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Jennifer Mazawey
Counsel
Direct Dial: 973-535-7126
FAX: 973-533-1112
jmazawey@genovaburns.com
Practice areas:
• Commercial Real Estate, Redevelopment & Environmental Law • Construction Law & Litigation • Education Law
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Jennifer Mazawey, Counsel in the firm’s Newark, New Jersey office, is a member of the firm’s Commercial Real Estate, Redevelopment & Environmental Law, Construction Law & Litigation and Education Law Practice Groups.
Ms. Mazawey practices in the areas of commercial real estate, land use and construction law and is a member of Industrial Commercial Real Estate Women, Inc. of New Jersey (ICREW-NJ) as well as the New Jersey State Bar Association and the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association. She has also served as a trustee of the New Jersey Association of School Attorneys.
Ms. Mazawey represents developers in all aspects of their development projects. She regularly appears before planning boards and zoning boards of adjustment. In addition, Ms. Mazawey assists clients with permit acquisition from agencies such as the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Transportation. She also assists clients with the drafting of their various professional services and construction contracts and represents clients in construction-related disputes.
For over a decade, Ms. Mazawey has also practiced in the area of education law. She served as both general counsel and special labor counsel to boards of education and boards of trustees throughout the state of New Jersey. In that capacity, she has handled matters at the Public Employment Relations Commission, as well as the Office of Administrative Law and state and federal courts. Among other things, she has counseled clients on matters of board governance, labor relations, special education matters and school construction.
She has lectured for the Institute of Continuing Education (ICLE), the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the New Jersey School Boards Association. Since 2007, Ms. Mazawey was recognized in New Jersey Monthly magazine by Super Lawyers as a New Jersey Rising Star in Environmental Law.
Ms. Mazawey is a co-author of “In the Election of 2002, the Voters of New Jersey Were the Winners,” for 27 Seton Hall Legislative Journal 77 in 2003.
She received her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1997, and her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University in 1994. After law school, she served as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Christine L. Miniman, J.S.C.
BAR ADMISSIONS:
- New Jersey, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 1997
- New York, 1999
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 2005
EDUCATION:
- Seton Hall University School of Law, J.D., 1997
- Rutgers University, B.A., 1994
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