Background
Bergstein, Melvyn H. was born on July 20, 1938 in New York, New York, United States.
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Melvyn H. Bergstein
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Lehigh University (Bachelor of Arts, 1960). Rutgers University School of Law-Newark (Juris Doctor, 1963).
Career
Worked at Carella, Byrne, Bain, Gilfillan, Cecchi, Stewart & Olstein, A, Professional Corporation (Roseland, New Jersey) specializing in Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Law Litigation, Matrimonial Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1963, New Jersey and United States. District Court, District of New Jersey.
Harvard Law School Mediation and Negotiation, 1988.
Phi Sigma Alpha. Member, 1962-1963 and Editor, 1963, Rutgers Law Review. Author: Comment, "Mandatory Commitment Under Durham Rule," 15 Rutgers Law Review 624, 1961.
"Toward a New Competence," State Bar Advocate, 1978. "Beating the Drum Slowly," State Bar Advocate, 1984.
"The Lawyer as Injustice Collector," State Bar Advocate, 1984.
"How to Relate to Your Clientand Yourself," 91 New Jersey Lawyer 20, May, 1980 and 52 New York State Bar Journal 560, 1980. Case and Comment, 1981: "The Saber and the Velvet Glove or How to Use Psychology in the Courtroom," New Jersey Lawyer, 1984. "Mediation: A Tool for Innovative Lawyers," 122 North.J.L.J., 1988.
"Dirty Depositions: Soiling the Truth-Finding Process," 143 North.J.L.J. 199, 1966.
Lecturer: New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1975, Topics include "Psychology of the Trial and the Trial Lawyer"s, The Art and Craft of Conducting Depositions, Advanced Discovery Techniques," Alternative Dispute Resolution in Everyday Practice. Winning Strategies in Litigation.
Seton Hall, 1976. Allegheny Bar Association, 1979.
Tennessee Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1980. 1970-1978, National Law Foundation Delaware, 1993, New Jersey Branch of American Trial Lawyers Association, Picking a Jury, Middlesex Trial Lawyers Association, Picking a Voir Dire-Less Jury.
Essex County and New Jersey Legal Service Project: a Series of Lectures on Lawyers-Client Relations, New York Trial Judges Institute, Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Judging, 1970-1978. Adjunct Professor: Course in Trial Law and Psychodynamics of Lawyering and Litigating an Employment Discrimination Case, Rutgers University Law School, Newark, 1972.
Seton Hall University Law School, 1973.
Cardozo Law School, 1979. Member: New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Education, 1982-1985. New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Judicial Performance, 1986-1991.
New Jersey Supreme Court Task Force on Alternative Dispute Resolution, 1987-1992.
New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts, 1990-1991. Supreme Court of New Jersey Board on Trial Attorney Certification, 1990-1993.
Associate Editor, New Jersey Law Journal, 1986. Recipient Alfred C. Clapp Award for Excellence in Continuing Legal Education, 1995.
Member: Essex County (Trustee, 1977-1980.
Secretary, 1980-1981. Treasurer, 1981; President Elect, 1982. President, 1983), New Jersey State and American (Member, Litigation Section) Bar Associations.
(Certified Civil Trial Attorney, Supreme Court of New Jersey, Board on Trial Attorney Certification).
Achievements
Membership
Member, 1962-1963 and Editor, 1963, Rutgers Law Review.
