Joanna D. Brick Esq.
- Founding Partner
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Tenacity, thoroughness, competence and compassion are admirable characteristics that give attorney Joanna D. Brick, Esq., an edge in her chosen profession of family law.
Joanna D. Brick is the founder of the firm. She is an admitted state attorney and court qualified mediator with a focus on matrimonial law. For more than 20 years she has worked in the legal field from paralegal to interning with New York City’s Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) where she prosecuted abuse and neglect cases.
After receiving her J.D. from New York Law School, Ms. Brick clerked for Hon. David J. Issenman, Superior Court of N.J., Ch. Div., Family Part – Union County, ret. Since clerking, Ms. Brick has worked at various prestigious law firms until opening her own boutique practice. Brick Law provides personal attention with effective representation to parents and their children.
Ms. Brick also volunteered with Partners for Women and Justice, Montclair, N.J., and the Battered Women’s Legal Advocacy Project (BWLAP), Morris County, N.J. She is licensed to practice before New Jersey State Courts, United States District Court of New Jersey and Supreme Court of New York. She has now been court qualified as a New Jersey Family Law Mediator.
Areas of Practice
- Family Law
- Family Law Mediation
Certified Legal Specialties
- Court Qualified Family Law Mediator
- Court Qualified R. 1:40 Mediator
Bar Admissions
- New Jersey, 2000
- New York, 2001
Education
- New York Law School, New York, New York
- J.D. - 2000
- University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
- B.S. - 1994
Representative Cases
- Plotnick v. DeLuccia, No. FD-16-00008-14, 2013 WL 7869380, at *1 N.J. Super. Ct. (Ch. Div. Nov. 19, 2013)
- Schwartz v. Schwartz, remand from unpublished decision, 2005
- Leingang v. Leingang, unpublished decision: Nos. A-0307-05 and A-1425-05 (App. Div. Jan. 3, 2007), and Leingang, No. A-0594-03 (App. Div. Oct. 22, 2004)
- White v. White, 344 N.J. Super 211 (Ch. Div. 2001) (decision as Law Clerk, Hon. David J. Issenman, J.S.C. ret.)
- Weeks v. Weeks, unpublished opinion, Union County Div. 2001 (decision as Law Clerk, Hon. David J. Issenman, J.S.C. ret.)
Professional Associations and Memberships
- New Jersey Bar Association, Member, (Present)
- Bergen County Bar Association, (Present)
- Union Morris County Bar Association, (Past)
- Essex/Union County Matrimonial Early Settlement Panels, (Past)
- New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners (NJAWBO), (Past)
- Union County Women's Bar Association, (Past)
Past Employment Positions
- Garrity Graham Murphy Garofalo and Flinn, PC, East Hanover, NJ
- Simon and O’Brien, ESQs. Morris Plains, NJ
- Budd Larner, P.C., Short Hills, NJ
- Grayson and Associates, LLC, Springfield, NJ
- Law Clerk: Ret. Judge David J. Issenman, Superior Court of N.J., Ch. Family Part - Union County, Elizabeth, NJ
- Law Clerk: Skoloff and Wolfe, Roseland, NJ
- Legal Intern: Administration for Children’s Services, Division of Legal Services, New York, NY
- Paralegal: Clifford Chance Rogers and Wells, Trust and Estates Dept., New York, NY
- Paralegal: Day Pitney, Florham Park, NJ
Pro Bono Activities
- Battered Women’s Legal Advocacy Project (past)
- Partners for Women and Justice, Inc. (past)
