Melvyn H. Bergstein

Labor, Mediation
5 Becker Farm Road, P.O. Box 901
Roseland, New Jersey 07068


Labor

Admitted

1963, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

Law School

Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, J.D., 1963

Law School Graduation Year

1963

College

Lehigh University, B.A., 1960

Memberships

Essex County (Trustee, 1977-1980; Secretary, 1980-1981; Treasurer, 1981; President Elect, 1982; President, 1983), New Jersey State and American (Member, Litigation Section) Bar Associations.

Biographical

Harvard Law School Mediation and Negotiation, 1988. Phi Sigma Alpha. Recipient, Trial Lawyer Achievement Award, Essex County Bar Association, 1999. Member, 1962-1963 and Editor, 1963, Rutgers Law Review. Author: Comment, Mandatory Commitment Under Durham Rule, 15 Rutgers Law Review 624, 1961; Toward a New Competence, State Bar Advocate, 1978; Beating the Drum Slowly, State Bar Advocate, 1984; The Lawyer as Injustice Collector, State Bar Advocate, 1984; How to Relate to Your Client—and Yourself, 91 New Jersey Lawyer 20, May, 1980 and 52 New York State Bar Journal 560, 1980; Case and Comment, 1981: The Saber and the Velvet Glove or How to Use Psychology in the Courtroom, New Jersey Lawyer, 1984; Mediation: A Tool for Innovative Lawyers, 122 N.J.L.J., 1988; Dirty Depositions: Soiling the Truth-Finding Process, 143 N.J.L.J. 199, 1966. Lecturer: New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1975—, ; National Law Institute, Celesg. Inc., 2001, Topics include 'Psychology of the Trial and the Trial Lawyer's, The Art and Craft of Conducting Depositions, Advanced Discovery Techniques,' Alternative Dispute Resolution in Everyday Practice; Winning Strategies in Litigation; Seton Hall, 1976; Allegheny Bar Association, 1979; Tennessee Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1980; 1970-1978, National Law Foundation Delaware, 1993, New Jersey Branch of American Trial Lawyers Association, Picking a Jury, Middlesex Trial Lawyers Association, Picking a Voir Dire-Less Jury; Essex County and New Jersey Legal Service Project: a Series of Lectures on Lawyers-Client Relations, New York Trial Judges Institute, Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Judging, 1970-1978. Adjunct Professor: Course in Trial Law and Psychodynamics of Lawyering and Litigating an Employment Discrimination Case, Rutgers University Law School, Newark, 1972—; Seton Hall University Law School, 1973; Cardozo Law School, 1979. Member: New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Education, 1982-1985; New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Judi

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