BAR REPORT - Oct. 4, 2021
Well-wishers came out to celebrate the 2020 and 2021 Bar Foundation Medal of Honor Award recipients. NJSBA immigration law volunteers to help Afghan evacuees at Fort Dix. Capitol Report: NJ Supreme Court weighs Wilson Rule mandatory disbarment rule.
October 04, 2021 at 08:00 AM
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New Jersey State Bar Association Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ. Credit: Google
A breath of fresh air and a celebration of NJSBF Medal of Honor Award recipients
After postponing last year's celebration, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation's (NJSBF) Medal of Honor Awards Dinner felt extra special last week when scores of well-wishers gathered at the Park Chateau in East Brunswick to celebrate the Foundation's 2021 recipient Lynn Fontaine Newsome and 2020 recipients retired Judge John E. Keefe Sr. and Susan A. Feeney. The NJSBF is the educational and philanthropic arm of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA). Newsome, a partner at Newsome O'Donnell in Morristown, is a past president of the NJSBA and NJSBF. Keefe, of counsel at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, in Red Bank, is a retired presiding judge of the Appellate Division in the New Jersey Superior Court. Feeney is a partner at McCarter & English in Newark and a past president of the NJSBA and NJSBF.
NJSBA immigration law volunteers to help Afghan evacuees at Fort Dix
About a dozen attorneys from the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) Immigration Law Section will soon be providing legal assistance to some of the nearly 11,000 Afghan evacuees who are being housed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, also known as Fort Dix, in Burlington County.
Up to 4,000 more evacuees are expected to arrive this week, according to Jeffrey DeCristofaro, director of the Camden Center for Law and Social Justice, which is coordinating with the NJSBA section's Afghan Evacuees Attorney Volunteers pro bono project.
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