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Counsel Sussex County, New Jersey lawyer: find one, check one, or file an ethics grievance or fee dispute
Find a lawyer through the Sussex 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 Sussex County.
Find a lawyer in Sussex County
If you cannot pay a lawyer at all, start with Legal Services. Otherwise the Sussex 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
- Sussex County Bar Association: no county service found; NJSBA statewide list
Free legal help
- Legal Services of New JerseyFree civil legal help for people with low income, statewide. Start here if you cannot pay a lawyer.
- LSNJ statewide hotlineCall 1-888-LSNJ-LAW (888-576-5529) or apply online; the hotline routes you to your regional Legal Services office.
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 Sussex 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 (east or west; only the District X B secretary is listed).
District Ethics Committee
District X B · Caroline Record, Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP
75 Livingston Avenue, Roseland, NJ 07068
973-267-2328
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 X · Patricia Cistaro, Cistaro Law L.L.C.
5 Cold Hill Road South, Suite 15, P.O. Box 294, Mendham, NJ 07945
973-813-8100
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. Sussex County is in the Morris/Sussex vicinage; the court Ombudsman answers questions about court process at 862-397-5700 ext. 75160. 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.