 172 N.J. Super. 275 (App. Div., 1980); In Re Mountain Ridge State Bank, 244 N.J. Super, 115 (App. Div. 1990); Ramapo Bank v. Camp, 425 F.2d 333 (3rd Cir. 1970); Application of Peoples Bank of Montvale, 111 N.J. Super. 141 (App. Div., 1970); Application of Peoples Bank of Ridgewood, 109 N.J. Super, 149 (App. Div., 1970); A & S Mfg. Co. v. Wetzler, 110 N.J. Super. 565 (Ch. Div., 1970); In the Matter of Springfield State Bank to Be Located at 220-230 Route 22 in the Township of Springfield, County of Union, 107 N.J. Super. 230 (App. Div., 1969), cert. den. 55 N.J. 312 (1970); Application of Hamilton State Bank, 106 N.J. Super. 285 (App. Div. 1969); National Community Bank of Rutherford v. Howell, 106 N.J. Super 317 (App. Div., 1969); State By and Through Roe v. Nordstrom, 54 N.J. 50 (1969).