After her clerkship, Anne landed a job as a commercial litigator with Sills Cummis, one of New Jersey’s largest and well-known law firms, where she practiced in the state courts of New Jersey and New York, and the United States District Courts for the District of New Jersey, the Eastern District of New York and the Southern District of New York. Later, Anne served her local community by practicing law for a general practice law firm nearby before establishing the Buckley Johnson Law Firm.

    Graduating with High Honors, Anne obtained her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in 1994.  She also earned membership to the Beta Gama Sigma Management Honor Society.

    Anne graduated from Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, in 1998.  Her love of the courtroom helped her and her law partner, Christian D. Johnson, place second overall in the Hunter Advanced Moot Court Competition in 1997.  She and Chris also won the second best brief award in the same competition.  In 1998, she and Chris were selected as members of the Board of the Hunter Advanced Moot Court Competition to help run the competition for the next graduating class. Other honors included Dean’s List rankings and she was named a Dean’s Scholar in the spring of 1998.

    During law school, Anne became a State Certified Mediator and mediated scores of small claims cases for the Camden Community Dispute Resolution Program.  Anne was selected to serve as an intern for the Honorable Mary Eva Colalillo, JSC, who was assigned to the Family Division at that time, an intern for the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office, and an intern/victim’s advocate for the Camden County Domestic Violence Program. She was also a law clerk/ethics analyst for the NJ Office of Attorney Ethics of the Supreme Court of New Jersey where she learned the inner workings of the New Jersey ethics system and helped write various opinions.

 For her dedication as a mediator and her service at the Camden County Domestic Violence Program, Anne received a Pro Bono Award in May 1998 from Rutgers Law School, Camden.

    Anne became an Accredited Veterans Attorney so she could represent veterans living anywhere in the United States at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (the “VA”), at the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (the “BVA”) and at the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

Having a heart for her local community and elsewhere, Anne volunteers her time. Her extensive volunteer efforts and leadership positions include: PTO Co-President at her children’s school; Co-Coordinator of a local chapter of MOPS, an international mom’s organization; and Co-Leader of the Somerset County 4-H Discovery Prep Club.

    After practicing law as a wall street attorney, Chris joined the Buckley Johnson Law Firm as a partner in 2018.  He wanted to support our US military veterans by helping them fight the VA to obtain service-related disability compensation.  He now uses his legal skills and persuasive legal writing expertise to file appeals for our veterans at the VA, BVA and Court Of Appeals For Veterans Claims.  Chris began his legal career as a law clerk for Assignment Judge Ronald Bookbinder in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Burlington County. Chris’ legal experience includes litigation at top New Jersey law firms Porzio, Bromberg & Newman and Bressler, Amery & Ross.  He was a trial attorney at Bressler.

    During law school, Chris and Anne placed second overall in the Hunter Advanced Moot Court Competition in 1997, where they argued before Third Circuit and State Supreme Court Judges.  He and Anne also won the second best brief award in the same competition.  In 1998, Chris and Anne were selected as members of the Board of the Hunter Advanced Moot Court Competition to help run the competition for the next graduating class.  Chris was elected Research Editor for the competition.

Chris was a baseball coach at the local Bradley Gardens Little Loop League for several years. He was selected as Commissioner of the League where he served for many years. He coached youth soccer teams and was a volunteer umpire for American Little League. Chris was an active volunteer at local school events for his children and assisted at campouts for the Royal Rangers program at his church.