Margaret A. Cotoia
Assistant Attorney General Margaret A. Cotoia is the Director of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute, which provides continuing legal education programs that meet the practice needs of New Jersey government lawyers. Margaret maintains overall responsibility for over 150 programs a year, recruiting instructors and developing curriculum for the AGAI’s lecture programs, supervising litigation…
Kimberly S. Cammarata
Kimberly S. Cammarata is a Senior Assistant Attorney General with the Maryland Office of the Attorney General and has served as the Director of the Consumer Protection Division’s Health Education and Advocacy Unit since 2010. She is responsible for the direction and management of the Health Education and Advocacy Unit’s consumer mediation services and health…
Katharine Brooks
Katharine Brooks is the Bureau Chief of the Claims Bureau in the New York State Attorney General’s Office. She received a B.A., summa cum laude, in 1975 from SUNY Albany, and a J.D. in 1978 from Hofstra University School of Law. In her present position, Ms. Brooks is responsible for the oversight of all Claims…
Karla E. Zarbo
Karla E. Zarbo retired from the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Fair Labor Division as an Assistant Attorney General where she handled civil, criminal, and administrative enforcement matters on behalf of the Division for 23 years. The Division is responsible for enforcement of the Commonwealth’s various Wage and Hour Laws, including the Wage Act, the Independent Contractor…
Judy Zeprun Kalman
Judy Zeprun Kalman retired in 2019 after serving more than thirty years in state government, most recently as General Counsel at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. In that role, she provided legal counsel to the Executive Bureau on personnel, contracts, conflicts of interest, and ethics issues and assisted in developing internal policies, guidelines, and procedures,…
Joseph M. Micheletti
Joseph Micheletti is a Deputy Attorney General for the State of New Jersey. He currently serves as a Section Chief in the Litigation Practice Group where he manages a group of trial attorneys. DAG Micheletti has over twenty-five years of public service and litigation experience. During his time with the Attorney General’s Office, Joe has…
Joseph A. Jordano
Joe Jordano, a veteran of numerous federal and state jury trials, has been litigating cases for over twenty years. Prior to February 2000, he served as a Partner in the Omaha law firm of Fitzgerald, Schorr, Barmettler & Brennan, P.C., where he litigated products liability, personal injury, commercial, employment and ERISA matters. During his time…
John M. Leovy
John Leovy joined the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland in 2014 as the Chief Counsel of its Tobacco Enforcement Unit, where he litigates against Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, and dozens of other cigarette companies over hundreds of millions of dollars in multi-state arbitrations spawned by the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement. Before that, he…
John J. Bajger
John J. Bajger is a Chief Assistant Attorney General with the Florida Office of the Attorney General. He oversees the South Florida Civil Litigation Division, which represents State Agencies and public officials in civil litigation arising in South Florida. Prior to joining the OAG, John worked as an assistant public defender in Fort Pierce, Florida,…
Joel S. Jacobs
Joel has been with the California Attorney General’s Office since 1998. He represents state environmental agencies in litigation and trial work, typically involving land use. He graduated Order of the Coif from the law school at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was an articles editor for the California Law Review. He has received…