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Address: 776 Mountain Boulevard, Suite 202, watchung, NJ, 07069
Law Firm: Lawrence Law
Phone: 908-645-1000
Fax: 908-645-1001
Email:
Website: http://www.lawlawfirm.com
| Title | Managing Partner |
| First Year of Call | |
| Areas of Practice | Alimony, Custody, Divorce, Guardianship, Mediation |
| Description | Jeralyn L. Lawrence, the Managing Member and Founder of Lawrence Law, devotes her practice to matrimonial, divorce, and family law, and is a trained collaborative lawyer, divorce mediator, and arbitrator. Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney, Jeralyn has worked with clients whose needs lie in all areas of matrimonial and family law, including divorce litigation, mediation and arbitration, custody and parenting time issues, alimony and child support, separation and property settlement agreements, adoption and guardianship advice, domestic partnership matters under the Domestic Partnership Act, domestic violence and sexual abuse, and palimony. She has also handled high profile matters including celebrities and professional athletes. She takes great pride and care in helping her clients make it through these difficult personal matters. Through collaborative law, Jeralyn assists and guides clients who are committed to resolving their matter without court intervention through the divorce process. Jeralyn is Treasurer of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA), where she is expected to become its President in 2022. She is a Past Chair of the Family Law Section of the NJSBA and Senior Editor of New Jersey Family Lawyer, the official publication of the Section, and a Past President of the Somerset County Bar Association. She is also the Treasurer of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Jeralyn has been certified by the Academy as a Family Law Arbitrator. To complement the breadth of her matrimonial, divorce, and family law practice, Jeralyn involves herself in various professional engagements outside the firm. She frequently serves as a speaker and panelist at divorce and family law programs and seminars and she has been admitted to the rosters of Mediators for Economic Aspects of Family Law Cases and of Custody and Parenting Time Cases for Somerset County. She serves on the NJ Supreme Court Matrimonial Certification Committee that oversees the statewide matrimonial attorney certification process, as well as the Women’s Political Caucus of New Jersey’s Board of Directors. In her spare time, Jeralyn is an attorney volunteer at Safe+Sound Somerset. She is also a volunteer attorney with the New Jersey State Bar Military Legal Assistance Program, providing pro bono legal assistance to New Jersey residents who have served overseas or active duty of the armed forces after September 11, 2001. Jeralyn has been selected by the Women’s Political Caucus of New Jersey to receive their Carol Murphy Award, presented to a woman with a successful career demonstrating leadership, advancing policies in support of women and families, and helping to pave the way for women of the next generation. She was a recipient of the 2014 New Jersey Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law, which honors attorneys whose character, competence, and commitment to the highest professional standards mark them as outstanding members of the bar. She has been honored by NJBiz as one of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business and was selected as a Kean University Distinguished Alumna, the preeminent award for alumni, by the Kean University Alumni Association. Jeralyn was honored as an Outstanding Woman in Somerset County by the Somerset County Commission On the Status Of Women. She received the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division’s Professional Achievement Award and she’s received three Annual Legislative Recognition awards from the NJSBA. Jeralyn has also received an award from the NJSBA for her amicus curiae work on behalf of the bar. She was also a New Jersey Law Journal 2015 Attorney of the Year finalist. She is a graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and a member of the Central New Jersey Inns of Court. Jeralyn has been selected as one of the New Jersey Super Lawyers in the Family Law section for several years. She was named to Top 100 New Jersey Super Lawyers and Top 50 Female New Jersey Super Lawyers and The American Institute of Family Law Attorneys named her one of the 10 Best Attorneys for the State of New Jersey. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America in the Family Law, Family Law Arbitration, and Family Law Mediation sections and was named the Best Lawyers 2018 Family Law Lawyer of the Year and the 2016 Family Law Mediation Lawyer of the Year in the Woodbridge New Jersey, Metro Area. New Jersey Family has also named her as one of New Jersey’s Best Lawyers for Families. In addition, Jeralyn was selected by her peers as one of New Jersey’s Top 10 matrimonial lawyers under the age of 40 and was recognized by the New Jersey Law Journal as one of 40 accomplished and promising attorneys in the State of New Jersey under the age of 40. Accreditations Certified Matrimonial Attorney Certified Family Law Arbitrator Accredited Mediator Accredited Collaborative Law Attorney Graduate of the National Institute of Trial