The LGBT Bar Association has announced the recipients of this year’s “Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40″ awards. The New York-based awardees are: Chase Strangio, Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union; Ezra Cukor, Staff Attorney, New York City Commission on Human Rights; Gennaro Savastano, Associate, Weitz & Luxenberg; Jason Canales, Partner, Moses & Singer; Jason Wu, Staff Attorney, The Legal Aid Society; Steffi Romano, Staff Attorney, Equal Justice Works Fellow; Kate Rhodes, Partner, Epstein Becker & Green and Jonah Knobler, Partner, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler. Awards will be presented at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York in August.

Karen Hoffman Lent has been appointed as associate director of the Fordham Competition Law Institute. Lent is a partner at Skadden and a 1991 graduate of Fordham Law.