About Stuart
Stuart Nachbar constructed a legal career that moves from court work to operating his own practice. He completed a B.S. in political science and history at the State University of New York at Albany in 1986 and earned his J.D. from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School in 1994. Earlier education includes a paralegal certification from Adelphi University, a credential that preceded his entry into trial work.
He started handling trials within the late 1990s. In 1997 he served as a senior litigator at the Law Office of Chet Preston. That prosecutorial-style experience carried into his role as senior trial counsel on the Law Office of Sal Greenman in 2001. In 2003 he joined Middlebrooks Shapiro & Nachbar, P.C. as a partner. Over the subsequent decade he mixed litigation, insolvency work and expert-ethics involvement earlier than opening his personal firm. Since 2012 he has operated the Law Office of Stuart M. Nachbar, P.C.
Alongside private practice he has taken on responsibilities tied to the career’s oversight systems. In 2006 he served as an investigator and held committee club at the Office of Lawyer Ethics of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for District V-B. He also served on the Suburban Essex Ethics Committee from 2007 to 2012. Those roles gave him a grounding in disciplinary processes and investigative procedures.
His court admissions cowl each state and federal boards. He is licensed in New Jersey and New York and to practice earlier than the 2nd and third U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Tax Court. That mix of admissions reflects a practice that consists of federal legal proceedings in addition to state-court things.
Professional associations were a continuous part of his career. He has been active in the Federal Bar Association since 2003 and has held membership in the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Lawyers since 2009. He participated in the Bankruptcy Inns of Court, serving as a barrister and later chairing that team from 2008 to 2010, and co-chaired its programming committee from 2006 to 2008. Other memberships consist of Phi Alpha Delta, the Morris Essex Small Firm Network and the World Wide Registry of Executives & Professionals. He also served as chief legal officer to the Veterans Chamber of Commerce–NJ from 2014 to 2017.
Clients and colleagues describe a practitioner who combines trial experience, bankruptcy knowledge and a knowing of expert-ethics processes. He represents events in bankruptcy and related consumer matters, handles contested litigation, and participates in administrative and disciplinary hearings. His current practice makes a speciality of bankruptcy, consumer insolvency and associated legal proceedings in both federal and state courts.
