Victoria Pratt, previously counsel to the Office of the President for the Newark Municipal Council, took the oath of office on Nov. 6 as the 11th judge of the Newark Municipal Court. Pratt is Newark’s first judge of Dominican descent.

Noteworthy

Carlos Bollar, a partner with Archer & Greiner in Haddonfield and a member of the firm’s environmental law practice group, is elected to the board of trustees of the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey … Steven Fleissig, a partner at Greenberg Traurig in Morristown, joins the board of the Essex County Legal Aid Association … Angelo Genova, a partner with Genova, Burns & Vernoia in Newark, was inducted into the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers on Nov. 7 at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C. … Walter Lesnevich, a partner at Lesnevich & Marzano-Lesnevich in Hackensack, was elected vice president-elect of the Plaintiffs’ Practice Group of the International Society of Primerus Law Firms on Oct. 30 in Greenbrier, W. Va. … Miguel Alexander Pozo, a partner in the litigation department of Lowenstein Sandler in Roseland, was installed as the 30th president of the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey on Oct. 29 at the W Hotel in Hoboken.