Ms. Ringler has practiced ethics law for more than thirty years, handling matters throughout NJ from initial admissions through disciplinary proceedings, providing expert opinions on attorney ethics issues, and advising on government ethics. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law School. Her law firm concentrates on representing lawyers and other State licensed professionals on regulatory issues, attorney ethics, and disciplinary proceedings as well as character and fitness matters. In 2008, she joined the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Law after many years in private practice. As a Deputy Attorney General, she prosecuted State-licensed medical and other professionals for violations of standards of practice. She served as the Ethics Officer for the Division of Law providing guidance on conflicts of interest and other executive branch ethics issues to all personnel in Newark. The Attorney General presented an Exceptional Service Award to her in 2014 and appointed her Deputy Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs overseeing the operations of nearly 50 licensing boards.
Ms. Ringler has argued successfully numerous attorney ethics matters before the NJ Supreme Court representing individuals as well as the NJ Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics, the Committee on Advertising, and the Committee on Extra-Judicial Activities. The NJ Law Journal included three professional conduct and attorney regulation cases she argued before the Supreme Court among its 2013 annual top twelve noteworthy cases. Martindale Hubbell has consistently rated her AV Preeminent. She is a frequent lecturer on professional responsibility, litigation techniques, and health care issues. She previously served as Special Trial Counsel to the Grievance Committee for Manhattan and the Bronx and as President of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.
Other past memberships include the NJ State Bar Association Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Unlawful Practice, the NYS Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics, the NYC Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Committee on Professional Discipline, and the NJ Supreme Court District IIB Ethics Committee. She chaired the District IIB Fee Arbitration Committee and is a current co-chair of the Bergen County Bar Association Committee on Professionalism. Ms. Ringler has presented on ethics for many organizations including the NJ Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute, National Association of Attorneys General, NJ Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Seton Hall Law School Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Bergen County Bar Association, Women Lawyers in Bergen, American Bar Association Center for Professional Responsibility, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, Young Lawyers of Bergen County, North Bergen County Municipalities, National Association of Lawyer Disciplinary Boards, National Conference on Professional Responsibility, National Forum on Client Security Funds, National Organization of Bar Counsel, Statewide Cablevision program “Legal Ethics,” NJ Hospital Association, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judicial Conference, PA Bar Institute.
