Some lawyers call it pay-back for the fulfilling careers they have had. Other sconsider it their professional responsibility to help ensure that the legal system is open to all. And there are those, too, who simply want to help the poverty-stricken and vulnerable in society. Whatever the motivation, pro bono volunteerism provides a way out of the black hole in which some 400,000 low-income people in New Jersey every year find themselves when they face serious civil legal problems but cannot afford lawyers. For many of those individuals, the help of pro bono lawyers can actually be a life-saver, whether it entails problems involving foreclosure, eviction, domestic abuse, child guardianship or other civil issues.
Listed below are the lawyers who have signed up for the Pro Bono Initiative offered by Legal Services of New Jersey (LSNJ) for case assignments and other ways of providing legal assistance to low-income individuals. Melville D. Miller, Jr., president of LSNJ, thanks these men and women for their efforts to help ensure equal access to justice by providing such crucial services to those in need.
Alison Aaron
Ambar Abelar
Steven Abelson
Emmanuel Abongwa
Mitchell Abrahams
Kimberly Abram
Amina Adams
Colleen Adams
Sandy A Adelstein
Lisa J Aflalo
Saif Agha
Andrea Akivis
Ben Akushie
Evelyn Akushie-Onyeani
David Alba
Joseph Albanese
Roderick F Alberto
Jonathan Alden
Zak Aljaludi
Michelle Altenpohl
Ivette Alvarez
Paula S Alvarez
Luis Amaro
Jorge Amieva
John M Amorison
Michael Andalaft
Keith Anderson
Robert J Andes
Imran Ansari
Phillip C Apovian
Ronald Appleby
Charles Arangio
Emmanuel J Argentieri
Kevin Armstrong
Edward T Arnold
Conrado Arroyo
Manuel A Arroyo
Kent D Arthur
Michael Artis
Albert C Asphall
Bunce Atkinson
Anthony R Atwell
Marianne F Auriemma
Sylvia A Ayler
Mohammad Aziz
Laura P Babbin
Michael A Baldassare
Alan Baldwin
Tracey Ballard
Hector L Ballesteros
Andrea Balliette
Cathlene Y Banker
Grayson Barber
Stephen E Barcan
Timothy L Barnes
Harley Barrales
Capricci Barush
Jessie C Basner
April C Bauknight King
Kenneth L Baum
Hal L Baume
Theresa Begley
Mabel C Bejar
Landry Belizaire
Nola R Bencze
Jamie Bennett
Lloyd Bennett
Yan Bennett
Allison M Berger
Adrian Bermudez
Sarah K Berry
Amardeep S Bhalla
Stuart Bierman
Richard Billups
Kavita Bindra
Deborah H Bjornstad
Michael B Blacker
Jeffrey R Blair
Dawn M Blakely-Harper
Richard A Bokma
Donald Bonomo
Carl Book
Craig A Borgen
Jennifer Borja
Teresia Bost
Alicia Bottari
Gregory Botvinik
Joel L Botwick
Dana R Bowling
Michael Boyd
John F Bracaglia
Susan Brennan
John M Breslin
Victoria Britton
Leah A Brndjar
William D Broderick
Peter Broege
Hany S Brollesy
Jeffrey A Bronster
Jeffrey Brookner
Aisha Brooks
Baerbel Brown
Jeffrey R Brown
Kevin M Brown
