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James Hely is a New Jersey Superior Court Judge sitting in Union County since July, 2009. He is a former member of Weiseman Hely DiGioia law firm in Mountainside, New Jersey and was Certified by the Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney. He has been a frequent lecturer for the New Jersey Association for Justice (formerly ATLA-NJ), the New Jersey Defense Association, NJICLE, the Union County Bar Association, and the New Jersey Law Journal. He has published articles on trial practice in Trial Magazine and other journals.

In 1984, he and another attorney obtained the largest injury award in the history of New Jersey up to that time for a paralysis victim. In 1988, he achieved the first punitive damage award against the Audi 5000 for unintended acceleration. He has been an Executive Committee member of the New Jersey Association for Justice, a Master of the Richard J. Hughes Inns of Court, an Advocate of the American Board of Trial Advocates – North Jersey, and a Trustee of the Union County Bar Association. He has served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on the Rules of Evidence since 2008.

Hely is the author of two books for New Jersey attorneys. The New Jersey Law Journal annually publishes and updates Hely’s New Jersey Law of Personal Injury. Also, in 1997, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education published Trustworthiness: a Trial Strategy Manual for the Plaintiff’s Injury Case in New Jersey.

A graduate of Westfield High School, Gettysburg College and Rutgers Law School in Camden, Hely has been married to Lois Davis Hely since 1974, and they have three children.