Resource agencies for New Jersey employment discrimination and other employment law and civil rights legal issues
If this office should decline to schedule a consultation or to offer legal representation, you are advised to consult promptly with another attorney regarding your legal rights and the statute of limitations deadlines applicable to your situation. You may find an attorney who handles employment matters through your County Bar Association's Lawyer Referral Service. The below noted agencies also process and investigate charges of employment discrimination.
- Local New Jersey County Bar Association Lawyer Referral Services:
- Burlington County (609) 261-4862
- Camden County (856) 964-4520
- Gloucester County (856) 848-4589
- Atlantic County (609) 345-3444
- New Jersey Division on Civil Rights (“DCR”)
Camden, NJ office
One Port Center
2 Riverside Drive, Suite 402
Camden, NJ 08103
(856) 614-2550
http://www.state.nj.us/lps/dcr/
- U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”)
801 Market Street
Suite 1300
Philadelphia, PA 19107-3127
(215) 440-2601
http://www.eeoc.gov
- Workplace Fairness
A non-profit organization that provides information, education and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide and promotes public policies that advance employee rights. (http://www.workplacefairness.org)
- National Employment Lawyers Association (“NELA”)
A non-profit organization that provides information, education and assistance to individual workers and their advocates nationwide and promotes public policies that advance employee rights. (http://www.nela.org )
- National Employment Lawyers Association-New Jersey
(“NELA-NJ”)
New Jersey affiliate of national non-profit organization that provides information, education and assistance to individual workers and their advocates and promotes public policies that advance employee rights. (http://www.nelanj.org)
We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
— Solon (c. 638 – 558 BCE) Athenian statesman, lawmaker