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Reginald Stanton is of counsel in the Florham Park office. He focuses his practice on mediation, arbitration and litigation consulting.
Reg has served as a judge in the New Jersey court system for nearly three decades, most recently as assignment judge for Morris and Sussex Counties.
During his tenure, Reg handled a wide variety of complex civil cases involving business disputes, environmental damage issues, insurance coverage claims, land use and probate matters. He also presided over several of the state's highest profile criminal cases, including the proceedings against Arthur and Irene Seale for the kidnapping and murder of Exxon executive Sidney Reso, and the trial of Thomas Kosovich for the double murder of two Sussex County pizza deliverymen. In 1983, Reg was the first judge in the nation to rule that a terminally-ill patient has the right to refuse nourishment through a feeding tube, a right which was ultimately recognized in the Supreme Court's right-to-die ruling in 1990.
Reg was appointed to the bench on January 3, 1975, as a judge of the Morris County Court. He became a judge of the Superior Court on December 7, 1978, when the county court was merged into the Superior Court. He acquired life tenure upon reappointment to the Superior Court on April 1, 1983. Reg served as assignment judge for Morris and Sussex Counties from September 1, 1985, until he retired from the Superior Court on February 27, 2003. As assignment judge, he was responsible for the management of the court system in his two counties as well as handling the normal case work of a trial judge. | 