MEMBERS
T.J. Herten
A. Burstein
P.F. Sheridan, Jr.
A.J. Cevasco
T.P. Bottinelli
A.D. Litt
S.B. Harz
P. Papalia
R.J. Contant
S.M. Marra
T.S. McGuire
A.T. Fede
G.A.Pietrafesa
S.D. Jacobson
M.I. Lubin
N.O. DeScherer
D.Y. Gielchinsky

ASSOCIATES
P. Ascolese
L.R. Bicocchi
C.P. Bossong
T.J. Fagan
C.B. Hand
L.J.C. Hardesty, Jr.
M.R. Olszak
J. O'Neill
D.C. Ritson
E.S. Thompson

OF COUNSEL
J.T. Shafron
W.H. Schmidt, Jr.
D.S. Steinberg
L.C. Tomasella
C. Brooks

SPECIAL COUNSEL
G.C. Escala

DIRECTOR OF
OPERATIONS
D. Polizzotto

ATTORNEY MAIN PAGE

Andrew T. Fede

Andrew T. Fede has twenty five years of legal experience in areas including appellate practice, civil litigation, labor and employment, employment and other forms of discrimination, wrongful termination, municipal law, zoning and planning, real estate law, and constitutional law. He has been the attorney for the Boroughs of Bogota, Maywood, and Norwood, and has been the planning board attorney, zoning board attorney, or special council in four other New Jersey municipalities. Mr. Fede is a certified mediator in the New Jersey Superior Court mediation program for civil, general equity, and probate cases, an arbitrator in the Bergen County Contract/Commercial Arbitration program, and has been appointed by several Superior Court Judges to serve in cases as mediator, arbitrator, special master, and condemnation commissioner.

A 1978 summa cum laude graduate of Montclair State College
(now University), Upper Montclair, New Jersey, Mr. Fede earned his J.D. in 1982 from Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey.

He has been an adjunct professor at Montclair State, most recently teaching a course in the University's Department of Political Science and Law.

Mr. Fede has been involved in more than 15 officially reported cases, and has argued four times before the New Jersey Supreme Court. These cases include Lance v. McGreevey, 180 N.J. 590 (2004); Lonegan v. State of New Jersey, 174 N.J. 435 (2002) and 176 N.J. 2 (2003); Viviani v. Borough of Bogota, 170 N.J. 452 (2002); Mogull v. CB Commercial, 162 N. J. 449 (2000); Bernard v. IMI Systems, Inc., 131 N.J. 91 (1993); RSB Lab. Services, Inc. v. BSI, Corp., 368 N.J. Super. 540 (App. Div. 2004); United Property Owners v. Belmar, 343 N. J. Super.1 (App. Div.), certif. denied, 170 N.J. 390 (2001); Lima & Sons, Inc. v. Borough of Ramsey, 269 N.J. Super. 469 (App. Div. 1994); Baghdikian v. Board of Adjustment, 247 N.J. Super. 45 (App. Div. 1991); Swatek, Inc. v. North Star Graphics, 246 N.J. Super. 281 (App. Div. 1991); Minetto v. Borough of Northvale, 210 N.J. Super. 312 (App. Div.), certif. denied, 105 N.J. 520 (1986); Jablin v. Northvale, 13 N.J. Tax 103 (Tax Ct. 1991); Kass v. Brown Boveri Corp., 199 N.J. Super. 42 (App. Div.), certif. denied, 102 N.J. 296 (1985).

He is the author of numerous articles on legal topics, which have appeared in the New Jersey Law Journal, the New Jersey Lawyer newspaper, the New Jersey Lawyer Magazine, the Labor & Employment Law Quarterly, the Municipal Law Review, the New Jersey Municipalities Magazine, and The Record newspaper.

While at Rutgers, he began a legal history research project that resulted in a published book, People Without Rights: An Interpretation of the Fundamentals of the Law of Slavery in the U.S. South (1992), as well as four scholarly articles that appeared in the Cardozo Law Review, the American Journal of Legal History, and the Law and History Review. He also authored biographies of Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick and corporate lawyer and Judge James B. Dill in the American National Biography (1999), an article on “Slave Codes” in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of World Slavery (1998), and book reviews that were published in
1994, 1997, and 1998 in the American Journal of Legal History.

Mr. Fede earned the designation of Diplomate in New Jersey Local Government Law, which was awarded to him in September 2007 by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and The New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys.

A member of the Bergen County, New Jersey, and American Bar
Associations, Mr. Fede also holds memberships in the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and the New Jersey Institute of Municipal Attorneys. He has been a member and the president of the Bogota Board of Health, a member of the Bogota Republican County Committee, and Bogota’s Republican Municipal Chairman.

Montclair State College
(B.A. 1978)

Rutgers University at Newark
(J.D. 1982)

New Jersey

U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

U.S. Court of Appeals

U.S. Supreme Court