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Kathleen Boozang is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Seton Hall University School of Law.

Dean Boozang studied theology and business administration at Boston College, and received her J.D. from Washington University School of Law and her LL.M. from Yale Law School. Dean Boozang has chaired the Bioethics Committee for the Association of the Bar of the City of the New York; she has served as President of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics; she is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics; and she sits on the Board of Governors of Cathedral Healthcare System, Inc.

Marvin Adames

Marvin Adames is a Newark native. He attended Dayton Street School in Newark's South Ward and later Arts High Schoool where he studied visual arts. He graduated from then Trenton State College, now the College of New Jersey in 1994 and Rutgers Law School-Newark in 1998. Upon his completion of law school, Marvin served as the law clerk for the Honorable Julius Feinberg and the Honorable Renee Jones Weeks in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Essex Vicinage, Criminal Division. Later he joined the Essex County Prosecutor's Office as an Assistant Prosecutor. He now serves as the Chief Municipal Prosecutor for the city of Newark.

Akinyemi T. Akiwowo

Akinyemi Akiwowo 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.

Jason Mark Anderman

Jason Mark Anderman serves as counsel at Becton, Dickinson and Company, a Fortune 500 medical technology company with headquarters in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. Previously, Mr. Anderman practiced at the law firms of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Goodwin Procter. Mr. Anderman’s current 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 is certified as a Green Belt in the Six Sigma continuous improvement management method, and focuses on ongoing projects using Six Sigma and Lean tools to drive efficiency in legal services. Mr. Anderman also leads several knowledge management initiatives, currently chairs the Open Legal Standards Initiative's Contract Management Committee, and co-chairs the Law Department Purchasing Consortium’s Procurement Benchmarking Group.

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.

Michael Baldassare

Michael Baldassare’s practice concentrates on defending corporations and individuals under investigation for, or charged with, alleged violations of federal and state crimes. He received his B.A. from St. Peter's College, M.A. from Iowa State University and J.D. magna cum laude from Seton Hall University Law School.

He has represented individuals at trial-level proceedings charged with such federal offenses as bank fraud, racketeering, bribery, extortion, public corruption, health care fraud, tax fraud, counterfeiting, attempted murder, weapons crimes, drug possession and distribution, child pornography offenses, human trafficking, and sex trafficking.

Mr. Baldassare acts as a Trustee for the Association of New Jersey Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, and the Co-Chair of the Criminal Law Section of the Essex County Bar Association. He is the former Chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Section on Individual Rights.

Margaret Davino

Margaret Davino is Of Counsel 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.

Jeffrey S. Isaacs

Jeff Isaacs is Vice President and Corporate Counsel – Mergers & Acquisitions for Prudential. In this role, he is responsible for the provision of legal services for Prudential’s mergers and acquisitions activities. Jeff also serves as the Chief Operations Officer for Prudential’s Law, Compliance and Business Ethics organization, responsible for the development and implementation of strategic initiatives across a global law and compliance function.

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.

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 a 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 received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her B.A., summa cum laude from Duke University.

Alice Turinas is Counsel in the Corporate & Transactional Practice Group of LeCLAIRRYAN. Her practice is focused on general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, licensing, joint ventures, securities, and corporate financing. She has represented companies of various types and sizes with particular emphasis on the technology and service industries, as well as investors in those industries. Her expertise is wide-ranging and includes technology licensing, joint ventures, venture, securities and corporate financing, and mergers and acquisitions, all within the U.S.A. and cross-border.

Prior to joining Seiden Wayne LLC, now LeCLAIRRYAN, Ms. Turinas was a senior associate with a large multi-national law firm where she served in several U.S. locations and, most recently, in the firm’s London office. Prior to that she spent four years as an attorney in the AT&T e-commerce legal group, where she served as the primary legal advisor for the launch and operation of its Web hosting and Web transaction services. She also provided advice regarding AT&T’s intranet/extranet and Internet connectivity services for business customers. Her responsibilities there included structuring and negotiating software licenses with pivotal technology suppliers, acquisitions and dispositions of e-commerce businesses, and implementing the businesses' strategy to manage liability.

Amy Winkelman

Amy Winkelman is Chief of the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, where she supervises more than 60 Assistant United States Attorneys prosecuting cases involving business and securities fraud, health care fraud, violent crime, terrorism, narcotics trafficking, organized crime and racketeering, money laundering, tax offenses, and other federal crimes. She creates and implements office policies on a variety of legal and administrative issues, and serves as a member of the United States Attorney's senior management team. 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.