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E T S E Q . FEBRUARY 2014 A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT MARK YOUR CALENDERS J OSEPH M . C HIARELLO , E SQUIRE FEBRAURY 27th– 40 Year Dinner January flew by. By the time you read this, it will be the middle of MARCH February. This means May 8 is coming up fast. 27th– General Membership Meeting Most of you know that our Law Day Celebration has been moved back a week to May 8. The day will start at Gia’s with breakfast and the MAY usual awards. Make sure to come out and congratulate the Liberty 8th– Law Day Breakfast & Golf Bell Award honorees, scholarship recipients and Mock Trial winners. Tournament The speaker is yet to be booked, but the list of potential speakers looks intriguing. 2013-2014 Officers Jospeh M. Chiarello President The afternoon and evening festivities will be held at Eastlyn Golf Charles J. Wettstein President Elect Justin R. White VP of Fundraising Course, beginning with golfing, and ending with a family barbeque. Beth Hellriegel White Treasurer Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. Our trial run at Matthew W. Ritter Secretary golfing and eating was a ton of fun, and this promises to be even better. The Law Day Golf Tournament will have prizes of all sorts, Board of Trustees including a chance for a car. Eastlyn management may let me Teri L. Bard navigate the beer cart again, but I’m hoping to drive this time. Don’t Nicole J. Curio golf? Come for dinner. Bring your whole family. Bring your friends. I Megan R, Mazzoni can’t think of anything better to do on a Thursday. Plus, your boss Matthew J. Robinson Demetrica Todd has to let you go - it’s a Bar function! Lauren VanEmbden Jr. Trustee This is the big fundraiser for the year, please help make it success. If Kristin J. Eisenhardt you would like to help plan and organize, please contact Justin White, Sr. Trustee Lou Ann or me. Someone will give you a job. Don’t want a job? Just William M. Gilson buy some tickets and have a good time. NJSBA Trustee Michael L. Testa, Jr. We look forward to seeing everyone there. Immediate Past President Rebecca J. Bertram 2 LAWYER OF THE MONTH Matthew J. Robinson, Esquire NICKNAME: Matt BIRTH DATE/PLACE: July 8, 1983 - Millville CURRENT HOMETOWN: Cherry Hill, NJ SPOUSE: Julie Robinson UNDERGRAD and MAJOR/LAW SCHOOL: Rutgers University (Political Science), Rutgers Camden Law School AREAS OF PRACTICE: Landlord/Tenant, Business Litigation, Criminal/Municipal Defense, Real Estate (Agriculture) DESCRIBE FIRST CAR: Forrest green Honda Civic, passed down from my older brother once he went off to college. FAVORITE HOBBY: All things Sadie (my newborn daughter) ALL TIME FAVORITE MUSIC: Alternative, Hip-Hop, Arena Rock, Jazz, Timberlake ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE: No Country for Old Men CURRENTLY PLAYING ON MY iPOD: “Happy” – Pharrell Williams LAST BOOK I READ: I Wear the Black Hat – Chuck Klosterman FAVORITE FOOD: Anything Garces or Vetri FAVORITE VACATION SPOT: California FAVORITE SPORTS TEAM: Philly 76ers! Not many of us left… IF I WON THE POWERBALL LOTTERY I WOULD… Build a Golf Course IF I WASN’T AN ATTORNEY I’D BE…. Teacher 3 MUNICIPAL COURT CLOSINGS DUE T O W EATHER Each municipal court as part of their individual municipality and in conjunction with their judge makes the decision whether or not to close their offices or cancel their court sessions based upon inclement weather or other emergency situations. Each municipal court has been asked to place a notice in their public area of the pertinent phone numbers, web sites or media information that they will update for closings or cancellations. We have also asked each court to email the local bar associations in this vicinage when they are closing their offices or cancelling the court sessions. If you have any questions about whether an individual municipal court is open, you should contact that court as the Municipal Division is not involved in that decision. If you need specific telephone numbers, the public NJ Courts Online website ( http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/ ) has a section on Municipal Court Addresses which lists all the municipal courts in the state. If you have any questions about this notice, please contact Municipal Division Manager, Carole A. Cummings at 856 -853 -3482. Thank you. 4 CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2014 *Mark your calendars, there are some new dates* Thursday, February 27, 2014 40 Year Dinner Centerton County Club, Pittsgrove Thursday, March 27, 2014 General Membership Green Olive, Hopewell Thursday, May 8., 2014 Law Day Breakfast Gia’s Cateers, Bridgeton Thursday, May 8, 2014 CCBF Golf Tournament Eastlyn Golf Course, Vineland Please note this calendar will be updated monthly, so remember to make sure your assistant has