Middlesex Bar Foundation Honors 2015 Project Law Essay Contest Winners
On May 14, the Middlesex County Bar Foundation honored the winners of the 15th annual Project Law Essay Contest for Middlesex County High School students. The event was held at the Middlesex County Superior Court in New Brunswick. Plus more in this week's column.
July 02, 2015 at 07:11 AM
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The original version of this story was published on New Jersey Law Journal
On May 14, the Middlesex County Bar Foundation honored the winners of the 15th annual Project Law Essay Contest for Middlesex County High School students. The event was held at the Middlesex County Superior Court in New Brunswick. This year's winners were Isabel Li and Parshv Shah from John P. Stevens High School, and Atul Bhattiprolu from the Middlesex County Academy for Allied Health and Biomedical Sciences. The Project Law Essay Contest's basic objectives are to help high school students to develop and refine their writing and communication skills, to help them gain a better understanding of our legal system and their rights and responsibilities as citizens, and to encourage them to seek higher education. Students were asked to write a persuasive essay on Publicity Rights and the First Amendment. Shown, from left to right: Parshv Shah, Isabel Li and Atul Bhattiprolu.
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|Tri-County Lawyers Benefit for Freedom Scholars Program
The Lawyers for Tri-County Awards reception was held on April 21 at the Park Avenue Club in Morristown. About 150 guests arrived and networked with the honorees, friends and colleagues. The lawyers recognized at this year's event were: Francis Donahue, a partner at Donahue, Hagan, Klein & Weisberg; Louis John Dughi Jr., a partner at Dughi, Hewit & Domalewski; Wendy Johnson Lario, a partner at the Florham Park office of Greenberg Traurig; and Lillian Plata, a partner at McManimon, Scotland & Bauman. The event benefited Tri-County's Freedom Scholars Program, an initiative of the Tri-County Scholarship Fund that awards generous scholarships to high-performing students to attend private secondary schools. The highlight of the event was the remarks by Genesis Peña and Shaquille Coppin, recipients of Tri-County scholarships. Peña is a senior at DePaul High School in Wayne, and Coppin is a senior at Saint Peters University. The event was chaired by Christopher Stracco, a Tri-County trustee and a partner at the Day Pitney law firm. Shown, from left: Honoree Dughi, honoree Lario, scholarship recipient Shaquille Coppin, Gregory Floyd, President of Tri-County, honoree Plata and honoree Donahue.
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