Robert Harbeson Honored by New Jersey State Bar Association

New Brunswick, NJ - (September 13, 2007) - Archer is pleased to announce that the New Jersey State Bar Association presented the 2007 James J. McLaughlin Award to Robert Harbeson, Esquire.

The presentation took place at the Awards Dinner on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick. Each year, the NJ State Bar Association’s Civil Trial Bar Section honors members who demonstrate civility, legal competence and professionalism in the practice of civil law. Mr. Harbeson was honored with fellow award recipient, the Honorable C. Judson Hamlin.

Mr. Harbeson is a Certified Civil Trial Attorney who has been engaged in jury trial litigation for more than 30 years. His primary emphasis has been with personal injury related trial work in both State and Federal Courts. With a background in medicine and anatomy, he has specialized in the general areas of insurance litigation, contract interpretation, products liability and a wide spectrum of bodily injury claims, primarily defense and primarily in a jury setting.

Mr. Harbeson has been active in both County and State Bar Associations serving as a trustee of Camden County Bar Association and the Chairman of the Personal Injury Law Committee. He continues to sit on the Executive Committee of the Civil Trial Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, which committee he chaired between 1984 and 1986. He was a member of the New Jersey Supreme Civil Practice Committee in 1984 to 1988.

Mr. Harbeson has been a Trustee of the Trial Attorneys of New Jersey since 1988 and an original founding member of the Camden Chapter of the American Inns of Court. He was one of the inaugural members of the American Board of Trial Advocates, serving as the South Jersey Chapter President from 1992 to 1997. He was and is in a frequent lecturer on trial practice and trial procedure at County and State levels. In 1992 he became an adjunct professor of Law at Rutgers, State University, teaching a course in Pre-Trial Advocacy.