Iram is a business-minded civil trial attorney, who regularly represents individual professionals and commercial and not-for-profit entities in the following fields and industries: legal, medical practice, pharmaceutical, insurance, financial, real estate, debt collection, construction, restaurant, hospitality, transportation, manufacturing, and public and private education. His practice is varied, ranging from the defense of professional negligence suits in state and federal court, representation of attorneys during ethics investigations and proceedings, to the handling of complex commercial litigation, employer-side employment liability, and general liability matters on behalf of private and public entities.
Iram is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney. Over the past 18 and a half years, he has secured for his clients innumerable favorable resolutions and dispositions, as well as several defense jury verdicts and favorable appellate decisions.*
Mr. Valentin served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph P. Perfilio, J.S.C., Superior Court of New Jersey, Union County. A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and Fordham University School of Law, he was a Notes & Articles Editor on the Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law. While at Fordham, Mr. Valentin also interned for the Honorable Denny Chin, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and at the New York Stock Exchange Division of Enforcement, and participated in the Securities Arbitration Clinic, appearing before the NASD. Mr. Valentin is fluent in Spanish.
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Awards
Recognition
•2021 “Top Lawyers,” Bergen Magazine, Bergen County, New Jersey (November 2021)
•Law360 Names Attys Who Moved Up The Firm Ranks In Q1 (Law360, May 7, 2021)
•New Jersey Super Lawyers, Professional Liability: Defense - 2017-21
•New Jersey Super Lawyers Rising Stars - 2009-11, 2013, 2014-16
•Twenty Distinguished HNBA Attorneys Are the Winners of the Prestigious 2016 HNBA Top Lawyers Under 40 Award (HNBA, February 3, 2016)
•(201) Magazine’s Bergen’s Top Lawyers 2011, 2013-19
•Hispanic National Bar Association Top Lawyers Under 40 - 2016
•New Jersey Law Journal 40 under 40 - 2011
*No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Publications
•Emotionally Spent: High Court Curtails Emotional Distress Damages Under Spending Clause Legislation, New Jersey Law Journal, authors Iram Valentin, Esq., & Allison Levinson, Esq., June 9, 2022
•The Housing Market, Recreational Cannabis: Iram Valentin on What’s Coming in Professional Liability for Lawyers, New Jersey Law Journal, July 29, 2021
•Catching up with Kaufman, Dolowich & Voluck, LLP - PLAN
•NJ Hospital Sex Harassment Suit Dismissed For Timeliness, Law360, ft. Iram Valentin
•New Jersey Adopts Remote Notarization in Response to COVID-19
•Fox Rothschild Ruling Tames Fears Of Nonclient Claims In NJ, Law360, ft. Iram Valentin
•Of Squares and Rectangles: The Fiduciary Standard Imposed on Insurance Brokers, Both Problem and Answer, New Jersey Law Journal
•Professional Negligence vs. Breach of Fiduciary Duty in Insurance Broker Malpractice Actions, New Jersey Law Journal
•Limitations on a Realtor’s Duty to Warn in New Jersey
•Implications Of Trenk Dipasquale v. Industrial Urban, Law360, by Iram Valentin and David Gittines
•The Premium Financing Red Flag - Case Studies & What To Avoid, Agents of America.org, ft. Iram Valentin and Robert Usinger
•The Premium Financing Red Flag, LIFE&Health Advisor
•Economic Loss Doctrine Gains Viability as Defense to Financial Claims, New Jersey Law Journal
•The Cure for Borrower’s Remorse: Ratification, New Jersey Law Journal
•Let the Lender Beware, New Jersey Law Journal
•Co-author, Of Squares and Rectangles: The Fiduciary Standard Imposed on Insurance Brokers, Both Problem and Answer, New Jersey Law Journal (December 10, 2019)
Co-author, Professional Negligence vs. Breach of Fiduciary Duty in Insurance Broker Malpractice Actions, New Jersey Law Journal (January 11, 2019)
•Co-author, Limitations on a Realtor’s Duty to Warn in New Jersey, KDV Alert (April 18, 2016)
•Co-author, Implications of Trenk Dipasquale v. Industrial Urban, Law360 (March 31, 2016)
•Co-author, The Premium Financing Red Flag - Case Studies & What To Avoid - Plus Journal Blog-Vol. XXVIII, No. 8; Life & Health Advisor (June 26, 2015)
•Co-author, Economic Loss Doctrine Gains Viability as Defense to Financial Claims, New Jersey Law Journal (May 4, 2015)
