About MARCIA KUTTNER
Marcia K. Werner, the recipient of the 2016 Hon. Peter Ciolino Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the Bergen County Bar Association has been practising law in NJ for over 35 years. A local New Yorker who initially worked in the publishing enterprise, she moved to Bergen County, New Jersey, inside the early Nineteen Seventies. Ms. Werner graduated from Rutgers Law School with Honors. Admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1986 , Ms. Werner argued on behalf of the Kiwanis Club of Ridgewood when it wanted to admit ladies to membership however was denied the proper to do so by way of Kiwanis International. She became admitted to america Supreme Court in 1986 and filed an Amicus Curiae Brief in Board of Directors of Rotary International v. Rotary Club of Duarte– the case which did allow women to emerge as participants of hitherto all-male civic groups. Throughout her profession, Ms. Werner has focused her general practice inside the regions of divorce, domestic violence, employment law, guardianship, and something exciting, uncommon, or tough civil matters passed off to return alongside. After honing her capabilities as an Associate in a small Hackensack regulation workplace, Ms. Werner formed a partnership in 1981 called Newman & Baer. In 1985, Newman & Baer merged with Hirsch & Simpson, Esqs. to emerge as Hirsch, Newman Simpson & Baer. In 1993, Ms. Werner opened her solo practice in Oradell, New Jersey. She is a litigator in the trial and appellate courts, a skilled mediator, and a member of the Collaborative Divorce Association of North Jersey. Ms. Werner served a time period as River Edge Zoning Board Lawyer and has written panel reports and examine bar checks for the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Character and the New Jersey Board of Bar Examiners. Ms. Werner served as President of the Bergen County Bar Foundation, as Vice-President of Women Lawyers in Bergen, and as a Trustee of the Bergen County Bar Association. She has served two times at the Supreme Cour