Yang Sworn in as EEOC Chair

Three alums of the Rutgers Law School MSP (Minority Student Program) on Oct. 21 attended the swearing-in ceremony of Jenny Yang, the new chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, recently appointed by President Barack Obama, in Washington, D.C. From left: speaker Wade Henderson, class of 1973, President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Sue Pai Yang, retired N.J. Workers’ Compensation Judge, class of 1984 and mother of the chair; EEOC Chair Yang, who grew up in New Jersey; and Phil Nash, former Rutgers Student Bar president, class of 1983 and professor at the University of Maryland. The event was also a send-off for immediate past EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien. Other speakers included former EEOC chair, Washington, D.C., House Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton and U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez. Chair Yang was sworn in by her New York University Law School classmate Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation.

Kahn Installed as GSBA President

John Kahn, an associate with Duane Morris in the firm’s Cherry Hill, N.J., office, is named president of the Garden State Bar Association (GSBA). He was installed as president during an Oct. 6 ceremony at the Aloft Hotel in Mount Laurel, N.J. Kahn will serve a one-year term. Founded in 1962, the Garden State Bar Association is now New Jersey’s oldest and largest professional organization for African-American judges, lawyers and law students. Kahn, who joined Duane Morris in 2013, earned his J.D. in 2005 from Rutgers Law School–Camden. He practices in the area of litigation. He has handled health-care fraud and abuse, mortgage fraud, securities fraud and class-action claims, as well as claims arising under employment and health-care plans. Shown, from left: Atlantic County Superior Court Judge Damon Tyner swears in John Kahn.

Union Bar Awards Lehrich Professional Lawyer Award