The Practice of New Jersey Criminal Defense Lawyer Allan Marain

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.

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 identified Allan Marain as one of New Jersey's “Super Lawyers” in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2010.

Allan is a member of the Legal Committee of NORML (National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws). He has attended all of its annual conventions in Key West, Florida, since 2001. He attended most recently in 2008, and is registered to attend again in December 2009. Allan helped found NORML-NJ. He was one of its incorporators, and now serves as its Legal Defense Coordinator. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Coalition for Medical Marijuana in New Jersey.

Allan belongs to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is 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 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 regularly as a guest lecturer in criminology courses at Rutgers University.

Academic Information:

Allan was graduated with honors in 1976 from Seton Hall University School of Law. 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.

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