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Akinyemi T. Akiwowo
Akinyemi Akiwowo is an associate at Coughlin Duffy LLP. He concentrates in commercial litigation and construction litigation. After receiving his law degree in 2005, Mr. Akiwowo served as Assistant Prosecutor in Union County where he represented the State of New Jersey in criminal trials. He joined Coughlin Duffy LLP in January 2007. Mr. Akiwowo holds a B.A. from Loyola College, and a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law. He is a member of the American, Union County and the Garden State Bar Associations.
Alison Banks-Moore
Alison Banks- More is the Chief Diversity Officer for Horizon BCBSNJ. She has over 25 years of experience as a Human Resources professional. Ms. Banks-Moore joined Horizon in March 2005 as a Human Resources Business Partner supporting the Market Business Unit Division. Over the past two years, she has led the effort to revitalize the Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey diversity initiative, which has culminated in the development of a comprehensive diversity management action plan for Horizon. Prior to joining Horizon BCBSNJ, Ms. Banks-Moore held various Human Resources positions at AT&T, KPMG, Cablevision, and 32 BJ Benefit Funds where her scope of responsibilities ranged from the creating and executing Corporate policies, launching HR initiatives, Staffing/Workforce Planning, Union Negotiations, Succession Planning, Training/Organizational Development, Employee Relations, AA/EEO audit and compliance, as well as the design and implementation of Horizon's strategic Diversity initiative. Ms. Banks-Moore has a BA in Communications and is a member of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association Diversity Alliance, the Northeast Regional Corporate Industry Liaison Group and the Society for Human Resource Management.
Jason Mark Anderman
Jason Mark Anderman is the founder of whichdraft.com, an on-line contract drafting service. Formerly, Jason served as counsel at Becton, Dickinson and Company, a Fortune 500 medical technology company with headquarters in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Mr. Anderman also practiced at the law firms of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Goodwin Procter. Mr. Anderman’s prior practice includes: providing general advice to business units comprising several hundred million dollars of revenue annually, managing procurement agreements for a diverse array of goods and services, negotiating life sciences and diagnostic instrument sales transactions, providing health privacy law advice, as well as facilitating litigation and dispute management. Mr. Anderman graduated in 1992 from Washington University in St. Louis (with honors). He received his J.D. and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University School of Law (with honors) and Graduate School, respectively, in 1997. At Duke, he served as Research Editor of the Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law.
Margaret Davino
Margaret Davino is a partner at Kaufman, Borgeest & Ryan LLP in New York, NY. She holds a B.S.N. from the University of Michigan, an M.B.A. from Seton Hall University, and a J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law.
Ms. Davino has served as General Counsel of St. Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center of New York and as General Counsel for St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey. She has lectured on multiple healthcare legal topics, and has written various articles and a chapter on the legal issues associated with managed care. Ms. Davino has a special interest in the topic of youth and legal rights, and she has volunteered her services extensively to help youth with difficulties in this area.
Angela Foster
Angela Gunter Foster is Chief of Staff for the Department of Law for the City of Newark. In this capacity, she manages the Labor Section and is responsible for maintaining and keeping abreast of developments and negotiations pertaining to the twenty-three unions that represent various City departments and its employees. She also manages and oversees all personnel matters for the Department of Law including the interviewing and hiring of attorneys, paralegals and support staff. Ms. Foster, a native of New York City, graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, and obtained her law degree from New York University School of Law.
Elissa Glasband
Ms. Glasband is a partner at Patton Boggs LLP in Newark, New Jersey. She concentrates her practice in the areas of complex civil litigation, including product liability, toxic tort, consumer fraud and securities litigation. Ms. Glasband has extensive experience in information management issues, including coordinating and supervising teams of attorneys in interviewing witnesses and developing the appropriate protocols for locating and collecting documents, including electronic data. Ms. Glasband clerked for The Honorable Jaynee LaVecchia, Supreme Court of New Jersey and the Honorable Dennis Cavanaugh of the United States District Court of New Jersey. Ms. Glasband holds a J.D., with honors, from Rutgers University, and a B.A., cum laude, from the University of Delaware.
Katie A. Gummer
Katie Gummer is a partner at McCarter & English LLP in Newark, New Jersey.† Ms. Gummer has represented leaders in the financial services industry, including life and health insurance companies, since she began her career at McCarter. On behalf of her clients, Ms. Gummer has litigated in federal and state courts and before regulators in individual, multi-district, and class action cases involving disputes concerning ERISA, policy and plan interpretation, ESOPs, benefit entitlements, consumer complaints, managed care contracts, and sales and marketing practices. Ms. Gummer has successfully tried jury and non-jury cases to verdict. Ms. Gummer also has represented the media in First Amendment and defamation matters. Ms. Gummer graduated from Bryn Mawr College, summa cum laude, and the Yale Law School. She has been a member of the Brennan-Vanderbilt Inn of Court since 1992 and currently serves as a Master. She is a founding member of McCarter's Women's Initiative.
