New Jersey Criminal Defense Lawyer - Qualifications of New Jersey Lawyer Allan Marain

Qualifications:

Allan is a member of the New Jersey Bar. As such, he practices in Municipal Courts, the Superior Court of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Supreme Court. He is a member of the Bar of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, also the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is authorized to practice before the United States Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the National Transportation Safety Board.

Allan belongs to the New Jersey State Bar Association. He is a past chair of its Criminal Law Section, as well as of its Municipal Court Practice Section. In 2006, he delivered a lecture at the Annual Meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association concerning Challenging Laboratory Identification of Marijuana in Municipal Court. Law & Politics Magazine, and the publishers of New Jersey Monthly, have included Allan Marain on its list of New Jersey's “Super Lawyers” in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Allan is a member of the Legal Committee of NORML (National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws). He has attended all of its December legal defense seminars in Key West, Florida, since 2001, except for a family emergency in 2010. Allan helped found NORML-NJ. He was one of its incorporators, and now serves as its Legal Defense Coordinator. He also serves as an advisor to the Board of Directors of the Coalition for Medical Marijuana in New Jersey.

Allan belongs to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. For several terms he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey. In October 2009, he gave a presentation to the Association at its annual "Super Saturday" seminar. He completed a three-year term as trustee of the Middlesex County Bar Association. He is on the Middlesex County Assignment Judge's Criminal Lawyers Committee. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of James Publishing Incorporated, publisher of Relentless Criminal Cross Examination and numerous other litigation texts. He is a senior instructor on the faculty of Garden State Continuing Legal Education Services. He has been a presenter in its seminars to New Jersey attorneys of "Expungements under New Jersey Law". New Jersey County and local law enforcement agencies have sought his advice concerning application of New Jersey Statutes and Court Rules relating to expungements.The February 2005 "New Jersey Lawyers Magazine," published by the New Jersey State Bar Association, featured Allan's article entitled, "Expungement of Criminal Proceedings." He appears from time to time as a guest lecturer in criminology courses at Rutgers University.

Allan was graduated with honors in 1976 from Seton Hall University School of Law. He passed the New Jersey Bar and was admitted to practice that same year. He has been a guest lecturer at Seton Hall Law School. He has also instructed the Skills and Methods Course in Criminal Law for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. He stays abreast of current developments by listening to instructional tapes and compact disks while driving to and from court.

Personal Information:

Allan's hobbies include reading, mathematics, philosophy, sociology, computers, aviation, movies, and physics. He likes animals and music. NJ lawyer criminal muncipal court charged He enjoys playing backgammon, bridge, checkers, chess, hearts, monopoly, and scrabble. He is the immediate past president of Compassion and Choices of New Jersey, Inc. (formerly the Hemlock Society of New Jersey). Some of his personal heroes are Julian Assange, Jackson Browne, Chester Carlson, Rachel Carson, Noam Chomsky, Howard Cosell, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Daniel Ellsberg, Epicurus, Philo T. Farnsworth, Richard Feynman, Amy Goodman, John Lennon, Lucretius, Harold Henry “Pee Wee” Reese; Jackie Robinson, Gore Vidal, and Howard Zinn.

Allan's readings include both fiction and non-fiction. His non-fiction reading typically relates to the hobbies listed above. Allan's fiction readings include humor, science fiction, and courtroom dramas. His two favorite science fiction authors (now both deceased) are Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov. He also maintains a small collection of quotations and irreverencies.

His three favorite courtroom novels new brunswick new jersey middlesex county turnpike parkway arrests marijuana are The Caine Mutiny, by Herman Wouk; To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee; and Anatomy of a Murder, by Robert Traver. John Grisham novels are not among Allan's favorites. He finds too much fantasizing in them. It's not that Allan has anything against fantasizing as such. For example, he's a real Batman fan, and he enjoyed the first three Terminator movies. (He found the fourth to be, to put it charitably, crap.) But what he dislikes is fantasizing in something that tries to present itself as plausible.

Allan has a Commercial Pilot's license and is a Certified Flight Instructor. He has flown both complex and high performance aircraft. His last significant aviation accomplishment was to gain total proficiency with and provide ground instruction for Bendix/King KLN89B and KLN94 Global Positioning Systems (GPS) navigating equipment. Over the years, Allan flew regularly from various airports in New Jersey, including Essex County Airport (CDW), Marlboro (2N8), Princeton (39N) and, most recently, Central Jersey Regional Airport (47N) in Manville; and Double Eagle II Airport (AEG), in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In Spring, 2002, he discontinued flying for a combination of reasons. These reasons included the fact that adequate insurance coverage has become unavailable; the proliferation of regulations and restrictions following the attack on the World Trade Center; and increasing difficulty finding time to fly often enough to maintain a comfortable level of proficiency. Allan looks forward to resuming his flying at some future time.

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