Robert E. Margulies is admitted to practice in New Jersey (1975), New York (1980), Massachusetts (1977; inactive status), the United States Supreme Court, and the Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeal. He maintains a full service law practice with concentration on mediation, arbitration, litigation, commercial matters, personal injury, civil rights, employment and discrimination, insurance, products liability and Appellate practice. He has tried numerous civil, chancery, probate, family and criminal cases and has participated in at least twenty cases with published opinions. He has also developed an active mediation and arbitration practice. Since 1995, he has presided over at least eighteen hundred (1,800) mediation cases in a variety of areas and arbitrated in over a hundred proceedings. He is a member of the NJ Chapter of The National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (“NADN”). He received accreditation as a Mediator from the prestigious London-based Center for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) in 2011. He was nominated by peers to be listed in the International Publication, Who’s Who Legal Mediation since 2015. He has also been an American Arbitration Association Arbitrator.
 

A member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Mr. Margulies is a Past President of the Hudson County Bar Association, a former Master of the Hudson American Inn of Court, a former Master of the Family Law American Inn of Court and Founder, Executive Director and Past President of the Justice Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for Alternative Dispute Resolution. He serves on the Supreme Court of New Jersey Complementary Dispute Resolution Committee. Mr. Margulies formerly Chaired the NJSBA Dispute Resolution Section and Executive Committee of the State Bar General Council, as well as a past President of the Association of County Bar Presidents; he served for 7 years on the NJSBA Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee. He is on the roster of the Superior Court of New Jersey as a mediator. He serves as a Mediator Mentor and formerly Co-Chaired the Facilitating Committee for Mediation by appointment of the New Jersey Supreme Court. He is also a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
 

Mr. Margulies received the Boskey Award as ADR Practitioner of the Year in 2003. In 2006 the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education presented him with their Distinguished Service Award for teaching Arbitration and Mediation. He has been the principal lecturer for N.J. ICLE in the areas of Mediation and Arbitration for over two decades. He received the Jeydel Award in 2011 for ADR Excellence from the Garibaldi Inn of Court. He has been recognized by the independent rating organizations as a Super Lawyer, Best Lawyers in America and the New York Area’s Best Lawyers in Alternative Dispute Resolution and has consistently maintained an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. In 2020 he was recognized as Lawyer of the Year in his visanage for ADR by New York Areas Best Lawyers.

 

He has taught negotiation at Peking University in Beijing for BIMBA students and taught Advanced Mediation as an Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall Law School, as well as Negotiations at Rutgers Law as an Adjunct Professor. In 2022 he was invited to lecture Polish Judges on mediation in Warsaw.

 

He serves on the Boards of RWJBarnabas Health and Jersey City Medical Center-Barnabas Health, where he is Immediate Past Chairman and CIPC, a Bermuda Captive Malpractice Insurance Carrier.
 

Mr. Margulies received his A.B. degree from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina and his J.D. degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts. He served in the U.S. Army as a 1st Lieutenant in the Medical Service Corps from 1968 to 1971, with a tour of duty in Viet Nam.