Jeffrey S. Isaacs
Jeff Isaacs is Vice President and Corporate Counsel ñ Mergers & Acquisitions and Financial Management for Prudential Financial. In this role, he is responsible for the provision of legal services for Prudential’s mergers and acquisitions activities. Prior to joining Prudential, Jeff was associated with Morgan Lewis & Bockius and then Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, in New York City, where he worked in their Business & Finance and Corporate departments, respectively, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and securities offerings. Mr. Isaacs received a B.A. from Colgate University and his J.D. from Columbia University.
Marc Merriweather
Marc Merriweather is Vice President- Legal for Wyndham Worldwide Corporation, where he is part of the Company’s Litigation Team. He has been at Wyndham and its predecessors for seven years and his responsibilities primarily focus on the company’s Hotel Group business unit. Marc is a founding member of the Company’s Pro Bono and Diversity Committees. Prior to joining Wyndham, Mr. Merriweather was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Kramer Levin in New York, NY. Mr. Merriweather received a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a B.S. from Cornell University.
Scott B. Murray
Mr. Murray is a Member at Sills, Cummis, & Gross P.C. His practice focuses on complex litigation, especially matters involving antitrust, intellectual property and technology issues.† He has represented and advised clients including technology companies, commodity and luxury product manufacturers, commercial landlords, health care providers and a major lending institution.† Prior to joining Sills, Cummis & Gross, Mr. Murray spent several years practicing antitrust law in Washington, D.C. with Clifford Chance.† Before entering private practice, he spent almost three years with the Telecommunications Task Force of the Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice.† Mr. Murray holds a J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law-Camden and a B.S.E. from Princeton University.
A. Ross Pearlson
Mr. Pearlson is a Member of the Corporate Internal Investigations and Business Crimes and Litigation Practice Group at Sills, Cummis & Gross P.C. He has over nineteen years of experience in a broad range of civil and criminal litigation matters. From 1990 to 1994, he served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, where he prosecuted federal felony cases in areas including mail, wire and securities fraud and RICO violations. In 1993, he received the Director’s Award from Attorney General Janet Reno for Sustained Superior Performance as an Assistant United States Attorney. Mr. Pearlson holds a J.D. from Harvard University Law School, cum laude and a B.A. from Wesleyan University, with high distinction.
Suzette T. Rodriguez
Suzette T. Rodriguez is an associate in LECLAIRRYAN’s Labor and Employment Department. She earned her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude in English Literature from Hunter College, City University. She received her juris doctorate in May 2003 from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark. While in law school, Ms. Rodriguez served as the Managing Articles Editor of the Rutgers Race and the Law Review and was awarded a fellowship from Equal Justice America. In addition, Ms. Rodriguez served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Marina Corodemus, Civil Division-Mass Torts, in the Superior Court of New Jersey. After graduating, Ms. Rodriguez clerked for the Honorable Travis L. Francis, Chancery Division, General Equity, in the Superior Court of New Jersey. Ms. Rodriguez is admitted to practice law in the State of New Jersey, and the United States District Court for the State of New Jersey. Ms. Rodriguez is a member of the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey, Middlesex County Bar Association, and the New Jersey State Bar Association. She has also been appointed to serve as Trustee-at-Large of the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey.
Jelani Roper
Jelani Roper is Vice President and Corporate Counsel at Prudential Financial Inc. His work focuses on securities law, investment management law and contract law and negotiations. Prior to joining Prudential, Mr. Roper practiced at the law firms of Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, in Washington D.C. and Carter Ledyard & Milburn, in New York City. Mr. Roper holds a B.A. from the College of William and Mary, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. While at Georgetown he participated in the Juvenile Justice Clinic, where he served as legal defense counsel for minors charged with crimes in the District of Columbia. Mr. Roper has worked for the public good in various capacities, ranging from volunteering as an election-monitor, teaching at a school for children diagnosed with autism, and serving as a mentor to both children and adults.
Alice Turinas
Ms. Turinas is a business attorney in private practice, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Montgomery Academy, a private school serving students with special needs. She is active in her local college and law school alumni associations, and occasionally glimpses her husband, an advertising and strategic marketing executive who specializes in Internet-based media, and their son, a high school student, at their home in northern New Jersey. Ms. Turinas' legal practice focuses on corporate and commercial transactions such as licensing and co-development joint ventures, as well as the purchase, growth and sale of businesses, with particular emphasis on internet, life sciences and other technology-based service industries. A 1987 graduate of Harvard Law School, Ms. Turinas received a BA from Duke University in 1984.
Amy Winkelman
Amy Winkelman is Associate General Counsel at Moody’s Corporation. Prior to this position, Ms. Winkelman served as the Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey. She has investigated and prosecuted a wide range of cases, including those involving corporate and securities fraud, insider trading, health care fraud, tax evasion, credit card fraud, money laundering, procurement fraud, labor union corruption, drug trafficking and violent crime. Before entering into government service, Ms. Winkleman worked as a litigation associate at the law firms of Clapp & Eisenberg in Newark, New Jersey and Palmer & Dodge in Boston, Massachusetts. She served as a law clerk to the Honorable W. Arthur Garrity of the United States District Court in Boston. Ms. Winkleman is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she received a BA with Highest Distinction, and of Harvard Law School, where she received her J.D.
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