Valentine Brown
Warren Brumel
Suzanne M Bruney
Michele Bruno
Jill Bryan
Richard Bryan
Carolyn Buccerone
William H Buckman
Bruce Buechler
Donald F Burke
John M Burke
Sondra Burke
Michael R Burns
Thomas Burns
Peter Burro
Jonathan M Busch
Shaun P Byrne
Patricia Byron
Ricardo Caamano
Maureen Cajoux
Jeanette Calderon-Arnold
John J Caleca
Gina L Campanella
Anne S Cantwell
Leah E Capece
Marc Capone
Christopher G Cappio
Michael L Carey
Patricia E Carney
Michael W Carr
Michael Carroll
Suzanne M Carter
Charles Caruso
Robert Casagrand
Joseph Casello
Christopher G Cassie
Kelly Castor
Vincent Cataldo
Glenn Cavanaugh
David M Cedar
Patricia Celano
Janine Cerra
Monica Chacon
Joseph Champagne
Joseph A Chang
Vincent Cheng
Amy S Chipperson
Patricia Chisholm
Jae Cho
Sarah Y Cho
Tae Cho
Robert Cianciulli
Richard Cino
Gerald Cioci
Alan Clark
Eric J Clayman
Lauren R Clein
Joel Cohen
Morrill Cole
Melinda Colon
Celeste Como
Patricia A Concannon
Mark Conlan
Michael J Conlan
Cheryl Connors
Trisha Connors
Rosa Conti
Jorge F Coombs
Hope L Cooper
Jeannette Cornish
Jeff Corradino
Graig P Corveleyn
John Coughlin
Jr. Coughlin
Adrian Cousens
Christine A Cowell
David N Crapo
John R Crayton
Leressa Crockett
Sarah J Crouch
Joan Crowley
Charles Crudele
Durmeriss Cruver-Smith
Anthony R Curro
Abigail Cushing
Rachel C Cushing
Frank A Danzi
Suzana Das
Daniel A Davidow
Craig Davis
Hardge Davis
Michael C Dawson
Bradford R Day
Arnab Deb Gupta
Derek DeCosmo
Ira R Deiches
Carrie L DeJesus
Sam Della Fera Jr.
Suzanne DelVecchio
Julie Demaree
Joshua W Denbeaux
Heather G DeNoia
Walter D Denson
Christine A DePetris
Michael L Detzky
Adam Deutsch
Juliana Diaz
Linda Diaz
Lissette Diaz
Mercedes Diego
Vince DiGregorio
Paul J Dillon
Susan E DiMaria
Vincent J DiMatteo
Brian Dinicola
Joseph F DiPrima
Dean J Donatelli
Maria Dooner
Joseph F Doyle
Cindi L Dresdner
Philip F Drinkwater III
James Drury
Victor Druziako
Claire Drzewiecki
Dawn Du Verney
Joseph T Duchak
L.Dick Ducheine
Michele M Dudas
Timothy P Duggan
Elchanan Dulitz
Dennis J Duncan
Donald R Dunn
Philippe Durette
Rosevony Duroseau
Ingrid Echeverria
David Edelberg
Renee A Edwards
Barbara Einhorn
Daniel Eliades
Brian Ellis
Maryjean Ellis
Jessica G Empestan
Linda Engleby
Kirsten B Ennis
John Erskine
Diecelis Escano
David G Evans
Winston Extavour
Mikhail Eydelman
Karelle A Fairweather
Eric J Faragi
Arthur Farberov
Clement Farley
Ronald Farneski
Sharon Farrell
Milica A Fatovich
Richard G Fein
Arnold H Feldman
Marc P Feldman
Robert J Ferb
Regis Fernandez
Alan Field
Frank J Fischer
James J Fitzpatrick
Vincent Fitzpatrick
Michael Fiure
Walter J Fleischer
Douglas J Fleisher
Michael W Fleming
Louis Fletcher
Jason Flynn
George Forbes
Virginia E Fortunato
Karen M Francis
Joseph L Francoeur
