GSBA 44TH AWARDS GALA: Pictured, From left to right:
Dara A. Govan, Esq. (AUSA/GSBA Immediate Past President),
William Rogers, Esq. (
Skoloff & Wolfe/ GSBA President),
Clifford D. Dawkins Jr., Esq.
(Sills Cummis & Gross), Alexis Miller (Scholarship Recipient and Rutgers Law Student),
David I. Rosen, Esq. (
Sills Cummis & Gross),
Sobande Afolabi, Esq. (Neighborhood Health Services Corporation/Chair, GSBA Scholarship Committee), and
Joyce
Maxberry, Esq. (AUSA/Scholarship Committee Member). [Photo Credit: BrianBranch-Price.]
The Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey announced the 2019 “William J. Brennan Jr. Award” recipients, the swearing-in of its new officers and trustees, and the annual John J. Barry scholarship recipients, on June 12 at Mayfair Farms in West Orange. The event was attended by some 500 members of the federal bench and bar, according to the organization.
AFBNJ President
Edward T. Kole; the Hon.
Freda L. Wolfson, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey; and the Hon.
Stanley R. Chesler, United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey and Brennan Award recipient, on June 12, 2019 at Mayfair Farms in West Orange.
The Brennan awards were presented to the U.S. District Judge Stanley R. Chesler of the District of New Jersey, and to Joseph P. LaSala, a partner at McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter in Morristown. The award honors the legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brennan’s devotion to free expression, and is given to an outstanding jurist, attorney, or other individual whose contributions to the law deserve special recognition.
The Hon.
Stanley R. Chesler; AFBNJ President
Edward T. Kole; and
Joseph P. LaSala, Brennan Award recipient, on June 12, 2019 at Mayfair Farms in West Orange
