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Firm Attorneys Selected For Inclusion In Best Lawyers In America® Lists

Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that six of its attorneys have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers in America®. Additionally, one up-and-coming attorney was named to the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America list for the third year in a row.

The seven Capehart Scatchard attorneys recognized by Best Lawyers are:

Joseph F. Betley – Education Law
Stephen T. Fannon – Workers’ Compensation – Employers
John H. Geaney – Workers’ Compensation – Employers
Sheila M. Mints – Health Care Law
Betsy G. Ramos – Litigation – Insurance
William G. Wright – Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law

Stacey R. Gorin – Ones to Watch – Commercial Litigation

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers in America® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. The Best Lawyers list is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which leading attorneys cast votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas.  A description of the selection methodology can be viewed here.

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Firm Sponsors Golf Outing And Awards Dinner Benefiting Indian Cultural Center’s Scholarship Fund

PHOTO: Far L to R; Parveen Verma DO and Yasmeen Khaleel, Far R to L; Rakesh Gupta MD and Amrita Desai

Capehart Scatchard was a sponsor of the Indian Cultural Center of South Jersey’s (“ICC”) Scholarship Awards Dinner and Golf Outing.  Yasmeen Khaleel, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Chair of both the Business & Tax Department and Wills Trusts & Estates Department, is a member of ICC’s Scholarship Committee. The event was held at Ramblewood Country Club in Mount Laurel, New Jersey on August 4, 2024.

All proceeds from the golf outing and dinner will be used to fund scholarships for deserving college students of Indian descent residing in the Delaware Valley. For additional information on ICC’s scholarship program, please visit here.

Capehart Scatchard Participates In Fundraising Gala Held In Support Of Kids’ Chance Of New Jersey

PHOTO L to R: John Geaney and Benjamin Moskovitz

Attorneys and staff from Capehart Scatchard’s Workers’ Compensation Department recently attended the Tenth Annual Fundraising Gala and Auction for Kids’ Chance of New Jersey (“KCNJ”). The event was held on July 25, 2024, at the Hilton in East Brunswick, N.J.

KCNJ is a non-profit organization, created to provide scholarships for college and vocational education to children of workers who have been fatally or catastrophically injured in a work-related accident. John Geaney, Co-Chair of the Workers’ Compensation Department, serves as a member of KCNJ’s Board of Directors. Marketing Department Co-Directors, Carol Wright and Beth Hopkins, serve as members of the Active Founder Board and Advisory Board, respectively.

The highlight of the Gala featured the presentation of scholarships to students whose parents suffered fatal or physically catastrophic injuries while working.  Eighteen students were awarded scholarships for the upcoming school year.  Capehart Scatchard was a co-sponsor of the scholarship given to Benjamin Moskovitz, whose father is permanently disabled from a work-related back injury. Mr. Moskovitz is a second-year student at the University of Delaware.

Firm Hosts Students and Prospective Students From Rutgers Law School’s MSP and Pre-law Academy Programs

PHOTO Seated L to R: Alexandra Escobedo, Alexis Rose, Jaclyn Terranova, Ana Bauersachs and Sanu Dev. Standing Far Left: Paris McPherson. Standing Far Right L to R : Victoria Adeleke, Uyen Nguyen, Dean Rhasheda Douglas, and Mary Ellen Rose

Capehart Scatchard hosted a panel discussion and breakfast on July 11, 2024, at its Mount Laurel office for individuals in Rutgers Law School’s Minority Student Program (MSP) and Pre-Law Academy.  MSP serves Rutgers Law School students who are members of groups that are underrepresented in the legal profession. Participants in the Pre-Law Academy are a cohort of undergraduate students and recent graduates who are interested in attending law school.

Capehart Scatchard attorneys, Ana Bauersachs, Sanmathi (Sanu) Dev, Alexandra Escobedo, Alexis Rose, Mary Ellen Rose, Jaclyn Terranova and summer law clerks, Victoria Adeleke and Uyen Nguyen, served as panelists participating in a discussion on law careers in private practice.  Also in attendance were Rhasheda Douglas, Assistant Dean of MSP, and Paris McPherson, Assistant Director of MSP. The panelists shared their experience with law school, judicial clerkships, and working at a law firm.  The event was hosted by Capehart Scatchard’s Diversity & Inclusion committee, which Ms. Bauersachs leads.

Capehart Scatchard Attorneys Celebrate Pride Month By Participating In Name Change Clinic

PHOTO L to R: Capehart Scatchard attorneys Lindsay Romeo, Stacey Gorin, Ashley Attinello, Jennifer Loughran, Jaclyn Terranova, Ryan Slocum, Alexandra Escobedo, and Marie Michel. Missing from the photo are McKenna Parris and Ana Bauersachs, Chair of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that in celebration of Pride Month, the Diversity & Inclusion Committee at the firm, in conjunction with the Diversity Inclusion and Leadership Committee of the Burlington County Bar Association, participated in a Name Change Clinic sponsored by Volunteer Up, Rowan College at Burlington County (RCBC), and Rutgers Name Change Clinic. The event took place on RCBC’s Mt. Laurel campus.