Kimberly Franko
John Frantz
Joshua Freeman
Allison Fried
Kevin Friedman
Lawrence Friedman
Richard L Friedman
Avram Frisch
Barry Frost
Siobhan Fuller
Tara Gabbai
Mary Gabriel
Joseph Galfy
Sandra Galvan
Teresa M Ganim
Cuifei Gao
Alfredo J Garcia
Anne M Garner
Harry J Gartlan
Stuart Gavzy
Francis X Geier
Darren Gelber
James Gelman
Jon L Gelman
Carole A Geronimo
Harold J Gerr
Nicole Gerritsen
Deniza G Gertsberg
Thomas A Giamanco
John Giampolo
Paul N Gilbert
Balvinder K Gill
Allen B Gillman
Justin Gillman
Laura M Ginkel
Mark Ginsberg
Ira A Ginsburg
Benjamin Ginter
Stephanie Gironda
Eduardo Glas
Robert A Gleaner
Gerould Goetz
Stephen Goldberg
Thomas E Golden
Judith E Goldenberg
Henry Goldfine
Jamie Goldman
Mark Goldman
Michelle Goldman
Robert Gonchoroff
Osualdo Gonzalez
Yolanda Gonzalez
Kathleen Good
Hamlet Goore
Susan Gootrad Reilly
Christopher Gore
Brian M Gorman
Allen J Gorski
Lee Gottesman
Gordon Graber
Christine Gravelle
Susan Greco-Ericksen
Adam D Greenberg
Michael Greenberg
Walter J Greenhalgh
Timothy Greiner
Betty F Greitzer
Pat Grignard
Ian R Grodman
Scott Grossman
Deborah L Gruber
Rich Gruenberger
Carol Gruppi
Robert Gudger
Karen A Gugliotta
Anthony Guidice
Philip C Gutworth
Marian E Haag
Michael Hacker
Karen K Hahn
Brian Hak
Michael D Halbfish
Lysette Hamilton
Cheryl L Hammel
Grace Han
Kevin Hanly
Andrew C Hannwacker
Edward Hanratty
William Hansen
Warren Hare
John W Hargrave
Rashidah N Hasan
William Haskel
Kelley Hastie
Eric Hausman
Lizanne Healey-Smith
Aericka J Heavens
Christine Heer
Justin L Heiferman
Sandra D Helbig
Tanya N Helfand
Ernest Hemschot
Candice Hendricks
Erica Hernandez DeLuna
Dianna Hernandez
Cathi A Hession
Joseph A Higgins
William P Higgins Sr.
Thomas R Hilberth
Evaleon Hill
Benjamin Hiller
Karimu F Hill-Harvey
Gregory J Hindy
Gregg M Hobbie
Jeannette Hoffman
William H Hofmann
John Hogan
Sung A Hong
Murray Honig
Justin B Hopkins
Anayancy R Housman
Madeline L Houston
Keith Hovey
Christopher T Howell
Katherine Howes
Fred J Howlett
Marlena L Huesmann
Danielle Hughes
Seoyoun Huh
Pamela A Hulnick
Cynthia M Hwang
Victoria Hwang-Murphy
Suzanne Iazzetta
Mitchell Ignatoff
Michael I Inzelbuch
Nancy Isaacson
Ronald Istivan
Jeffrey Jablonski
Arthur Jackson
Gerry C Jacobs
Trevor S Jadoo
Gregory Jaeger
Bernice Jalloh
Mohamed Jalloh
Jeffrey E Jenkins
Shaohui Jiang
Fernando J Jimenez
Norman R Jimerson Jr
Reem Jishi
Kenneth Joel
Alfred E Johanson
Anica John
Robert H Johnson
LaTanya Jones
Stephen R Jones
Warren Jr. S Jones
Robin Josey
Kim S Juhase
Margaret Jurow
John Kahn
Ben A Kaplan
David A Kasen
Michael O Kassak
Cliff Katz
Philip R Kaufman
Margaret A Keavney
Liza M Keefe
William Kehoe
Sean F Kelley
Andrew Kelly
Edward M Kelly
Marian I Kelly
Benjamin G Kelsen
James M Kennedy
Janet Y Kennedy
