Stefan Jesse Erwin

Stefan J. Erwin, Esq. is the Managing Member of Erwin Legal Group, a New Jersey trial practice in Union focused on criminal defense and civil litigation. He is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York and the United States District Courts.

Stefan earned two Bachelor of Arts degrees, in Political Science and Criminal Justice, from Rutgers University and his J.D. from Rutgers School of Law in 2012, where he was a Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project fellow and founded a community gardening initiative serving low-income residents of Camden. After law school he clerked for the Hon. James Hely in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division.

He then served for nearly seven years as an Assistant Deputy Public Defender. In the Special Hearings Unit he represented clients statewide in post-conviction proceedings, including Megan's Law and Community and Parole Supervision for Life matters, from inception through agency and appellate review. In the Monmouth County Trial Unit he defended clients charged with serious felonies, litigating motions to suppress and to dismiss and trying cases before juries.

In private practice he represented several of New Jersey's largest municipalities in civil rights, police misconduct and employment litigation, then practiced commercial litigation, and later served as Associate General Counsel to a multi-state cannabis operator.

Today the firm represents clients in criminal and municipal court matters, DWI and traffic offenses, Megan's Law proceedings, expungements, firearms appeals, and civil and business litigation throughout New Jersey.

Stefan was included in the Super Lawyers New Jersey Rising Stars list for 2025, 2026 and 2027. Rising Stars is published by Thomson Reuters; the selection methodology is described at superlawyers.com/about/selection-process. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey.