Publications and Presentations
Michael E. Patunas authored an article regarding the history of New Jersey federal judges serving on the
District Court for the U.S. Virgin Islands, which was published in the Fall 2011 edition of Nunc Pro Tunc, the newsletter of the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Joseph J. DePalma was one of the speakers at a day-long ICLE seminar entitled "Complex Business Litigation."
Victor A. Afanador will address the Seton Hall Law School Class of 2011 at the New Jersey Bar swearing-in ceremony to be held at the Law School in December 2011.
The 2012 edition of Allyn Z. Lite's book, New Jersey Federal Practice Rules, was recently issued. Mr. Lite first wrote that book in 1991 and has published annual updates since then. The book has been cited numerous times by judges of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the District of New Jersey.
Bruce D. Greenberg's article, entitled "Don't Eviscerate Consumer Fraud Act," which addressed potential legislation to amend the Consumer Fraud Act, was published in the New Jersey Law Journal.
Victor A. Afanador was a panelist at a Seton Hall School of Law forum entitled "Law Firm Careers: Small, Medium & Large Firm Perspectives."
Bruce D. Greenberg
participated in two seminars on class actions. He
was a moderator of New Jersey ICLE’s seminar entitled
“Consumer Class Actions & Beyond:
Threatened or Alive and Well?”
An article by Bruce D. Greenberg, entitled "Keeping the Flies Out of the Ointment: Reining in Objectors to Class Action Settlements," was published in the St. John's Law Review, 84 St. John's L. Rev. 949 (2010).
Victor A. Afanador was a panelist at the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. His topic will be "Diversity in the Profession: The Role of Firms, Corporations and Specialty Bar Associations." Other panelists include Superior Court Judge Hany Mawla.
Bruce D. Greenberg was one of two presenters in a New Jersey ICLE webinar entitled "Significant Developments in Class Actions."
Victor A. Afanador addressed a seminar sponsored by Volunteer Lawyers for Justice (Newark Reentry Legal Services ReLeSe) on the subject of "Municipal Court Practice and Advocacy."
Allyn Z. Lite was the moderator and Bruce D. Greenberg was a panelist on the subject of "Hot Topics in Class Action Litigation" at the New Jersey State Bar Association annual convention. Other panelists included Superior Court Judges Jonathan N. Harris and Marina Corodemus, J.S.C. (retired).
Allyn Z. Lite participated in an Association of the Federal Bar on New Jersey panel entitled "Hot Topics From Twombly and Beyond: Who Can Afford Justice-Access to the Courts." Other Participants included United States District Judges Jerome B. Simandle and Katherine S. Hayden and United States Magistrate Judge John J. Hughes.
Allyn Z. Lite was a featured speaker at the Camden County Bar Association's seminar on federal practice, entitled "Succeeding in Federal Court: The Masters on the Federal Rules, Local Rules, Civil Case Management and Discovery." Among the other featured speakers were United States District Judges Jerome B. Simandle and Robert B. Kugler and United States Magistrate Judge Ann Marie Donio.
Bruce D. Greenberg presented a seminar for the Insurance Society of Philadelphia entitled "Class Actions in New Jersey Courts." The seminar was approved for continuing legal education credit in Pennsylvania.
Allyn Z. Lite was the featured speaker at a program in Washington, DC sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Nuremberg trials.
Bruce D. Greenberg was a panelist at the New Jersey State Bar Association's Appellate Bench-Bar Conference in Atlantic City. Other panelists were Supreme Court of New Jersey Associate Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto, Appellate Division Presiding Judge Mary Catherine Cuff, and Appellate Division Judges Michael Winkelstein and Anthony J. Parrillo.