On the Move: Bendit Weinstock; Archer; Riker Danzig

Bendit Weinstock of West Orange announced that K. Raja Bhattacharya was named managing partner. The firm handles business litigation, estate litigation and catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, and products liability matters on behalf of injured individuals. Bhattacharya started his career at Bendit Weinstock as a law clerk in 2006, became an associate in 2007 and was elevated to partner in 2014. Bhattacharya concentrates on catastrophic personal injury and medical malpractice matters, and is a certified civil trial attorney. He is a member of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Model Civil Jury Charge Committee; is assistant secretary, PAC trustee and DE&I committee co-chair at the New Jersey Association for Justice; and is an active member of the South Asian Bar Association of New Jersey and the Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey. He is a frequent speaker for NJAJ and other associations. Among his recognitions are the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism’s “Professional Lawyer of the Year Award” for SABA-NJ and a Law Journal New Leaders of the Bar honor. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and Seton Hall University School of Law.

Archer Welcomes Meredith Mazzola as Partner

Meredith M. Mazzola[Photo Credit: DavidBeyda.] Meredith M. Mazzola joined Archer & Greiner as a partner in the estates and trusts group in Voorhees. Mazzola concentrates on estate and tax planning, and estate and trust administration, representing high-net-worth individuals, closely held businesses, individual and corporate fiduciaries, and nonprofit and charitable entities. Mazzola also handles lifetime and end-of-life planning; estate and income tax-saving techniques; probate matters; international tax matters; and tax planning for high-net-worth individuals with closely held businesses or equity compensation. Mazzola is admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York and California. She earned her J.D. from California Western School of Law and her L.L.M. from New York University.

Riker Danzig Adds Cara Vecchione as Counsel

Cara Vecchione

Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti in Morristown welcomed Cara Vecchione as counsel in the insurance and reinsurance group. Her practice focuses on complex insurance coverage litigation and counseling. She represents domestic and international insurers in insurance coverage disputes involving various types of claims, including environmental contamination, advertising injury, products liability, technology, pharmaceutical, asbestos bodily injury, first-party property and bad-faith. Vecchione received her J.D. in 2009 from Emory University School of Law, where she was a notes and comments editor for the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal. Vecchione received her B.A. from Colgate University in 2004. Vecchione clerked for U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Margaret Cangilos-Ruiz of the Northern District of New York. Vecchione is co-chair of the 2022 mid-year meeting and co-chair of the Young Lawyers Committee for the National Association of Women Lawyers.