Mandelbaum Adds Associate Benjamin Heller

Benjamin D. Heller has joined Mandelbaum Salsburg as an associate in the firm's commercial and corporate litigation department in Roseland. Prior to joining the firm, Heller served as a Judicial Law Clerk to Justice Walter F. Timpone on the New Jersey Supreme Court.

Heller earned his Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Seton Hall Law Review, Volume 47. He received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton. While in law school, Benjamin interned for Judge Walter Koprowski Jr., Presiding Judge, Chancery Division., and the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law. He was awarded the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in Health Law and the Best-Written Brief Award in Appellate Advocacy. 

Edison Firm Welcomes Sherri Orenberg-Ruggieri

Sherri Orenberg-Ruggieri

Sherri Orenberg-Ruggieri has joined the zoning and land use department of Kasuri Byck located in Edison, as a partner.  She brings her fourteen years of experience serving on the Edison Township Planning Board and five years as the elected chairperson. She had previously worked with the late Robert W. Gluck, from Mandelbaum Salsburg, as the Middlesex County Environmental Prosecutor.

Riker Danzig Welcomes Five Associates

RIKER DANZIG ASSOCIATES: Front row (left to right): Cornelia Szymanski and Payal Patel; Back row (left to right): Pauline M. Tarife, Jason M. Boyle and Brianna J. Santolli.

Morristown-based law firm Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti welcomed five 2018 Fall Associates: Brianna J. Santolli, Jason M. Boyle, Payal Patel, Cornelia Szymanski and Pauline M. Tarife. All five associates are previous Riker Danzig Summer Associates.

Brianna J. Santolli joins the firm's litigation group. She received her J.D. degree from the George Washington University Law School in 2017, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of The George Washington International Law Review.  She received her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Villanova University in 2014, where she was on the Dean's List. Santolli served as a law clerk to the Judge Robert J. Gilson, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division. She is admitted to practice in New Jersey and is pending in New York.

Jason M. Boyle joins the firm's environmental group. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2018, where he was the Senior Articles Editor of the Virginia Journal of Criminal Law.  He graduated from Rutgers University in 2013 with a B.A., summa cum laude, in Criminal Justice. Boyle's bar admission is pending.

Payal Patel joins the firm's insurance group. Patel received her J.D. degree from the George Washington University Law School in 2018, where she was the Editor-in-Chief of The International Law in Domestic Courts Journal.  During law school, Patel was the Vice President of the Writing Fellow Military Law Society. She received her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Rutgers University in 2015. Patel's bar admission is pending.

Cornelia Szymanski joins the firm's corporate group. Szymanski received her law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in 2018, where she served as the Editor-in-Chief for the Seton Hall Law Review. She graduated in 2015 from The College of New Jersey with a B.S. in Business Administration with a Specialization in Finance, and with a minor in law, politics and philosophy. Szymanski's bar admission is pending.

Pauline M. Tarife joins the firm's products liability group. She received her law degree, with honors, from Rutgers Law School in 2018, where she served as the Executive Editor for the Rutgers University Law Review. She graduated in 2014 with a B.S. in Business from The College of New Jersey, with a minor in Women's and Gender Studies. Tarife's bar admission is pending.

Goldberg Segalla Welcomes Novella and Gilligan

Goldberg Segalla in Princeton added partner John M. Novella and associate Brian J. Gilligan to the law firm's workers' compensation practice group in Princeton. Novella was previously with Emmi & Emmi in Hillsborough, and Gilligan was previously a law clerk to Judge  Kay Walcott-Henderson in the New Jersey Superior Court in Trenton.

John M. Novella

Novella draws on more than two decades of experience in the defense and counsel of private companies and public entities concerning the full range of workplace accident and occupational exposure claims. He is involved in all aspects of handling claims, including investigating claims, counseling claims adjusters and managers, assisting in the management of claims, and assessing exposure. Novella also has experience training claims adjusters in workers' compensation law and the handling of claims. Prior to earning his law degree from the Catholic University of America, he received his bachelor's in political science from the University of Maryland.

Brian J. Gilligan

Gilligan focuses his practice on counseling and defending insurers, self-insured employers, and third-party administrators in a wide variety of workers' compensation matters throughout New Jersey. He received his bachelor's in classics and philosophy from Colby College before going on to earn his law degree from Rutgers School of Law, where he served as associate notes editor of Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion and staff editor of Rutgers Journal of Law and Cyber Warfare, and represented Rutgers in the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court. While in law school, Gilligan also served as a judicial intern for Judge Joel Schneider in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey.