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Barry A. Kozyra

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Mr. Kozyra is a graduate of the University of Chicago (B.A. with Honors in The College and in American History 1975) and Rutgers Law School - Newark (J.D. 1978). He is admitted to the bars in New Jersey and New York, the Second, Third and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court and has handled federal and state litigation at both the trial and appellate levels.

Mr. Kozyra has been responsible for litigation in the areas of contract, commercial, corporation and partnership law, criminal defense, professional licensing (legal, medical, pharmaceutical and others), attorney ethics, family law (divorce, custody and adoption, domestic violence, premarital agreements), insurance, environmental protection, malpractice (legal, accounting and medical), real estate, condominium law, constitutional law, employment and torts. Mr. Kozyra has also served as a privately retained mediator and an expert witness in legal malpractice and other cases, as well as a legal consultant and strategist on cases in a wide variety of practice areas.

Mr. Kozyra is a member of the American Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the Essex County Bar Association (Chairman of the Criminal Law Section, 1988-1989). Mr. Kozyra is Attorney for the Township of Nutley Planning Board, a Mediator for the New Jersey State Chancery and Law Division Superior Court, Discovery Master for the New Jersey State Superior Court Chancery Division, Federal Arbitrator, United States District Court of New Jersey, Mediator for the New Jersey State Bar Lawyer-Client Mediation Program, Panelist in the Essex County Family and Chancery Early Settlement Programs, Essex County Contract Arbitrator and an Essex County Condemnation Commissioner. He is a trustee of the Board of Trustees of the Legal Services Corporation of New Jersey and former Chairman of the St. Clare Church Finance Committee (2007-present), President of the Filomena Coppola Memorial Scholarship Fund, Inc., former member of the Township of Nutley Planning Board and former Chancellor of the Nutley Historical Society. Mr. Kozyra is a recipient of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Service to the Bar Award. He is a contributor to Forensic Accounting in Matrimonial Divorce, (Co-Author, Litigating and Proving Child Support in High Asset or High Income Cases: What to Do When a Heavy Hitter is at the Plate), R.T. Edwards, Inc. (2005) and a Lecturer, What Corporate Lawyers Need to Know About Reading Financial Statements – Understanding the Most Important Parts of Income Statements, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements That Impact Corporate Lawyers & Their Clients (ExecSense Corporate Law Webinars) (2009). Mr. Kozyra is AV Peer Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.