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Princeton University does not provide legal services to its students. However, Rights, Rules, Responsibilities notes that the University has a practice of maintaining in various offices a list of names of a few local attorneys, in the event the engagement of an attorney is desired for any reason.

Typically, an attorney is willing to provide a limited amount of “free” consultation in order to assess a potential client's needs and enable the person to, in turn, evaluate the appropriateness of the attorney for the contemplated engagement.  However, it is the student's obligation to confirm this understanding with any attorney contacted as a result of the attorney’s appearance on the list. As underscored in Rights, Rules, Responsibilities, financial arrangements pertaining to counsel engagement are made between the student and the attorney, with the cost of legal counsel being the full responsibility of the student and his or her family.

No one should presume that the University vouches for the competency or appropriateness of any of these attorneys for specific representation or counseling, encourages engagement of any of these attorneys to the exclusion of attorneys not on this list, endorses the engagement of one listed attorney over another, or believes that these attorneys are more appropriate than others to provide legal representation to our students. This contact information is offered only as a service to our students.

P-2-P file sharing issues have become of interest, legally, to students on campuses across the country, including Princeton's.  In addition, September 11 and subsequent events raised concerns among segments of our student body pertaining to the possibility of future approaches by law investigators, related to anti-terrorism efforts.  As a result, the list identifies attorneys who have expressed a willingness to be available to provide advice and/or representation in such contexts.

We have also included contact information for various organizations.

Attorneys potentially available for general representation of students:

Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Howard S. Ende, Esq.
105 College Road East, Suite 300
Princeton, New Jersey 08542-0627
Phone: 609-716-6500
Fax: 609-799-7000
E-mail: howard.ende@dbr.com
Web: http://www.dbr.com/

Haveson and Otis
Hal K. Haveson, Esq.
Kim Augustus Otis, Esq.
194 Nassau Street
Princeton, New Jersey 08542
Phone: 609-921-0090
Fax: 609-683-4636
E-mail: kim@haveson.com; hal@haveson.com

Mason, Griffin & Pierson
Donald B. Veix, Esq.
Trishka Waterbury, Esq.
100 Poor Farm Road
Princeton, New Jersey 08542
Phone: 609-921-6543
Fax: 609-580-0051
E-mail: d.veix@mgplaw.com, t.waterbury@mgplaw.com
Web: http://www.mgplaw.com/main/

 

Attorneys potentially available for representation of students in connection with copyright and technology issues:

Law Offices of Charles Lee Mudd, Jr.
Charles Lee Mudd, Jr., Esq.
3344 N. Albany
Chicago, Illinois 60618
Phone: 773-588-5410
Fax: 773-588-5440
E-mail: cmudd@muddlawoffices.com
Web: http://www.muddlawoffices.com/

Jonathan Band PLLC, Technology Law and Policy
Jonathan Band, Esq.
21 Dupont Circle NW
8th Floor
Washington DC, 20036
Phone: 202-296-5675
Fax: 202-872-0884
E-mail: jband@policybandwidth.com
Web: http://www.policybandwidth.com/

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Attorneys potentially available for representation of students in connection with criminal matters/governmental inquiries and investigations:

Law Offices of Edward J. Bergman, Esq.
Edward J. Bergman, Esq.
9 Tamarack Circle
Skillman, New Jersey 08558
Phone: 609-921-1502
Fax: 609-683-0288
E-mail: ejb@gear3.net

Law Offices of Jerrold Kamensky, Esq.
Jerrold Kamensky, Esq.
194 S. Broad Street
Trenton, New Jersey 08608
Phone: 609-394-8585
Fax: 609-394-8620
E-mail: jkamensky@jklaw.com
Web: http://www.jklaw.com/

Lependorf Silverstein
David E. Silverstein, Esq.
4365 Route 1 South
Princeton, NJ  08540
Phone:  609-240-0040
Fax:  609-240-0044
Web:  http://www.lependorfsilverstein.com/about.shtml


Wills, O’Neill & Mellk
Robert Wills, Esq.
Arnold Mellk, Esq.
10 Nassau Street
Princeton, New Jersey 08542
Phone: 609-924-0700
Fax: 609-924-4622
E-mail: womlawjh@bellatlantic.net

Contact information for organizations:

Mercer County Bar Association
NJ Lawyer Referral Service
1245 Whitehorse Mercerville Rd, Suite 420,
Mercerville 08619-3894
Phone: 609-585-6200
Fax: 609-585-5537
E-mail: mcba@gte.net
Web: http://www.mercerbar.com/

New Jersey State Bar Association
Web: http://www.njsba.com/lawyer_referral/

American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”)
Phone: 212-549-2500; 1-877-6-PROFILE

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (“ADC”)
Phone: 202-244-2990

National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
Phone: 617-227-0727