Jeremy Abay Teaches “New Jersey Practice” Course at Rutgers Law School  

Pond Lehocky’s chair of Employment Litigation, Jeremy Abay, will be teaching a course on “New Jersey Practice” at Rutgers Law School as an adjunct professor for the spring 2026 semester.  

The course teaches students how to handle a civil case throughout the entire litigation process, from the case evaluation through the appeal, and discusses the different rules that are implicated at each stage of the case.  

Abay has taught at Rutgers since 2016. In that time, he’s developed a variety of courses, including Whistleblower Advocacy and Employment Law & the Gig Economy. Through his work in the classroom, Abay has seen a meaningful shift in how students approach their future careers.  “What excites me about this new generation is they seem less interested in making money and more interested in doing right in the world, which aligns with my values,” Abay says.  

Abay is a double Rutgers alumnus himself, receiving both his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the university. He credits the school’s professors with an instrumental role in his professional development, especially Jay Feinman, John Oberdiek, J.C. Lore, and Adam Scales. “They really took me under their wing and sat with me for hours and said, ‘Here’s how you want to do this, here’s how you want to do that,’” Abay says. He now models his own teaching after their influence. “I had to pay that forward… I spend a lot of time outside the classroom talking to students about their careers.” 

At Pond Lehocky, Abay focuses on the rights of gig workers, employees, whistleblowers, and other workers. He writes for national and regional legal publications and speaks at leading conferences on worker misclassification, fraud enforcement (qui tam), whistleblower advocacy, and employment law.  

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