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About Andrew Fede
Andrew T. Fede has more than 30 years of legal experience practicing in Hackensack, New Jersey. His practice areas including appellate litigation, commercial and governmental civil litigation, municipal law, zoning and planning, real estate tax appeal, labor and employment, employment and other forms of discrimination, wrongful termination, probate law, real estate law, and constitutional law. He has served as the attorney for the Boroughs of Bogota, Maywood, and Norwood, and for the Township of Mahwah. He has been the planning board attorney, zoning board attorney, library board attorney, and special counsel in six other New Jersey municipalities. Mr. Fede is a certified mediator in the New Jersey Superior Court mediation program for civil, general equity, and probate cases, is an arbitrator in the Bergen County Superior Court contract/commercial arbitration program, and has been appointed by several Superior Court judges to serve in cases as mediator, arbitrator, special master, and condemnation commissioner.
Since 1986 he has been an adjunct professor at Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey. Most recently he has been teaching a legal writing course in the University’s Department of Political Science and Law.
Present | Adjunct Professor, Montclair State University ‐ Political Science and Law | |
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Professional Service and Affiliations
2001 - Present | Republican Municipal Chair, Borough of Bogota | 1996 - Present | Attorney, Pro Bono, Bogota Student Loan Association | Present | Member, American Bar Association | Present | Member, American Society for Legal History | Present | Member, Bergen County (N.J.) Bar Association | Present | Member, New Jersey Bar Association | Present | Member, New Jersey Institute for Municipal Attorneys |
Honors and Awards
- Thomas M. Campbell Award for Best Article in 2013 Florida Conference of Historians Journal
- Named “Bergen Top Lawyer” by (201) Magazine, 2012-2015
- Named as “Super Lawyer” by New Jersey Monthly Magazine, 2014-2017
- Since 2002 AV-rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- In 2007, earned Diplomate in New Jersey Local Governmental Law, which was awarded to him by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and The New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys
1982 | JD, Rutgers Law School - Newark | |
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1972 | BA, Montclair State University ‐ History | |
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