Marguerite Schaffer | Bernardsville Litigation Lawyer

Marguerite M. "Peg" Schaffer, who specializes in commercial litigation, banking, land use and real estate law, is the President and Managing Principal of Shain Schaffer.

Ms. Schaffer received her law degree, cum laude, from Seton Hall University and was Editor of its Legislative Journal. She also earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy at the University of Dayton. She holds a Teacher’s Certification in Secondary English from the State of New Jersey and prior to law school taught in an inner city high school.

Ms. Schaffer served as an Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall Law School where she taught legal writing, and at Fairleigh Dickinson University where she taught commercial law. She was the Assistant Counsel and Municipal Prosecutor, City of East Orange, NJ; Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Adjustment, City of East Orange, NJ; Counsel to the Planning Board, City of East Orange; and Counsel to and Member of the Board of Directors of Mountain Ridge State Bank. She currently serves as Assistant Counsel to Monroe Township, Counsel to Borough of Lake Como, and Special Counsel to Borough of Roselle and City of Jersey City.

Ms. Schaffer is a past President of Executive Women of New Jersey, the State’s premier organization for Professional Women, and a member of its Board of Directors. She serves on the Advisory Committee of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers. She holds memberships in the Somerset County, New Jersey State and American Bar Associations. For ten years Ms. Schaffer was on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Banking Law Section, served as its Chair, and is presently a Director Emeritus.

Professional memberships held by Ms. Schaffer include: Committee on the Judiciary Budget and the Supreme Court Ethics Committees of both Essex and Morris Districts; Land Use Section of the American Bar Association. She was a Founding Member and Secretary of the Essex County Women Lawyers Association.

Ms. Schaffer was honored as a “Woman of Distinction” by Somerset Hills Girls Scouts and named to Business New Jersey’s Top 500 Leaders List. In 2006, she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Service Award from the Somerset County Federation of Democratic Women. Ms. Schaffer, who currently serves as Chair of the Somerset County Democratic Committee was elected as a Delegate to the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions. She was named a 2014, 2015 and 2016 Super Lawyer by New Jersey Monthly Magazine.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Principal	Shain Schaffer		Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Seton Hall University School of Law	J.D.	Law School	1975
University of Dayton	BA	English Language and Literature/Letters	1970

State / Court	Date
New Jersey	1975

• New Jersey State Bar Association, Banking Law Section | Executive Committee | 1985 - Present
  Somerset County Bar Association | Member
  American Bar Association | Member
  Executive Women of New Jersey | Past President | 1998 - 2002
  New Jersey State Bar Association, Banking Law Section | Former Chair | 1990 - 1991
  Essex County Women Lawyers Association | Secretary | 1981 - 1981

• New Jersey Monthly Magazine | Super Lawyer | 2016
  New Jersey Monthly Magazine | Super Lawyer | 2015
  New Jersey Monthly Magazine | Super Lawyer | 2014
  Somerset County Federation of Democratic Women | Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Service Award | 2006
  Somerset Hills Girls Scouts | Woman of Distinction
  Business New Jersey’s Top 500 Leaders List

• ICLE seminar | NJ Uniform Commercial Code | 2014

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