Education

B.A. 1970, St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia, PA

J.D. 1973, Villanova University

Bar Admissions

New Jersey

U.S. District Court of New Jersey, 1974

U.S. Court of Appeal 3rd Circuit 1998   

U.S. Supreme Court, 1990

Practice Areas

Real Estate and Land Use Law

Business Organization and Employment Law

Estate Planning and Administration

Litigation in above areas

RONALD J. UZDAVINIS is a shareholder in the firm concentrating his practice in the areas of real estate and land use law including complex commercial, industrial, and residential site plan and subdivision applications; business organization formation including corporations, LLC's and partnerships; estate planning including wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, and representation of personal representatives in the administration of decedent's estates, as well as litigation in these areas.

Mr. Uzdavinis graduated from St. Joseph's College, Philadelphia, PA in 1970 and obtained his Juris Doctor from Villanova University Law School in 1973. He was admitted to the New Jersey-Bar and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey in 1974. He was admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1998, and to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990.

He served as Solicitor for various public bodies, including the Franklin Township Board of Education, the Woodbury Planning Board, and the West Deptford Township Planning Board and has served as Assistant Counsel for the County of Gloucester. He has been the Solicitor for the Burlington Board of Island Managers, the oldest continuously operating educational trust in the United States, from 1995 to 2015.

Mr. Uzdavinis has conducted seminars on Land Use Planning for the National Business Institute and for the Gloucester County Legal Education Association. He has also made estate planning and litigation related presentations for various private sector institutions.

He was named to the Board of Directors of the United Way of Gloucester County in 1990, became President in 2003, and has served as Chairman of the Board since 2009. He also sits on the Board of Main Street Woodbury, Inc., and other private sector organizations.

Mr. Uzdavinis has served on the Gloucester County Ethics Committee and the District IV Fee Arbitration Committee as a Member and Chair. In 1985, he was appointed by the New Jersey Supreme Court to that Court's Committee on Character which screens all incoming candidates for admission to the bar, and chaired a Panel until 1999 when he was appointed Statewide Chair of the Character Committee where he served until 2003. The Supreme Court then appointed him to its Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics where he served from 2004 to 2016. He was named by the Supreme Court to the Disciplinary Oversight Committee in 2019 to the present. He was appointed to the Supreme Court Skills and Methods Committee, and has served on several Litigation related Committees and Task Forces at the request of the New Jersey Supreme Court, including those involving Civil Practice and the Use of Technology in the Courtroom.