Biographical Information:
Frederic K. Becker, president of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A., is one of the firm's senior trial attorneys engaged in complex corporate and commercial litigation in the State and Federal Courts. Mr. Becker has also appeared before the New Jersey Supreme Court and Superior Court, Appellate Division as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Mr. Becker is a member of the Commercial Arbitration Panel of the American Arbitration Association and has previously served by designation of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey as one of the mediators in the Court's program for the mediation of complex cases.
Mr. Becker is also engaged in the counseling of the firm's corporate clients and in various corporate, commercial and real estate transactions.
Mr. Becker presently serves as a director of Prudential Financial, Inc. and as Chair of its Audit Committee.
Mr. Becker has been designated by the New Jersey Supreme Court to serve on a number of its committees, including the Supreme Court Study Group on the Sale of Law Practices, the Supreme Court Committee on Model Rules of Professional Conduct (the “Debevoise Commission”), the Supreme Court Committee on Court Reporting (Stenographic and Electronic), the Supreme Court Committee to Evaluate Court Reporting Improvements and, most recently, the Supreme Court Commission on the Rules of Professional Conduct (the “Pollock Commission”). Mr. Becker is a 2004 recipient of the William J. Brennan, Jr. Award presented by The Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey.
Mr. Becker is a past president of The Association of the Federal Bar of the State of New Jersey, a member of that Association's Advisory Board, a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and of the American Bar Foundation, the chair of the Editorial Board of the New Jersey Lawyer, a past president of the Harvard Law School Association of New Jersey, and a member of the American, New Jersey State and Middlesex County Bar Associations.