Capehart Scatchard Hosts APALA-NJ Mock Interview Workshop 

MOCK INTERVIEW WORKSHOP AT CAPEHART SCATCHARD: Standing from left to right: Jason Malaran (student), Weston Dennen (student), Lauren Bess (student), Marilyn Porcaro (student), Nina Rodriguez (student), Shelly Ann Melendez (student), Mumbi Ngugi (student), Arupa Barua (attorney), Janice Arellano (attorney), Kaitlyn Flynn (student), Andrew Sarrol (attorney), Lori Knox (student), Natima Neily (student), Buyong Lee (student), Jenise Rivera (student), Kaitlin Hackett (student), Bao Ngo (student), Kim Belin (attorney), Matthew Kountz (student), Ramanjit Chawla (attorney), Ashwath Trasi (attorney), Jakai Jackson (attorney), Florelee Wan (attorney), Richard Ramones (attorney), and Moly Hung (attorney). Seated from left to right: Bo Han (attorney), Roger Lai (attorney), Peter Tu (attorney), and Sanu Dev (Capehart Scatchard attorney), at Capehart Scatchard’s Mount Laurel office on July 30, 2019. MOCK INTERVIEW WORKSHOP AT CAPEHART SCATCHARD: Standing from left to right: Jason Malaran (student), Weston Dennen (student), Lauren Bess (student), Marilyn Porcaro (student), Nina Rodriguez (student), Shelly Ann Melendez (student), Mumbi Ngugi (student), Arupa Barua (attorney), Janice Arellano (attorney), Kaitlyn Flynn (student), Andrew Sarrol (attorney), Lori Knox (student), Natima Neily (student), Buyong Lee (student), Jenise Rivera (student), Kaitlin Hackett (student), Bao Ngo (student), Kim Belin (attorney), Matthew Kountz (student), Ramanjit Chawla (attorney), Ashwath Trasi (attorney), Jakai Jackson (attorney), Florelee Wan (attorney), Richard Ramones (attorney), and Moly Hung (attorney). Seated from left to right: Bo Han (attorney), Roger Lai (attorney), Peter Tu (attorney), and Sanu Dev (Capehart Scatchard attorney), at Capehart Scatchard’s Mount Laurel office on July 30, 2019.

Capehart Scatchard hosted the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey’s (APALA-NJ) annual “South Jersey Mock Interview Workshop” on July 30 at its Mount Laurel office. The workshop was sponsored by the Rutgers Law School Minority Student Program and Rutgers Law Center for Career Development. It featured a discussion on interviewing methods, tips and techniques, and allowed law students to practice interviewing while receiving real-time coaching from practicing attorneys, a release said. Capehart Scatchard attorneys Sanmathi ”Sanu” Dev and Ruby Delarosa participated in the event. It was hosted by Capehart Scatchard’s diversity and inclusion committee, which Dev leads.

Fitzgerald Named ‘Family Lawyer of the Year’ by Hudson County Bar 

Fitzgerald Named Family Lawyer of the Year by Hudson County Bar Ass’n & Foundation Christine C. Fitzgerald

Christine C. Fitzgerald of Seiden Family Law was named 2018 “Family Lawyer of the Year” by the Hudson County Bar Association and Hudson County Bar Foundation on June 27 at an annual event held at the Liberty House Restaurant in Jersey City. Fitzgerald has been practicing family law for more than 11 years, the firm said in a release announcing the honor. Fitzgerald is admitted in New Jersey and New York, and in New Jersey federal court. She is a certified matrimonial law attorney and is a member of the executive committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Family Law Section. She is former co-chair of the Young Lawyer Family Law Subcommittee. Fitzgerald received her B.A. from Seton Hall University in 2002 and her J.D. from New York Law School in 2006. She clerked for Essex County Superior Court Judge Thomas P. Zampino in the Family Part. Sheryl Seiden, founding partner of the firm, said in a statement that Fitzgerald “is one of the most caring and dedicated lawyers serving New Jersey families. The compassion she shows to her clients, her incredible work ethic, and commitment to New Jersey family law as a whole make her so well-deserving of this honor.”

Federal Bar Announces Inaugural ‘Simandle Award’

AFB-NJ Announces Inaugural Simandle Award Honoring Chief Judge Jerome B. Simandle U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Simandle [Photo Credit: Carmen Natale/ALM.]
The Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey is paying homage to the late U.S. Chief Judge Jerome B. Simandle  by instituting an award in his honor, the organization announced. The “Simandle Award” is to be presented annually to a lawyer or jurist who has exemplified exceptional service to the bench and the bar of the New Jersey federal court. The AFBNJ will present the inaugural award at the Second Annual Pro Bono Institute on the morning of Sept. 20 at the New Jersey Law Center. The first award will be presented to Thomas B. Curtin  of McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter , the bar association said. Curtin is a former trustee of the organization and recipient of its “Brennan Award,” and a former president of the New Jersey State Bar Association. Simandle died earlier this year at the age of 70. He was a federal judge in Camden from 1983 until his passing—first a magistrate judge from 1983 until 1992, and then a district judge. He served as the chief judge of the district from 2012 through 2017, when he went on senior status. Ed Kole , AFBNJ president, said in a statement, “Judge Simandle was more than a great judge and person, he was a class act and gentleman. He was a judge attorneys wanted to appear before and that the judges of the court looked up to. There are a few people who no one has ever or could ever say a cross word about; Judge Simandle was one of those rare people.”