Lynn A Kennelly
James A Key
Atheeb Khateeb
David Khawam
John Kiely
Ann Kim
Jae Y Kim
Marina Kirshenbaum
Jaim Kivelevitz
Russell T Kivler
Shmuel Klein
Susan S Kleiner
Lori Klinger
Jacqueline Klosek
Peggy S Knee
Carol L Knowlton
Lars Knudson
Jeffrey H Koenig
Vineet Kohli
Jonathan Kohn
Peter S Kollory
Judith D Komline
Michael Kopelman
Natalie Kossak
Otto J Kostbar
Swati Kothari
Anke Kramer
Judith Kramer
Samuel Krantz
David E Krell
Edward C Kromer
Steven Kropf
Richard L Kuhrt
Whitney M Kummerow
Jennifer M Kurtz
Kevin Kutyla
Mary A Kwapniewski Chen
Richard J Kwasny
Ingrid LaBarbiera
John Lago
Dinh Lai
Cassandre Lamarre
William Lang
Jerome T LaPenna
Thomas Largey
Lawrence Latore
Karen Lattanzio
James N Lawlor
John Lawrence
Bonita Leadem
Eric P LeBoeuf
Pamela A Lee
Matthew A Leff
Nicole Lenar
Anton Lendor
Danielle Leonard
Joell Lerebours
Lawrence Lesnik
Jeffrey A Lester
Ira M Levee
Louis Levene
Rebecca G Levin
Ronald Levine
Bruce H Levitt
Bradford A Lewin
Peter B Lijoi
Catherine B Liu
Wansheng J Liu
Sapna G Llano
James Lloyd
Paul H Loeffler
Jennifer A Loheac
Sandra Londono-Martinez
Robert Long
Adria Lopez
Patricia M Love
Jay Lowenthal
Joseph Lubertazzi
Carl Lucas
Romola O Lucas
Karina Lucid
Christine Lupinski
David R Lyons
Susan M Lyons
Alex Lyubarsky
Katherine Ma
Carla D Macaluso
Edward A MacDuffie Jr.
Patricia A Mack
William Mackin
Ava-Marie P Madeam
Joao F Magalhaes
Jonathan C Magpantay
Dawn Maguire
Karen M Mahon
Pam Mahon
Karen I Maier
Ryan Malc
Mark Malone
Rifah I Manasra
Peter Manda
Beth C Manes
Joseph Mania III
Jeffrey Manis
Allan Marain
David O Marcus
Harvey Marcus
Diane S Margolin
Sheetal Markan
Jerry A Maroules
Marc D Marsico
Steven J Martino
Liliana Martire
Danielle A Maschuci
Desrie Mason-Jimerson
Kyle L Mastro
Jason C Matey
Edward H Mazer
Robert M Mazzei
Maureen A McCabe
Joseph A McCormick
Linda McDonald Carter
Roger A McDonald
Christopher McDonnell
John M McDonnell
Ellen M McDowell
Connie Bentley McGhee
John McGill III
Christopher J McGinn
Isabel McGinty
James P McGovern
Kerry A McGrath
Maurice McLaughlin
Grace H McMahon
Jamie L McMahon
Stephen B McNally
Elizabeth McNamara
Helene Y McNanna
Omotayo F Mebude
Diane Medcraft
Daniel Mee
Stacey Meisel
Andres Y Mejer
David Messer
Ira J Metrick
Rosalyn A Metzger
Gerald Meyer
Brian Meyers
Arthur H Miller
Barry S Miller
Dwight Miller
Kenneth Miller
Lynn F Miller
Frederick L Millner
James M Miner
Kap Misir
Steven Mitnick
Nadine L Mizarahi
Brem Moldovsky
Miguel A Molina
Orlando Molina
Andrew J Mollica
Steve Monaghan
Gerald Monahan
Ronald P Mondello
Brett S Moore
Michael Moran
Theodore D Moskowitz
David Moss
Joseph A Mullaney
Raymond Mulry
William J Munier
Robert Munoz
Michelle Munsat
David H Nachman
Michele Y Nash
Arnold L Natali Jr.
