About Steven W.
Steven W. Tarta trained first as a business student and then as a lawyer. He earned a B.S. in Business Administration and Economics from Alfred University in 1964 and took his law degree from The John Marshall Law School in 1968. Those early years set the tone for a career that moved between public service, nearby civic work and private practice.
In the early 1970s he entered public prosecution. In 1972 he served as an Assistant County Prosecutor. That knowledge within the courtroom and in government formed so much of his approach to casework and dispute decision within the years that followed. During the Nineteen Eighties he took on a range of network roles. Records show he served at the Hawthorne Planning Board and held several leadership positions within the nearby Chamber of Commerce, all famous in 1980.
Tarta’s practice has intersected with several professional organizations over the many years. He maintained membership in the County Bar Association from 1971 thru 1991 and belonged to the American Bar Association from 1974 thru 1994. He was a member of the Federal Bar Association at some point of the mid-1980s. He also joined the National Association of Elder Law Lawyers for a span in the late Nineteen Eighties, and he served as an arbitrator for the Passaic, Bergen and Rockland County Better Business Bureau from 1982 to 1989.
He chaired the Early Settlement Panel of the Passaic County Chancery Division of the Superior Court among 1984 and 1990. That position placed him on the middle of pretrial settlement efforts in chancery matters and required a continuous hand in mediating complicated disputes. His background combines trial-degree prosecution, court resolution work and personal arbitrations. Those threads run through each his case handling and his civic involvement.
Tarta has maintained an office at 700 Godwin Avenue and practices in New Jersey. As of 2026 he continues to handle things within the state, with a tradition that addresses elder law, dispute decision and civil matters in New Jersey.
