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.
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