On June 13, 2024, ten attorneys from the firm met with New Jersey residents who identify as transgender, gender non-conforming, and/or non-binary to provide pro bono assistance for a simple name change. Securing a legal name change is an important step toward making an individual’s legal identity match their lived experience. Members of the LGBTQ+ community often face barriers limiting access to a name change and the benefits that come with it because the process can be confusing to navigate without legal representation.

Diversity And Inclusion Committee Presents CLE On Unconscious Bias

PHOTO L to R: Ryan Slocum, Ashley Attinello, Jaclyn Terranova, and Megan Wilson

On June 12, 2024, Workers’ Compensation Department associates, Ashley Attinello, Ryan Slocum, and Megan Wilson, presented a CLE entitled “The Effects of Affirmative Action on Unconscious Bias.” Jaclyn Terranova, a shareholder in the Workers’ Compensation Department and Chair of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee’s Firm Events and Education Subcommittee, served as moderator for the panel discussion hosted by the Diversity & Inclusion Committee at the firm.

The participants provided an overview of recent court decisions surrounding affirmative action and the repercussions stemming from those decisions. The panelists closed the CLE with a practical discussion on how to recognize and combat unconscious bias in the workplace.

Stacey Gorin Installed As Treasurer Of Burlington County Bar Association

PHOTO (Standing, L to R): firm attorneys Ryan Slocum, Crosley Gagnon, Stacey Gorin, and Marie Michel (Seated, L to R): Ashley Attinello, law clerk Victoria Adeleke, Jennifer Loughran, and law clerk Uyen Nguyen

Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that School Law Department associate, Stacey R. Gorin, Esq., was inducted as Treasurer of the Burlington County Bar Association (“BCBA”) for 2024-2025. The installation ceremony and dinner took place at The Madison in Riverside, NJ on June 6, 2024.

Ms. Gorin earned her J.D. from Rutgers Law School in Camden, a M.A. in Professional and Business Communication from La Salle University, and a B.S. degree in Business Administration from Saint Joseph’s University.  Upon law school graduation, she worked as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard J. Nocella, P.J.F.P. in Burlington County.  She is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and New York.

 

Associate Joins Capehart Scatchard’s Education Law Department

Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that Lindsay S. Romeo, Esq. has recently joined its School Law Department as an associate in its Mount Laurel, NJ office.

Ms. Romeo concentrates her practice on the representation of boards of education and school districts in all areas of education law including labor and employment, special education, Section 504, student discipline, student records, Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act, School Ethics Act, student residency, civil rights, tenure, negotiations, Open Public Records Act, and Open Public Meetings Act.

She earned her J.D. from Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and a B.S. degree in Education & Special Education from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. Ms. Romeo is admitted to practice law in New Jersey.

Firm Sponsors Golf Tournament Benefiting Saint Joseph’s Carpenter Society

Charles A. Rizzi, Jr. and Vincent T. Cieslik, attorneys from Capehart Scatchard’s Business Department, recently participated in the 2024 McDermott Legacy Golf Tournament & Legacy Dinner. The firm was a sponsor of the event held at the Pennsauken Country Club in Pennsauken, New Jersey on May 13, 2024.

All proceeds from the golf tournament will be used to support the mission of Saint Joseph’s Carpenter Society (“SJCS”) to create strong and confident neighbors in Camden and surrounding communities through safe and healthy housing, thriving economic opportunities and pride in neighborhood revitalization. For additional information on SJCS, please visit here.

Photo L to R:  Michael Lacatena, Joseph LaGrossa, and Charles Rizzi, Jr., Esq.

Rutgers Law Graduate Receives Annual Blaine E. Capehart Writing Award

 

Priya Kavuru was the recipient of the 25th Annual Blaine E. Capehart Legal Writing Award, sponsored by the law firm of Capehart Scatchard. The award recipient is a graduate of Rutgers Law School in Camden. On May 16, 2024, Mary Ellen Rose, Managing Shareholder, presented Ms. Kavuru with the award during the Camden Class Day Awards ceremony.

The Mt. Laurel-based firm awarded Ms. Kavuru with a $2,500 prize in recognition of her exemplary legal writing and research abilities.  The Firm offers this award to a graduating Rutgers law student on an annual basis in honor of the late Blaine E. Capehart, who was the Firm’s leader and patriarch until his death in 2012.

Ms. Kavuru’s award winning piece was entitled Appropriation Makes the Art Grow Fonder: The Fair Use Doctrine and the Future of Contemporary Art.

PHOTO: Priya Kavuru

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