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WLIB Newsletter – Spring 2021 NEWSLETTER WLIBWOMEN LAWYERS IN BERGEN Volume 11 Spring 2021 s our country begins to reopen, S. Kiel, U.S. Magistrate Judge and Karen D. we remain hopeful that we will Gwynn, Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor soon be together in person. In will be presented with the award. the meantime, we hope you We were equally as excited to be partnering Aand your families are remaining safe and in with the Women’s Leadership Committee good health. We are reaching out to ask for of Pashman Stein Walder Hayden to host a your continued support. Despite the challenges virtual seminar on March 18, 2021 entitled we have faced during this unprecedented “Versatility During Covid: Adapting Your Skills global pandemic, WLIB continues to grow its & Practices to Thrive”. We think this topic is membership and not only survive, but thrive. particularly relevant now and we were pleased We appreciate all your assistance and are to present a virtual discussion and networking confident our important organization still has event, featuring Naomi Becker Collier, Esq. room to grow and much to offer. from Pashman Stein Walder Hayden, Nancy In recent months we have led robust Lucianna, Esq. from the Law Office of Nancy programming to continue reaching out to Luciana P.C. and myself, Victoria Pekerman, our community. Through the efforts of Tamra has announcements they would like included Esq. from Shapiro, Croland, Reiser, Apfel & Katcher, our Treasurer, we have developed in the WLIB Newsletter, please contact Linda Di Iorio, LLP. We hope this will be one of and implemented a Listserv application that F. Spiegel, Esq. at [email protected] . Thank several events and partnerships between WLIB distributes messages to subscribers through an you for your continued participation in our and Pashman Stein Walder Hayden’s Women’s electronic mailing list. It is now fully operational meetings as well as CLE events. Leadership Committee. on our website www.womenlawyersinbergen. Please join us at the swearing in of our Committee assignment sign-ups are com and through our email system. We own Eileen Mulroy, Esq, as President of the available for the 2021 year and we encourage encourage everyone to utilize it and thank Bergen County Bar Association on Tuesday, continued on page 3 Tamra for her hard work. We kicked off 2021 April 6, 2021 at 3:30 pm on the Courthouse with a number of interesting SWAG events. steps. Congratulations Eileen! On February 8, Kim Hamilton, LCSW of Our next CLE event, on Ageism and Connections Care Management presented on Diversity, for which attendees will receive the topic of “What a Geriatric Care Manager 1.2 Ethics credits in Diversity, Inclusion and INSIDE: Can Do for You and Your Clients”. Equity, will be held on April 21, 2021 from A special thank you to Felicia Farber, Esq. 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm, also over Zoom. Please • Eileen P. Mulroy, Esq. - 3 for leading a discussion on March 8, 2021 go to the website to register or click on the on the “Dangerous Consequences of Cyber following link, • Book Review - 5 Behaviors” and on her award-winning book https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ageism- “Ice Queen”. We will be holding our next and-diversity-cle-presented-by-women- - The Selling of the Babe SWAG meeting Monday, April 12, 2021 from lawyers-in-bergen-registration-142804563293 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm. This meeting will be WLIB is honored to be co-sponsoring • A Year Later - 5 led by Elaine Nissen, Esq. who will facilitate a the 2020/2021 Annual Diversity Awards in discussion on “The Joys of Semi-Retirement” conjunction with the Bergen County Bar • Jacqueline S. Guenego - 7 and will take place over Zoom. If anyone is Association, which will include a diversity interested in speaking at a SWAG meeting or roundtable discussion. The Honorable Edward • Cyber Behaviors - 9 WLIB Membership • Kamala Devi Harris - 12 • Announcements - 15 To renew or begin your membership with WLIB • Young Lawyers Corner - 15 please go to www.womenlawyersinbergen.org . If you have any questions regarding membership, • WLIB Committees - 19-20 please contact Cathe McAuliffe, Esq., Membership Chair at 201-488-2030 or [email protected] . • Calendar of Events - 21 “GOTCHA”“GOTCHA” BODYBODY CAMSCAMS DON’TDON’T LIELIE • Effective 8/6/18 • Reasonably Priced Where and When Available “IT WAS SERVED” FOLLOW US! @guaranteedsubpoena 1-800-PROCESS @guaranteedsubpoena or 908.687.0056 @serveddotcom (FAX) 800.236.2092 - [email protected] - www.served.com Eileen P. Mulroy, Esq., President of the BCBA By Janet B. Lurie, Esq. Do not underestimate Eileen P. Mulroy. As