About Steven W.
Steven W. Tarta trained first as a business student and then as a lawyer. He earned a B.S. in Business Administration and Economics from Alfred University in 1964 and took his law degree from The John Marshall Law School in 1968. Those early years set the tone for a career that moved between public service, local civic work and private practice.
In the early 1970s he entered public prosecution. In 1972 he served as an Assistant County Prosecutor. That experience in the courtroom and in government shaped much of his approach to casework and dispute resolution in the years that followed. During the 1980s he took on a range of community roles. Records show he served on the Hawthorne Planning Board and held several leadership positions in the local Chamber of Commerce, all noted in 1980.
Tarta’s practice has intersected with several professional organizations over the decades. He maintained membership in the County Bar Association from 1971 through 1991 and belonged to the American Bar Association from 1974 through 1994. He was a member of the Federal Bar Association during the mid-1980s. He also joined the National Association of Elder Law Lawyers for a span in the late 1980s, and he served as an arbitrator for the Passaic, Bergen and Rockland County Better Business Bureau from 1982 to 1989.
He chaired the Early Settlement Panel of the Passaic County Chancery Division of the Superior Court between 1984 and 1990. That role placed him at the center of pretrial settlement efforts in chancery matters and required a steady hand in mediating complex disputes. His background combines trial-level prosecution, courtroom settlement work and private arbitrations. Those threads run through both his case handling and his civic involvement.
Tarta has maintained an office at 700 Godwin Avenue and practices in New Jersey. As of 2026 he continues to handle matters in the state, with a practice that addresses elder law, dispute resolution and civil matters in New Jersey.
