• Steven Flanzman
  Chief, Deputy Attorney General
• Megan Cordoma
  Assistant Chief, Deputy Attorney General

The Consumer Affairs Counseling Section provides legal counsel and representation to approximately fifty professional licensing boards and committees housed within the Division of Consumer Affairs. Those Boards and Committees regulate a broad array of professions, industries and activities, including health care workers (doctors, dentists and nurses among the ranks), engineers, architects, cosmeticians, plumbers and cemeteries. The Section also provides counsel to an equally diverse set of regulatory units within the Division of Consumer Affairs including the Prescription Monitoring Program, Drug Control Unit, Charities Registration, Legalized Games of Chance, Lemon Law, and the Bureau of Securities.

Deputies typically have the opportunity to become well versed in one or more of the specialty areas that our client agencies regulate. Deputies can expect to work closely with their client agencies on matters involving licensing and credentialing; matters requiring investigative hearings; and in the drafting and promulgation of regulations. Deputies also routinely provide counsel to the boards when those boards conduct disciplinary hearings, and can expect to be involved both in efforts at settlement and in the drafting of Board orders following hearings. Deputies often work collaboratively with other State and federal entities, and are asked to provide advice and assistance on issues concerning compliance with requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act, responses to subpoenas and Open Public Record Act requests.

Deputies will appear upon occasion in the Superior Court, Appellate Division, and New Jersey Supreme Court on litigated matters, including actions where a law suit is filed against the client agencies and in appeals of actions taken by the client agencies.

• NJ Division of Consumer Affairs