Practice Areas of Emphasis: Labor and Employment Law
Employment Litigation
Defense of Public Employers
Police Law and Discipline
Education:
J.D., cum laude, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, 1998
B.S., Southern Connecticut State University, 1994
Distinctions & Awards:
Associate Editor, Thomas Cooley Law Review
Certificate of Merit: Labor Law
Certificate of Merit: Constitutional Law
Judge, Vincent J. Apruzzese High School Mock Trial Competition, 2002-present
Memberships:
New Jersey State Bar Association, Labor
and Employment Section, 1998-present
Associate, Sidney Reitman Employment Inn of Court,
2003-2005
Bar Admissions:
New Jersey
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Noteworthy: Published Cases:
New Concepts for Living, Inc. v. City of Hackensack, 376 N.J. Super. 394 (App. Div. 2005)
State v. Pavlik, 363 N.J. Super. 307 (App. Div. 2003)(forfeiture of public employment)
Symposia:
January 2008 SOMERSET COUNTY POLICE ACADEMY - Branchburg, NJ -
Administrative Investigations and Prosecution of Police Misconduct
May 2007 MUNICIPAL MANAGER'S ASSOCIATION - - Spring Lake, NJ
Establishment of the Police Discipline Appropriate Authority and the Administrator’s Role in Police Discipline
March 2007 NEW JERSEY POLICE INTERNAL AFFAIRS Group -- Lodi, NJ
An Introduction to the Internal Affairs
Investigation and Police Discipline
January 2007 SOMERSET COUNTY POLICE ACADEMY - -Branchburg, NJ
Internal Affairs Investigations and Resulting
Police Discipline
February 2003 NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION
An Overview of the Law of Reasonable
Accommodation Update: 2003
April 2002 NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION
Litigating the Reasonable Accommodation Case under the ADA and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination: The Defense.
Publications:
The Double-Edged Sword of Disability Insurance Claims after Cleveland, Motley and Dietz, New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly (Winter 2006), Co-Author
New Jersey Extends the Protections of the Law Against Discrimination to Independent Contractors, New Jersey Labor and Employment Law Quarterly (Winter 2005), Author
Disability Discrimination: Failure to Accommodate or Disparate Treatment, New Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine (August 2003), Author
Public School Construction Contracts: Issues to Look for in School Construction, 31 School Leader 6 (May/June 2002), Co-Author
email address: athibault@ammm.com
Direct telephone and ext.: (908) 580-1776 x. 213
Personal Narrative: Mr. Thibault is a member of the firm. His practice focuses on public sector labor and employment law, handling negotiations, arbitrations and litigation on behalf of the firm’s public sector clients. He regularly provides counseling to public sector clients on a wide array of labor and employment matters, including employee discharge and discipline; employee leaves of absence; sexual harassment in the workplace; race, age, sex and disability discrimination; reasonable accommodations to disabled employees; unfair labor practices; and other related matters.
Mr. Thibault has represented management clients in the state and federal courts, as well as before the Public Employment Relations Commission, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other administrative bodies.
He has argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division.
A fair amount of Mr. Thibault’s practice involves handling police disciplinary matters and he has spoken extensively on the administrative investigation of police officer misconduct and the prosecution of administrative disciplinary charges preferred against police officers.
