After Hours

Retired Judge John J. Gibbons, standard-bearer of the Gibbons law firm and a fixture in the New Jersey legal community for five decades, was honored on June 21 at a reception to mark the launch of a new fund in his name. The reception, held at Gibbons at 1 Gateway Center in Newark, marked the launch of The Judge John J. Gibbons Fund for Justice by Equal Justice USA (EJUSA), a national organization that works to transform the justice system by ending the death penalty, strengthening programs that help crime survivors rebuild their lives, and promoting trauma-informed responses to violence that save lives and heal communities. “Judge Gibbons was a prominent leader in the historic effort that made New Jersey the first state to repeal the death penalty in more than 40 years,” said Shari Silberstein, executive director of EJUSA. “This year marks the 10th anniversary of New Jersey’s repeal of the death penalty. The Gibbons Fund at EJUSA will enable our organization to continue what we started in New Jersey, ending the death penalty across the country.” The former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, Gibbons served on the executive committee for New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (NJADP), which led the repeal effort locally, in partnership with EJUSA. Appointed to the appellate court by President Richard Nixon in 1969, Gibbons is a past president of the New Jersey State Bar Association, a former member of the Governor’s Commission on Civil Disorders, a past trustee of the Fund for New Jersey, and a professor at Seton Hall University School of Law for more than 45 years, holding the Richard J. Hughes Chair in Constitutional Law until June of 1997.

Lintner Honored by ABOTA Northern NJ Chapter

Jack L. Lintner, a partner of Bridgewater-based Norris McLaughlin & Marcus, was honored as “Outstanding Jurist” by the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) Northern New Jersey Chapter at the chapter’s annual spring dinner on May 24 at Echo Lake Country Club in Westfield. Founded in 1957, the organization seeks attorneys who display skill, civility and integrity, to help younger attorneys achieve a higher level of trial advocacy and to educate the public about the vital importance of the Seventh Amendment. Lintner focuses his practice on alternative dispute resolution, insurance coverage issues and appellate advocacy consultation. He served 20 years in the New Jersey state judiciary, appointed to the Appellate Division in 1999. He was a presiding judge of the Appellate Division from 2006 through his retirement in 2008. Lintner began his judicial career as a trial judge in the Superior Court in Middlesex County in 1988, where he spent nine years in the civil court attaining the positions of presiding judge of the Civil Part and Chancery Division. Prior to his appointment to the bench in 1988, Lintner’s practice concentrated on civil litigation in both the state and federal courts. He specialized in tort, products liability, construction, and insurance coverage litigation.

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