J. Peter Jost
J. Peter Jost practices law in Clinton, Hunterdon County, with emphasis on local government law. He is a graduate of Colby College and Rutgers Law School. Mr. Jost is presently the municipal attorney for the Boroughs of Califon and Glen Gardner and the Township of Union in Hunterdon County, and the Township of Greenwich in Warren County. He has served as municipal attorney or special counsel for a number of other municipalities in Hunterdon County. He is a member of the Hunterdon County and New Jersey State Bar Associations, and the International Municipal Lawyers Association. He holds the Diplomate in Municipal Law from the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys. He received the 1997 Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law and the Hunterdon County Bar Association.

Edward J. Buzak
The Buzak Law Group, LLC

Edward J. Buzak is the founding member of The Buzak Law Group, LLC, Montville, N.J. He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. cum laude in 1970 and the Georgetown University Law Center in 1973. Mr. Buzak has practiced public sector law for more than 35 years and is an Assistant Counsel for the League of Municipalities. He is a former President of the Institute also past Chairman of the Local Government Law Section of the NJSBA. In 2002 he received the Institute's Fred G. Stickel Award for excellence in Local Government Law.

Edmund J. Corrigan
The Corrigan Law Firm

Edmund J. Corrigan is a past president of the Institute of Local Government Attorneys. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Louisville School of Law and has practiced law in New Jersey for the past thirty-three years. He is the former in-house counsel for the Township of Dover (now Toms River Township) and is now of counsel to the Corrigan Law Firm, located in Keyport, NJ. He also served as a member of the Berkeley Township Counsel from 1983-1987 and as council president from 1983-1985. Prior to that he was a Berkeley Township Committeeman from 1982 until the change of government in 1983.

Kristina P. Hadinger
Kristina P.Hadinger is a shareholder/director with Mason, Griffin & Pierson in Princeton, New Jersey. Ms. Hadinger graduated cum laude from McDaniel College in 1976 and earned her law degree from the Dickinson School of Law, of Penn State University in 1979. Following a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Thomas DeMartin, J.S.C., she entered private practice, concentrating continuously in local government, land use and real estate law.Ms. Hadinger is an Assistant Counsel for the New Jersey League of Municipalities and the co-chair of the League’s Legislative Committee. She is a recipient of the Michael A. Pane Award for Ethics in Municipal Government and the Somerset County Outstanding Woman in the Field of Law award. A past president of the Institute, she is currentlyan associate editor of the Institute’s Local Government Law Review and instructor for the Diplomate Program.She presently serves as Township Attorney for Montgomery, Delaware and Clinton Townships.

Frank Scangarella

• Admitted to Practice in New Jersey in 1960
• Graduate of Cornell Law School
• Practice in estate, real estate, environmental and developer work
• Past President and Trust Emeritus of New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys
• Represented Lincoln Park Savings Bank and acted as review attorney for in excess of twenty (20) years
• Represented residential developers in projects of up to $30 Million in value
• Numerous reported cases in the Appellate Division
• Past Municipal Attorney - Township of Wayne
• Past Municipal Attorney - Borough of Lincoln Park
• Represented various Planning Boards and Boards of Adjustment
• Counsel for New Bridge Services, which provides mental health services for eastern Morris and upper Passaic County;
• Counsel for Pequannock Township Senior Citizen Housing Corp.
• Former counsel for Ramsey Senior Citizens Housing Corp. and West Milford Senior Citizens Housing Corp.
• Former member of Supreme Court Committee on the Tax Court and Tax Editor for the Municipal Law Review
• Currently represent Classis of Passaic, an ecclesiastical religious corporation having jurisdiction over Reformed Churches in Essex, Passaic, Morris and Bergen County, New Jersey.
• Mr. Scangarella has argued a number of cases in the New Jersey Superior Court and Appellate Division, which have been reported in the Superior Court Reporter of the State of New Jersey. In addition, he has successfully argued two matters in the Superior Court and Appellate Division involving Senior Citizen Housing.

Frank P. Trocino
Frank P. Trocino practiced law in New Jersey from 1961 to 2005. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1956 with a B.A. Degree, and from George Washington University School of Law, J.D. Degree, in 1960.

A native of Elizabeth, New Jersey, he served as Elizabeth City Attorney (Director of Law Department) from 1971 to 1993, and was the First Assistant City Attorney from 1965 to 1971. From 1996 to 2005 he served as Board of Education Attorney for Elizabeth New Jersey.

Member of the State Board of Trustees, New Jersey Institute of Municipal Attorneys 1971 to 1986, Vice President of the Institute 1986 to 1990, and President of the Institute 1990 to 1992.

On Board of Editors of Municipal Law Review 1982, and a Speaker and Panel Member at Educational Seminars sponsored by the Institute and/or the New Jersey League of Municipalities at various times during his legal career.

