For 15 years, Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti has been the title sponsor of the Riker Danzig Newport 10,000. This year the race took place on May 5th in Newport, on the Hudson River waterfront in Jersey City. The 10-kilometer run attracted more than 1,600 recreational and professional runners this year. The firm had some 65 runners registered for its team, including associate Ashley Higginson, who placed 7th in the female American elite division. (In 2016, she participated in the USA Track & Field Olympic trials, won a gold medal in the steeplechase at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, and competed for the U.S.A. in the steeplechase at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow).

The course, described as “flat and fast,” weaves through Jersey City brownstones and finishes at Newport along the Hudson County Waterfront Walkway, with views of the New York skyline. Newport, a longtime client of the firm, is a 600-acre waterfront community situated opposite lower Manhattan.

Lawrence Sworn in as NJSBA Treasurer

Jeralyn Lawrence Sworn in as NJSBA Treasurer Jeralyn Lawrence
[Photo Credit: Lynn Goodwin.] Jeralyn L. Lawrence, chair of the family and matrimonial practice at  Norris McLaughlin & Marcus in Bridgewater, was sworn in as treasurer of the New Jersey State Bar Association  at the 2018 annual meeting held May 16-18 at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. As a former trustee and secretary, and now treasurer, Lawrence is on track to serve as NJSBA President in 2022. She is a past chair of NJSBA’s Family Law Section, a senior editor of New Jersey Family Lawyer, and former co-chair of its Legislative Committee. She devotes her practice to matrimonial, divorce and family law, and collaborative law.  Lawrence earned her bachelor’s degree from Kean College in Union and her law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, where she graduated second in her class.

NJSBA Immigration Chair Malyk Passes Gavel to Noriega

NJSBA Immigration Chair Malyk Passes the Gavel to Noriega PASSING THE GAVEL: Outgoing New Jersey State Bar Association’s Immigration Law Section Chair Scott Malyk, of Meyner and Landis LLP in Newark (left), turns over the reins to incoming chair Michael Noriega, of Bramnick, Rodriguez, Grabas, Arnold & Mangan, LLC, at the NJSBA annual meeting in Atlantic City on May 16.