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Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that Shareholder Amy C. Goldstein was recently named among the Top 50 women attorneys in the State of New Jersey by the New Jersey Super Lawyers organization. As part of its Super Lawyers peer-reviewed and research-based selection process, the Super Lawyers organization also identifies those “Top 50” women lawyers in the State who have attained the highest degree of peer recognition and professional achievement in the State of New Jersey. Ms. Goldstein is honored to be selected as one of these exceptional professionals.

Ms. Goldstein has been practicing exclusively Family Law for thirty-seven years. She handles complex cases relating to all aspects of family law including prenuptial agreements, custody, alimony, equitable distribution, surrogacy agreements, closely held business valuations and all other cases and issues related to family law.  Ms. Goldstein is also trained and certified to act as a Mediator and a Collaborative Law attorney in family law cases.  Ms. Goldstein has been a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since 1992 and was the President of the New Jersey Chapter from 2015 to 2016.  Ms. Goldstein frequently lectures and has written numerous articles on a variety of subjects relating to family law.

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Twenty-one Capehart Scatchard attorneys were named in the December 2018 issue of South Jersey Magazine as “Awesome Attorneys” for excellence in their areas of practice.  Readers of the publication took part in the voting and selection process of the 224 attorneys who were given this title.

The Capehart Scatchard “Awesome Attorneys” for 2018 are:

Administrative Law – Sheila M. Mints
Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Rights Law – Sergio Scuteri
Business Law – Laura D. Ruccolo
Business Litigation Law – Charles A. Rizzi
Construction Law – Christopher J. Carlson
Domestic Violence – Linda M. Payne
Education Law – Joseph F. Betley and Robert Muccilli
Environmental Law – Anthony T. Drollas, Jr.
Estate Planning/Asset Protection Law – Yasmeen S. Khaleel
Family Law – Amy C. Goldstein and Melissa Mignogna
Intellectual Property Law – Denise L. Sanders
Labor & Employment Law – William R. Burns, Carmen Saginario Jr. and Ralph R. Smith, 3rd
Land Use Law – Alan P. Fox
Mediation Law – Evan H.C. Crook
Personal Injury Law – Alyson L. Knipe
Products Liability Law – Stephen J. Alexander
Real Estate Law – Kelly Ann Dugan

Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that seven attorneys were admitted as shareholders to the 142 year old law firm. 

The new shareholders at Capehart Scatchard are:

• Dana M. Gayeski – Workers’ Compensation Department
• Katherine Hellander Geist – Workers’ Compensation Department
• Michael C. Rose – Workers’ Compensation Department
• Adam Segal – Workers’ Compensation Department
• Lauren E. Tedesco-Dallas – Education and Employment & Labor Departments
• Voris M. Tejada, Jr. – Litigation Department
• Benjamin H. Zieman – Litigation Department

By: Vincent T. Cieslik, Esq.

In late December of 2018, the Greater Philadelphia Board of Directors of the March of Dimes met for our annual board retreat at Shriner’s Hospital on Broad Street in Philadelphia.

This particular meeting marked the third time the board had met for an annual retreat since the organization had undergone a metamorphosis, an inward looking and outward re-branding transition throughout the national organization.  The March of Dimes, like many other charitable organizations, had undergone a comprehensive review of its staff, systems, and structure with an eye towards reenergizing its long-standing mission, one that dates back to the days when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was our President, to bring healthy babies into the world.

With a renewed emphasis on healthy babies and healthy moms, a new brand, some new faces and a reinvigorated approach to raising funds, the March of Dimes and the Greater Philadelphia Board had reorganized itself, and in the process, recommitted itself to its important mission. 

For me personally, this was an opportunity for me to increase my participation and my leadership position, from a solely South Jersey impact, to impacting mothers and babies throughout the Greater Philadelphia Region.  It was an opportunity for me to stretch my legs, to get out of my local comfort zone, to meet new and interesting executives, business people, doctors, nurses, and interested parties throughout the tri-state area.  What originally began for me as a way to give back to the doctors and the nurses who helped my family, through many years of difficult and troubled pregnancies, became an excellent opportunity for me to work on a greater scale, and to hopefully impact many more mothers’ and babies’ lives along the way. 

During this period I met and was able to get to know better, representatives of the former Philadelphia Board, whom were dedicated volunteers with backgrounds at great corporate partners like NBC Universal, Philadelphia Insurance Companies, and some of our areas finest hospital providers like University of Pennsylvania, which houses our Prematurity Infant Research Center.  During our transition we brought volunteers throughout the tri-state area together into one Board.   I was able to attend events not just in Southern Jersey but throughout the region, including events at the Union League, at Xfinity Live, black tie affairs in Atlantic City, and one of the area’s largest charitable giving luncheons known as the Transportation Bridge and Construction Luncheon.  I am truly thankful that I decided to get involved in the March of Dimes many years ago.  The March of Dimes is a special organization, and with the transition of the Greater Philadelphia Board and the organization nationwide, we are poised for great things in the New Year 2019.   If anyone is interested in joining the Board or getting involved in one of the Board’s committees, please contact me.

I have been a sponsor and a chairperson for the March of Dimes Walk for Babies in Gloucester County for several years.  This Spring 2019 we will host our third annual 5K run for Babies on the campus of Rowan University.

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Vincent T. Cieslik, Esq. is Co-Chair of the firm’s Business Litigation Group and a Shareholder in the firm’s Commercial Litigation and Health Care Groups.  Vince focuses his practice in the representation of individuals, small businesses, not-for-profits and large corporations in complicated and often high-risk litigation. His areas of expertise are in commercial litigation, health care law, and estate law. He is admitted to practice law in the federal and state courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit and the U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit.

In his personal time, Vince supports the March of Dimes of South Jersey, serves as the Walk Chairman for the March of Dimes Walk for Babies and 5K Run for Babies, and serves as a member of a local school board. He also coaches youth basketball and track, and enjoys long distance running including the Philadelphia, New York, and prestigious Boston Marathon.

On October 9, 2018, Capehart Scatchard Shareholder, Sanmathi (Sanu) Dev, Esq. spoke as a panelist at a joint event of the South Asian Bar Association of New Jersey and the South Asian Bar Association of New York.

Ms. Dev participated in a panel discussion entitled, “Rainmaking and Path to Partnership.”  Panel members discussed marketing and business development techniques as well as tools and strategies for getting on the partnership track.

A Hamilton resident, Ms. Dev concentrates her practice on school law and labor and employment law.  She is experienced in representing, advising, and defending boards of education and charter schools in all areas of school law including: labor and employment, special education, Section 504, student discipline and civil rights.  She leads Capehart Scatchard’s School Law Blog, which focuses on cases, court decisions, and current developments affecting education law in the state of New Jersey.  Ms. Dev is the Chair of the Firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee, which seeks to facilitate the Firm’s efforts to achieve and maintain a diverse and inclusive workplace at every level of our organization.  She received her law degree from Rutgers Law School at Camden and her B.A. degree from Boston University.

Sanmathi “Sanu” Dev, a Shareholder in the School Law Department, was quoted in the New Jersey Law Journal article, “High School Student’s Free Speech Suit Puts Anti-Bullying Law Back Under Microscope,” published on September 24, 2018.  Ms. Dev was contacted by the author of the article to comment on New Jersey’s anti-bullying law as it relates to First Amendment issues.

Capehart Scatchard was recently named by South Jersey Biz magazine as “Best Law Firm” for banking and finance on their annual “Best of Biz” list. The list was comprised of 112 businesses. The magazine’s “Best of Biz” list is the result of polling of members of the Southern New Jersey business community.