The Hunterdon County Bar Association (HCBA) is proud to participate in many community activities throughout the year. Please contact us at hcba@patmedia.net or (908) 236-6109 to inquire.

High School Mock Trial Tournament
HCBA sponsors the Mock Trial Tournament for all participating Hunterdon County high schools. Attorneys and judges volunteer their time as attorney coaches and mock trial judges during this intensive high school activity.

HCBA member, Michael Sozansky, Esq. has coordinated the Mock Trial Tournament for 17 years.

The 2007 Hunterdon County winners from Hunterdon Central Regional High School are pictured below.

2007 marked the 75th observance of the Lindbergh kidnapping case which occurred on March 1, 1932. We used this occasion to study the relationship between the freedom of the press and a defendant’s right to a fair public trial. The history of this process was traced by conducting a public discussion about the historic tension between the First Amendment and the Sixth Amendment.

Featured guests included:
Pamela Brause, Criminal defense practitioner
Tom Cafferty, Attorney for New Jersey Press Association
Jim Dedman, Director of Training, National District Attorney’s Association
Al Della Fave, Captain New Jersey State Police
Gregory J. Palakow, President, Hunterdon County Bar Association
Lloyd Gardner, Professor, Rutgers and author of “The Case That Never Dies”
Harry Kazman, Director and author of “Trial of the Century”
Anthony Rotunno, Co-Chair Hunterdon County Bar Association Criminal Law Committee
Rich Pompelio, Victim’s Rights Advocate
The Honorable Barnett E. Hoffman, Retired PJSC; Chair, Sentencing Commission

Moderator:
Jay Langley, Editor, Hunterdon County Democrat (weekly newspaper, Hunterdon County, NJ)

Understanding Basic State Law for the Latino Community
In 2006, the Hunterdon County Bar Association sponsored 3 free seminars by bilingual attorneys for the Latino Community to learn their rights and obligations under the law. These seminars were sponsored by a grant from the NJ State Bar Foundation, IOLTA Fund and the Hunterdon County Bar Association.