Serving New Jersey Clients Since 1977

Jerome M. Selvers

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Practice Areas:

Securities
Complex Commerical Litigation
General Trial and Appellate Practice
Corporation Law
Plaintiffs Personal Injury Law
Arbitration

Education

St John's University, School of Law
- J.D. - 1972
Brooklyn College
- B.A. - 1969
- Honors: cum laude

Bar Admissions

New York, 1972
U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1973
U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York, 1973
U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1973
New Jersey, 1974
U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1974
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1974
Maryland, 1983
U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 2012

Current Employment Position

Member

Past Positions

Division of Enforcement, United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Trial Attorney, 1972 to 1975
Township of Millstone, Township Attorney, 1978 to 1985

Professional Associations

The Catholic Lawyer, St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research, Member, 1970 to 1972
State of New Jersey Securities Regulation Study Commission, Member, 1987

Honors

Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Contracts

Classes & Seminars

How to Raise Capital Through an Initial Public Offering or Private Placement of Securities, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1986 to 1987
Panelist, Basic Securities Law and Practice, 1983
Panelist, Securities Aspects of the Sale of Businesses, Monmouth County Bar Association Seminar

Published Works

Jury Trials in Criminal Prosecutions: Freedom Lives, 45 St. John's Law Review, 324, 1970
Investment Contracts: Expanding Securities Regulation, 48 St. John's Law Review (Reprinted in Matthew Bender's Corporate Counsel's Annual, 1975), 525, 1974
Executive Encroachment on Congressional Immunity, 50 St. John's Law Review, 38, 1975
Co-Author, An Overview of the Underwriting Process, New Jersey Lawyer, May, 1988
"The In Pari Delicto Defense”, New Jersey Lawyer: Securities Law, December, 2015