Cige has offices in Somerville and Princeton, New Jersey, where he concentrates in labor and employment law on behalf of individuals, and civil litigation. Cige is admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. A founding member of the New Jersey
State Bar Association's General Practice Section, he is a member of the NJSBA Labor and Employment Law Section, where he serves on its Disability Discrimination Committee. Cige is Immediate Past President of the Somerset County Bar Association, former President of the Somerset County Bar Foundation and a member of the Middlesex County Bar Association. He has served on committees of the New Jersey State and Somerset County Bar Associations and is the recipient of the Service to the Bar Award bestowed by the NJSBA Young Lawyers Division. He has served as Chair of the District XIII Fee Arbitration Committee, and was Chair of the District XIII Ethics Committee. Cige has been a Bencher in the Joseph Halpern Inn of Court and has lectured for bar associations and other professional and business organizations. He is currently a member of the Marie Garibaldi Inn of Court. He received his B.A., cm laude, from Montclair State University, where he was elected to Pi Sigma Alpha and was President of the Student Government Association, studied international law at Tel Aviv University, Israel, received his J. from Temple University School of Law, where he was President of the Barristers' Society, listed in Who's Who in American Law Schools, elected to Phi Alpha Delta and was the recipient of the Victor S. Jaczun Memorial Foundation Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy. New Jersey State Bar Association 1985-Present
Judicial Administration Committee 1993-96
Resolutions Committee, Vice-Chair (1990-92) 1988-94
Appellate Practices Committee 1988-95
Travel and Meeting Arrangements Committee 1988-94
General Practice Section (Founding Member) 1988-Present
★ Labor and Employment Law Section 1986-Present
★ Disability Discrimination Committee 2000-Present
Young Lawyers Division 1985-95
Secretary, 1989-90
Treasurer, 1988-89
Law Week Committee, Chair, 1990
Inns of Court Committee, Chair, 1990
General Council 1987-Present
Service to the Bar Award: New Jersey State Bar
Association, Young Lawyers Division 1990
2. New Jersey State Bar Foundation
High School Mock Trial Competition
Montgomery Township High School Legal Advisor 1992-96
Judge 1989-92, 99-00
Law Fair for Elementary School Students, Moderator 1990-91
Speakers Bureau 1997-Present
3. Somerset County Bar Association 1986-98
Second Vice President 2000-Present
Trustee 1994-98
Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee 1993-94
Budget and Finance Committee 2000-Present
By-Laws Committee, Chair 1992-94, 1997-Present
Judicial and Prosecutorial Selection Committee 1999-Present
Judicial Performance Committee 1993-94
★ Labor and Employment Law Committee, Chair 1996-Present
Long Range Planning Committee 1989-94
Membership Committee 2000-Present
Membership/Newsletter Committee 1989-94
Mock Trial Committee 1993-94
Young Lawyers Committee, Chair 1988-91, 93-94
4. Somerset County Bar Foundation
President 1999-Present
5. Middlesex County Bar Association 1985-Present
Education: (Indicate College and Law School attended, and any additional degrees and schools):
Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Who's Who Among Students in American Law Schools, 1984; Victor S. Jaczun Memorial Foundation Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy, 1984; Barristers' Society, President, 1983-84; Law and Medicine Symposium, Moderator, 1984; Phi Alpha Delta (International Legal Fraternity). Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel. Studied International Law. Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, New Jersey. in Political Science, cm laude, June 1981. Minors: Economics, Public Administration and Philosophy. Montclair State Student Government Assoc. Inc., President, 1980-81; Montclair State Board of Trustees, Student Member, 1979-80; Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, 1981; Pi Sigma Alpha (National Political Science Honor Society). Additional Relevant Information (i.e., awards, honors, memberships, that have relevance to the area of law on which you will be lecturing/writing):
Admitted
State of New Jersey (1984); Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (1984); United States District Court for the District of New Jersey (1984); United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1997); and, Supreme Court of the United States of America (1989). Joseph Halpern Inn of Court
Somerset/Middlesex/Hunterdon, Bencher 1995-97
Somerset/Middlesex, Pupil 1989-91
District XIII Ethics Committee
Panel Chair 1998-2000
Member 1997-2000 Lectures
“The Importance and Consequences of Internal Investigations”
Somerset County Bar Association, Moderator (To be Rescheduled 3/14/01) 2000
“Workplace Claims - From Harassment to Discrimination
From Comp to Superior Court and Back”, Somerset County Bar Association, Moderator 1999
“Employment Practices Liability”
Franklin Township Chamber of Commerce, Presenter 1998
Somerville Business and Professional Association, Presenter 1998
“Drug Testing in the Workplace - Legal Implications”
Professional Health Care Services of Lawrenceville, P.A., Panelist 1994
“Looking Towards 2020: The Future of the Courts and the Bar” 1994
NJSBA Bench-Bar Conference, Co-Chair
“Ethics in Counseling and the Law”
Montclair State University graduate course, annual Guest Lecturer 1992-97
“Personal Injury - Winning Strategies (Arbitration)” 1991
NJSBA YLD and Middlesex County YLD, Panelist
NJSBA YLD and Certified Trial Attorneys - Annual 1990
Meeting Program on the Decline of Professionalism - “Rambo in the Courts...Is Professionalism Dead or Just Wounded?”, Presenter
