Credentials

AWARDS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  •  Professor James B. Boskey New Jersey State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section ADR Practitioner of the Year - 2006
  • New Jersey State Bar Association Dispute Resolution Section "Legend of ADR" Award 2007
  • State of New Jersey Judicial College lecturer, 2006
  • Committee of Arbitration Administrators/Civil CDR Point Persons lecturer, 2006
  • Panelist, ADR Day, NJAPM, Inn, NJSBA and ABA dispute resolution programs
  • Moderator, Verona and Cedar Grove Board of Education & Municipal Council Election Debates
  • NJBIZ Magazine Top Mediator - Business/Commercial-2008

  BAR ADMISSIONS

  • State of New Jersey  -  1979; State of New York, Third Department - 1989
  • Federal District of New Jersey - 1979
  • Third Circuit Court of Appeals - 1991
  • Supreme Court of the United States - 1986

WORK EXPERIENCE

Barbara Weisman, Esq., Verona, New Jersey

  • 1994 through present - exclusive neutral private practice in alternative dispute resolution (excluding matrimonial/family); including but not limited to employment, construction, contract, legal, nursing, nursing home and medical malpractice, LAD, CEPA, wrongful discharge, real property, liability, commercial, contract, banking, securities, debt, consumer debt, Consumer Fraud Act, false arrest/imprisonment, civil rights, fraud, agricultural, wills, environmental and Tort Claims. Inclusive of large and complex claims. 
  • American Arbitration Association (AAA) Personal Injury Protection Arbitrator - wrote over 500 AAA written decisions, 1994 - 2001
  • American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel of Neutrals, Special Bankruptcy Panel  2001-2003
  • 1999 through present  - arbitrator and/or mediator for:
  • Superior Court of New Jersey Roster of Mediators, Statewide Mediation Program for Civil, General Equity and Probate; State Foreclosure Mediator (mediated over 825 cases since 2001 including privately contracted mediations)
  • United States District Court, District of New Jersey, Panel of Certified Arbitrators
  • Superior Court of New Jersey, Civil Division, Essex and Union County Panels of Arbitrators (formerly also Bergen, Hudson, Middlesex and Passaic)) (arbitrated over 1100 additional cases including privately contracted arbitrations)
  • New Jersey Municipal Court Mediation Program, Mediator for Cedar Grove
  • New Jersey State Agriculture Development Committee Certified Mediator
  • The National Arbitration Forum Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators
  • FINRA Roster of Neutral Arbitrators/Chairpersons; Roster of Mediators
  • United States Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey Roster of Mediators
  • National Arbitration and Mediation (NAM)
  • Resolute Systems Roster of Mediators and Arbitrators
  • Construction Dispute Resolution Services Panel of Mediators and Arbitrators
  • CPR:International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution Panels
  • IRS Roster of Neutrals for Post Appeals Mediation and Arbitration Programs
  • Case Closure, LLC
  • United States Arbitration and Mediation Midwest, ADR Panel

Law Office of Samuel A. DeGonge/formerly DeGonge Chappell, Belleville, New Jersey

  • 1988 through 1994  - trial attorney primarily defending complex cases.
  • Experience including, but not limited to, medical and nursing malpractice, liability, Tort Claims, wrongful discharge, discrimination, contracts (including employment), false arrest and imprisonment, civil rights and maritime.
  • Tenant organization attorney and Rent Board attorney for the City of Bayonne.

Office of the New Jersey Solicitor, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

  • 1982 through 1988 - - litigator primarily in defense of cases including liability, common carrier, maritime, sovereign immunity, discrimination, contracts (including construction), employment, Workers' Compensation, bankruptcy, police defense and policy, and prosecution/resolution of commercial debt.

Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, Jersey City, New Jersey

  • 1980 through 1982 - Assistant Prosecutor in Grand Jury, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court and Trial Team. Co-author, administrative manual for Fugitive Unit. Former certified instructor, Police Training Commission, Division of Criminal Justice.

Office of Professional Discipline, New York State Department of Education

  • 1979 through 1980 - Senior Investigator monitoring disciplined, licensed professionals (excluding attorneys and pharmacists); investigation of applicants for licensure and suspected unlicensed practitioners.

Lamb, Hutchinson, Chappell, Ryan & Hartung, Jersey City, New Jersey

  • 1976 through 1979  -  law clerk working in varied areas of liability.

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING AND  INSTRUCTION

  • Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers Mediation Workshop
  • NASD Panel Member Training; NASD Chairperson Training; New Code Training
  • Superior Court of New Jersey, County Arbitration/Mediation Trainings and Trainer
  • United States District Court, Arbitrator Training
  • Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex Vicinage, Advanced Mediation Training
  • Justice Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Chapter Associate, 1998-2000; National Leadership Conferences 2000/2006
  • Agricultural Mediation Training Course by New Jersey State Office of Dispute Settlement; Course in Right to Farm and USDA issues
  • Civil Mediation Training Course and Family Law Mediation Training Course -  Institute for Continuing Legal Education
  • American Arbitration Association No Fault Arbitrator Trainings
  • Construction Dispute Resolution Services Arbitrator Training

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MENTORING/TEACHING

  •  Member, Mediator Facilitating Committee, Superior Court of New Jersey Roster of Mediators
  • Mentor, Superior Court of New Jersey Roster of Mediators
  • Former trainer, Statewide Mediationh and Advanced Mediation Training Program for Civil, General Equity and Probate
  • New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators (NJAPM)
  • New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) - Dispute Resolution Section (Past Chair; Board of Directors) 2000-present; Unlawful Practice of Law Committee (Vice Chair; Past Chair), 1984-1994; Construction & Public Contract Law Section member
  • American Bar Association - Dispute Resolution Section
  • Association for Conflict Resolution
  • New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Character - 1990-1997
  • New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law - 1994-2006
  • New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Complementary Dispute Resolution; Civil Subcommittee 2005-2008; Administration Subcommittee 2008-present
  • Justice Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for Alternative Dispute Resolution,  Chapter Master, Team Leader and Executive Board Member, 2000-present
  • Guest Lecturer, Rutgers Law School

PUBLICATIONS

  • Drafting ADR Clauses that Work", New Jersey Lawyer, February 2005; reprinted Business Law Section Newsletter, New Jersey Bar Association, August 2005, co-authors Bonnie Blume Goldsamt and Barbara Weisman
  • "Mandatory Mediation is Here to Stay", 196 N.J.L.J. 258 (April 27, 2009)
  • Former Editor, New  Jersey  State  Bar Association, Dispute Resolution Newsletter

EDUCATION

  • Seton Hall Law Center - J.D. 1979 - Centennial Scholarship for Excellence
  • Douglass College - A.B. magna cum laude 1975