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Good afternoon to all my fellow NJ State Bar Association members:
I am asking for your support to help my partner, Robert J. Brass, Esq., get on the ballot for the position of Secretary of the NJ State Bar Association, in the upcoming 2014 NJSBA election. Bob has been a dedicated, active member of the NJ State Bar Association for over twenty (20) years, contributing my time and energy to serve you, the NJSBA membership, as I have outlined, below.
Bob has been a Trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association for almost six (6) years. Bob is finishing out his third, six year term on the NJSBA Board of Trustees. During that time, he has been the Trustee Liaison to the Criminal Law Section and the Anti-Trust Section. The State Bar Association by-laws prohibit anyone from a fourth consecutive term as a Trustee.
More than anything, Bob wants to continue what he has described, to me, as his "labor of love", serving the membership of the NJ State Bar Association; and, the way for him to continue to do that is to seek the nomination, by petition, for the position of NJSBA Secretary. I am asking for your assistance, by signing Bob's petition to get him on the ballot for the 2014 NJSBA election.
Bob serves as a member of the Judicial Administration Committee, the NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education Advisory Committee, and as Trustee Liaison to the Criminal Law Section and the Anti-Trust Section. Bob is a former Chair of the NJSBA Criminal Law Section (2006-2007); and, has served as the NJSBA representative to the N.J. Supreme Court Committee on Model Criminal Jury Charges (2011-2013). Bob, previously, served as the Chair of the NJSBA Ad Hoc Committee on the County Prosecutors Study Commission; and, as a member of the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Committee.
Bob has worked on presenting criminal track programming at the NJSBA Annual Meeting, in Atlantic City, as Criminal Legal Education (CLE) Coordinator for the Annual Meeting (2007-2014). Bob has been a moderator and/or panelist on the criminal track CLE programming, offered at the NJSBA Annual Meeting, since 1996.
Bob has served as a CLE panelist at the NJSBA Mid-Year Meetings, in Dublin (2011), Las Vegas (2012), and Rome (2013).
Bob is a frequent panelist, moderator, and co-coordinator for the NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, has lectured to his fellow attorneys, for NJICLE; since, 1998, on various Criminal Law Panels, including the Annual Criminal Law Institute.
Bob Brass is now in private practice, concentrating on Criminal Defense, for our firm, the Aloia Law Firm, in Bloomfield; and, has been my partner for over a year now.
Bob is a former Deputy Attorney General with the NJ Division of Criminal Justice, having served as a Supervising Assistant Prosecutor in Middlesex County and an Assistant Prosecutor in Essex County, prior to going to the Attorney General's Office. While in the Attorney General's Office, he worked on Environmental Prosecutions, Insurance Fraud Prosecutions, Public Contract Fraud Prosecutions, Organized Crime Prosecutions, a Threat Against the Judiciary Prosecution, and other cases. He, also, served on the faculty of the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute, teaching NITA style courses to Deputy Attorneys General, in the Criminal, Civil, and Gaming Enforcement Divisions, as well as to Assistant Prosecutors from the twenty-one County Prosecutors Offices. While in the Attorney General's Office, Bob was honored to have been selected by the National Association of Attorneys General to teach a week long, white collar crime trial advocacy course to Deputy Attorneys General from nineteen states, at Washington University Law School, in St. Louis.
Since he retired from the Attorney General's Office in 2008, Bob has been in private practice, since then. Since entering private practice, his practice has included criminal defense, in federal, state and municipal courts; federal civil rights 1983 litigation, public employment litigation, and other civil litigation.
A NJSBA nominating petition form is attached, hereto. Please take the time to fill it in; and, mail it to our office for submission to the State Bar Association. If you have other attorneys in your office, who are NJSBA members, please have them sign the petition, also. (PLEASE NOTE: Due to NJSBA election rules, I need the petitions to have original signature, to be mailed in to him, for him to present to the NJSBA. They will NOT accept faxes or scanned email attachments. I must have the petitions by Wednesday, March 12, 2014, in order to comply with the NJSBA deadline for submission of petitions.)
As those of you who know my partner are aware, he is highly dedicated to the NJ State Bar Association and its membership. Please be so kind as to sign and mail in the attached petition; so, that Bob can continue his service to you in the position of Secretary of the NJ State Bar Association. Without your help, he cannot get on the ballot to continue my efforts to represent your interests before the New Jersey State Bar Association.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Bob or myself at our office.
Thank you for your courtesy and support.
Best wishes,
Brian
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Brian J. Aloia, Esq.
ALOIA LAW FIRM LLC
2 Broad Street, Suite 407
Bloomfield, New Jersey 07003
[email protected] Tele: 973-337-6626
Fax: 973-337-6535
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