Friday, April 20, 2007
Public Invited to Attend Law Day 2007 Ceremony
The Ocean County Bar Association is inviting the public to celebrate Law Day 2007 with them on May 1, 2007, at Court House, Court Room One, 100 Hooper Avenue, Toms River, N.J., from 12:00 p.m. until 1:30 p.m. The theme of Law Day 2007 is “Liberty Under Law: Empowering Youth, Assuring Democracy.” Refreshments will be served.
Jonathan Z. Petro, Toms River, a lawyer at the Toms River law offices of Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks, the chairman of the Ocean County Bar Association Law Day Committee, and emcee of the program, announced that Eli Eytan, president-elect of the Ocean County Bar Association, will be speaking. Judge Barbara A. Villano, presiding judge, criminal court, Ocean County, is the keynote speaker. She will talk about two aspects of children in the juvenile justice system: how to keep children out of the court system as well as how the system helps children, such as adoptions, foster care, and education, among others.
Ocean County Bar Association will also announce the winner of the high school Moot Trial Competition and present awards to participants.
In 1957, the American Bar Association created the concept of Law Day, a day to celebrate the rule of law in the United States, its legal system, and how they have contributed to the freedom Americans have. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made it official, designating May 1 as Law Day, a day of national recognition, followed by a joint resolution of Congress in 1961.
For further information about the Law Day 2007, call the Ocean County Bar Association at 732-240-3666.
Petro, whose legal practice focuses on family law, wills and estates, mediation, and municipal court, is a 1997 Toms River East High School graduate and alumnus of Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, 2004. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in June 2005. At Rutgers Law School, he was awarded both the Dean’s Merit Scholarship and the Meyerson Scholarship. Petro was senior editor for the Rutgers Law Record and served as chair of its fund raising committee. Petro completed his clerkship with Judge Ronald Hoffman, J.S.C., Ocean County Superior Court, Family Division, Toms River, and worked as an intern with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
Jonathan Z. Petro, Toms River, a lawyer at the Toms River law offices of Carluccio, Leone, Dimon, Doyle & Sacks, the chairman of the Ocean County Bar Association Law Day Committee, and emcee of the program, announced that Eli Eytan, president-elect of the Ocean County Bar Association, will be speaking. Judge Barbara A. Villano, presiding judge, criminal court, Ocean County, is the keynote speaker. She will talk about two aspects of children in the juvenile justice system: how to keep children out of the court system as well as how the system helps children, such as adoptions, foster care, and education, among others.
Ocean County Bar Association will also announce the winner of the high school Moot Trial Competition and present awards to participants.
In 1957, the American Bar Association created the concept of Law Day, a day to celebrate the rule of law in the United States, its legal system, and how they have contributed to the freedom Americans have. In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower made it official, designating May 1 as Law Day, a day of national recognition, followed by a joint resolution of Congress in 1961.
For further information about the Law Day 2007, call the Ocean County Bar Association at 732-240-3666.
Petro, whose legal practice focuses on family law, wills and estates, mediation, and municipal court, is a 1997 Toms River East High School graduate and alumnus of Rutgers University School of Law, Newark, 2004. He was admitted to the New Jersey Bar in June 2005. At Rutgers Law School, he was awarded both the Dean’s Merit Scholarship and the Meyerson Scholarship. Petro was senior editor for the Rutgers Law Record and served as chair of its fund raising committee. Petro completed his clerkship with Judge Ronald Hoffman, J.S.C., Ocean County Superior Court, Family Division, Toms River, and worked as an intern with the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.
