Robert E. Nies

Commercial, Mediation
One Boland Drive
West Orange, New Jersey 07052


Commercial

Admitted

1979, New Jersey; 1980, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1988, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 2002, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

Law School

Seton Hall University, J.D., 1979

Law School Graduation Year

1979

College

University of Delaware and Rutgers University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1976

Memberships

Essex County, New Jersey State (Member, Bankruptcy Law and Dispute Resolutions Sections) and American (Member, Business Law Section) Bar Associations.

Biographical

Phi Beta Kappa. Law Clerk to Honorable Thomas R. Rumana, J.S.C., 1979-1980. Lecturer and Author: What Does Bankruptcy Mediation Portend For Practitioners?, New Jersey Lawyer, Volume 4, Number 30 (July 24, 1995); The Liability of Mediators Is Unsettled, The National Law Journal, Vol. 17, No. 41 (June 12, 1995); ADR Fosters Kinder, Gentler Bankruptcies, N.J.L.J. (Jan. 1995); Strip Downs Barred for Residential Liens, 135 N.J.L.J. 838 (Oct. 1993); Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code Should Be Amended To Allow An Exception For An Administrative Freeze, The Essex County Bar Association Chronicle (August, 1992); Bankruptcy Needn't Become A Haven For Frauds, American Banker., Vol. CLVI No. 174 (Sept. 1991).

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