DeTommaso Law Group, LLC

­­­Attorney Michael J. DeTommaso

Bar Admissions:

• New Jersey, 2004
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 2004

Education: 

• New England School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts
• Kings College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Professional Memberships and Achievements: 

• Early Settlement Panelist- Hunterdon County (2007 – present)
• Early Settlement Panelist- Hunterdon County (2007 – present)
• Resource Center for Children & Families of Somerset County (2004 – 2016)
• Jersey Battered Women’s Services- Morris County (2016 – present)

­­­Attorney Taryn R. Zimmerman

Bar Admissions:

• New Jersey
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
• New York
• New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division – Third Department

Education: 

• J.D., Seton Hall University of Law
• B.S., Kutztown University
• Paralegal Certificate, Fairleigh Dickinson University

Professional Memberships and Achievements: 

• New Jersey State Bar Association – Family Law Section
• Somerset County Bar Association

­­­Attorney Joseph M. Freda

Bar Admissions:

• New Jersey, 2004

Education: 

• Seton Hall University School of Law
  • J.D., 2004
• University of Maryland
  • B.S., Biopsychology, 2001

Professional Memberships and Achievements: 

• New Jersey State Bar Association
• NJSBA, Family Law Section
• Family Law Inns of Court
• Middlesex County Bar Association

­­­Attorney John J. Hays, II

After obtaining his law degree from Boston University School of Law in 2008, John accepted a one-year Judicial Clerkship with now-retired New Jersey Superior Court Judge John J. Coyle, Jr., from whom he gained valuable experience in the best practice of New Jersey Family Law.

For the next three years, John further honed his skills by handling exclusively New Jersey family matters at a Somerset County law firm.

John joined DeTommaso Law Group, LLC in 2017. He shares the firm’s dedication to providing clients with the full range of legal options needed to enable them to conclude their divorce in the way that’s best for them and their families. Therefore, although John is an experienced family law litigator, he also has received special training in the Collaborative Practice approach to resolving New Jersey divorce cases.

­­­Attorney Gregory A. Pasler

Bar Admissions:

• New Jersey 2009
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey 2009
• New York 2011

Education: 

• Fairfield University –Fairfield, Connecticut
  • B.S. cum laude – 2006
    • Honors:
    • Dean’s Scholarship
    • Joshua M. Greenberg Award for Excellence in Business Law and Ethics
    • Alpha Sigma Nu-Jesuit Honor Society
    • Beta Gamma Sigma-Business Honor Society
• Seton Hall University School of Law – Newark, New Jersey
  • J.D. – 2009

Professional Memberships and Achievements: 

• Distinguished Public Interest Scholar
• Distinguished Law Scholarship
• Faculty Law Scholarship
• Public Interest Law Fellowship
• New Jersey Bar Association, Family Law Section
• Somerset County Bar Association
• The New Jersey Collaborative Law Group

­­­Attorney Kevin J. Lauerman

Kevin J. Lauerman is a Partner with DeTommaso Law Group, LLC. He joined the firm in September 2016. Prior to that, for the 2015-16 court term, he served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Robert G. Wilson, J.S.C., Chancery Division – Family Part in Somerset and Hunterdon Counties. There, he gained exposure to matrimonial litigation while concurrently developing his knowledge of the law through handling various motions, pre- and post-divorce.

As a law student, Kevin served as a Student Fellow for the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children & the Courts, where he studied regional family law policy and interacted with others in his role as a member of the Truancy Court Program, a holistic and therapeutic approach geared toward improving citywide education through the weekly gathering of judicial figures, legal professors, social workers, and law students. He simultaneously acquired status as a student attorney for the Saul Ewing Civil Advocacy Clinic and, under the tutelage of his then professor, tried a matter to its conclusion and obtained his client a winning judgment.

Kevin was admitted to practice law in New Jersey in December 2015. He is a current member of the American State Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the Somerset County Bar Association.

­­­Attorney Katrina M. Xyloportas

Bar Admissions:

• New Jersey State Bar
• New York State Bar (admission pending)

Professional Memberships and Achievements: 

• Union County Bar Association – Family Law Section
• Union County Bar Association – Young Lawyer’s Division
• New Jersey State Bar Association
• Barry Croland Inn of Court

Attorney Cara B. DeTommaso

Prior to focusing her practice in family law, Cara enjoyed a Superior Court clerkship with Hon. Michael K. Diamond, J.S.C. (Ret.) who was the Presiding Judge of the Family Part at that time. After her clerkship, Cara honed her litigation skills by representing large corporations as their private prosecutor and defense counsel. Cara has since exclusively dedicated her practice to family and matrimonial law as she found helping families – especially children – in distress to be the most rewarding aspect of her career.

Cara is admitted to the bars of the State of New York and the State of New Jersey. She earned her J.D. from New England School of Law in 2005, and her B.S. from Kutztown University in 2001.

­­­Attorney Leonard A. Weitzman

Bar Admissions:

• State of New Jersey, 1983
• State of Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court of New Jersey, 1983

Education: 

• Villanova University School of Law – Juris Doctor, 1983
• Lehigh University – Bachelor of Arts, 1980

Professional Memberships and Achievements: 

• Pennsylvania Bar Association – Member
• Essex Inns of Court – Member
• District Ethics Committee, Newark – Former Member

Languages Spoken: 

• English
• Spanish

­­­Attorney James J. Moloughney

James J. Moloughney is a highly experienced, reputable, respected, and successful family law attorney and mediator with over 35 years of experience handling all types of family law matters statewide. He has handled landmark decisions at both the Appellate and Supreme Court levels. Currently concentrating in Somerset, Hunterdon, Warren, and Middlesex Counties, Mr. Moloughney has achieved recognition for his work by Judges, clients, adversaries, and peers. He has successfully handled a wide variety of cases, with an emphasis on high-income matters.

Mr. Moloughney has represented professional athletes, entertainers, corporate officers, medical and legal professionals, as well as relatively minor or non-complex matters, with equal treatment to all. Mr. Moloughney has served as a Matrimonial Early Settlement panelist since 1985, having run the program in Somerset County from 1998 – 2005. He was appointed to the Supreme Court Bench-Bar Committee for standardization of Best Practices (2005-2007).