Julien Xavier Neals, who was nominated by the president on March 30 alongside 10 others, is the first federal judge confirmed during the Biden administration. He was previously county counsel and acting county administrator for Bergen County.

The 2021 class participants, Matthew Jackson, Anthony Llaverias and Ronak Patel, were recruited from Seton Hall University School of Law and Rutgers Law School in Newark.

The program is geared toward Schreyer Honors College students from underrepresented communities with the goal of providing unique, hands-on experience working in a law firm.

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Jordan Engelhardt, who previously served as counsel at Patterson Belknap, has experience in federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and alternative dispute resolution.

Matthew Holden's law firm joins the Roseland-based office where the Hackensack attorney comes on board as a partner in the real estate and corporate practice groups.

The training program the professional services firm used from February 2015 to September 2019 allegedly violated the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination by providing many of its female employees with training based on gender stereotypes.

Archer & Greiner PC intellectual property attorney Kate Sherlock's tips for launching a brand.

Vice Dean Rose Cuison-Villazor will become the first Asian-American woman dean at the school and the first Filipina-American dean of any law school in the United States.

Members include Robert Ferri, Cheryl Santaniello, Carmen Andrade, Keren Bisnauth, Jonathan King and Sean Reid, each of whom brings a wealth of experience and expertise in industries such as corporate transactions, tax, commercial real estate, lending, construction, franchising, retail, environmental and warehousing.

The decision is "further evidence that New Jersey employers need to be very aware that they may be required to reimburse employees for the cost of medical cannabis used as a result of a work-related injury," says Scarinci Hollenbeck Counsel Dan McKillop, who leads the firm’s cannabis law group.