After Hours

Alan Model, a partner at Littler Mendelson in Newark, was installed as president of the Essex County Bar Association on May 2 at the Pleasantdale Chateau in West Orange. The other new officers are Robert Scrivo, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, Morristown, president-elect; Thomas Quinn, Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, Florham Park, vice president; Kenneth Rosenberg, Fox Rothschild, Roseland, treasurer; and Judith Hartz, Kozyra & Hartz, Roseland, secretary. In addition, Bar trustees sworn in were Verona solo Francine Aster; Assistant Essex County Prosecutor Richard Bland Jr.; Keri Logosso Misurell, of Wynona’s House in Newark; and Andrew Renda Jr., Renda & Voynick, Cedar Grove. Stacy Manobianca, an associate at Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis in Roseland, was sworn in as Young Lawyers Section chairwoman, and Lauren Talan, an associate with Fox Rothschild in Roseland, was sworn in as Young Lawyers Section trustee. Bar achievement awards also were presented to Lauren Talan, the Young Lawyers Section Award; Education Law Center in Newark, the Bernard J. Kuttner Pro Bono Service Award; West Caldwell solo Frederick Miceli, the Walter A. Lucas Special Merit Award; Investors Savings Bank in Short Hills, the Maureen E. McCully Significant Bar Supporter Award; Christine Amalfe, a partner with Gibbons in Newark, the Civil Trial Attorney Award; West Orange solo Robert Miseo, the Criminal Trial Attorney Award; Newark solo Kevin Orr, the General Practice Attorney Award; and Gary Newman, a partner with Newman McDonough Schofel & Giger in Roseland, the Family Law Attorney Award. Shown, from left: Hartz, Rosenberg, Quinn, Scrivo and Model.

McCarter Supports Japanese-Relief Efforts

McCarter & English employees raised nearly $6,000 in donations in a firmwide effort to support the American Red Cross’ Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief Fund in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck on March 11. Employees from the firm’s seven offices in the Northeast participated. The money will go to the Japanese Red Cross. Keith Lynott, at right, chairman of the board of directors of the American Red Cross of Northern New Jersey and a partner at McCarter & English, presented McCarter’s check to Ray Shepherd, chief executive officer of the American Red Cross of Northern New Jersey, at McCarter’s office in Newark on April 19.

Firms Raise Money for At-Risk Children