Advocacy Presentations The New Alimony Law How’s That Working for You?, 2019 Family Law Symposium, NJICLE in cooperation with the NJSBA Family Law Section, Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ, January 26, 2019 2018 Fall CLEfest, NJICLE, Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel, Iselin, NJ, November 19, 2018 Handling a Relocation Trial After Bisbing, Meadowlands Seminar 2018, New Jersey Association for Justice Educational Foundation, Inc., Hilton Meadowlands Hotel, East Rutherford, NJ, November 15, 2018 Hot Tips in Family Law, NJSBA Family Law Section in association with the NJICLE, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, NJ, November 12, 2018 Everybody Lies Big Data, New Data and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, NJICLE, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, NJ, September 27, 2018 Would Equal Physical Custody Elevate a Parent’s Desires Over the Child’s Best Interests?, NJSBA Family Law Section, 2018 Annual Meeting and Convention at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, Atlantic City, NJ, May 17, 2018 Relocation after Bisbing v. Bisbing, NJICLE and AAML-NJ, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, NJ, April 28, 2018 Law Office Marketing: Online and Offline, New Jersey Association for Justice Educational Foundation Inc.’s Winter Seminar 2018, The Palace at Somerset Park, Somerset, NJ, March 1, 2018 2018 Family Law Symposium, NJICLE in cooperation with the NJSBA Family Law Section, New Brunswick, NJ, January 27, 2018 Demystifying the Trial: Preparing for and proceeding to trial in matrimonial and domestic violence matters, Hot Tips in Family Law, NJSBA Family Law Section in association with the NJICLE, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, NJ, November 10, 2017 New Jersey Association of Professional Mediator’s 24th Annual Conference Celebrating Alternate Dispute Resolution Day, in cooperation the NJSBA Dispute Resolution Section, the New Jersey Council of Collaborative Practice Groups, and the Justice Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for ADR, Somerset, NJ, November 4, 2017 Legalpalooza, Morris County Public Safety Training Center, Parsippany, NJ, November 2, 2017 2017 Mid-Year Meeting, NJSBA, The Westin Palace, Madrid, Spain, October 21 October 28, 2017 Family Law Certification Exam Prep Course, NJICLE in cooperation with AAML-NJ, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, NJ, October 9, 2017 Second Saturday, The Women’s Institute for Financial Education, Florham Park, NJ, August 17, 2017 Standing Tall: Life Lessons Learned from the Court, NJSBA Diversity Committee’s Diverse Voices-Distinguished Speaker Series, 2017 NJSBA Annual Meeting and Convention, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, Atlantic City, NJ, May 18, 2017 Domestic Violence Seminar, NJSBA Family Law Section, 2017 NJSBA Annual Meeting and Convention, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, Atlantic City, NJ, May 18, 2017 Come Have a Seat at the Table: Celebrating Women in the Law, HCBA, Beaver Brook Country Club, Annandale, NJ, May 2, 2017 Women and the Law, Rutgers University political science senior seminar cross-listed with a criminal justice class, Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, NJ, March 29, 2017 Evidence for Family Lawyers: An easy-to-follow set of strategies that get results, NJICLE in cooperation with the NJSBA Family Law Section and the NJSBA Senior Lawyers Special Committee, Hyatt Morristown, NJ, March 11, 2017 2017 Family Law Symposium, NJICLE in cooperation with the NJSBA Family Law Section, New Brunswick, NJ, January 28, 2017 A Review of the 2016 Family Law Opinions, Middlesex County Bar Association Family Law Section’s General Membership Dinner Meeting, Edison, NJ, January 18, 2017 Electronic and Social Media in Family Litigation: What’s Useful? What’s Beyond the Pale? NJICLE, Iselin, NJ, November 21, 2016 Second Saturday, The Women’s Institute for Financial Education, Florham Park, NJ, November 17, 2016 Hot Tips in Family Law The Top 40: New Spins on the Oldies but Goodies, NJSBA’s Family Law Section, New Brunswick, NJ, November 11, 2016 Going Dutch, NJSBA Mid-Year Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 26, 2016 Family Law Bench/Bar Conference, NJSBA Annual Meeting and Convention, Atlantic City, NJ, May 20, 2016 New Alimony Statute 101, NJSBA Annual Meeting and Convention, Atlantic City, NJ, May 18, 2016 Litigationg Grandparents Visitation Cases and Third Party Custody and Visitation Claims in the Family Part, NJAJ Boardwalk Seminar, Atlantic City, NJ, April 7, 2016 Understanding the Legislative Process, NJSBA Town Hall Advocacy Program, Trenton, NJ, March 7, 2016 Cutting Edge Issues from the Perspective of Custody Evaluators, NJSBA/NJICLE Family Law Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, January 30, 2016 Hot Tips in Family Law 2015: The Road to Resolution Trial, Arbitration, Mediation or Collaborative Law? NJICLE & NJSBA, New Brunswick, NJ, November 11, 2015 Domestic Violence, Moderator, NJSBA Mid-year Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 5, 2015 Hot Tips for Handling Domestic Violence, SCBA Marathon CLE Day, Bridgewater, NJ, October 12, 2015 ADR Day XVIII, NJICLE, New Brunswick, NJ, June 6, 2015 Recent Statutory Changes in Matrimonial Law, Norris