Born Paterson, New Jersey, August 28, 1952; admitted to bar, 1977, New Jersey, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey and U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, First and Fourth Circuits.

Experience
Author: "The Evolving Torts of Wrongful Life and Wrongful Birth," New Jersey Lawyer, October, 1997; "Deduction for Taxes in Valuing Professional Practices: Avoiding the 'Triple Whammy,'" New Jersey Family Lawyer, Volume X, No. 4, May 1990; "Individual Contract Rights For Union Employees--How Far Will The Court Stretch Woolley?" New Jersey State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law, Vol. XI., No. 4, 1988; Co-Author: "Critical Pattern Requirement Under RICO," New Jersey Law Journal, September 1, 1988. Moderator and Lecturer: First Annual Tort Law Forum, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, June, 1997. Lecturer: Annual Convention, Top Ten Tort Cases of 1997, The Association of Trial Lawyers of America-New Jersey, 1997; Third Annual At-Will Employment Law Symposium, 1989; Institute for Continuing Legal Education "Construction Contract Workshop," 1988; "Trying a Wrongful Birth Case," ATLA, New Jersey. Adjunct Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law.
 

Education
Cornell University (B.S., 1974); New York University (J.D., 1977).  

Memberships
Essex County and New Jersey State (Member, Sections on: Labor and Employment; Litigation) Bar Associations; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; The Association of Trial Attorneys of New Jersey. (Certified Civil Trial Attorney, Supreme Court of New Jersey, Board on Trial Attorney Certification).