About
Maria Noto is certified by means of the N.J. Supreme Court as a crook trial attorney and become the 2003-3004 President of the N.J. Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Maria has been named a Super Lawyer by N.J. Monthly every yr from 2005 to the existing and, in 2005, become additionally named by N.J. Monthly as one of the top 50 lady attorneys. She has also been identified with the aid of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America as one of the pinnacle one hundred trial legal professionals in New Jersey.
Prior to turning into an lawyer, Maria Noto changed into a trainer for numerous years. She became capable of take the abilities she found out as a instructor and used those talents to “train” the jury in order to convince them of her patron’s innocence.
Maria attended Seton Hall Law School and whilst she become in regulation faculty labored element-time as a regulation clerk for the Essex county Prosecutor’s Office. That experience has tested to be a useful a part of Maria’s career as she has surely been capable of see both aspects of the crook justice device.
Maria Noto started her criminal career as regulation clerk to the Honorable Thomas F. Shebell, Jr., who was then the Assignment Judge for Monmouth County. As Assignment decide for Monmouth County, Judge Shebell decided many civil and criminal Motions filed by way of legal professionals. Through this prestigious clerkship to Judge Shebell, Maria assisted the Court in discovering the regulation and writing Memorada of Law and gained precious revel in and information in lots of one of a kind regions of the regulation.
Upon completing her judicial clerkship, Maria began her profession as a trial attorney with the Essex County Public Defender’s Office in Newark, New Jersey. As a public defender, Maria commenced her trial career with a string of victories triumphing her first 9 instances in a row. Maria tried many cases including ten homicides, eight of which she won. Maria eventually tried over 200 cases and received maximum of them.
In 1985, Maria went into personal exercise and turned into retained to represent certainly one of 21 defendants within the longest federal trial in the records of New Jersey – U.S. v. Accetturo, et als. After a -year trial, all 21 defendants were discovered not guilty. That victory has been memorialized by using Robert Rudolph in his book, The Boys From New Jersey (How the Mob Beat the Feds) and the movie, “Find Me Guilty.” Maria took the enjoy of trying a case for 2 years with a number of the first-rate lawyers in the State of New Jersey and has due to the fact that successfully resolved many federal cases.
In addition to federal instances, Maria also represents people who are accused at both country and municipal tiers of the courtroom device and has many happy clients from each degree of the court device. Although her workplace is centrally positioned in Matawan, New Jersey, Maria handles cases at some point of the nation of New Jersey and has even seemed seasoned hac vice in different states.
Having grown up inside the inner city of Brooklyn, New York, as the child of hardworking, however bad, immigrant mother and father, Maria has a strong paintings ethic coupled with empathy for the wrongly accused and for folks that, perhaps, made a mistake or error in judgment and want to resolve it in the fine feasible manner.
Whether it is Federal Court, State Superior Court or Municipal Court, Maria makes use of her superior criminal potential and trial skills to get the exceptional feasible result and treats all of her customers with dignity and recognize.
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