Biography

Prior to joining Cleary, Giacobbe, Alfieri, Jacobs, Arsen Zartarian was Deputy General Counsel and Interim General Counsel of the Newark Board of Education, where he served as in-house counsel for 25 years.

Arsen is Past President and a current Trustee of the New Jersey Association of School Attorneys (New Jersey School Boards Association), President of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s School Law Special Committee, and a member of the Executive Committee of the State Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section. He frequently presents at statewide school and employment law seminars, and moderates the annual CLE programs “Administrative Law Forum,” and “Representing School Employees and Boards of Education in Employment Law Cases.”

During his undergraduate studies at Rutgers University, he was Sports Editor of The Daily Targum – a student-written, student-managed, non-profit, incorporated news organization which is the second-oldest and among the largest college news organizations in the nation. Arsen received his law degree in 1990 from Villanova University School of Law, where he was Case & Comments Editor of the Villanova Law Review – a student-run and student-edited journal devoted to the advancement of legal scholarship; as well as participating as a national moot court competitor.