Barbara Weisman

Barbara Weisman, Esq.

25 Pompton Avenue
Verona, New Jersey 07044

973-239-0757

Business, Civil, Commercial, Construction, Contract, Debt, Employment, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Real Estate

 

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

  

NJBIZ Magazine Top Mediator – Business/Commercial-2008

 

Best Individual Mediator - Silver - NJ Law Journal 2012 Readers' Survey


2013 NJ ADR Practitioner of the Year - Acquisition International Legal Award

2014 NJ Mediator of the Year - Acquisition International Dispute Resolution Award


Member: National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals
              Storm Sandy American Arbitration Association Mediator


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 practice in alternative dispute resolution (excluding matrimonial/family); including but not limited to construction; contract; employment (discrimination, harassment, hostile work environment, family leave acts, contracts, civil rights, wrongful discharge, wage and hour, defamation, whistleblower); legal, nursing, nursing home and medical malpractice; real property; business dissolutions; liability and negligence; commercial;  banking; securities; bankruptcy; debt and consumer debt; personal injury; false arrest/imprisonment; civil rights; fraud; Consumer Fraud Act; agricultural; wills; slander; environmental; insurance (lead, fire, water, mold and other matters); Tort Claims. Inclusive of large and complex claims. Pre-suit and post-filing.

 

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


United States Bankruptcy Court, District of New Jersey Roster of Mediators 2001-2013


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 900 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, Passaic) (arbitrated over 1300 additional cases including privately contracted arbitrations)

 

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

 

National Arbitration and Mediation (NAM)

 

Resolute Systems Roster of Mediators and Arbitrators

 

Construction Dispute Resolution Services Panel of Mediators andArbitrators

 

CPR:International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution Panel of Distinguished Neutrals

 

IRS Roster of Neutrals for Post Appeals Mediation and Arbitration Programs

  

United States Arbitration and Mediation Midwest, ADR Panel


Amicus Mediation and Arbitration Group 


National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals  

Essex County Chancery  Division Early Settlement Program


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 ofBayonne.

 

Office of theNew   JerseySolicitor, The Port Authority ofNew YorkandNew 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

 

FINRA Panel Member Training; FINRA 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, Chapter Master 2000-present; Executive Board; 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

 

Employment Mediation Interest Group (NJAPM)

 

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MENTORING/TEACHING


Member of Mediator Facilitating Committee, Superior Court of New Jersey Roster of Mediators

 

New Jersey Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Mediator Standards

 

Mentor, Superior Court of New Jersey Roster of Mediators

 

Former trainer, Statewide Mediation and Advanced Mediation Training Program for Civil, General Equity and Probate

 

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 Law Section member; Labor and Employment Law Section

 

New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators (NJAPM)

 

American Bar Association - Dispute Resolution Section; Law and Employment Section; Forum on Construction Law; ABA Advisory Panel

 

Association for Conflict Resolution (former member)

 

New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Character - 1990-1997


New JerseySupreme Court Committee on Unauthorized Practice of Law – 1994-2006

 

New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Complementary Dispute Resolution; Civil Subcommittee 2005-2008, 2010-2011; Administration Subcommittee 2008-2011; Civil Subcommittee 2012 – present

 

Justice Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for Alternative Dispute Resolution,  Chapter Master, Team Leader and Executive Board Member, 2000-present

 

National Association of Professional Women

 

Guest Lecturer, Rutgers Law School

 

PUBLICATIONS


“Drafting ADR Clauses that Work”, New Jersey Lawyer, February 2005; reprinted Business Law Section Newsletter, New Jersey State Bar Association, August 2005; co-author Bonnie Blume Goldsamt

 

“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


CIVICS
 
 
 Moderator, Verona and Cedar Grove Board of Education & Municipal Council Election Debates 

 Volunteer Mediator, Township of Cedar Grove Municipal Court; Township of Verona

 Former member, Township of Cedar Grove Health Advisory Council

 
EDUCATION


Seton Hall Law Center - J.D. 1979 - Centennial Scholarship for Excellence


Douglass College - A.B. magna cum laude 1975

 

Mediation


Mediation is the resolution of disputes with the help of a neutral person who acts as a facilitator; a mediator does not make a decision for the parties nor does the mediator offer opinions or evaluate.


The mediator helps the parties to identify and resolve the issues.  A mediator can be contacted by the parties themselves or through attorneys.  After an initial organizing conference call in which the session is planned, a meeting is held with the persons with knowledge of the facts and persons with decision-making ability. The mediator guides discussion between the parties, often with the assistance of counsel who are there to help the evaluation of law, as well as the facts.
 

The job of a mediator includes:
  • explaining the mediation process
     
  • affording an opportunity to meet together with fact and decision-making representatives
     
  • assisting the parties to understand and analyze the facts, law, issues and bases for making a decision
     
  • keeping the parties focused and the process organized
     
  • helping the parties gain a more complete understanding of  their dispute from all sides
     
  • facilitating creative and effective solutions 

Whether or not mediation is the right ADR choice for you will depend upon the facts and case. That choice is also dependent upon the disputants' willingness to sit with each other and be guided through an analysis and discussion of the facts and even law.  Mediation challenges people in a dispute to take responsibility for their own choices and solutions. 
 

Even if mediation is not successful, most participants come away with a better understanding of the conflict and are ready to move forward with the necessary next step.  If mediation is successful, the participants leave feeling more in control and more satisfied with their ability to decide an outcome for themselves.

25 Pompton Avenue Suite 101

Verona, New Jersey 07044


Phone: 973.239.0757 


Fax:     973.239.0786 

Website: www.weismanadr.com 


Email: [email protected]

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