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ALM EXPERTS: New Jersey Edition 2025 ADR
Gibbons P.C.
Newark, NJ Jamie D. Happas P.J.Cv.
Phone: 973-596-4500
ADR E-mail: ARoy@gibbonslaw .com (Ret.)
Lombardi & Lombardi,
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New York, NY P.A.
Phone: 212-613-2000 1862 Oak Tree Road
E-mail: ARoy@gibbonslaw .com Edison, NJ 08820
Phone: (732) 906 1500
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ADR Philadelphia, PA Fax: (732) 906 7625
Phone: 215-665-0400
E-mail: ARoy@gibbonslaw .com E-mail: JHappas@lombardiandlombardi .com
Web: http://www .lombardiandlombardi .com
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Wilmington, DE Degrees/Licenses: B .A . with Honors from
Phone: 302-518-6300 Rutgers College
E-mail: ARoy@gibbonslaw .com
M .A . from Rutgers University-Eagleton
(Please see our resume on page 126 for further Institute of Politics
details.)
Hon. Mark B. Epstein
J.S.C (Ret.) J .D . from Seton Hall Law School
Hoagland Longo Profile: Judge Happas is Of Counsel with
40 Paterson Street the Law Firm of Lombardi & Lombardi, P .A . in
New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Edison, heading their ADR Department .
Phone: (732) 545 4717
E-mail: nasmah@hoaglandlongo .com
Web: https://http://www .hoaglandlongo .com/ Judge Happas served as a Superior Court
Judge for 20 years handling Family, Mass
Degrees/Licenses: Yeshiva University, B .A . Tort and Civil matters . She was the Presiding
& Rutgers University School of Law, J .D . Judge of the Civil Division for eleven years .
Prior to her appointment to the bench she
Profile: Honorable Mark B . Epstein (Ret .) was a trial attorney handling all facets of
became counsel to Hoagland Longo on June civil litigation . During her judicial tenure she
1, 2005, upon his retirement from the New handled every case type filed in the Civil
Jersey Superior Court bench . His practice is Division and settled thousands of cases .
focused on arbitration, mediation and acting
as special discovery/allocation master (SDM) . Judge Happas has been a member of several
Judge Epstein’;s last judicial assignment was Supreme Court Committees including the Civil
to the Chancery Division, Middlesex County Practice Committee, Evidence Committee,
Superior Court . Previously, he served in the the Arbitration Advisory Committee, and the
Civil Part of the New Jersey Superior Court Information Technology Advisory Committee .
for 10 years, where he was designated as the Judge Happas was also the past Chair of the
total handling judge for environmental cases, Conference of Civil Presiding Judges .
insurance coverage, and other complex cases .
He has a Martindale-Hubbell "AV" Judge Happas is a member of the New Jersey
rating, which is the highest rating awarded, State and Middlesex County Bar Associations
identifies a lawyer with "very high to and the Middlesex County Trial Lawyers ADR
preeminent legal ability and is a reflection Association . She is a past Trustee of the
of his expertise, experience, integrity and Middlesex County Bar Association and a
overall professional excellence ." In 1983, former President of the Middlesex County Trial
Judge Epstein began his judicial career in Lawyers Association .
the Middlesex County Family Part where he
was Presiding Judge for eight of the eleven Both prior to and after her appointment to the
years he was assigned there . During his Bench, the Judge taught numerous courses
twenty-two year judicial tenure, Judge Epstein for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing
was instrumental in the settlement of several Legal Education, the New Jersey Association
thousand matters including environment, of Justice and the Middlesex County and
insurance coverage, medical and legal New Jersey State Bar Associations . She
malpractice, commercial, employment, civil lectured on a variety of topics for the New
rights, personal injury and matrimonial cases . Jersey Judicial College and was involved with
developing and teaching the Comprehensive
(Please see our resume on page 125 for further Judicial Orientation Program (CJOP) to
details.) Judges new to the Civil Division .
Judge Happas received her B .A . with Honors
from Rutgers College (and is member of Phi
Beta Kappa), M .A . from Rutgers University-
Eagleton Institute of Politics and her J .D . from
Seton Hall Law School .
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