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Essex County, New Jersey

Courts, legal aid, and legal guides in Essex County.

Essex County is home to Newark — New Jersey's largest city and principal legal market. The county hosts the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (Newark Vicinage), the Third Circuit Court of Appeals sessions, Rutgers Law School's Newark campus, Seton Hall University School of Law, and a deep corporate, financial, pharmaceutical, and insurance bar. Newark is headquarters for Prudential, PSEG, Horizon BCBSNJ, and other major employers. The Third Circuit's pharmaceutical Hatch-Waxman and biosimilar docket is among the busiest in the nation.

Courthouse

Essex County Superior Court (Hall of Records)

465 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Newark, NJ 07102

New Jersey Superior Court, Vicinage V (Essex)

Legal aid

Legal Aid in Essex County

Essex-Newark Legal Services

Essex-Newark Legal Services provides free civil legal assistance to low-income residents of Essex County across housing, family, consumer, public benefits, and elder-law matters. Part of the Legal Services of New Jersey statewide network.

Legal Services of New Jersey (Statewide Hotline)

LSNJ operates a statewide telephone hotline providing free legal advice, information, and referrals to low-income New Jersey residents.

Attorneys

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Cities

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