Stephen A. Weiss joins the firm’s Montclair office as a litigation associate. Before entering private practice, he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Patrick DeAlmeida of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, where he worked on a wide range of civil, criminal, and administrative matters. Stephen earned his J.D. from Rutgers Law School, where he was elected Senior Articles Editor of the Rutgers University Law Review. While in law school, he interned for the Honorable Esther Salas of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, clerked at a civil litigation firm, and served as Rutgers’ Student Ambassador to the New York City Bar Association. Prior to law school, Stephen taught for two years with Teach for America and earned a master’s degree in teaching after having completed his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University. He is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and pending admission to New York.