Javerbaum Wurgaft Hicks Kahn Wikstrom & Sinins, in Springfield announced that Lissa Jean Ferrell, previously served as vice president, financial crimes advisory, and assistant corporate secretary for Barclays Bank, joined the firm as of counsel. She provides transactional services in commercial and residential real estate development, purchases and sales. Ferrell has also been active in the community, serving as finance chair on the United Negro College Fund New Jersey Leadership Council, sitting on the leadership council for the Seton Hall University Stillman School of Business Buccino Institute, and as executive chair of the Women’s Leadership Program. Her prior board memberships include The Aurora Enhancement Organization, the Children’s Hospital of New Jersey, the Boys and Girls Club–Newark, and the Garden State Bar Association. She has also served on the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Municipal Practice. Ferrell earned her J.D. from New York Law School and her B.A. from Rutgers University.

Scarinci Hollenbeck Welcomes 2020 Summer Associates

Lyndhurst-based Firm Welcomes 2020 Summer Law Associates SCARINCI HOLLENBECK’S SUMMER ASSOCIATES: Standing left to right: Laura M. Miller and Donald Scarinci; seated, left to right: Priya Angara, Amir Botros and Sarah McConnell. [Courtesy Photo.] Scarinci Hollenbeck brought on three law students to is summer associate program. “We sharpened our pencils to make this year’s summer associate program happen,” Donald Scarinci, managing partner, said in a statement. “ Laura M. Miller, partner and coordinator of the summer associate program, did an outstanding job selecting the class of 2020 and organizing a meaningful experience for the 10 weeks they will be with firm,” Scarinci said. The program is operating remotely to accommodate the same work-from-home environment that has been in place firmwide since the COVID-19 restrictions began. “I am proud that we are able to keep the program alive in the midst of the landscape created by COVID-19. It brings me great joy to play a role in helping prepare the next generation of lawyers,” Miller said in a statement. The summer associates will assist with key areas such as public law, environmental law, intellectual property, labor and employment law, creditors’ rights, business law and real estate, the firm said. They will also assist with the development of CLE programs and legal updates pertaining to COVID-19, and attend virtual meetings alongside the firm’s experienced practice leaders.

Priya Angara is a rising 3L at Rutgers Law School in Newark, and currently serves as the symposium editor for the Women’s Right’s Law Reporter. During law school, Priya worked as a legal intern in the Government and Health-care Fraud section of the New Jersey Attorney General’s office, and for the U.S Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey in its Economic Crimes Unit. She graduated cum laude from Rutgers University with a B.A in political science and criminal justice.