Derrick Neves

Associate, Business & Commercial Litigation

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Mr. Neves is an associate in the Business & Commercial Litigation Group. He joins the firm after having completed clerkships in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Superior Court of New Jersey. His experiences clerking enabled him to acquire in-depth knowledge of civil litigation, including the resolution of dispositive motions and discovery disputes.

Credentials

Education

Rutgers Law School (J.D.)

  • Journal of Law & Religion
  • Eagleton Institute of Politics Graduate Fellow
  • Constitutional Law Teaching Fellow

Rutgers University (B.S.)

Professional Admissions

State of New Jersey

State of New York (pending)

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

Judicial Clerkship(s)

Law Clerk to the Honorable Edward S. Kiel, U.S.D.J., United States District Court, District of New Jersey, Camden, NJ, October 2024 – October 2025

Law Clerk to the Honorable Stuart A. Minkowitz, A.J.S.C., New Jersey Courts, Morris-Sussex Vicinage, Morristown, NJ, August 2023 – August 2024

Civic/Charitable Activities

Maida Fellow/Legal Intern, Volunteer Lawyers for Justice, May 2021 – July 2021

Legal Employment

Clinical Law Student, Rutgers Criminal and Youth Justice Clinic, Newark, NJ, August 2022 – May 2023

Elle Baker Summer Intern, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY, June 2022 – August 2022

Research Assistant, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, December 2021 – May 2022

Languages

Portuguese