Justice Barry T. Albin (Ret.), now a partner at Lowenstein Sandler, has been honored with the 2023 Eugene D. Serpentelli Award by the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA). The Serpentelli Award is given to an individual in recognition of extraordinary contributions to the development of family law in the State of New Jersey. The award was presented during the NJSBA Annual Meeting on May 19, 2023.
Appointed in 2002 to serve as an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Albin has been called “the consummate jurist” and “a constitutional giant.” Over the course of his twenty years on the bench, he authored more than 400 opinions, including more than 230 majority opinions, more than 130 dissents, and dozens of concurrences on issues spanning the wide spectrum of the law.
In 2006, Albin authored the majority opinion in Lewis v. Harris, the landmark New Jersey Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage. “The unequal dispensation of rights and benefits to committed same-sex partners can no longer be tolerated under our state Constitution,” he wrote, directing the state legislature to “either amend the marriage statutes to include same-sex couples or create a parallel statutory structure,” providing all of the same privileges and obligations enjoyed by heterosexual couples.
Albin now chairs Lowenstein’s Appellate practice, and is also a member of the firm’s Alternative Dispute Resolution and Litigation groups. He also serves as a neutral arbitrator, special master, and mediator in complicated, high-stakes disputes.
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