'Green Team' Mandelbaum Raises Funds for Brain Injury Charity

In honor of Brain Injury Awareness Month, “Team Mandelbaum,” the charitable arm of Mandelbaum Salsburg in Roseland, sponsored a wear green day in conjunction with its monthly jeans day to raise money for Opportunity Project, a clubhouse program founded in 1993 empowering people with brain injury. Attorneys and staff donated $5 to wear jeans to work for the day, and many chose to wear green in support of raising awareness. The firm said it will donate $600 to the organization. On the last Friday of every month, the firm gives its attorneys and staff the opportunity to wear jeans with a $5 donation, and the donation goes to a local charity important to the team.

Batten Named 'Distinguished Neutral'

Raymond A. Batten
[Photo Credit: David Michael Howarth Photography.]

Archer in Haddonfield announced that retired Judge Raymond A. Batten was recently inducted to the New Jersey chapter of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals (NADN). Batten heads Archer's ADR practice. NADN membership is by invitation only and limited in each state. Batten devotes his practice to serving as an arbitrator or mediator in a wide variety of matters and disputes. With more than 20 years on the bench, Batten's diverse experience as a trial judge provides clients with a unique judicial perspective. Serving statewide in all 21 New Jersey counties, Batten is on the Approved Roster of Civil Mediators and the Approved Roster of Family Mediators (both per Rule 1:40); is an approved Rule 4:21A arbitrator; and is an approved roster panelist for the American Arbitration Association. He is also a certified mediator for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Batten was appointed to the Superior Court by Gov. Jim Florio in 1992 and reappointed for tenure in 1999. Prior to his judgeship, he was a state assemblyman and municipal prosecutor.