STICKLES REAPPOINTED TRUSTEE OF BAR FOUNDATION

 

Lawyer and educator Robert J. Stickles has been reappointed as a trustee of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting law-related education and giving all New Jersey residents a basic understanding of the legal system.

 

The Glen Rock resident has been a practicing attorney for the last 30 years, specializing in commercial litigation, notably business torts, with a focus on trade secret disputes and employee disloyalty.  He has been a partner in two major firms and was named on four separate occasions as a "New Jersey Super Lawyer" by New Jersey Monthly magazine. 

 

He has been active in a number of Foundation programs, primarily the Law-Related Education Committee and also the Speakers' Bureau and mock trial programs.

 

In addition to his work with the Foundation, Stickles has been involved with a number of other civic and charitable organizations.  He is a Trustee Emeritus of the Sunrise House Foundation, which operates a substance abuse rehabilitation facility in Lafayette, and is a member of the Board of Visitors of the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. He was named "Volunteer of the Year" in 2004 by the Several Sources Foundation in Ramsey for his tutoring work with single, indigent mothers and mothers-to-be, and was recognized in 2005 by The Association for Children of New Jersey for his pro bono legal work on behalf of poor children. He is a Past Chair of the Pastoral Council of St. Catharine Church in Glen Rock and remains active in many of the parish's other programs.

 

Upon graduating from Princeton University in 1970 he spent the first ten years of his career as a high school teacher, administrator, and finally as a consultant with the United States Office of Education, assisting school districts in the metropolitan area with desegregation planning and implementation.  During that time, he also earned two master's degrees and a doctorate in education from Columbia University's Teachers College and qualified for New Jersey state certifications as a social studies teacher, supervisor and principal.

 

He moved from the schoolhouse to the courtroom in 1980, having earned a law degree from Rutgers University on a part-time basis while working as a high school vice-principal.

 

After almost thirty years as a lawyer, Stickles returned to the classroom in 2008. He spent a year teaching religion at St. Joseph of the Palisades High School in West New York, and then moved to St. Joseph Regional High School in Montvale in 2009, where he taught religion and American history and coached the mock trial team. In 2010 he was appointed principal of Roselle Catholic High School in Roselle, from which he graduated in 1966. He stays connected to the law as senior counsel in the Newark office of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, a national law firm headquartered in Pittsburgh. He and his wife Victoria have three grown children and two grandchildren.