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Joseph L. Nackson
I was doing a closing for a client and the seller was represented by a Rutherford attorney. As is customary, I had reason to interact with that office's legal assistant and was ultimately shocked to learn that she was Doug's daughter! A lovely and knowledgeable young woman. Her parents should be very proud.
I did help coach the Rutherford Mock trial Team which competed in the Bergen County BAr Association's annual competition. It was always inspiring to work with the kids. They would start out with an assigned case, alternating between a civil case and a criminal case, the kids would be the lawyers and the witnesses. The kids knew nothing about the process at the outset, but always made tremendous progress and were quite good, by the time the cases were argued in the competition. I was never able to take the team to the heights that they dewserved. But, I dare say that each participant found the experience to be well worth the time that they spent. RHS and other public schools were at a disadvantege since the parochials used school time to prepare their teams. SO to level the playing field, since the privates (both Catholic and Jewish) were often all male, I told the girlson our team, to put their hands on the thigh of the opponent seated at counsel table next to them. That would man he could not stand for the rest of the proceeding. No one followed my suggestion.
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