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Frederick J. Dennehy
    

Education:

Yale Law School, J.D., 1976
University of Virginia, Ph.D., English Language and Literature, 1973
Boston College, B.A., English Language and Literature, 1967

Biographical Information:

Mr. Dennehy is a shareholder at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A., where he has been an attorney since 1976.  He is a member of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group and has appeared frequently before the Appellate Division and the New Jersey Supreme Court.  He has extensive experience in Ethics and Malpractice Defense work.  He lectures frequently for ICLE, to Bar Associations and regularly to ATLA on topics relating to Professional Responsibility.  He provides advice and expert opinion on matters of Ethics, Conflicts of Interest and various other aspects of the Rules of Professional Conduct.  He was selected to appear before the Supreme Court to give testimony for the New Jersey State Bar Association prior to the revision of the Rules of Professional Responsibility in 2004.  He has represented the New Jersey State Bar as amicus counsel in Professional Responsibility matters on a number of occasions.  He argued the case that changed the law of municipal conflicts, In re Advisory Opinion 697, (December 2006) 186 N.J. 250.  He was among four attorneys invited to serve with more than twenty judges on the Ad Hoc Committee for the Revision of the Judicial Code of Conduct.

Professional Data

  • Member, New Jersey Ad Hoc Committee for the Review of Judicial Code of Conduct, 2008-2009
  • Vice Chair, New Jersey State Supreme Court Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law, 2002-2008
  • Chair, New Jersey State Bar Association Committee on Professional Rules and Responsibility, 2004-2005.  Member - present

Awards

  • New Jersey Law Journal Co-Lawyer of the Year - 2008
  • New Jersey State Bar Association's Professional Lawyer of the Year - 2006
  • New Jersey State Bar Association Award for Amicus Brief - 2005

Recently Published Article

  • When In-House Counsel Leave:  The Mandates and Limitations of Opinion 708 of the New Jersey Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics, Legal Ethics For In-House Corporate Counsel, Number 87, pp. A-105 - A-108, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (2007).

 

 

 

Areas of Emphasis:
Complex Commercial Litigation
Ethics Defense Work - Professional Responsibility Advice and Opinions
Appellate Practice
Business Immigration