Margaret A. Cotoia
Assistant Attorney General Margaret A. Cotoia is the Director of the New Jersey Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute, which provides continuing legal education programs that meet the practice needs of New Jersey government lawyers. Margaret maintains overall responsibility for over 150 programs a year, recruiting instructors and developing curriculum for the AGAI’s lecture programs, supervising litigation…
Laurie Lyte
Laurie Lyte is Director of the Professional Development and Planning Division at the Maryland Office of the Attorney General where she is responsible for developing and implementing continuing legal education programs for attorneys and legal assistants in the office. She also serves as director of the office’s Law Clerk, Intern, and Associate programs. Laurie is…
Katharine Brooks
Katharine Brooks is the Bureau Chief of the Claims Bureau in the New York State Attorney General’s Office. She received a B.A., summa cum laude, in 1975 from SUNY Albany, and a J.D. in 1978 from Hofstra University School of Law. In her present position, Ms. Brooks is responsible for the oversight of all Claims…
Karla E. Zarbo
Karla E. Zarbo retired from the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Fair Labor Division as an Assistant Attorney General where she handled civil, criminal, and administrative enforcement matters on behalf of the Division for 23 years. The Division is responsible for enforcement of the Commonwealth’s various Wage and Hour Laws, including the Wage Act, the Independent Contractor…
Judy Zeprun Kalman
Judy Zeprun Kalman retired in 2019 after serving more than thirty years in state government, most recently as General Counsel at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. In that role, she provided legal counsel to the Executive Bureau on personnel, contracts, conflicts of interest, and ethics issues and assisted in developing internal policies, guidelines, and procedures,…
John J. Bajger
John J. Bajger is a Chief Assistant Attorney General with the Florida Office of the Attorney General. He oversees the South Florida Civil Litigation Division, which represents State Agencies and public officials in civil litigation arising in South Florida. Prior to joining the OAG, John worked as an assistant public defender in Fort Pierce, Florida,…
Joe Whalen
Joe Whalen has been an associate solicitor general in the Tennessee Attorney General’s Office since 2004. In that role, he assists in the oversight and supervision of the Office’s appellate work. He has appeared in all of Tennessee’s appellate courts. Mr. Whalen has argued many times before the Tennessee Supreme Court and the Sixth Circuit…
Joel S. Jacobs
Joel has been with the California Attorney General’s Office since 1998. He represents state environmental agencies in litigation and trial work, typically involving land use. He graduated Order of the Coif from the law school at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was an articles editor for the California Law Review. He has received…
John M. Leovy
John Leovy joined the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland in 2014 as the Chief Counsel of its Tobacco Enforcement Unit, where he litigates against Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds, and dozens of other cigarette companies over hundreds of millions of dollars in multi-state arbitrations spawned by the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement. Before that, he…
Joseph A. Jordano
Joe Jordano, a veteran of numerous federal and state jury trials, has been litigating cases for over twenty years. Prior to February 2000, he served as a Partner in the Omaha law firm of Fitzgerald, Schorr, Barmettler & Brennan, P.C., where he litigated products liability, personal injury, commercial, employment and ERISA matters. During his time…
