Javerbaum Wurgaft Welcomes Ferrell as Of Counsel

Lissa Jean Ferrell

Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, in Springfield announced that Lissa Jean Ferrell, previously served as vice president, financial crimes advisory, and assistant corporate secretary for Barclays Bank, joined the firm as of counsel. She provides transactional services in commercial and residential real estate development, purchases and sales. Ferrell has also been active in the community, serving as finance chair on the United Negro College Fund New Jersey Leadership Council, sitting on the leadership council for the Seton Hall University Stillman School of Business Buccino Institute, and as executive chair of the Women's Leadership Program. Her prior board memberships include The Aurora Enhancement Organization, the Children's Hospital of New Jersey, the Boys and Girls Club–Newark, and the Garden State Bar Association. She has also served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Municipal Practice. Ferrell earned her J.D. from New York Law School and her B.A. from Rutgers University.

Scarinci Hollenbeck Welcomes 2020 Summer Associates

SCARINCI HOLLENBECK'S SUMMER ASSOCIATES: Standing left to right: Laura M. Miller and Donald Scarinci; seated, left to right: Priya Angara, Amir Botros and Sarah McConnell. [Courtesy Photo.]

Priya Angara is a rising 3L at Rutgers Law School in Newark, and currently serves as the symposium editor for the Women's Right's Law Reporter. During law school, Priya worked as a legal intern in the Government and Health-care Fraud section of the New Jersey Attorney General's office, and for the U.S Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey in its Economic Crimes Unit. She graduated cum laude from Rutgers University with a B.A in political science and criminal justice.

Amir Botros is a rising 3L at Rutgers Law in Newark. He came to the United States with his family when he was 16. He graduated summa cum laude from Montclair State University. He is an associate editor at the Rutgers Law Record, a Maida Fellow, and a Fellow for the Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity.

Sarah McConnell is a rising 3L at Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark. She is from St. Louis but currently lives in Newark. She majored in government and law at Lafayette College, graduating in 2018. At Seton Hall Law, Sarah is a student mentor to 1L students, won the "Best Oral Argument" and "Best Brief for the Appellee Side" in her appellate advocacy class, and is now a member of the Appellate Advocacy Moot Court Board.