Gordon D. Griffin
Gordon D. Griffin is a shareholder/director with Mason, Griffin & Pierson in Princeton, New Jersey. Mr. Griffin graduated from Princeton University in 1940 and earned his law degree from University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1948. In 1955 he co-founded the law firm of Mason & Griffin. Mr. Griffin was Princeton Township Attorney from 1952 to 1980 and Princeton Borough Attorney from 1962 to 1980. He served as President of the Legal Aid Society of Mercer County from 1973 to1974, was President of the Mercer County Bar Association in 1970, was President of the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys from 1980 to 1981, and was President of the Princeton Bar Association in 1958. In 1999 Mr. Griffin was honored with the Frederic G. Stickel, III Award for Excellence in Local Government Law.

J. Albert Mastro
J. Albert Mastro, a veteran of WW II, is a graduate of Drew University and Rutgers Law School. He also attended the Graduate School of New York University and New School for Social Research, New York for additional graduate work in government and international relations. During his career Mr. Mastro served as Municipal Court Judge for the Borough of Bernardsville, Township of Bernards, and Township of Passaic; represented the Borough of Bernardsville and Township of Warren as Municipal Attorney; was Prosecutor for the Borough of Bernardsville and Township of Warren; served as Planning Board Attorney for Tewksbury Township and Borough of Far Hills; and Attorney for Warren Township Sewerage Authority.

Among his publications, Mr. Mastro co-edited with Julius Mastro Governing New Jersey Municipalities, published by Rutgers (1979), revised 1982. He authored various articles on local government appearing in New Jersey Municipalities published by the New Jersey State League of Municipalities, including “Mount Laurel II and Municipal Home Rule.” His article “Warren Township, New Jersey Overcomes Challenge to Quarry Regulations” appeared in Municipal Attorney published by National Institute of Municipal law Officers, February, 1978.

Mr. Mastro served as First Vice President of the Institute of Municipal Attorneys from 1975 to 1977 and President from 1978 to 1981.

Michael A. Pane, Sr. (1942-2003)
One of New Jersey's most prominent local government attorneys, in addition to being a Past President of NJILGA, Michael was the long-time Editor of the NJILGA Municipal Law Review (now Local Government Law Review). He was also Deputy General Counsel to the New Jersey State League of Municipalities and Counsel to the Municipal Clerks Association of New Jersey. He served numerous municipalities as Municipal Attorney, Planning Board Attorney, and Zoning Board Attorney and served as special counsel to many more. Michael also lectured and taught at educational programs and seminars for many years. He was the original author of the "Local Government Law" volumes in the New Jersey Practice Series.

Glenn C. Kienz is a Partner in the firm of Weiner Lesniak LLP in Parsippany, New Jersey specializing in Real Estate law and specifically zoning, planning and land use development and redevelopment along with environmental and municipal law.

Mr. Kienz is admitted to practice in New Jersey and before the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey and the United States Supreme Court. He serves as a condemnation commissioner, as Associate Counsel to the New Jersey Planning Officials and is Counsel to the New Jersey Society of Municipal Engineers. He has also been qualified as an expert in Land Use before the New Jersey Courts. He is the past Chair of both the Land Use Section and Local Government Law Section of the New Jersey Bar Association and the past President of the New Jersey Institute of Local Government Attorneys. He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at Rutgers University, and regularly teaches for NJICLE and the NJ Society of Professional Land Surveyors courses in government, ethics and land use and is frequently requested to speak at conferences and seminars. He has edited and written numerous articles including, “A Guide to Planning and Zoning Boards of Adjustment" (1990, revised 2000), and is an associate editor on the "Local Government Law Review."

With over 30 years of complex experience in land use, zoning and redevelopment areas and Mr. Kienz has tried cases before Judges in the State and Federal Courts. He holds an AV rating in Martindale Hubbell and has been recognized by New York Magazine as one of the “New York Areas Best Lawyers” as well as by New Jersey Monthly Magazine in the area of zoning and planning along with being designated as a “Super Lawyer”. Mr. Kienz was formerly partner and chair of the Public Law Group in the Secaucus office of Scarinci and Hollenbeck.

Mr. Kienz regularly represents public entities, developers and citizens in all legal and litigation matters concentrating primarily in redevelopment, land use proposals for industrial, commercial and residential development proposals before Boards. He has appeared before over 100 different agencies.

He received a Bachelor's Degree from Lafayette College, a Master’s Degree in Regional Planning from Pennsylvania State University, and a Law Degree from Seton Hall University where he was a member of the Law Review.

Raymond Bolanowski
Raymond graduated from Seton Hall University in 1967 and earned his Juris Doctorate Degree in 1970 from Seton Hall Law School. He served as a Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Jacob Triarsi and the Honorable James Cawley. Upon completion of his judicial clerkship, he entered into the private practice of law and was appointed the City of Elizabeth's first Municipal Prosecutor in 1971. He was appointed the First Assistant City Attorney of Elizabeth in 1977 and has continuously served in that position to the present time. He has also served as a Hearing Officer for the New Jersey Civil Service Commission, the Department of Transportation and is currently a member of the Public Employment Relations Commission Appeals Board and an instructor for the Diplomate Program.