Attorney Profile

Alan L. Zegas

Alan Zegas

Zegas Law Offices
552 Main Street
Chatham, NJ 07928

Chatham

New Jersey (NJ)

T: 973-701-7080
F: 973-701-7081

Practice Areas

Criminal Defense: White Collar

Criminal Defense

Appellate

Selected To

• New Jersey Super Lawyers 2012
• New Jersey Super Lawyers 2011
• New Jersey Super Lawyers 2010
• New Jersey Super Lawyers 2009
• New Jersey Super Lawyers 2008
• New Jersey Super Lawyers 2007
• New Jersey Super Lawyers 2006
• New Jersey Super Lawyers 2005

Profile

Attorney Alan L. Zegas has received many prominent honors over the course of his career, such as being listed as on of "The Best Lawyers in America" and "The Best Lawyers in New Jersey." His practice, Law Offices of Alan L. Zegas, is located in Chatham, New Jersey, and focuses on representing state and federal criminal, civil and appeals cases.

Mr. Zegas received his undergraduate degree from Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and his MBA from the Harvard Business School. He graduated with honors with his law degree from Rutgers University Law School. Mr. Zegas is admitted to practice before the New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; and the U.S. Supreme Court.

In addition to his practice, Mr. Zegas has served on the adjunct faculty of Rutgers Law School and regularly lectures for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education. He is a former president of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, and has also served as a trustee for the New Jersey Bar Association.

Social/Professional Services


About Alan Zegas

Law School: Rutgers School of Law - Newark

Admitted: 1981, New Jersey

Professional Webpage: www.zegaslaw.com/page8/page2/page2.html

Honors and Awards:

  • Bar Register of Preeminent Attorneys (General, Criminal and Civil Trial, and Appellate Practice)
  • National Directory of Criminal Lawyers
  • Best Lawyers in New Jersey, New Jersey Monthly
  • Listed in: The Best Lawyers in America
  • Law Clerk, Honorable H. Lee Sarokin, U.S. District Court, 1981-1983
  • Editor-in-Chief, Rutgers Law Review, 1980-1981
  • Editor-In-Chief of Rutgers Law Review (1980-1981); Past President, Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Past Chair, Criminal Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association; Named in Best Lawyers in America for over 15 years; Named in Martindale-Hubbell Bar Registry of Prominent Attorneys; Taught on Adjunct Faculty, Rutgers Law School, Newark, for five years; Named as one of 50 Interesting People in New Jersey by New Jersey Monthly Magazine; Provide expert legal commentary to various newspapers, including The New York Times, Star Ledger, New Jersey Law Journal, The New Jersey Lawyer, Editor-In-Chief, Rutgers Law Review, Rutgers Law Review--Newark, 1980
  • Recipient in 2009 of Institute of Continuing Legal Education Award for Distinguished Service to the Bar, Award for Distinguished Service to the Bar, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2009

Bar/Professional Activity:

  • Chairman, Lawyers Referral Service Committee, Essex County Bar Association, 1986-1987
  • Secretary, University of Pennsylvania Alumni Club, 1986-1987
  • Reader, New Jersey Board of Bar Examiners, 1985
  • Member, New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Criminal Practice, 1993
  • Member, New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Criminal Practice, 1993
  • Alumni Council, Rutgers Law School, 1983
  • Member, Availability of Legal Services Committee, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1982-1985
  • Member, Executive Committee, Essex County Representative, Young Lawyer's Section, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1983-1985
  • Vice Chair, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1995-1998
  • Member, Secretary/Treasurer, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1994-1995
  • Member, Trustee, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1989-1994
  • Chair, Criminal Law Section, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1995-1996
  • Second Vice-Chair, Criminal Law Section, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1993-1994
  • Vice-Chairman, Young Lawyers Division, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1985-1986
  • Member, New Jersey State Bar Association, Trustee, 1986-1988
  • President, The Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, 1998-1999
  • Member, The Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey
  • New Jersey Supreme Court, Evidence Committee; Former Member of New Jersey Supreme Court Criminal Practice Committee and Criminal charge Committee; Former Trustee, New Jersey State Bar Association; Past President, Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys of New Jersey; Past Chair, Criminal Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association.
  • U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1981
  • New Jersey, 1981
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1982
  • U.S. District Court Western District of New York, 1984
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1984
  • U.S. Supreme Court, 1987
  • New Jersey State Bar Association, Trustee, Criminal Law Section, 1987
  • Member, Executive Committee Federal Practice, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1990
  • Master, C. Willard Heckel Inns of Court, 1993
  • Moderator, National Criminal Law and Procedure Forum, Lexis Counsel Connect, 1994

Pro bono/Community Service:

  • Written numerous amicus curiae briefs for the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey.  Represented numerous indigent people accused of crime.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

  • Chairman, Sub-Committee on the Availability of Legal Services for the Elderly, New Jersey State Bar Association, 1982-1984
  • Adjunct Faculty Member, Rutgers Law School, 1984-1988
  • "Personal Letters: A Dilemma for Copyright and Privacy Law"
  • Author: "Summary of Criminal Law Decisions of the New Jersey Supreme Court," New Jersey Law Journal, 1992
  • Co-Editor, Gann's New Jersey Evidence 2011; Editor, NJ Criminal Procedure 2011 (Lexis/Nexis Publications); Regular lecturer for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education.  Lectures in Criminal Law, Federal RICO Law, Attorney Ethics, Federal Criminal Practice, Federal Sentencing Guidelines, State Criminal Practice, Sex Crimes, White Collar Crimes, Computer Crimes, and Evidence.  Author, Annual Survey of Criminal Law Cases of the New jersey Supreme Court, New Jersey Law Journal; Author, Privacy and the Fourth Amendment, New Jersey Lawyer Magazine; Author, Bail, New Jersey Lawyer Magazine.
  • A Dilemma for Copyright and Privacy Law," 33 Rutgers Law Review 134, 1980
  • Lecturer: Civil, Criminal, Appellate and Federal Law, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1987
  • Co-Editor, Gann's New Jersey Evidence, Gann Law Publishers, 2011

Educational Background:

  • University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business (B.S. 1974, cum laude); Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration (MBA 1978); Rutgers Law School--Newark (J.D. with Honors 1981)

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