New Jersey Arbitration Handbook

Robert E. Bartkus is Of Counsel to Anselmi & Carvelli, LLP in Morristown and New York City, where he has concentrated in commercial litigation and now devotes his practice to mediation and arbitration. He graduated in 1968 with honors in economics from Swarthmore College and in 1976 from Stanford Law School, where he was co-articles editor on the Stanford Law Review and a post-graduate teaching assistant. A contributor to the New Jersey Law Journal on federal procedural and arbitration issues, Mr. Bartkus is a member of its editorial board. He also has been a frequent author and lecturer on federal procedure and arbitration, and an arbitrator and mediator for the U.S. District Court and with the American Arbitration Association and other fora. Mr. Bartkus is a past chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Federal Practice and Procedure Section and the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Ethics and Fee Arbitration (Chair) committees in Morris County. He was a vice president of the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court and is a Master in the John Lifland Intellectual Property Inn of Court, as well as the Justice Marie L. Garibaldi American Inn of Court for ADR for which he received the Richard K. Jeydel Award in 2020.

In 2016, he was elected as a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, and is a member of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center, the New York International Arbitration Center, the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, and faculty in the Stanford Law School Trial Advocacy Course (2017-2019). With the Hon. William A. Dreier, P.J.A.D. (Ret.), he is a co-author of New Jersey Arbitration Handbook (N.J.L.J. 2016-2023); he is a co-author of Interim Measures in the United States in Aid of Arbitration (Juris 2022). He served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy from 1968 to 1972.

Judge William A. Dreier is a retired partner and counsel to Norris McLaughlin, P.A., a law firm in Bridgewater, New Jersey. In addition to more than 25 years of judicial experience, he has practiced in the areas of banking law and products liability and has lectured and written widely. Among other distinctions, he has been a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, has served as an Arbitrator and Mediator for the American Arbitration Association, and has been designated a Distinguished Neutral by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution.