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Bertone Piccini Fundraising Drive Benefits CAF. 32 Lawyers Partake in 'Smorgasbono'. Attorneys Honored for Work on Behalf of Human-Trafficking Victims. Ballard Spahr's Kearney Receives Dreier Award from NJSBA.
June 23, 2017 at 02:53 PM
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Bertone Piccini Fundraising Drive Benefits CAF
Bertone Piccini in Hasbrouck Heights sponsored Hawaiian Shirt and Jeans Fridays in support of the Cooley's Anemia Foundation (CAF). From March 10 until May 5, each employee of the firm who participated made a small donation to the foundation in honor of AJ Vigliotti, the son of the firm's colleague, Joseph Vigliotti. A total of $3,210 was collected, including a firm match of the total donations raised.
32 Lawyers Partake in 'Smorgasbono'
Thirty volunteer lawyers from Brother International, Chubb, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Datapipe, Dun & Bradstreet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Merck, SUEZ, and Verizon, and two lawyers from Jackson Lewis in Newark, participated in Pro Bono Partnership's latest “Smorgasbono Legal Q&A Program” on April 6, advising 12 nonprofit clients on a variety of legal subjects. The program was hosted by the Association of Corporate Counsel New Jersey at the Dolce Basking Ridge, 300 N. Maple Ave., in Basking Ridge.
Attorneys Honored for Work on Behalf of Human-Trafficking Victims
The Women's Center of Linwood has honored Jessica Kitson of Volunteer Lawyers for Justice (VLJ) in Newark and Geoffrey Rosamond of McCarter & English's Newark office for their ground-breaking legal work in helping victims of human trafficking. The two lawyers, recognized on April 27 at the Greate Bay Country Club in Somers Point, were co-counsel in the first case to use a New Jersey law that permits erasure of a human-trafficking victim's criminal record. Kitson is VLJ's managing attorney, overseeing its New Jersey Trafficking Victims Legal Assistance Program. Rosamond, a partner whose practice covers criminal defense and commercial litigation, oversees McCarter & English's anti-trafficking pro bono work.
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