Yolanda Navarette
Stacy M Neglio
Chioma Nelson
Elizabeth Nelson
Jude Nelson
Kirk Nelson
Georgina M Nemecek
Karen T Nestlebaum
Timothy Neumann
Steven R Neuner
Randi Newbery
Maria G Newman
Linh Nguyen
Steven Nguyen
Michael L Nichnowitz
Leonard Niedermayer
Linda J Niedweske
Robert Nies
Puya J Nili
Chinemerem Njoku
Gary K Norgaard
Walter A Norris
Thomas M North
Annette M Oakley
John O’Boyle
Lynne O’Carroll
Diane O’Connell
Joseph O’Connell
Paula Odysseos-Panayiotou
Michael Okechuku
Thomas J Orr
Landy Ortiz
Edward Osei
Nona L Ostrove
Linda C Ott
Peter Ouda
Stuart C Ours
Richard Outhwaite
Stanley Ozuzu
Deirde Pacheco
Thomas Paciorkowski
Rachel G Packer
Krishna Palagummi
Thomas J Palmer
Anthony N Palumbo
George M Pangis
Martin Pankiewicz
Loredana G Pantano
Christine Papa
Stelio G Papadopoulo
Agalia Papadopoulos-Vlantes
John H Papastrat
Kyungjoo Park
Jay Parker
Keston Parsard
Monte Partee
Arlene E Pasko
Keith E Paterson
Edward L Paul
Randall J Peach
John C Penberthy III
William Penkethman
Danielle R Pennino
Aaron T Penrod
Donald Pepe
Richard J Pepsny
Eric R Perkins
Brian D Peroff
Carl A Perrone
Kristen A Perry
Michele A Peters
Amy L Peterson
Warren Peterson
Al Petitt
Helen Petrin
Jonelle Phelps
Walter M Piccolo
Linda L Piff
Renata Pilney-Mizak
Darin D Pinto
James E Pittman
Taryn Pleva
Steven D Plofker
Jon Polevoy
Geraldine Ponto
Dennis Powers
Patricia Powers-Simonelli
Ann Pridgen
Jennifer Prioleau
Ksenia V Proskurchenko
Carla C Prosper
Scott C Pyfer
Lubna Qazi-Chowdhry
Jeannine Quijije
Barry Quinn
Jonathan Rabinowitz
Ellen Radin
Roger B Radol
Bruce W Radowitz
Charlesworth Rae
Vladimir Raevsky
Peter W Ragan Jr.
Samuel J Ragonese
Victor E Raimo
Arthur J Raimon
Samuel Rak
Donald B Ralph
Purnima Ramlakhan
Donald Randall
Joseph M Rasa
Lynn C Rathgeber
Stephen B Ravin
Karlene Rawle-Walters
Herbert B Raymond
Rosalind J Raymond
Robert Recchia
Mekalia Reid-Gordon
Richard A Reinartz
Kurt Reinheimer
Linda S Reinheimer
Ernest A Renda
Erika Reu
Scottt S Rever
William Riback
Lisa H Richardson
Rachel Roat
Sharie A Robinson
Jacqueline R Rocci
Patricia Roche-Sunar
Erica A Rodriguez
William Rodriguez
Yvette Rodriguez
Marybeth Rogers
Jose D Roman
Michael J. F Romano
Adam H Rosenblum
Kyle Rosenkrans
Robert A Rothstein
Marybeth P Rowen
Barry J Roy
Bikash Roy
Neal M Ruben
Dan Rubin
Rene A Rubino
Albert Russo
Inna Ryu
Saleem Safdar
Gary M Salber
Amrill Salcedo-Alonzo
Tracy B Samson
Sophia Samuels-Ellis
Carlos Sanchez
Deborah C Sandlaufer
Robert C Sandy
Dawn R SanFilippo
Raymond Santiago
Jennifer M Sauchelli
Paul Savidge
Cassandra T Savoy
Paula Sawyer
Courtney Schael
Steven Schaffer
Magdalena Schardt
Robert K Scheinbaum
Karen R Scheiner
Eleanore Schenck
William Schey
Ekaterina Schoenefeld
Joseph Scholz
Michael Schonberger
Gregory C Schultz
Marvin L Schwartz
Stephen E Schwartz
John J Scura III
Avram B Segall
David A Semanchik
Daniel A Serratelli
Sanjay Sethi
Georgene Sfraga Panza
Ronald V Sgambati
Sami Shaban
Krishna J Shah
Neel Shah
