(Courtesy of Association of Jewish Attorneys) The Association of Jewish Attorneys will be celebrating the recent founding of the organization with the AJA Launch event on Tuesday, June 5, at Factory 220 in Passaic.
The event will provide a meaningful opportunity to network and socialize with lawyers from across New Jersey and New York and to participate in a series of interesting and informative panel sessions. During dinner, those in attendance will also get the chance to hear remarks from the Honorable Stuart Rabner, Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. The program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for two hours of CLE credit, including one ethics credit.
“The AJA Launch is a perfect example of the type of networking and professional development experience the AJA seeks to provide the Jewish legal community,” said Sara Weinberg, the AJA’s executive director. “Attorneys at the June 5 event can earn CLE credits at the panel sessions and at the same time network with attorneys from across the state, hear from an amazing guest speaker and eat some good food.”
The Association of Jewish Attorneys is a new full-service bar association that launched a few months ago with its website, www.ajanj.org, and its New Jersey chapter. The plan is to quickly follow with the New York chapter and other state chapters. The main focus of the organization is to facilitate opportunities for networking and referrals and to provide a variety of day-to-day benefits to help attorneys in their practice of law. The AJA offers regular CLE and networking events, a robust online networking platform, online practice area discussion forums, an attorney referral service, an online career center for posting job openings and resumes, and negotiated discounts on goods and services.
The panel sessions at the AJA Launch event on June 5 will explore a variety of topics relevant to today’s lawyers. The first panel, “Law, Religion & Ethics,” with panelists Edward J. Dauber (Greenberg Dauber Epstein & Tucker), Akiva Shapiro (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher) and David Yolkut (Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP), will discuss some religious issues that have been litigated in U.S. courts, as well as the ethical and legal challenges that arise in such contexts.
Attendees will then be given the choice of two panels. The first, “Law & Technology: Tech Solutions for Lawyers,” featuring Joshua Dubin (Verizon Connect), David M. Hirschberg (DeVore & DeMarco LLP) and Richard Plansky (Exiger), will guide participants through a number of technological issues facing attorneys, such as cybersecurity, protecting client data and investigative tools, among other things. The second option, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: The Truth About What It Takes to Advance Your Legal Career,” will focus more on skills and professional development through a discussion with panelists who have succeeded in a variety of legal positions—Dror Futter (Rimon), Debra T. Hirsch (Fox Rothschild LLP) and David H. Nachman (Visaserve, NPZ Law Group, P.C.), moderated by Elise Holtzman (The Lawyer’s Edge).
The AJA is so grateful to its sponsors for their ongoing support—Madison Commercial Real Estate Services (Platinum Sponsor); Greenberg Dauber Epstein & Tucker and Marks Paneth (Gold Sponsors); Archer, Ferro Labella & Zucker L.L.C., Hartmann Doherty Rosa Berman & Bulbulia, Sills Cummis & Gross P.C., and The Rothenberg Law Firm LLP (Table Sponsors); and the Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, Charles Schwab, Citrin Cooperman, Lakeland Bank, and the New Jersey State Bar Association Diversity Committee (corporate sponsors).
For more information about the AJA Launch event and to register, please visit this link. Lawyers who want to get member pricing on the AJA Launch and all other events should visit www.ajanj.org to join the AJA. For sponsorship information or additional questions, please email [email protected].
