Hanan M. Isaacs

Services

Trial practice emphasizes commercial litigation, divorce litigation, labor and employment law, personal injury law, and criminal defense work. ADR practice principally involves complex labor and employment, commercial, insurance, personal injury, or divorce disputes.

Press Release

April 21, 2009 - Princeton Attorney Hanan M. Isaacs Awarded Certified Matrimonial Specialist Designation by the NJ Supreme Court

Biography of Hanan M. Isaacs, M.A., J.D., A.P.M.

Hanan M. Isaacs is a mediator, arbitrator, and trial lawyer with offices in Kingston, New Jersey. An experienced commercial and personal injury arbitrator, formerly for the American Arbitration Association's New Jersey Regional Office, Mr. Isaacs is also an Accredited Professional Mediator (APM) in general civil and divorce matters by the New Jersey Association of Professional Mediators (NJAPM). He served as NJAPM's President for the 1999 to 2001 term. His law practice emphasizes employment litigation, business litigation, personal injury law, family law, and alternative dispute resolution in those fields.

Mr. Isaacs is a Past Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, serving from 1996 to 1998. He received that Section's James B. Boskey ADR Practitioner of the Year Award in 1999. He served from 1995 until 2005 as an approved mediator under the Supreme Court's statewide mediation program (General Civil, Chancery) and pilot programs on presumptive civil and economic divorce mediation, and as a member of the Supreme Court's Complementary Dispute Resolution Committee from 1996 until 2000.

Mr. Isaacs taught at Rider University's Law and Justice Program in the fall of 2002 and at Seton Hall University Law School in 1998. He has been a guest lecturer at the New Jersey Judicial College. He serves as a Civil and Divorce Mediation Training Programs trainer for the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education and NJAPM.

Mr. Isaacs is a Master of the Marie L. Garibaldi American ADR Inn of Court, the nation's only Inn of Court dedicated to Alternative Dispute Resolution, and a Master of the Mercer County American Inn of Court.

Mr. Isaacs received his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law, with Honors, in 1979; an M.A. in American Legal History from Rutgers University, also in 1979; and a B.A. from Rutgers College, with Honors, in 1975.

A professional mediator and arbitrator for over 30 years, Mr. Isaacs also serves as a consultant to the CPA and general business community-- including the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce. He has trained hundreds of CPA's, human resources professionals, lawyers, and other business community members in the art and craft of negotiation, mediation, arbitration, conflict resolution, dispute systems design, ethics, and practice building.

Professional Achievements