McLaughlin, P.A., Bridgewater, NJ, April 8, 2015 2015 Family Law Symposium, NJSBA, New Brunswick, NJ, January 24, 2015 Evidence for Family Lawyers, Central CLEFest, NJICLE, East Brunswick, NJ, November 24, 2014 Alimony Reform, Legalpalooza, Morris County Bar Association, Morristown, NJ, November 22, 2014 Alimony Law in New Jersey, Keep C.A.L.M. and Mediate, New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators, Somerset NJ, November 15, 2014 Family Law: Advanced Issues, National Business Institute, Newark, NJ, November 14, 2014 Alimony Update: The New Law, Meadowlands Seminar 2014, East Rutherford, NJ, November 13, 2014 Hot Tips in Family Law-Rules are Made to be Broken: Exceptions, Dissents, & Loopholes, NJICLE & NJSBA, New Brunswick, NJ, November 11, 2014 Legislative Issues Affecting the Family Law Practice, Family Law Section Dinner Meeting, MCBA, Edison, NJ, November 10, 2014 Hop Tips in Family Law Trouble in the City of Love, NJSBA Mid-year Meeting, Paris, France, November 3, 2014 Family Law: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Sterling Education Services, Inc., Parsippany, NJ, October 22, 2014 New Jersey’s New Alimony Bill, NJSBA, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, NJ, September 18, 2014 2014 Family Law Section Bench/ Bar Conference, NJSBA Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ, May 16, 2014 Child Support: The New Guidelines What’s Changed; Advocacy for Deviating from the Guidelines; Children in College, NJAJ Educational Foundation, Inc. Boardwalk Seminar 2014, Atlantic City, NJ, May 1, 2014 Third Parties in Family Law Matters, NJICLE, Westin, Mount Laurel, NJ, March 8, 2014 Family Law: Breaking Up is Hard to Do, SES, Holiday Inn, Cherry Hill, NJ, February 25, 2014 2014 Family Law Symposium, NJICLE, Hilton, East Brunswick, NJ, January 25, 2014 Basic Interdisciplinary Collaborative Law Training, NJICLE, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, NJ, January 18, 2014(Day 2) The Child Support Guidelines: How to Advocate to Deviate, NJICLE, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, NJ, December 14, 2013 Child Custody in the 21st Century, NJICLE’s Central CLEfest, Iselin, NJ, November 25, 2013 Hot Tips in Family Law 2013/2014, Rules Are Made to be Broken: Exceptions, Dissents, and Loopholes, NJICLE, New Brunswick, NJ, November 11, 2013 Child Custody in the 21st Century, NJICLE’s South CLEfest, Atlantic City, NJ, August 16, 2013 Family Law for Paralegals & New Attorneys: A 2013 Update, NJSBA Paralegal Committee, New Brunswick, NJ, August 1, 2013 Bench Bar Seminar, NJSBA Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ, May 17, 2013 Sheridan and the Innocent Spouse, NJAJ Educational Foundation, Inc. Boardwalk Seminar 2013, Atlantic City, NJ, April 18, 2013 Hot Tips in Family Law: Marriage in 2013, NJICLE, November 12, 2012 Work-Life Balance: Is it in the Cards? NJSBA Mid-Year Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 13, 2012 Change in Circumstances Modification of Support When Lady Luck Deals Your Client a Bad Hand, NJSBA Mid-Year Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 12, 2012 Collaborative Law Training, NJICLE, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, NJ, March 16, 2012 (Day 1) Collaborative Law Training, NJICLE, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, NJ, March 17, 2012 (Day 2) Hot Tips in Family Law 2013/2014: Rules are Made to be Broken, NJICLE, November 11, 2013 Understanding the Neurobiology and Symptoms of Chemical and Other Addictions: Implications for Children, Families, & Custody, AFCC, October 12, 2013 Hot Tips in Family Law: Marriage in 2013, NJICLE, November 12, 2012 Work-Life Balance: Is it in the Cards? NJSBA Mid-Year Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 13, 2012 Change in Circumstances Modification of Support When Lady Luck Deals Your Client a Bad Hand, NJSBA Mid-Year Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 12, 2012 Collaborative Law Training, NJICLE, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 16, 2012 (Day 1) Collaborative Law Training, NJICLE, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey, March 17, 2012 (Day 2) Basic Interdisciplinary Collaborative Divorce, NJICLE, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 9, 2011 (Day 1) Basic Interdisciplinary Collaborative Divorce, NJICLE, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey, April 16, 2011 (Day 2) Imputation Issues, NJICLE & NJSBA Family Law Section, January 29, 2011 Collaborative Divorce: An Essential Primer for All Family Law Practitioners, NJICLE, Edison, New Jersey, June 17, 2010 NJSBA Annual Meeting and Convention, May 19-21, 2010 2010 Family Law Symposium, January 29, 2010, Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Brunswick Rights and Responsibilities of Adults in Nontraditional Families, New Jersey State Bar Association Annual Mid-Year Meeting, Disney’s Boardwalk Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 5-9, 2008 What Everyone Should Know About Divorce, Child Custody and Grandparents’ Rights, New Jersey State Bar Foundation, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 23, 2008 Settlement Civil Restraining Orders, Hot Tips in Family Law 2008: Back to Basics, New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Section in association with