Norris McLaughlin Adds Associates

Norris McLaughlin Welcomes Three Associates Annamaria Del Buono[Photo Credit: BRIAN BOUMAN MEMORY CREATIONS.]
Norris McLaughlin in Bridgewater brought on  Annamaria Del Buono, Christopher N. McGann, and Michelle L. Scanlon as associates. Del Buono joins the firm's litigation practice group, and McGann and Scanlon join the firm's estate planning and administration and wealth preservation practice group.

Del Buono represents clients in state and federal court in litigation matters including employment and labor law, commercial law, and business transactions. She has experience handling complex caseloads, depositions, discovery requests, mediation sessions and settlement negotiations, the firm said. Prior to joining Norris McLaughlin, Del Buono was a litigation associate for a New Jersey law firm and served as an acting assistant prosecutor for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. After graduating from Rutgers Law School, she clerked for Superior Court Judge Bradford M.

Christopher McGann[Photo Credit: BRIAN BOUMAN MEMORY CREATIONS.] Bury. Del Buono received her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University.

McGann handles estate plans and representing estate fiduciaries. He prepares wills, testamentary trusts, supplemental needs trusts, A/B trusts, and power of attorney forms, and provides strategic counsel on available estate planning strategies involving revocable trusts, special needs trusts, and limited liability corporations. McGann also works with estate fiduciaries in the estate administration process

Michelle L. Scanlon[Photo Credit: BRIAN BOUMAN MEMORY CREATIONS.]
and assists business owners. He previously practiced at a New Jersey commercial firm and a boutique trust and estate firm. A graduate of Rutgers Law, he clerked for Superior Court Judge  Margaret Goodzeit. He graduated from the University of Maryland.

Scanlon handles estate and tax planning, advising clients on estate planning, estate administration, trust administration, special needs planning, elder planning and guardianships. Scanlon has experience drafting irrevocable trusts, wills, powers of attorney, advanced healthcare directives, and special needs trusts. Scanlon previously was an associate at a boutique estate planning firm. She has also worked as a special education attorney representing families of children with disabilities to help them access the education. Scanlon is a graduate of Rutgers Law, where she worked at the Rutgers Education & Health Law Clinic. She earned her undergraduate degree from Quinnipiac University.

Fitzpatrick Enters Private Practice

Stark & Stark Announces Hon. Catherine Fitzpatrick, J.S.C. (Ret.) as New Family Law Mediator Catherine Fitzpatrick [Photo Credit: .] kapupatelphotography.]
Catherine Fitzpatrick, a former Superior Court judge who served as the presiding judge of the Family Part in Mercer County for 10 years before retiring in 2021, has joined  Stark & Stark in Lawrenceville as a family law mediator. "Judge Fitzpatrick is an exceptional addition to our Family Law group and we are thrilled that she has chosen Stark and Stark to continue her career," said partner and chair of Stark & Stark's family law and divorce group Jennifer Millner  in a statement. "In her role as a mediator and counsel to our clients and attorneys, she will continue to build on her many achievements in the New Jersey Family Law space." Managing partner Michael Donahue added that she "has commanded the respect of lawyers throughout the state for her keen intellect and pragmatic approach to resolving complex matters." Before being appointed to the bench in June 2009, Fitzpatrick practiced family law for 27 years in Lawrenceville, including within her own practice. She previously worked as a paralegal for Stark & Stark in 1977. She graduated from Capital University Law School and Villanova University. She is a past president of the Mercer County Bar Association and a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association and New Jersey Association for Justice, among other organizations.

Sellinger Speaks at Seton Hall Law

U.S. Attorney for District of New Jersey, to Discuss Federal Anti-Fraud Efforts at Seton Hall School of Law's Third Annual Gaming Law Bootcamp Philip R. Sellinger

Philip R. Sellinger. U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, joined the faculty of Seton Hall University School of Law at the third annual "Gaming Law, Compliance, and Integrity Bootcamp" on May 18 in Newark. The program is designed to provide attendees with specific tools and best practices to prevent, detect, and mitigate corruption and fraud in gaming, and to help them identify and address behaviors that may be unlawful or unethical. As New Jersey's top federal prosecutor, Sellinger addressed the role of federal law enforcement in preventing and prosecuting fraud affecting the gambling industry and to provide industry professionals with information necessary to ensure their continued compliance with federal law, the release said. Joining Sellinger for a panel discussion were Joseph A. Hayden Jr., partner at Pashman Stein Walder Hayden; intelligence analyst Suzanne Innamorato and Newark-based special agent Ron Pascale of the FBI's Integrity in Sport and Gaming Program.