MCBA Officers 2009-10
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Edward J. Rebenack
President
Rebenack, Aronow & Mascolo
111 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
www.ramlawnj.com
erebenack@ramlawnj.com
Edward J. Rebenack graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1992 from Seton Hall University with a BS in economics. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1995. Ed has been licensed to practice law in New Jersey and New York since 1995 and 2001, respectively.
Ed is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney. In 2006 the New Jersey Law Journal and NJBIZ selected Ed as one of "New Jersey's 40 Under 40" lawyers.
Ed’s other bar activities include: New Jersey State Bar Association Trustee, 2007-09; Chair, NJSBA Young Lawyers Division, 2006-07; District XIII Ethics Committee, 2005-06; New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law, 2006-07 and President, New Brunswick Bar Association, 2003-04.
Prior to starting his own firm in 2007, Ed was a partner at Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst & Doukas, LLP. He joined the firm in 1998 and became a partner in 2003. During his partnership, Ed served as the partner in charge of the firm's insurance fraud litigation practice group and leader for one of the firm's trial teams. 732-247-3600
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Thomas J. Denitzio, Jr.
President-Elect
Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis, LLP
Metro Corporate Campus I
PO Box 5600
Woodbridge, NJ 07095
www.greenbaumlaw.com
tdenitzio@greenbaumlaw.com
Tom Denitzio is a partner at the Greenbaum firm, where he serves as co-chair of the Real Estate Department and chair of the Banking, Business Financing & Creditors’ Rights Practice Group. He is a graduate, cum laude, of Lafayette College (1972) and received his law degree from Cornell University (1975).
Tom is Co-Chair of the Association’s Real Estate Committee and a member both the American Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar Association. He is also a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association of New Jersey and an affiliate member of the Metro New Jersey chapter of the Appraisal Institute. He is listed in Chambers USA- America’s Leading Business Lawyers and in The Best Lawyers in America, in the Real Estate practice area. Tom is admitted to practice in NJ and NY. 732-549-5600
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John P. Paone, Jr.
First Vice President
Paone & Zaleski
146 Green Street
PO Box 249
Woodbridge, NJ 07095
www.paone-zaleski.com
terryb@paonezaleski.com
Admitted to the bar of NJ in 1982, John is a senior partner with the offices of Paone & Zaleski. He was in the first class of attorneys to be certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney and currently serves as a member of the Matrimonial Committee of the Board on Attorney Certification. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and Secretary of the New Jersey Chapter of that organization.
Paone is a past Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Family Law Section and in 2002 received the Section’s Saul Tischler Award for his contributions to the development of family law and the legal profession.
John has been selected as one of the Top 10 “Super Lawyers” in New Jersey by both New Jersey Monthly and Law & Politics magazines. He has been recognized as an expert in the practice of family law by the publication The Best Lawyers in America.
In 2008, the Bar Association’s Family Law Section presented John with the Edward Schoifet Award in recognition of his outstanding work as a leader in the practice of divorce and family law. 732-750-9797
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Renee Anthony
Second Vice President
155 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
rdba@att.net
Admitted to the bar of New Jersey in 1997, Renee is a sole practitioner and was the Public Defender for Piscataway Township from 2005-January 2009. She is the Chair of the District VIII Ethics Committee, Co-Chairs the Association’s Young Lawyers Committee , is a member of the Association’s Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee, sits on the Board of Central Jersey Legal Services as well as the N.J. State Bar Association Family Law Executive Committee. In 2005 Renee was the Attorney Coach at Piscataway High School when their Mock Trial Team made it to the State Finals. 732-565-0056
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Tara Auciello
Treasurer
77 Paterson Street
PO Box 407
New Brunswick, NJ 08903
tara.auciello@gmail.com
Tara is a solo practitioner in New Brunswick. She is admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York. Before opening her solo practice in July 2003, she was an associate in the Commercial Litigation department at Bryan Cave LLP in New York, NY. Tara graduated cum laude from Boston College Law School in 2001. She graduated with majors in Political Science and Religion cum laude from Duke University in 1998. Tara graduated from Rutgers Preparatory School, where she now serves on the Board of Trustees, in 1995 after having attended that school since 1982. She is Immediate Past President of the Middlesex County Bar Foundation and previously served a three year term as Trustee of the Middlesex County Bar Association. Tara is a Municipal Prosecutor for the City of New Brunswick, a past Instructor at Middlesex County College, and a Commissioner of the Middlesex County Board of Elections. Tara is the daughter of MCBA & MCBF Past President Dennis Alan Auciello. 732-937-5533
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Ellen F. Schwartz
Secretary
Ramatowski, Spilka & Schwartz
758 Highway 18
East Brunswick, NJ 08816
ellenfschwartz@earthlink.net
Ellen is a partner in the East Brunswick law firm of Ramatowski Spilka & Schwartz and has concentrated her law practice in the area of family law and related matters since 1985. She graduated from Seton Hall University Law School in 1985, having previously received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Dickinson College.
Ellen has served as an Early Settlement Panelist in Middlesex County for the past 18 years, and currently serves as a Trustee on both the Middlesex County Bar Association and the Middlesex County Bar Foundation. She serves as a volunteer for both Women Aware and Women Helping Women, as well as the Displaced Homemakers Network of New Jersey, for which she was honored as Middlesex County's Volunteer of the Year at the Legislative Awards in Trenton in May of 2003. She also served as the President of the Board of Directors of the YM-YWHA of Raritan Valley from 1996-1999.
Ellen is an active member of the Association’s Family Law Section and has served on both the Supreme Court District VIII Fee Arbitration Committee and the District VIII Ethics Committee. 732-613-8300
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Mary P. Nelson
Immediate Past President
Assistant Prosecutor
Middlesex County Prosecutors Office
25 Kirkpatrick Street, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
mary.nelson@co.middlesex.nj.us
Mary has been with the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office since 2000 and has practiced law in Middlesex County since 1992. She clerked for Borrus, Goldin and Foley of North Brunswick, NJ, interned for the Honorable Richard Plechner and was privileged to clerk for the Honorable Glenn Berman and Honorable Joyce Munkacsi. After her clerkship Mary was a defense litigator with Joan B. Sherman’s office and private counsel with Richmond Hochron & Burns in Woodbridge, NJ. Mary graduated from Seton Hall University of Law and is licensed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mary attended and graduated Rutgers -UniversityCollege majoring in Political Science; Mary attended Rutgers part time evenings for 7 years while working full time for the East Brunswick Municipal Court and Consumer Affairs office. Mary served as President of the Middlesex County Bar Foundation in May 2001-2002 term, while serving as Trustee to the Middlesex County Bar Association. She is the long-time chair of the Foundation’s Scholarship Committee, member of the Projects Committee and Project Law Subcommittee. When not in the courtroom, Mary enjoys attending antique auctions, flea markets and garage sales, collecting antiques, namely oyster plates and jewelry. 732-745-3388
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