Admissions
1960, New Jersey
1981, New York
1962, United States District Court, District of New Jersey
1982, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
1982, United States District Court, Southern District of New York
1987, United States District Court, Northern District of New York
1972, United States Supreme Court
1981, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
1983, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
1986, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
1992, United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit
Memberships
Organizations/Memberships
•American College of Trial Lawyers (admitted 1976), Fellow
New Jersey State Committee, 1979-1984
National Committee on Admission to Fellowship, Chairman, 1984-1992
Complex Litigation Committee, 1991-1998
Committee on Teaching of Trial And Appellate Advocacy, 1998-2005
•International Society of Barristers, State Chairman for New Jersey, 1990-1997
Acting State Chairman for New York, 1997-1999
Board of Governors, 1991-2001
Secretary-Treasurer, 1997
Vice President, 1998-2000
President, 2000-2001
Annual Meeting Chairman, 1998
•International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Fellow
State Chair, 1997-1999
3rd Circuit Chair, 1998-2000
Long Range Planning Committee, 1998-2001
Director, 2002-2007
•International Litigation Practitioners Forum
•American Law Institute, Member, Consultative Group on Torts: Products Liability, Restatement of the Law, Third
•International Society of Barristers Foundation, President, 2002-2007
•American Bar Foundation, Life Member
•Appointed Member, Judicial Administration Working Group on Asbestos Litigation, The National Center for State Courts, 1983-1984
•New Jersey State Bar Association, Medical Society of New Jersey Conference Committee, 1970-1983
Chairman 1970-1972, 1975
Committee on Discipline of the Bar, 1974-1976
Civil Trial Bar Section, 1970-present
Public Relations Committee, 1970-1971
Product Liability and Toxic Tort Committee, 1990-present
•New York State Bar Association, Committee on Toxic and Hazardous Substances
Committee on Toxic Torts
•New York County Lawyers Association, Associate Member
•Morris County Bar Association, Ethics Committee, 1969-1971
Medical-Legal Cooperation Committee, Chairman, 1964-1969 and Co-author of Morris County Medical-Legal Cooperation Agreement (1964) which formed the basis of Agreements in many other Counties and was adopted in toto as agreement between New Hampshire State Medical Society and Bar Association
•American Bar Association, Committee on Municipal Tort Liability of Section of Local Government, Vice-Chairman, 1973-1978
Tort and Insurance Practice Section, Toxic and Hazardous Substance and Environmental Law Committee
Trial Techniques Committee
Products General Liability and Consumer Law Committee
•Trial Attorneys of New Jersey, Charter Member
Trustee 1970
Vice President, 1971-1974
President-Elect, 1974-1975
President 1975-1976
•American Society of Law and Medicine
•International Association of Defense Counsel Member to 2005, Product Liability Committee
Toxic and Hazardous Substances Committee, Chair, 1994-1996
New Jersey State Membership Committee, 1993-2005
Defense Counsel Trial Academy, Director, 1996
Faculty Member, 1991
Director-Elect, 1995
•Federal Bar Association, New York State Trial Lawyers Association, Associate Member to 2006
•American Judicature Society
•Defense Research Institute Member to 2006, Drug and Medical Device Steering Committee, 1992-1999
Editorial Board, Rx For the Defense, 1993-1996
•American Arbitration Association, Member of Panel, 1973-1975, 1993-1997
•National Center for State Courts, Associate
Supreme Court Historical Society, N.J. Membership Chair (1999)
Historical Society of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
•New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Relations with the Medical Profession, 1970-1980
Subcommittee on the Use of Videotape, Chairman
New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Professional Corporations
Presentation of videotape concept to the Judicial Conference at Trenton
Supreme Court of New Jersey Committee on Trial Advocacy Specialization
Presentation on Malpractice Screening Panels before New Jersey Judicial Conference
•Redwood Coast Medical Services (nonprofit), Member of Board of Directors, Gualala, California, 2004-2006
•Delbarton School, Morristown, New Jersey, Lay Board of Trustees, 1974-1976
Trustee Emeritus
•American Red Cross, Morristown Chapter, Fund and Membership Chairman, 1965
•Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences, Board of Trustees, 1974-1980
•Morris County Board of Elections, Attorney, 1964-1965
•Town of Morristown, Town Attorney, 1965-1967
•Morris Township Committeeman, 1970-1972
•Active in Morris County Democratic Party, Morristown Municipal Chairman, 1960-1963
County Committeeman, 1962-1963, 1970-1972, 1976-1977
•Columbia Law School, Board of Visitors, 2005-2009
•Chi Phi Fraternity
•Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity
•Phillips Academy, Andover Alumni Council, Member-at-Large, 2003-2007
•Phillips Academy Alumni Association, New York Area
•Phillips Academy Alumni Association of Northern California
•Columbia Law School Alumni Association of New Jersey, Board of Trustees, 1988-1992, 2002-present
•Yale Alumni Association of Central New Jersey