Blank Rome adds Louis Greenfield, previously an associate with Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer in Woodbridge, to its Consumer Finance Litigation group and Consumer Financial Services industry team … Finazzo Cossolini O’Leary Meola and Hager in Morristown brings on board Stephanie DeVos, a 2011 graduate of Fordham University School of Law and former clerk for Union County Superior Court Judge William Wertheimer … LaVan Law in Moorestown welcomes Alaina Gregorio, who graduated from Rutgers Law School-Camden in 2011, interned for U.S. District Judge Renee Marie Bumb and concentrates on business, labor and employment law … Sills Cummis & Gross in Newark adds Whitney Baron, previously an associate at Greenberg Traurig in New York, to its litigation practice group … Trenk, DiPasquale, Della Fera & Sodono in West Orange adds Melissa Wesner Collins, formerly an associate with Lowenstein Sandler in Roseland, who handles commercial litigation, bankruptcy and corporate transactional matters.
Noteworthy
Robert Baxter, a partner with Craig Annin Baxter Law in Haddonfield who represdents public entities in state and federal court, is inducted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers … Cathy Keenan is named director of pro bono services for the Volunteer Lawyers for Justice of Newark. Prior to joining VLJ, Keenan was a judicial clerk and a practicing family law attorney with Gervurtz, Menashe, Larson & Howe in Portland, Ore. … Christopher Placitella, a partner with Cohen, Placitella & Roth in Red Bank, is appointed one of the lead counsel in mass-tort pelvic mesh cases by Chief Judge Joseph Goodwin of the Southern District of West Virginia.