the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey, September 20,2008 2008 Family Law Symposium, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education in cooperation with the New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Section, Iselin, New Jersey, January 25-26, 2008 Are Best Practices Forcing Litigation to Go ˜Sideways’: ˜To Whine or Not to Wine’ Recent Court Rule Amendments for Civil and Family Cases, Family Law Section Meeting, Annual Mid-Year Meeting, New Jersey State Bar Association, Santa Barbara, California, November 8, 2007 Family Court Rules: Overview and 2008 Update, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, October 23, 2007 Imputation Issues, NJICLE & NJSBA Family Law Section, January 29, 2011 Collaborative Divorce: An Essential Primer for All Family Law Practitioners, NJICLE, Edison, New Jersey, June 17, 2010 Norris McLaughlin, P.A. Attorneys to Speak at the NJSBA Annual Meeting and Convention, May 19-21, 2010 Jeralyn speaks at 2010 Family Law Symposium, January 29, 2010, Hyatt Regency Hotel, New Brunswick Rights and Responsibilities of Adults in Nontraditional Families, New Jersey State Bar Association Annual Mid-Year Meeting, Disney’s Boardwalk Resort, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 5-9, 2008 What Everyone Should Know About Divorce, Child Custody and Grandparents’ Rights, New Jersey State Bar Foundation, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey, October 23, 2008 Settlement Civil Restraining Orders, Hot Tips in Family Law 2008: Back to Basics, New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Section in association with the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Brunswick, New Jersey, September 20,2008 2008 Family Law Symposium, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education in cooperation with the New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Section, Iselin, New Jersey, January 25-26, 2008 Are Best Practices Forcing Litigation to Go ˜Sideways’: ˜To Whine or Not to Wine’ Recent Court Rule Amendments for Civil and Family Cases, Family Law Section Meeting, Annual Mid-Year Meeting, New Jersey State Bar Association, Santa Barbara, California, November 8, 2007 Family Court Rules: Overview and 2008 Update, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, October 23, 2007 Divorce Law, Child Custody and Grandparents Rights, New Jersey State Bar Foundation, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, October 16, 2007 Hot Tips in Family Law 2007: Factors, Grounds & Tests, Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education in cooperation with the New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Section, September 29, 2007 Custody Conversations Fun with Dick and Jane Skits and Panel Discussions, New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Section, May 16, 2007 The ABC’s of an Effective CDR Presentation From the Presenter’s Perspective, Boardwalk Seminar 2007, Association of Trial Lawyers of America-New Jersey Educational Foundation, Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 26-27, 2007 What Everyone Should Know About Child Custody and Grandparents’ Rights, New Jersey State Bar Foundation, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, New Jersey, January 10, 2007 Hot Tips on International Family Law Issues, Mid-Year Meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Rome, Italy, November 10, 2006 Key Family Court Rules, 2006 Family Law Summer Institute, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, July 26-27, 2006 Ten Things the Client Should Never Say to Their Children, ATLA-NJ Educational Foundation’s Boardwalk Seminar 2006, April 28,2006 Hot Topics Seminar, November 3, 2001 Awards & Recognition Jeralyn Lisa Lawrence has earned the Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent status. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Jeralyn Lisa Lawrence was selected to the 2018 Super Lawyers list. The Super Lawyers List is issued by Thompson Reuters. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Jeralyn Lisa Lawrence was selected to the 2019 Best Lawyers list. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Jeralyn L. Lawrence was selected to the 2018 Best Lawyers Lawyer of The Year list. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Jeralyn L. Lawrence was selected to the 2016 Best Lawyers Lawyer of The Year list. A description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Professional Affiliations New Jersey State Bar Association Treasurer Family Law Section Past Chair Executive Committee Senior Editor, New Jersey Family Lawyer New Jersey Supreme Court Matrimonial Certification Committee District XIII Attorney Ethics Committee, Former Member Somerset County Bar Association Past President Family Law Committee Somerset County Domestic Violence Working Group American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Treasurer Board of Managers Fellow American Bar Foundation Fellow Association of Family & Conciliation Courts New Jersey Women Lawyers Association New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators New Jersey Association of Justice New Jersey Collaborative Law Group International Academy of Collaborative Professionals Women’s Political Caucus of New Jersey Matrimonial Lawyers Alliance |
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