BAR ADMISSIONS, CERTIFICATION & APPOINTMENTS

• United States Supreme Court (1992)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1980)
• United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (2001)
• United States District Court, District of New Jersey (1974)
• Supreme Court of New Jersey (1974)
• Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey (1990, reappointed 1997)
• Committee on Model Civil Jury Charges, Supreme Court of New Jersey (1992 - 1996 terms)
  • Subcommittees on Product Liability and Proximate Cause (1992 - present)
• Fordham University, School of Law, New York, New York
  • Adjunct Professor (2002- )
  • Products Liability, Torts
• Seton Hall University, School of Law, Newark, New Jersey;
  • Adjunct Professor (1995-2000 )
  • Visiting Professor (2000- )
  • Intellectual Property, Products Liability, Remedies, Torts, Scientific Evidence
• J.W. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, U.S. Department of State, Senior Specialist grant (Spring 2004)
  • Huazhong (Central China) University of Science and Technology, School of Law, Wuhan, China - Visiting Scholar.
  • Peking University School of Law - Lecturer;
  • Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Law - Consultant regarding P.R.C. Draft Civil Code - Tort Liability.
    
• American Law Institute -elected member (2001)
  • Members Consultative Group for the Third Restatement of the Law of Torts.

EDUCATION:

• J.D. Rutgers Law School, Newark, New Jersey (1974)
• M.A. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts (Political Science)(1971)
• A.B. College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts (Philosophy) (1967)

EMPLOYMENT

Tulipan & Conk, P.C., South Orange, managing partner.
Concentration in civil litigation: plaintiffs and defendants in tort cases (professional negligence, product liability, automobile and other negligence), workers compensation claims, federal labor relations litigation.

Representative clients::

• Crossroads Baptist Church, A.B.C.
• Newark Day Care Council, Inc.
• NJ State Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO
• UNITE Union Health Center
• Hemophilia Association of New Jersey
• National Organization for Women -NJ (NOW)

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Association of Trial Lawyers of America, sustaining member.

Association of Trial Lawyers of America- New Jersey, member.

Essex County Bar Association, member.

National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives, member.

New Jersey State Bar Association:

Patent and Trademark Office Society, Associate Member

Public Interest Lawyers of New Jersey, Co-Chair, 1980-1984.

Organized statewide petition drive in support of continued funding of Legal Services Corporation; moderator of statewide conference "Crisis in Criminal Justice: The New Criminal Code 2 Years Later" - Rutgers Law School, 1981; co-ordinator, statewide ad hoc coalition in opposition to "National Ballot Security Task Force", which led to permanent injunction by Hon. Dickinson Debevoise, D.J. in Democratic National Committee v. Republican National Committee, 1981-1982; In Re Hinds, 90 N.J. 604 (1982), constitutional challenge to discipline of attorney for extra-judicial statements, amicus curiae, on the brief.

Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, P.C., Washington, D.C., volunteer attorney.

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