Michael McCormick served as director and counsel of the New Jersey Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection, a Committee of the NJ Supreme Court, January 2022 until his retirement in March 2025. The Fund reimburses client trust monies misappropriated by disciplined or deceased attorneys. Mr. McCormick also served as president of the National Client Protection Organization, supporting client protection funds across the United States and Canada. He was a regular presenter for the American Bar Association Forum on Professional Responsibility and the New Jersey State Bar Association. Prior to his appointment as the Fund’s director, he served as its deputy director, a post he assumed in 2018. Between 1999 and 2012, Mr. McCormick was the Senior Deputy Attorney General for the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice’s Civil Remedies and Forfeiture Bureau.
Outside of the legal field, Mr. McCormick established a sustainable tree farm in 2002 and continues to manage this enterprise. His interests include being a church organist and choir director at Roman Catholic parishes since 1983. He has been a member of the Kiwanis Club of Trenton since 1996. He has been active in his community as a member and officer of The Allentown Village Initiative (TAVI).
Mr. McCormick received his J.D. from Seton Hall University Law School in 1993.
