Legal Services of Northwest Jersey, Inc. (LSNWJ) has announced the election of officers for 2016. Show, from left: President Allan Iskra, Vice President Diane Margolin, Treasurer Michael Wojcik and Secretary Jane A. Herchenroder. The officers were elected at the December 2015 meeting of the LSNWJ Board of Trustees. Iskra is a partner in Schoenwald & Iskra, in Parsippany. Margolin is of counsel to Margolin & Neuner, in Warren County. Wojcik is a partner at Hollander, Strelzik, Pasculli, Pasculli, Hinkes, Wojcik, Gacquin, Vandenberg & Hontz in Newton. Herchenroder is a solo practitioner in Somerville. The officers and Past President Mary Ellen Koscs-Fleming of Hunterdon, and board member Helen Anane, also of Hunterdon, make up the executive committee. LSNWJ, a private, not-for-profit law firm, with offices in Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex and Warren counties, provides legal assistance in civil matters affecting essential needs to low-income people and vulnerable seniors residing in northwestern New Jersey. The work of LSNWJ enables people to maintain affordable housing and sustainable income, have access to health-care and escape domestic violence. Last year, LSNWJ provided legal assistance to more than 8,300 people, including 2,700 children.
Thomas Muccifori, a partner in Archer & Greiner’s Haddonfield office, recently presented and moderated the Burlington County Bar Association’s 10th annual seminar, “Demystifying Chancery Practice.” Muccifori is the head of the firm’s trade secret protection and noncompete practice group and co-chair of the General Equity section of the Burlington County Bar Association. Over 70 people attended to hear this year’s panel, which included Presiding Chancery Judges Paula Dow, P.J.Ch., Burlington County; Paul Innes, P.J.Ch., Mercer County and Mark Sandson, P.J. Ch., Atlantic and Cape May counties. Along with tips for demystifying practice in the Chancery Division, attendees had the opportunity to hear each judge discuss their particular general equity and probate practices and procedures, including Orders to Show Cause and emergent applications such as TROs and varying Preliminary Injunctions. Among other topics discussed were actions that are, and are not, cognizable in Chancery; the proper way to present a TRO application by way of order to show cause; being ready for trial; and getting your motion or trial heard on the busy Chancery docket.
