Hon. Terry Paul Bottinelli retired from the Superior Court of New Jersey last year.
After spending more than 30 years in the Civil Arena, he decided to dedicate his entire judicial career to handling matrimonial cases. For nearly eleven years he was assigned to the Family Part of the Chancery Division, initially for a short term to Union County, then to Passaic County for three years and finally to Bergen County where he spent nearly eight years.

His judicial experience included hundreds of Dissolution trials and settlements, Non-Dissolution cases, Juvenile matters, Domestic Violence and Contempt trials and Child Support Enforcement actions.

He is a former President of the New Jersey Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and has been a frequent lecturer at seminars presented by ICLE, New Jersey State Bar Association, Bergen County Bar Association, New Jersey Association for Justice, Judicial College as well Rutgers and Seton Hall Law Schools.

Prior to ascending to the Superior Court, he served as a Municipal Court Judge for more than 18 years and was the President of the Bergen County Municipal Judge’s Association.

A former President of the Bergen County Bar Association and a member of the Board of Governors for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, he was a partner at Archer Law (formerly Herten Burstein, Hackensack) and was Certified by the Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney. He was admitted to multiple
jurisdictions around the United States in connection with Class Action Tobacco litigation as well as Consumer Fraud and commercial cases.

He is a partner at the DeCotiis Law Firm in Paramus, where he handles Matrimonial and Civil Mediations and Arbitrations.

Appointed as a Superior Court Judge in Bergen County in 2002, Judge Carroll initially presided
over domestic violence, divorce, and child support matters in the Family Division. Later, he
served as Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division, and then General Equity Judge in the
Chancery Division. During his last five years on the bench, Judge Carroll was assigned to the
Appellate Division, where he reviewed hundreds of decisions by lower courts and administrative
bodies and authored numerous published opinions.

Prior to his appointment to the Superior Court bench, Judge Carroll maintained an active general
practice in the areas of residential and commercial real estate, commercial transactions, wills and
estates, family law, personal injury and commercial litigation, and land use and development.
Judge Carroll earned his J.D. from Fordham University Law School (cum laude) and his B.A.
degree from Fordham University (summa cum laude). He presently serves as counsel to the law
firm of Meyerson, Fox & Conte, P.A.

Honorable James J. DeLuca, J.S.C. (Ret.) is Counsel to Harwood Lloyd, LLC and is located in Hackensack, New Jersey. His practice focuses on the resolution of commercial, probate, trust and estate disputes through mediation and arbitration as an alternative to traditional litigation. Judge DeLuca also provides discovery master services, consultation on case management, development of trial strategy and, in appropriate circumstances, serving as special fiscal agent/receiver.

Judge DeLuca was appointed to the Superior Court of New Jersey in February 2015. He initially served in the Civil Division; and in July of 2018, he was reassigned to the Chancery Division where he served until his retirement in December 2022. While in
the Chancery Division, Judge DeLuca handled all matters appropriate for the Chancery Division including General Equity matters, Probate and Guardianship matters and
Foreclosures.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, Judge DeLuca was a partner with the law firm of Okin, Hollander & DeLuca, LLP in Fort Lee, New Jersey where his practice focused on business litigation, bankruptcy, commercial and business transactions, and arbitrations. From 1979 to 1986, Judge DeLuca served as associate counsel and then general counsel to a commercial and consumer lender located in Paramus, New Jersey. Judge DeLuca began his legal career at a firm in New York City handling commercial and securities litigation.

Judge DeLuca received his B.A. from Queens College (City University of New York) in 1974 and his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School in 1977.

Felicia Farber is a full-time independent arbitrator, mediator, workplace investigator and attorney based in NJ/NY and providing online dispute resolution services nationally. With 28+ years of experience, she resolves commercial, civil & family disputes through mediation, arbitration and litigation. For the past 18+ years her practice has been primarily focused on ADR, specializing in employment, construction, complex business/commercial, torts, contracts, homeowners associations, environmental insurance, divorce, foreclosure, products liability, and will contest matters.
 
Ms. Farber serves as an Arbitrator for the AAA, FINRA, CPR and New Jersey Courts, and is a certified Federal Court Mediator, NJ Court-Approved Civil Mediator and Mentor, and Mediator for the AAA. She has extensive experience mediating for New Jersey
State Courts, the New Jersey Office of Dispute Settlement (NJODS) and the US EEOC. She is also an Early Childhood Intervention Mediator, a Matrimonial Early Settlement Panelist, and a Military Ombudsman for the Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve. In total, she has conducted over 3000 mediations, many involving 7 and 8 figures.
 
Ms. Farber was awarded the 2022 Lewis Pepperman Distinguished Service Award and 2019 James B. Bosky ADR Practitioner of the Year Award by the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) and is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished
Neutrals. She serves on the NJ Supreme Court Committee on Complementary Dispute Resolution & Arbitration Advisory Committee, the Advisory Committee on Mediator
Standards, and the Eastern District of NY ADR Advisory Council. She also serves on the NJSBA Executive Committee of the Labor & Employment Section and is Past Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section and past Trustee of the Women in the Profession
Section. In addition, she is the NJ Regional Chair for ABA Women In Dispute Resolution, a member of the ADR and Construction Law Sections of Bergen County Bar Assoc. & past Vice President of the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators.

