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Lawrence S. Lustberg, prominent criminal defense advocate, to receive NJSBF 2023 Medal of Honor

Editor's note: This is the second of two articles on the NJSBF 2023 Medal of Honor recipients. An interview with the other recipient, retired New Jersey Supreme Court Justice Barry T. Albin, appeared in a prior edition of The Bar Report.

The New Jersey State Bar Foundation is proud to bestow the 2023 Medal of Honor, the Foundation's most prestigious award, to renowned criminal defense and civil rights attorney Lawrence S. Lustberg. 

As criminal defense attorney of 40 years, Lustberg is recognized as a prominent figure in constitutional and criminal law and procedure, having argued many seminal federal and state cases in a broad range of topics. He also serves as the director of the John J. Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest and Constitutional Law, a program at Gibbons dedicated to litigating historic, cutting-edge civil rights and civil liberties cases.