BOURKE & ASSOCIATES, LLC is a boutique law firm based in Bridgewater, Somerset County, New Jersey.  Our team of experienced lawyers are dedicated to ensuring quality legal representation in reaching negotiated settlements, trial defense or advancing your rights and remedies at law--When you have a legal question…we are your source for answers and alternatives. 

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BOURKE & ASSOCIATES, LLC:

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BONITA B. BOURKE, Esq. - founding member.

Admitted to practice in 1998. Former Judicial Law Clerk, The Hon. Gerald B. Hanifan, J.S.C., (retired), Superior Court of New Jersey-Division of Law-Criminal Part (1997-1998);  Warren County Bar Association, past-president ( 2011); New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics, District XIII, Fee Arbitration Panel Member and Chair (2007-2009) , Chair, District XIII ( New Jersey Super Lawyers, Top General Litigator, Rising Star, 2007, 2006; Matrimonial Early Settlement Panelist  (MESP) Vicinage XIII, Warren County (2005-2018),Outstanding Young Women of America (1988).  Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, New Jersey, Juris Doctor, (1997),

 

EDWARD J. SMELTZER II, Esq.

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RACHEL L. BAXTER, Esq.

Admitted to practice in 2012. Former Judicial Law Clerk, The Hon. Anthony Picheca, J.S.C., Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division-Family Part (2011-2012),

Temple University-Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pa., Juris Doctor, 2011