Kevin H. Marino, the firm’s founder, received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude in English literature and political science from Drew University and his law degree cum laude from Seton Hall Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.  He is today a member of the Board of Trustees of Drew University and the Board of Visitors of Seton Hall Law School, which in 2010 honored him with its Distinguished Graduate Award.  Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Marino served as law clerk to the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry, then a United States District Judge and today a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.  Following his clerkship, he joined Robinson, Wayne, Levin, Riccio & La Sala, a 20-lawyer litigation boutique comprising a host of former federal law clerks who would go on to be counted among the most prominent lawyers and judges in New Jersey, including a dean of Seton Hall Law School and one of its most highly-regarded law professors.  During his tenure at Robinson Wayne, Mr. Marino successfully tried both civil and criminal cases in state and federal court and advised a host of corporations and individuals in a wide variety of matters.  He also taught criminal procedure, professional responsibility and legal writing as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall Law School and published an influential law review article, “Outrageous Conduct:  The Third Circuit’s Treatment of the Due Process Defense,” 19 Seton Hall Law Review 606 (1989), articulating a theory of the due process defense later adopted by the Supreme Court of New Jersey in State v. Johnson, 127 N.J. 458 (1992).  Following a one-year leave of absence from Robinson Wayne to serve as Counsel to the Commissioner and Director of Litigation at the Department of the Public Advocate for the State of New Jersey, Mr. Marino was elected a partner of the newly-formed Robinson St. John & Wayne in 1992.  He withdrew from the partnership to form his present firm in 1996.  Mr. Marino is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation of New Jersey; a member and former Trustee of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey; a Director of the United States District Court Historical Society; and an annual Honorary Chair of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund dinner committee.  He is also a past member of the Lawyers Advisory Committee of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the New Jersey Supreme Court Civil Practice Committee.  Mr. Marino served as a member of the New Jersey Steering Committee of the Third Circuit Task Force on Counsel for Indigent Litigants in Civil Cases and has served as a member of court-appointed Merit Selection Panels for both the appointment and the reappointment of United States Magistrate Judges for the District of New Jersey.  He is a past recipient of the Essex County Bar Association’s Criminal Trial Attorney Achievement Award and a lecturer for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education.  He is the current Head of the Williams College Baseball Hit and Run Club and the former Head of the Baseball Boosters at Delbarton School.