Joseph L. Mecca Jr.

Mr. Mecca is an attorney at law with an office in Paramus, New Jersey.He is a graduate of Rutgers College and Seton Hall University School of Law, and has been a member of the New Jersey Bar since 1986.His practice of law includes a concentration in residential and commercial real estate and zoning matters, business law, estate planning, family law, and municipal court practice.He has served as the attorney for the Hackensack Board of Adjustment and has been the attorney for the Hackensack Planning Board since 2003.He has also served at the chief judge of the Paramus Municipal Court from 2005 through 2010.Mr Mecca is a past president of the Paramus Chamber of Commerce, and of the Greater Paramus Chamber of Commerce Education Foundation.He has served as a volunteer attorney for the Bergen County Domestic Violence Legal Advocacy Project and has served on the Supreme Court District IIA Ethics Committee Panel.He is a member of the Bergen County Bar Association, the New Jersey Bar Association and the American Bar Association.

• Sole Practitioner, since 1994
• City of Hackensack Planning Board, Planning Board Attorney, since 2002
• Municipal Court of the Borough of Paramus, Municipal Judge, since 2014

• Municipal Court of the Borough of Paramus, Municipal Chief Judge, 2005 - 2010
• City of Hackensack Zoning Board of Adjustment, Zoning Board Attorney, 1991 - 2002
• Law Office Of Daniel P. Mecca, Paramus, New Jersey, Associate, 1987 - 1994
• City Of Hackensack, NJ, Municipal Prosecutor, 1989 - 1991
• Township Of Rochelle Park, NJ, Municipal Prosecutor, 1989 - 1992
• Township Of Saddle Brook, NJ, Municipal Prosecutor, 1988 - 1990
• Hon. John F. Evers, J.S.C., Superior Court Of New Jersey, Judicial Law Clerk, 1986 - 1987

• Adjunct Professor, Business Law, Dominican College of Blauvelt, Weekend College, 2008 - 2009

• Past President and Current Member, Paramus Rotary Club
• Recipient, Bergen County Legal Services Pro Bono Service Award, 1997

• New Jersey, 1986
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1986

• American Bar Association
• New Jersey Bar Association
• Bergen County Bar Association
• Greater Paramus Chamber of Commerce (Past President and Current Member)
• Greater Paramus Chamber of Commerce, Education Foundation (Past President)
• Bergen Community College Paralegal, Studies Department (Past Member, Advisory Committee)
• District IIA Supreme Court Ethics Committee (Past Member)