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A Day of Disability Law: Experts, Law and Ethics

Thursday, November 20, 2025
10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Program Co-Chairs:

Drake P. Bearden, Jr., Esq.
Javerbaum, Wurgaft, Hicks, Kahn, Wikstrom & Sinins, P.C.
Voorhees, NJ

Kevin M. Costello, Esq.
Costello & Silverman, LLC
Mount Laurel, NJ

Virginia A. Pallotto, Esq.
Smith Mullin, P.C.
Montclair, NJ

Ravi Sattiraju, Esq.
Sattiraju & Tharney, LLP
East Windsor, NJ


 SEMINAR AGENDA

8:00 am - 9:00 am
Continental Breakfast & Registration • Exhibit Hall


8:30 am - 9:45 am
Judicial Perspectives


10:00 am - 11:00 am
Employment Law Top Ten
Daniel T. Silverman, Esq. • Mount Laurel, NJ


11:00 am - 11:15 am
Coffee Break • Exhibit Hall


11:15 am - 12:15 pm
When Non-Accommodation Cases Become Personal Injury Cases – 
WC/LAD and Personal Injury Meet!

Gerald Jay Resnick, Esq. • Roseland, NJ
Elizabeth Zuckerman, Esq. • Princeton, NJ


12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Lunch • Exhibit Hall


1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Accommodation For Mental, Cognitive, Processing and Emotional Conditions
Ashley Gorman, Ph.D., ABPP • Parsippany, NJ
Gianni Pirelli, Ph.D., ABPP • Verona, NJ

Moderator: Kevin M. Costello, Esq. • Mount Laurel, NJ


2:15 pm - 3:00 pm
ESLL And FMLA Overlap with Accommodations Under LAD/ADA
Stephanie D. Gironda, Esq. • Woodbridge, NJ
Jesse Sengstacke, Esq. • Montclair, NJ


3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Coffee Break • Exhibit Hall


3:15 pm - 4:00 pm
Diagnoses V. Symptom Complexes, Accommodation V. Injury for 
Non-Accommodation and Retaining, Care and Feeding of Your Expert

Hon. Heidi Ruth Weintraub, J.S.C. • Elizabeth, NJ
Katy K. McClure, Esq. • Verona, NJ 


4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Ethics Of Retainer Agreements and Motions to be Relieved
Drake P. Bearden, Jr., Esq. • Voorhees, NJ
Ryan J. Moriarty, Esq. • Trenton, NJ
Virginia A. Pallotto, Esq. • Montclair, NJ
Ravi Sattiraju, Esq. • East Windsor, NJ

Moderator: Kevin M. Costello, Esq. • Mount Laurel, NJ


5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Happy Hour • Exhibit Hall


ABOUT THE SEMINAR: The Meadowlands Seminar® 2025 features 23 seminars over three days. The advantage of this unique format is that you may move from seminar to seminar, hearing different topics as desired and thereby creating a seminar tailored to your specific needs.


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If you join the New Jersey Association for Justice when registering for the Meadowlands Seminar® 2025 you will receive the Member registration fee ($200 less than the non-member rate) and as a part of this special offer you will receive an additional $100 off of the registration fee. Join NJAJ.


MCLE Credits
New Jersey - (Earn 6.60 Credits/Earn 1.20 Ethics Credits)
New York - (Earn 6.50 Credits/Earn 1.0 Ethics Credits)
Pennsylvania - (Earn 4.50 Credits/Earn 1.0 Ethics Credits - pending)


This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 6.60 hours of total CLE credit.

Of these, 1.20 qualify as hours of credit for Ethics/Professionalism, and 0.0 qualify as hours of credit for Diversity, 
Inclusion and Elimination of Bias.


Course Materials
The seminar course materials will be online for attendees
to download on November 14, 2025.

 

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