'Captain's Table' Reception Raises $60K for Community FoodBank of NJ

“Let Us Eat, Please” and the Community FoodBank of New Jersey hosted a Captain’s Table Reception at the Progressive Insurance Atlantic City Boat Show on Feb. 5 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Guests enjoyed the creations of more than a dozen chefs from South Jersey’s most acclaimed restaurants, sipped spirits, enjoyed live music, and toured the boats, yachts and other watercrafts at the exhibit. This fundraising event was held for the benefit of 22,000 schoolchildren in Atlantic County who depend on free or reduced-price meals in school and are left without food when school is not in session. The Let Us Eat, Please program started when James Cooper, a retired attorney and founding partner of the Cooper Levenson firm in Atlantic City, learned from his daughter that her students sometimes go hungry during the summer because they don’t have the benefit of free or reduced-price meals at school during summer break. Every two weeks over the course of the summer, families, identified by the school as needing assistance, receive a 30-pound box of groceries, valued at more than $40, at no cost to them. It’s made possible by Cooper, along with his friends and supporters, including the new Let Us Eat, Please Chairman of the Board, Kenneth J. Calemmo Jr., Chief Operating Officer of Cooper Levenson. Calemmo conceived and spearheaded this first gala fundraiser at the Atlantic City Boat Show, which was attended by nearly 400 and raised more than $60,000. Shown, from left: Cooper Levenson attorneys Stephanie Farrell, Kevin Thornton, Kelli Prinz, Justin Britton, Sheila Hughes, Amy Houck and William Donio join the Captain’s Table event at the Progressive Insurance Atlantic City Boat Show. (The #1in5 plates are designed to build awareness about the 1 in 5 children who are hungry in New Jersey.)

Civil Justice Institute Hosts Preemption Panel Discussion

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On Feb. 10, the New Jersey Civil Justice Institute hosted a panel discussion on U.S. Food and Drug Administration preemption featuring former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement of Bancroft PLLC; Gerald Masoudi of Covington & Burling, who is the former chief counsel of the FDA; and Andrew Boczkowski, an assistant general counsel at GlaxoSmithKline. Shown, from left to right: John Jacob and Kate Greenwood of the Center for Health and Pharmaceutical Law and Policy at Seton Hall University School of Law, which sponsored the event at the supporter level; the event moderator, David Kott, a partner at McCarter & English, which hosted the event and served as the premier sponsor; Boczkowski of GlaxoSmithKline; Alida Kass, the chief counsel of the New Jersey Civil Justice Institute; and Clement.

Postolski Heads Patent Panel at Montclair State

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