New Jersey Arbitration Handbook

Robert E. Bartkus is Of Counsel to Anselmi & Carvelli LLP (and a former member of Dillon, Bitar & Luther, L.L.C.) in Morristown, New Jersey, and New York City where he has concentrated in commercial litigation and now devotes his practice to arbitration. He has served as an arbitrator on scores of federal, NASD, JAMS, ICC, and AAA matters over almost four decades. He was an editor of the ALM publication New Jersey Federal Civil Procedure from1999 to 2022. He is also a chapter author (for New Jersey) in Interim Measures in the United States in Aid of Arbitration (Juris, 2022), and a prospective co-editor for the Guide to Best Practices in Commercial Arbitration (Juris, forthcoming 2024), a project of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, of which he is a Fellow. Mr. Bartkus is a member of the New Jersey Law Journal editorial board. He has been a frequent author and lecturer on federal procedure and arbitration in the New Jersey Law Journal, the New Jersey Lawyer Magazine and various American Bar Association and state bar publications. Mr. Bartkus has served as an arbitrator and mediator for the United States District Court. He is a trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Section on Dispute Resolution and was chair of its Federal Practice and Procedure Section and the New Jersey Supreme Court Ethics and Fee Arbitration committees in Morris County. He is a past Vice President of the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court and a Master in the John Lifland Intellectual Property Inn of Court and the Garibaldi ADR Inn of Court, from which he received the Richard K. Jeydel Award in 2020. He also is a member of the New Jersey Academy of Mediators and Arbitrators and the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. He served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1968 to 1972.

Judge William A. Dreier, now emeritus, retired as a partner and counsel to Norris McLaughlin, P.A., a law firm in Bridgewater, New Jersey. In addition to more than 25 years of judicial experience, he practiced in the areas of banking law and products liability and lectured and wrote widely. Among other distinctions, he was a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, served as an Arbitrator and Mediator for the American Arbitration Association, and was designated a Distinguished Neutral by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.