•Quoted, Issue of Attorney Diligence Enters High-Stakes Fees Dispute in Sanctions-Terminated Suit, Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (July 10, 2014)
•Author, The Cure for Borrower’s Remorse: Ratification, New Jersey Law Journal (October 11, 2011)
•Author, Let the Lender Beware, New Jersey Law Journal (Jan 31, 2011)
•Author, Title IX: A Brief History, Education Development Center, WEEA (1997)
News
•New Jersey Appellate Division Clarifies Use of Non-Disparagement Provisions in Law Against Discrimination Settlement Agreements
•KDV Alert: Supreme Court Affirms Denial of Emotional Distress Damages in Claim of Discrimination under the Rehabilitation Act and Affordable Care Act, May 10, 2022
•Newly Implemented Law Permits Claimants to Sue Automobile Insurers for Delayed Payment of Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Benefits
Speaking Engagements
•“Claims and Defense Counsel Collaboration to Overcome Professional Liability Case Obstacles”- PLAN Webinar: Iram Valentin, Panelist (4/22/2021)
•Legal Ethics in the Era of Law Firm Mergers and Vereins: Fee-Splitting, Referral, Conflicts and Other Ethical Issues (March 26, 2019): Strafford CLE Webinar
•Join Us for a Live Webinar “New Jersey - Everyday Ethics and Why It Matters” (July 12, 2017)
•Burlington County Bar Association Lunch & Learn: “Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls & Legal Malpractice Claims,” ft. Iram Valentin
•The CFPB’s TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosures Rule: Navigating Its Enforcement Predicament LIVE Webcast
•Title Academy of New Jersey Continuing Education Seminar: Title Risk Management
•The Academy of Continuing Education March Seminar: Title Insurance Claims: How They are Handled; Avoiding Them; Case Law Update
•Legal Ethics in the Era of Law Firm Mergers and Vereins: Fee-Splitting, Referral, Conflicts and Other Ethical Issues (March 26, 2019): Strafford CLE Webinar
•Join Us for a Live Webinar “New Jersey - Everyday Ethics and Why It Matters” (July 12, 2017)
Burlington County Bar Association Lunch & Learn: “Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls & Legal Malpractice Claims,” ft. Iram Valentin
•The CFPB’s TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosures Rule: Navigating Its Enforcement Predicament LIVE Webcast
•Title Academy of New Jersey Continuing Education Seminar: Title Risk Management
•The Academy of Continuing Education March Seminar: Title Insurance Claims: How They are Handled; Avoiding Them; Case Law Update (March 2015)
•Presenter, “Taking Care of Yourself and Your Practice (Ethics),” Sole Practitioner & Small Firm CLE Track, Meadowlands Seminar 2019
•Co-Presenter, “Legal Ethics in the Era of Law Firm Mergers and Vereins: Fee-Splitting, Referral, Conflicts and Other Ethical Issues” LIVE Webinar, Strafford (March 2019)
•Co-Presenter, “New Jersey - Everyday Ethics and Why It Matters,” LIVE Webinar, Lorman (July 2018)
•Co-Presenter, “New Jersey - Everyday Ethics and Why It Matters,” LIVE Webinar, Lorman (July 2017)
•Co-Presenter, “Current Trends in EPL and Real Estate Professional E&O Claims” (June 2017)
•Presenter, “Avoiding Ethical Pitfalls & Legal Malpractice Claims,” Burlington County Bar Association (May 2017)
•Co-Presenter, “New Jersey - Everyday Ethics and Why It Matters,” LIVE Webinar, Lorman (June 2016)
•Co-Presenter, “The CFPB’s TILA/RESPA Integrated Disclosures Rule: Navigating Its Enforcement Predicament,” LIVE Webcast, The Knowledge Group (October 2015)
•Presenter, “Joint & Several Liability,” CEU Institute (September 2015)
•Co-Presenter, “Practical Professionalism,” CLM (July 2015)
•Co-Presenter, “Title Risk Management,” Title Academy of New Jersey Continuing Education Seminar (May 2015)
•Panelist, “Ethical Pitfalls to be Avoided by In-House Corporate Counsel,” New Jersey Association of Corporate Counsel Ethics Meet and Greet (February 2013)
•Panelist, “Ethics and Beyond - Professionalism in the Law,” Bergen County Bar Association Professionalism in the Law Committee Program (October 2012)
•Panelist, “Top Ten Ethics Complaints and How to Avoid Them,” Hudson County Bar Association Professionalism in the Law Committee Program (October 2012)
•Presenter, “You Bet Your Life (Insurance): Stranger Owned Life Insurance and Viatical and Life Settlements” (July 2012)
•Moderator and Panelist, “Avoiding Fraud in Your Title Agency,” NAILTA Annual Conference (April 2011)
•Co-Presenter, “Claims Against Title Insurance Professionals,” (January 2010)