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 Resume of
LEslie A. Farber
LEGAL EXPERIENCE
August 2001 - Present
- LESLIE A. FARBER, LLC
Sole practitioner concentrating primarily in the areas of personal
injury, workers compensation, employment law, civil rights, real estate,
contracts, domestic partnerships, and general litigation.
September 1990 -July 2001
BRESLIN AND BRESLIN, P.A. Hackensack, NJ
Associate - Responsible for variety of personal injury, workers
compensation, employment law, and general litigation cases in state and
federal courts. Activities included trials, all phases of trial
preparation including client counseling, drafting pleadings, discovery,
motions, hearings, arbitrations, and settlement negotiations. Also
drafted and negotiated various contracts. Researched and wrote numerous
appellate and motion briefs for major cases and argued in state and
federal courts (trial and appellate). Authored briefs or argued orally
in five published appellate decisions.
Assistant to Special Counsel to State of New Jersey ( Tobacco
Medicaid Cost Recovery Litigation. Responsibilities included client
interviews developing and implementing litigation strategies, research,
brief writing, drafting discovery requests.
BERGEN COUNTY BAR PANEL SETTLEMENT PROGRAM ( Panelist. Mediated
pending civil litigation cases in Superior Court.
Non-Legal Experience
August 1980 -September 1990
- MELLON INVESTOR SERVICES Ridgefield Park, NJ
(Securities transfer agent subsidiary of Mellon Bank Corporation)
Assistant Corporate Trust Officer - Administered various services for
corporate and regional bank clients.
- Operations Manager - Managed staff responsible for tax reporting and
withholding; reporting and transmitting escheat funds.
- Qualities Circles Facilitator - Assisted in planning and
implementing company-wide quality improvement program.
EDUCATION
- PACE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW White Plains, NY
J.D., 1991
Pace Law Review - Editor and member
Appellate Litigation Clinic - Participated in student intern program to
master appellate brief writing and oral argument skills.
- DREW UNIVERSITY Madison, NJ
B.A., 1986
Major: Political Science
BAR ADMISSIONS
- New Jersey - 1991; New York - 1992
- U.S. District Court (District of New Jersey - 1991
- Southern District of New York - 1996
- U.S. Court of Appeals (Third Circuit) – 1993
AFFILIATIONS
- National Association of Employment Lawyers (NELA) – New Jersey
(Board Member)
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Rights Committee – New Jersey
State Bar Association (Legislative Coordinator)
- National Lesbian & Gay Law Association (Board Member and Liaison to
American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession)
- Gender Rights Advocacy Association of New Jersey (Treasurer and
Director of Legal Affairs)
- Garden State Equality (Board member)
- New Jersey Stonewall Democrats (Chair of Legal Affairs Committee)
Bar Associations - American, New Jersey, New York, Essex County and
Bergen County
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA) – New Jersey and
national chapters
PUBLISHED WORKS
- Products Liability Practice Guide (Matthew Bender,1995) – Chapter on
“Household Products”
- “A Primer to Transgender Legal Issues and Practice,” New Jersey
Lawyer Magazine, April 2006
PUBLISHED CASES
- Komninos v. Upper Saddle River Bd. of Educ., 13 F.3d 1994 (3rd Cir.
1994)
- Venetsanos v. Zucker, Facher & Zucker, 271 N.J. Super. 459 (App.
Div. 1994)
- Doto v. Russo, 140 N.J. 544 (1995)
- Princeton Ins. Co. v. Chunmuang, 292 N.J. Super. 349 (App. Div.
1996), aff'd in part and rev'd in part, 151 N.J. 80 (1997)
Weber v. Jolly Hotels, 977 F. Supp. 327 (D.N.J. 1997)
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- Annual Conference of International Association of Official Human
Rights Agencies – “Emerging Civil and Human Rights Issues Regarding the
GLBTI Communities,” Sept. 13, 2006
- Bergen County Bar Foundation – “The Domestic Partnership Act,” Sept.
14, 2005
New Jersey State Bar Association Annual Meeting – “Hot Topics in the
Fast Paced Practice of GLBT Law,“ May 19, 2005
SPECIAL SKILLS
- Proficient in a wide variety of computer software applications for
legal research, word processing, spreadsheet, database and internet
applications.
INTERESTS
- Running long distance and other sports, music, reading.
- Excellent professional and personal references available upon
request
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Leslie A. Farber
Attorney-at-Law |
Leslie A.
Farber,
Attorney at Law
460 Bloomfield Avenue, Suite 400
Montclair, NJ 07042
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