Natalya Johnson, senior counsel with Johnson & Johnson’s legal department and immediate past president of the Garden State Bar Association, was named the Law Journal’s Attorney of the Year at the New Jersey Legal Awards held Wednesday evening at the Park Chateau Estate in East Brunswick.

Johnson was chosen from a panel of three finalists that included Jeralyn Lawrence, leader of Lawrence Law and immediate past president of the New Jersey State Bar Association; and Ian Marx, a commercial litigation partner in the New Jersey office of Greenberg Traurig.