Zegas (born October 28, 1952) is an American criminal defense attorney.
He was born in Newark, New Jersey, received a Bachelor of Science degree from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, an MBA from The Harvard Business School in 1978, and a J.D.
from Rutgers School of Law-Newark in 1981.
He said that he became a lawyer to defend the “little, powerless person against the powerful forces of government.”He has law offices in Summit, New Jersey.
The New Jersey Monthly magazine named Zegas as one of the "50 Most Interesting People in NJ".
He was Editor-in-Chief of the Rutgers Law Review between 1980 and 1981, and clerked for judge H.