Attorney Profiles

Ivette R. Alvarez is counsel at Einhorn, Harris, Ascher, Barbarito, Frost & Ironson in Denville, New Jersey, where she concentrates her practice in civil litigation with an emphasis on matrimonial and family law.  Ms. Alvarez is fluent in Spanish.

Ms. Alvarez graduated from Columbia Law School in 1985 and was admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York. Ms. Alvarez is a member of the New Jersey State, Garden State and Essex County Bar Associations. She currently serves as President of the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey and also serves as immediate Past Chair to the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Executive Committee. She is a past Chair of the District V-C Fee Arbitration Committee and was appointed by the Chief Justice to serve on Several Supreme Court Committees including the Family Law Practice Committee, the Skills and Methods Ad Hoc Committee, the Family Division Practice Sub-Committee on Child Support and the Custody and Parenting Time Subcommittee. Ms. Alvarez was a Board Member and served on the Executive Committee and Finance Committee of Legal Services of New Jersey, and was a Board member of the Morris County Organization of Hispanic Affairs.  She has also been a Board Member and Community Advisor for the Resource Center for Women.  Ms. Alvarez is a recipient of the 2005 Professional Lawyer of the Year by the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Ms. Alvarez lectures and appears as a panelist on family law issues for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education, the Essex County Bar Association, the Hispanic Bar Association and the Hispanic Bar Foundation. She has presented at the 2000 and 2001 Family Law Bench Bar Conference and at the 2003 and 2004 Family Law Symposium.  

She received her B.A., with Honors, from the State University of New York at Albany and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.