As a frequent writer and speaker in NJ and NY she regularly conducts presentations for state and county bar associations, Inns of Courts, law schools, and professional organizations, including the ABA. She has developed and taught Advanced Civil Mediation courses for NJODS, and Negotiation & Conflict Resolution and Mock Trial classes at William Paterson University. She also serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the NJ State Bar Foundation publication The Legal Eagle and is Chair of NJ City University IDR Steering Committee for Thought Leadership and Program Experiences.

Ms. Farber received her B.S. in Electrical/Computer Engineering from Tufts University and her J.D. from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She is a certified pet therapy handler, watercolor artist, and author.

Ira C. Kaplan, Esq. maintains a general practice in Hackensack, New Jersey concentrated in all aspects of family law, guardianships, domestic violence, elder law, probate, estate planning, and litigation. Mr. Kaplan often serves as court-appointed Parenting Coordinator and Guardian ad litem in family court matters and counsel and Guardian ad litem to minors and alleged incapacitated individuals in guardianship and family court matters in the Superior Courts of Bergen, Essex, and Hudson County. Since 1998 Mr. Kaplan has provided pro bono counsel to clients of Alternatives to Domestic Violence (ADV), having represented over 150 pro bono litigants. Mr. Kaplan was recently honored by the Judiciary for his commitment to providing pro bono services. Since 1997 Mr. Kaplan has served as Chair and Panelist for the Bergen County Matrimonial Early Settlement Panel. Mr. Kaplan served on the District Il-B Ethics Committee, and District 11-B Fee Arbitration Committee, as Chair and Panelist. Since 2015 Mr. Kaplan has served as Trustee of the Bergen County Bar Association. Mr. Kaplan was Certified as a Family Law Mediator in 2002. Mr. Kaplan received his Collaborative Law Training and Certification in 2019. He has lectured on child support and enforcement, domestic violence, the role of guardian ad litem, and custody issues concerning the representation of traumatized clients.

The Honorable Ellen L. Koblitz (Ret.) is special counsel in the Alternative Dispute Resolution practice, Appellate Advocacy practice, and Family Law practice at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden. She focuses her practice on mediation and arbitration of Family, Chancery and Civil matters. In addition, she advises attorneys and clients on appellate matters, including reviewing appellate briefs and conducting moot court appellate arguments. Judge Koblitz is on the consumer panel of arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association and is a qualified NJ Ct. R. 1:40-12 mediator.

Judge Koblitz joined the firm in 2020 after serving as a judge in the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court for 10 years, including two years as Presiding Judge. In the Appellate Division, Judge Koblitz heard appeals from decisions of the trial courts, tax court, and state administrative agencies.

Judge Koblitz began her legal career in the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender and rose to the position of deputy public defender in charge of the Hudson and then the Bergen County regional office.

First appointed to the New Jersey Superior Court in 1993, Judge Koblitz served in the Special Civil Part and Criminal Part in Bergen County. She then served as Presiding Judge of the Family Part from 1998 to 2008, when she was tapped to serve as Presiding Judge of the Chancery Division in Bergen County.

While on the bench, Judge Koblitz served on numerous New Jersey Supreme Court Committees, including serving as chair of the Supreme Court Judicial Education Committee, chair of the Conference of Family Division Presiding Judges, chair of the Children in Court Improvement Committee, and vice chair of the Supreme Court Family Practice Committee.

Judge Koblitz joins Pashman Stein’s ADR practice team which includes the firm’s special counsel, Justice Gary S. Stein (Ret.), who served for more than 17 years as an associate justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court; the Honorable Ronny Jo Siegal (Ret.), a partner and former judge who served for more than eight years with the New Jersey Superior Court, Chancery Division, Family Part; and Barry H. Evenchick, a partner and former chief of the appellate section of the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Judge Koblitz passes her legal knowledge on to others through service as an Adjunct Professor at Rutgers University School of Law and presenter of numerous continuing legal education courses, as well as by mentoring lawyers within the firm.

Linda F. Spiegel, Esq. is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University and the Boston University School of Law. She is a Past President of Women Lawyers in Bergen County (WLIB), a past Trustee of the Bergen County Bar Association (BCBA), is Editor-in-Chief of the WLIB Newsletter and a Past Editor-in-Chief of the Bergen Barrister. She was founder of the Jean Robertson Women Lawyers Scholarship Foundation, Inc. and a founder of SWAG, Seasoned Women’s Attorney Group of WLIB.

Ms. Spiegel was appointed to the District Ethics Committee and had two four year terms on the Fee Arbitration committee. She also served as Chair of the District IIB Fee Arbitration Panel. Ms. Spiegel was primarily a litigator in civil, chancery and family matters until she changed her focus to Alternate Dispute Resolution, estate planning and real estate. She has over 40 years of litigation and 20 years of ADR experience. She has mediated and arbitrated over 1000 cases in many areas of the law including but not limited to breach of contract, construction, consumer law, divorce, elder care planning, health and hospital law, insurance coverage and family law. Ms. Spiegel has also served as a condemnation commissioner in cases involving construction of highways and condemnation of private property.

Ms. Spiegel is an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association, a FINRA arbitrator, and a NJ Court Approved R. 1:40 mediator and arbitrator. She has written articles and given seminars on ADR, Construction, Elder Law and Family Law and is the co-chair of the Bergen County Bar Association's ADR and Construction Committees.

She is a recipient of a Joint Resolution of the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey for her work as a volunteer attorney with Project SARAH, Stop Abusive Relationships at Home. She has also been recognized by Bergen Magazine as a Top Lawyer in the field of Alternate Dispute Resolution as well as named one of Bergen County’s Top Lawyers in ADR by (201) Magazine.