Practice Areas: Litigation; Family Law; Commercial Transactions Law School: Yale University, LL.B. College: University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1958; University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden, M.A. in International Relations, 1965 Email: jdsiegal@hlgslaw.com

Joel D. Siegal concentrates his practice on significant family law matters, as well as complex litigation in the federal and state courts . He served as law clerk to Judge Arthur S. Lane of United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in 1961-62, and to Judge Phillip Forman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1963-64.

In 1991, the Governor of New Jersey appointed Mr. Siegal as a Commissioner to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform Laws, where he was a member of the Drafting Committee of the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act. He is a past President of the Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey, is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Association, and has served on the United States District Court Lawyers Advisory Committee. Mr. Siegal was a member of the Working Group of the Subcommittee on Commercial Litigation of the New Jersey Supreme Court's Committee on Civil Case Management and Procedure. He was a participant in the Media/Bench/Bar Dialogue "The Big Trial as a Media Event," sponsored by Rutgers Law School pursuant to a grant from the S.I. Newhouse Foundation. Mr. Siegal was also recognized from 2005 to 2009 as a New Jersey Super Lawyer in litigation/matrimonial law.

Mr. Siegal is a member of the Bars of New Jersey, New York, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the United States Supreme Court.