Overview
EJ is a member of the firm’s best interest compliance cross-disciplinary team, which advises financial services clients and prepares them for the changing regulatory landscape. He contributes to the firm's Broker-Dealer Law Blog, which provides practical insights on litigation, regulatory, compliance and fiduciary issues impacting broker-dealers.
Prior Experience
During law school, EJ was a student attorney at Seton Hall’s Immigrants’ Rights and International Human Rights Clinic. At the clinic, he handled all aspects of an asylum claim and successfully obtained asylum for a detained refugee at a full merits hearing. EJ served as a legal extern for the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Law Division, where he researched federal and state consumer laws and drafted memoranda covering consumer fraud, corporation and transportation laws. EJ was also an intern for the Honorable Steven C. Mannion, Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. He was a summer associate with Faegre Drinker in 2016.
Personal Interests
EJ is an avid baseball fan and film enthusiast.
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Credentials
Bar Admissions
New Jersey
New York
Education
Seton Hall University School of Law
J.D. magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, Seton Hall Circuit Review - Comments Editor (2017)
Seton Hall University
B.A. summa cum laude (2013)
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Pro Bono
- Participant in Florham Park’s Law2Life Program, which assists students at Eastside High School in Paterson, NJ in preparing for a yearly mock-trial heard before a NJ State and Federal District Judge
- Represents indigent tenants as part of the Morris County Tenancy Project
- Represents a non-violent individual convicted of misdemeanor offenses in appealing his constitutional and criminal issues before the New Jersey Appellate Division
Honors
- Faegre Drinker — Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2020-23
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- Seton Hall University School of Law — Outstanding Award for Contribution to the Immigrants’ Rights and International Human Rights Clinic, Center for Social Justice
- Seton Hall University School of Law — Best Brief, Appellate Advocacy
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