Two longtime attorneys who exemplify the best of the legal profession will receive top honors at the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law's annual awards luncheon on October 11.

The Daniel J. O'Hern Award will go to former New Jersey State Bar Association President Richard J. Badolato, a civil trial attorney at Walsh, Pizzi, O'Reilly, Falanga. The Charles J. Hollenbeck Award will honor David G. Sciarra, executive director of the Education Law Center.

The O'Hern Award

The O'Hern Award is presented to an attorney who exhibits integrity, competence, high ethical standards, career achievement and service to the bar and/or community. The award is named for Daniel J. O'Hern, a retired associate judge of the New Jersey Supreme Court, who was an advisor to the commission from its inception in 1996 until his passing in 2009.

“Richie is truly a New Jersey attorney at his roots, and one of the remaining statesmen of the profession,” Essex County Bar Association President Raj Gadhok wrote in a letter nominating Badolato for the award.