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Counsel Essex County, New Jersey lawyer: find one, check one, or file an ethics grievance or fee dispute

DocketedEssex County · checked 2026-09-02

Find a lawyer through the Essex County Bar Association referral service or free Legal Services; check one in the Judiciary’s public lookups; complain to the District Ethics or Fee Committee that covers Essex County.

Find a lawyer in Essex County

If you cannot pay a lawyer at all, start with Legal Services. Otherwise the Essex County Bar Association runs a lawyer referral service: you describe the problem and are sent to a lawyer who takes that kind of case.

Lawyer referral
Essex County Bar Association · 973-622-6207

Free legal help

Referral link and telephone opened and checked on 2026-09-02.

Check a lawyer

Before you hire, look the lawyer up in the Judiciary’s Statewide Attorney Index (admitted, eligible to practise this year, office of record, insurance certificate) and the Disciplinary Review Board’s list of disciplined attorneys. What each lookup shows.

Complain about a lawyer in Essex County

A complaint about a lawyer’s conduct is an ethics grievance, decided by the Supreme Court’s disciplinary system, not the county bar. A dispute about the bill is fee arbitration, with its own committee and a 30-day deadline. Both go to the committee for the county where the lawyer has an office (Newark, suburban Essex or west Essex, by the town where the lawyer's office is).

District Ethics Committee

District V A · Nicholas Paul Whittaker, O'Toole Scrivo
14 Village Park Road, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009
973-239-5700

District V B · Nicholas Paul Whittaker, O'Toole Scrivo
14 Village Park Road, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009
973-239-5700

District V C · Sarah Fehm Stewart, Duane Morris LLP
200 Campus Drive, Suite 300, Florham Park, NJ 07932
973-424-2061

File online through JEDS or on the grievance form by mail to Office of Attorney Ethics, Attn: Grievance Processing, Richard J. Hughes Justice Complex, P.O. Box 963, Trenton, NJ 08625. Review takes up to 45 days. The five steps.

District Fee Arbitration Committee

District V A · Michael J. Dee, O'Toole Scrivo
14 Village Park Road, Cedar Grove, NJ 07009
973-239-5700

District V B · Harvey S. Grossman
623 Eagle Rock Avenue, PMB 342, West Orange, NJ 07052
973-736-5858

District V C · Cheryl H. Burstein, Mandelbaum Barrett PC
3 Becker Farm Road, Suite 105, Roseland, NJ 07068
973-736-4600

File the fee arbitration request within 30 days of the lawyer’s notice of your right to arbitrate. Questions: Office of Attorney Ethics, 609-403-7800. The four steps and what is out of scope.

Committee secretaries as listed in the Judiciary’s District Ethics and Fee Committees directory on 2026-09-02. They are practising lawyers serving a term; when in doubt, that directory is current.

Courthouse. Essex County is in the Essex vicinage; the court Ombudsman answers questions about court process at 973-776-9300 ext. 56886. Court staff cannot give legal advice.

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Cross-reference. Going to court and cannot pay the filing fee? See the notice of motion to proceed in forma pauperis (the New Jersey court fee waiver) or open the fee waiver form directly. Every other New Jersey court form is free at in.formapauperis.com.

Custodian is legal information, not legal advice. Filing a grievance is free; it does not get you money back (that is fee arbitration, the Lawyers’ Fund, or a civil claim). Free legal help: Legal Services of New Jersey.