The firm is proud to announce that Jemi Goulian Lucey and Stephanie G. Reckord have been selected for inclusion on the New Jersey Law Journal’s list of 2016 “New Leaders of the Bar.” The publication annually recognizes the career accomplishments of young lawyers who have established themselves as leaders within their firms and organizations, as well as within the larger legal community. Ms. Lucey and Ms. Reckord will be honored at the Law Journal’s Professional Excellence Awards dinner on June 15, 2016 at the Brooklake Country Club in Florham Park.

Ms. Reckord is a partner in the firm’s Litigation Department. Her practice, which focuses on complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts, encompasses the representation of clients in the areas of banking, employment, family law, trusts & estates, class action defense, consumer fraud, and commercial real estate. She is Chair of the Women in the Profession Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association and is a member of Trial Attorneys of New Jersey and the Jersey Shore Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Reckord received her J.D. magna cum laude from Seton Hall University School of Law, and earned her B.A. magna cum laude from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Ms. Lucey is counsel in the firm’s Litigation Department. She concentrates her practice on commercial litigation, with a focus on complex commercial litigation, professional negligence defense, and the representation of clients in construction and engineering disputes, civil fraud and business torts, employment matters, commercial contract disputes, and banking and professional malpractice litigation. She serves as Co-Secretary of the New Jersey Women Lawyers Association, on the Board of the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, as Secretary of the YWCA Bergen County, and is a member of Trial Attorneys of New Jersey and the New Jersey and Middlesex County Bar Associations. She received her J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law and her B.S. from Wake Forest University.