The Practice of New Jersey Criminal Defense Lawyer Allan Marain

Allan belongs to the New Jersey State Bar Association, where he is the immediate past chair of its Criminal Law Section. He is a past chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Municipal Court Practice Section. On May 19, 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.

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 is registerd to attend again in most recently attending in December 2008. Allan helped found NORML-NJ. He was one of its incorporators, and now serves as its Legal Defense Coordinator.

Allan is also a member of 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. 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. The February 2005 "New Jersey Lawyers Magazine," published by the New Jersey State Bar Association, featured Allan's article entitled, "Expungement of Criminal Proceedings."

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 and at Rutgers University. 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.