John C Shamy
Shahnam Sharareh
Andrea Sharrocks
Patricia Shatynski
Michael J Shavel
David E Shaver
Bruce Shaw
J. Brian Sheehan
Laurence Sheller
Robert Shepherd
Scott Sherman
John Sherwood
George Shiebler
Stephanie Shreter
Arnold Shurkin
Janice Siegel
Kevin M Siegel
Andrea Silverman
Robert B Silverman
Christine N Simmons
Paula H Simpkins
Leonard Singer
Melinda L Singer
Preeti Singh
Victor G Sison
Sujithra Sivendra
Tariq Siyam
Francis J Skinner
Eric Sleeper
Louis Smith
Mark K Smith
Tonya Smith
Troy R Smith
Michael A Smolensky
William Snowden
Simona L Snyder
Anthony Sodono III
George Solano
Janet A Sommer
Allen R Sondej
Michael Song
Margaret A Spaziani
William E Spiegle
Brad J Spiller
Mitchell H Spingarn
John Spoganetz
Ronnie Spring
Ken R Springer
Gerard W Stagnato
Mark L Stanton
Teresa L Staples
David Stauss
Lora Stavropolsky
Nicole Stefanelli
Margaret Steffen
Victoria A Steffen
Michael J Stein
Rick A Steinberg
Sally L Steinberg
Kathryn Steinbugler
Daryl S Sternberg
David Stevens
Ginger Stillman
Raymond J Stine
Matthew Stoloff
Daniel M Stolz
Johnathan Stone
Maria A Stork
Michael Straher
Heidi Struse
Katie Stylianou
Julia Su
Arturo S Suarez-Silverio
James Sullivan
Walter Sullivan
Bryan Supran
Aditya Surti
Paul Swanicke
Daniel Swinton
Joan E Switzer
Patricia Szakats
Paul Szeto
Andrzej P Szymanski
Douglas T Tabachnik
Steven N Taieb
Lauren Talan
Richard F Tallini
Dana L Tarquini
John R Tatulli
Stefanie Tavaglione
Howard Teichman
Natalia Teper
Anthony Terranova
Ruby Theivakumar
J. Eric Thies
Tini Thomas
Edward M Thompson
Gary Thompson
Tasha R Thompson
Richard Tice
John Todaro
Ada L Torres
Rolando Jr. Torres
James Tracy
Charlotte Tran
Michael R Treanor
Richard Trenk
Gina T Trimarco
Elizabeth M Trinidad
Navdeep K Tucker
Mary Ellen Tully
Wolodymyr P Tyshchenko
Robert M Tzall
Ijeoma Ugoezi
Anthony E Valentino
Robyn A Valle
Andrea Van Kampen
Nathan VanEmbden
Stephen Vanna
Christopher Vaz
Elizabeth Vengen
Catherine M Verna
James F Villere Jr.
Patricia Vitti
Donna Vlahakis
Ilana Volkov
Lindi Von Mutius
Patricia S Voorhees
Elaine Voyles
Israel S Wahrman
Leonard C Walczyk
Henry Walentowicz
David M Walsh
Janet C Walsh
Alan N Walter
Jeffrey S Walters
Leigh Walters
William Ward
Nancy Washington
David Wasserman
Robert B Wasserman
JoAnne Watson
Mark B Watson
Angela Watson-Bell
Andrea Wei
Jennifer Weil
James Weisman
Daniel L Weiss
Eric M Weiss
Michael Weisslitz
Richard Weltman
Erik Werfel
Patricia Werschulz
Crystal R Wheatley
Al Wheeler
Timothy R Wheeler
Richard Wight
David E Wildman
Anthony Wilkinson
Jennifer L Williams
Terilyn R Williams
Junea Williams-Edmund
Craig Wilson
Daina Wilson
Guy Wilson
Andy Winchell
Mel Winokur
John F Wise
David Wisniewski
Bruce J Wisotsky
Andrew Wolf
Adam Wolper
Woojin Won
Dorothy L Wright
Gary A Wright
Kerri A Wright
Henry Wu
David Yan
Roger Yehl
Michael Zalenski
Felicia Zeidman
Gary C Zeitz
Sheldon Zelig
Frederick B Zelley
Gregory P Ziegler
Jean-Marc Zimmerman
Ludmila Zimovcak
Carl G Zoecklein
Edward Zohn