Primary Practice Areas
- Mediation/ Arbitration
- Business Law and Litigation
- Tax and Estate Planning
- Bankruptcy
Biography
Douglas J. Widman is a partner at Davison, Eastman, Muñoz, Paone, focusing on estate planning and administration, employment law, business transactions and mediation and arbitration. He presently serves as an Arbitrator and Rule 1:40 Qualified Mediator for the N.J. Superior Court and the N.J. Federal District Court; he is also Collaborative Law Mediator. Over the course his career, Doug has successfully mediated over 200 cases and is listed as a “mentor” to prospective Superior Court mediators.
Doug joined DEMP in January 2018 from Widman, Cooney, Wilson, McGann & Fitterer where he was Managing Partner. There, he advised on, litigated professional and fiduciary liability issues, employment/discrimination, general liability matters, & estate planning among others. He was also corporate counsel to several non-profit health, social services and educational institutions.
Following his clerkship with New Jersey State Superior Court Judge Thomas L. Yaccarino (Monmouth County), he became Deputy Attorney General of New Jersey with the Division of Criminal Justice, where he represented the State in criminal and civil actions brought by State agencies involving organized crime, political corruption and drug diversions.
Education
Syracuse University College of Law, J.D., 1973 (Editor of International Law Review)
Syracuse University, B.A., 1971 (cum laude)
Admissions
- New Jersey and Federal District Courts
- New York
- New York Federal (E.D.N.Y. and S.D.N.Y.)
- United States Supreme Court
Memberships and Affiliations
- New Jersey State Bar Association (Life Member)
- Monmouth County Bar Association
- New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators
Douglas J. Widman
Partner
Davison, Eastman, Muñoz, Paone, P.A.
100 Willow Brook Road, Suite 100
Freehold, NJ 07728
Tel: 732.732-462-7170
Fax: 732.810.1579
[email protected]
www.respondlaw.com