the dates marked in your calendar. All General Membership Meetings will begin with a 5:30 p.m. cocktail hour followed by dinner. LOOKING FOR A WILL If anyone has any knowledge of the existence of any Last Will and Testament of Robert M. Holton of Back Neck Road, Fairfield Twp., NJ, please contact: Sheldon Schulman, Esquire 856-696-8500 [email protected] 5 SUMMARY OF THE JANUARY 8, 2014 CUBMERLAND COUNTY BAR ASSOCATION’S BOARD OF TRUSTEE MEETING The Cumberland County Bar Association’s Board of Trustee Meeting was held on January 8, 2014 at Ten 22 at Centerton Country Club in Pittsgrove. Beth White, Treasurer of the Cumberland County Bar Association stated that the Association is in good standing. Michael Testa, Jr., Trustee to the New Jersey State Bar Association encouraged all members to review the NJSBA Trustee Report on their website www.njsba.com. The Law Day 2014 theme is “American Democracy and Rule of Law: Why Every Vote Matters.” Kristen Eisenhardt, Jr. Trustee will find a speaker for the Law Day Breakfast. Jospeh Chiarello reported that The Commission for Professionalism in the Law wants to start a mentoring program with the county and specialty bar associations and asked for our participation. After review of the last mentoring program the Cumberland County Bar Association had which ended due to the lack of participation from our members, it was decided that we would not participate again. Now at 2 Convenient Locations! Join your colleagues at the Fifth Annual New Jersey State Bar Association Solo and Small-Firm Conference and attend CLE programs designed for solo and small-firm attorneys. Meet your peers and enjoy a full-day of networking, learning and sharing. Practicing law as a solo or in a small-firm presents unique challenges, and this one-day conference is designed to help you learn from peers how to run an effective, efficient and sustainable practice. For registration please visit the NJSBA website at www.njsba.com. 6 LAW DAY 2014 GOLF TOURNAMENT Please join the Cumberland County Bar Our annual Major Fundraiser is nearly upon us. This Association as we celebrate Law Day on Thursday, year, we are pleased to announce the return of the May 8, 2014. Golf Tournament. The entrance fee for the Golf Tournament is priced at about the break-even This year our speaker will be Peggy Gentile- point. That means that the “funds” that we need to VanMeter, MA (Soroptomist International District II “raise” primarily will come from sponsorships. Director and CCC Professor). Peggy has her masters in Holocaust and Genocide Education, Please, contact your clients and business and teaches history and law related classes. associates, and ask them to help sponsor this event. There is a sponsorship level to fit every All members are invited to attend this wonderful budget. It may help to point out that monies event. We will also honor our 2014 Liberty Bell contributed towards a sponsorship are deductible as recipients, the 2014 Mock Trial winner for a marketing expense. Cumberland County and the 2014 Bar Foundation Scholarship recipients. We appreciate that in the past, so many area law firms have chosen to help sponsor our events. We need your continued support. However, we also need you to tap into the extended business community. PLEASE FORWARD A COPY OF THE AD FLYER ON PAGE 21 TO YOUR CLIENTS. BAY ATLANTIC SYMPHONY The Bay Atlantic Symphony is celebrating its 30th year. They perform at Cumberland County College, Stockton College, The Borgata, Avalon, Cape May and Atlantic City's Dante Hall. The next performance "Life Cycles" featuring soprano Jennifer Casey Cabot will be held on Saturday, March 22, 8 pm at Cumberland County College in Vineland. The Bay Atlantic Symphony Board of Directors would like to take this opportunity to invite Cumberland County Bar Associations members and a guest) to be our guests at this event. If you are interested in attending, please email Alyce Parker at least 10 days prior to the concert at [email protected] Subject: Bay Atlantic Symphony. They will be providing complimentary tickets once with hopes that the performance is enjoyed enough that you will come back. 7 BAR SNIPPETS — FROM TED RITTER, C.C.B.A. H ISTORIAN Growing Up In Vineland (1952 to 1966) The decades of the 1950’s and 1960’s were years of prosperity and high expectations in the City of Vineland. Government The City was brand new, having been formed on July 1, 1952 by the consensual consolidation of the Borough of Vineland with surrounding Landis Township, which entirely encircled the one square mile borough. The City of Vineland’s first Mayor was John C. Gittone who served until 1956. Gittone had been Mayor of the Borough of Vineland from 1937 up until the date of consolidation. He was followed by Frank J. Testa (1956 to 1960) who later served on the Superior Court bench.