I recall, we first Annual Dinner Committee. Additionally, Eileen is a member of the met around 1998 when she was working as assistant counsel for Worker’s Compensation Executive Committee of the NJSBA, lecturing the Archdiocese of Newark, NJ. Eileen was mild mannered and frequently for their CLE programs as well as a member of the Justice quiet and she was just beginning her assent up the ranks of WLIB. Coleman Worker’s Compensation Inn of Court. I thought to myself that she is much too quiet to be effective. I Bergen County is home to Eileen. She grew up in Dumont, N.J. apologize, Eileen. I was wrong. Eileen is a force to be reckoned with and is a resident of New Milford (Eileen was on their Planning Board). and should never be underestimated. Eileen spends a great deal of time at the Jersey shore. In her limited Eileen P. Mulroy, Esq. will be sworn time when she is not volunteering, she in as the 123rd President of the Bergen enjoys travel (hence the WLIB travel County Bar Association in true pandemic column), reading murder mysteries, and socially distant fashion, on the steps and walking the boardwalk. of the Bergen County Justice Center on Eileen has worked at Bergen April 6th , 2021 at 3:30 PM. She is only County Legal Services of N.J., the the fifth female to hold this position, aforementioned Archdiocese of following Judges Lois Lipton and Deborah Newark, several law firms and is Gross Quatrone and former WLIB past currently employed by Testan Law Presidents Cathe McAufliffe and Linda doing defense worker’s compensation. Schwager. Eileen will be the third past As President of the BCBA, Eileen President of WLIB to serve as President of is looking forward to working with the BCBA. the judiciary and members of the Bar A magna cum laude graduate of as well as the new Executive Director Manhattan College in Riverdale, N.Y., Jackie Guenego, Esq. She hopes that we Eileen went to Albany Law School and of WLIB will support all of her efforts was president of her graduating class. during this difficult year and volunteer Eileen has always actively participated in anyway we can. The difficulty of our and volunteered in many professional current situation has forced everyone organizations. She continues to write to be more flexible. The BCBA Annual as the WLIB travel log writer and was Dinner to acknowledge the 2021 a former president and trustee of the officer’s installation is going to be held Bergen County Bar Foundation, most on October 28, 2021 at the Indian Trail known for their charitable pursuits Club in Franklin Lakes, N.J. so mark such as providing scholarships to law your calendars. students and community grants to civic organizations (recognizing I’ll finish as I started. In her own, quiet but inimitable way, Eileen leadership in the legal and civic community) as well as the “Back to works tirelessly at anything and everything she attempts. She will be School Backpacks” and “Toys for Tots.” Eileen was the Chair of the open to suggestions but can and does hold her own in any situation. District IIB Ethics Committee and has been an active member in the I am proud to call her my colleague, friend, travel companion and BCBA’s Board of Trustees, the Memorial Committee, Co-Chair of neighbor. the Worker’s Compensation Committee in Bergen County and the Wishing you much success Eileen! so already, please renew your membership profession and in our community. Hope President’s Message by visiting our website at https://www. to see everyone at our upcoming events. continued from page 1 womenlawyersinbergen.org/ . Especially now, during the pandemic, it is all to submit their interests to hold leadership We thank you dearly for your continued more important than ever for us to support positions. Please find a list of positions at support of WLIB. We are celebrating a each other, attract the next generation of www.womenlawyersinbergen.org/about- milestone in the history of WLIB. This is the leaders, grow our professional network and us/ and submit your interests to me via 45th anniversary of our founding! We thank empower, educate and advocate for women. email at [email protected]. our founding leaders and past presidents for The renewal of membership fees is vital to their leadership, mentoring and inspiration. Victoria R. Pekerman, Esq. the continuing survival and operation of We hope to continue to make them proud President of Women Lawyers in Bergen our organization. If you have not done by serving as pioneers for women in the legal 3 The Law Offices of Barbara B. Comerford 45 Eisenhower Drive, Suite 280 Paramus, NJ 07652 Phone: (201) 444-4493 Fax: (201) 485-7014 [email protected] www.tristatedisabilitylaw.com The Law Offices of Barbara B. 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