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Newark-based Sills Cummis & Gross is pleased to announce that Erin Hodgson, a first-year student at Rutgers Law School-Newark, has been selected as the firm’s 2016 Charles J. Walsh Scholar. In 2006, firm established the scholarship fund on behalf of the family, friends and colleagues of the late Judge Charles J. Walsh, who, prior to his appointment to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County, was a partner at the firm for 17 years. Judge Walsh was also an adjunct professor at the law school. The scholar fund will provide financial and other assistance to Hodgson in the form of scholarship support, summer internship stipends, mentorship during law school and career guidance. She was chosen for her academic promise and leadership qualities. Hodgson received a B.A. in sociology, summa cum laude, from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. Her community involvement included interning at the Jersey Battered Women’s Service, Morris County; serving as a fellow for The Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress in San José, Costa Rica; and working as a response team coordinator for the Domestic Abuse and Sexual Assault Crisis Center in Washington, D.C.

Riker Danzig Partner Elected to Executive Committee of Inn of Court at Rutgers School of Law

Zahid Quraishi, a partner in white-collar criminal defense group at Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti in Morristown, has been elected a member of the executive committee of the C. Willard Heckel American Inn of Court at Rutgers School of Law. The Inn meets six times a year at Rutgers School of Law in Newark and focuses on criminal practice and procedure, and litigation skills in both criminal and civil litigation. The Inn brings together experienced and justices, judges, trial attorneys, members of the bar, and Rutgers Law School students to enhance their skills and focus on emerging and important issues facing the bar and bench. Quraishi has extensive experience representing clients with government enforcement and compliance issues involving potential criminal charges. His practice also has extended to representing both corporations and individuals in complex federal and state civil litigation.

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