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Meet our staff:
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Learn about the attorneys in our firm that are dedicated to ensuring
that you are provided with quality legal services.
Our staff is
comprised of litigators that have extensive experience in both
courtrooms as well as educational settings.
Our approach to
law practice is simple....listen to the client, determine if a case
exists, and offer honest, caring and informative approaches on how
to handle your case.
Our practice
centers on you, the client, as a person; you have come to us because
you have a problem, and we are here to listen.
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Our
Attorneys & StaffTop
MICHAELENE LOUGHLIN, ESQ.
STEPHEN M. LATIMER, ESQ.
GLORIA VARGAS
MICHAELENE LOUGHLIN, ESQ.
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Michaelene Loughlin graduated cum
laude, with the award for excellence in constitutional law from
Seton Hall Law School, Newark, N.J. in 1977 and holds a M.S. from
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pa. and a B.A. from Marillac
College, St. Louis, Mo. and was admitted to the practice of law in
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Michaelene has concentrated her practice
in the area of civil rights and consumer protection. She is a former
secondary school teacher. She began practicing special education law
in 1979 as a staff attorney with the Bergen County Legal Services.
From 1985 to 1995, she was a Clinical Professor of Law at Seton Hall
Law School, Newark, New Jersey, where she also served as Director of
the Center for Social Justice. She resumed practicing in the area of
special education law when she began her private practice in 1995.
She served as acting director of the Special Education Clinic at
Rutgers Law School, Newark, from April - July, 1997. She handles
special education cases in the Office of Administrative Law, the
United States District Court and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Michaelene is experienced in practice before the these tribunals, as
well as the state trial and appellate courts.
In addition to special education, Michaelene’s current practice
includes the representation of people in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13
bankruptcy cases, and representation of home seekers in housing
discrimination cases. She is of counsel to the Fair Housing Council
of Northern New Jersey.
Like Steve Latimer, Michaelene believes that all persons are
entitled to be treated with dignity and respect by government
authorities. She believes in a holistic approach to representation
and seeks the most efficient and beneficial solutions to her
clients’ problems.
Michaelene currently serves on the Board of Directors of the
Consumer League of New Jersey and the Cornelian Community
Counselors. She is a member of the State Bar Association Standing
Committee on Pro Bono and the Children’s Rights Committee. She is a
lecturer for the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education,
The New Jersey State Bar Foundation and Legal Services of New
Jersey. She served as a member of the Third Circuit Commission on
Race and Ethnicity.
Michaelene was awarded the Richard S. Semel, Esq. Pro Bono Award,
Bergen County, the Miriam Theresa Rooney Award, for service to Seton
Hall Law School, and the Legal Services of New Jersey Equal Justice
Medal for legal assistance to the disadvantaged.
Contact Michaelene Loughlin
via e-mail here..... |
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STEPHEN M. LATIMER, ESQ.
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Steve
Latimer is a graduate of Tufts University and New York University
School of Law. He was admitted to practice in New York in 1968 and
New Jersey in 1979. He is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court
of the United States and several federal courts of appeals and
district courts. He has spent his career in defense of
constitutional rights and civil liberties. He is an experienced
federal trial and appellate litigator.
Steve has specialized in representation of people in federal
civil rights actions, employment discrimination and school
discipline cases as well as condemned persons in Texas, Mississippi,
and Louisiana. Because of his defense of condemned persons, in 1998
he was awarded the Thurgood Marshall Award of the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York. He does criminal appeals and post
conviction cases including habeas corpus.
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Michaelene Loughlin, he believes that all persons are entitled to be
treated with dignity and respect by government authorities and
employers. He believes in a holistic approach to representation and,
seeks to find the most efficient and beneficial solutions to his
clients’ problems.
Steve has been active in the efforts of the American Bar
Association to achieve a nationwide moratorium on executions. He
also works toward that end with the New Jerseyians for a Death
Penalty Moratorium and the New Jersey State Bar Association.
Steve is the immediate past Chair of the Individual Rights
Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Steve also served
on the Board of Trustees of the American Civil Liberties Union of
New Jersey and as an officer of the organization for almost twenty
years. He is on the Speakers Bureau of the ACLU and of the new
Jersey State Bar Foundation
Steve has published articles on the rights of incarcerated
persons. He is listed in Who's Who in American Law and Who’s Who in
America. Contact Stephen
Latimer via e-mail here...
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GLORIA VARGAS
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Gloria
Vargas is the firm’s office manager. She is fluent in Spanish and
English. Gloria has been with the Loughlin & Latimer since
September, 1995. Before that she worked for many years at the Center
for Social Justice at Seton Hall Law School, Newark, New Jersey.
Gloria is most likely your first contact with Loughlin & Latimer.
She can answer many questions that you may have about the firm.
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to schedule an appointment for an initial consultation, or to ask
Steve Latimer, Michaelene Loughlin or Sherry Chachkin about your
case, please call her at 201-487-9797. She will be glad to assist
you. Contact Gloria Vargas
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