Monmouth Vicinage to Celebrate Law Day

The Monmouth Vicinage, in partnership with the Monmouth Bar Association, will host its annual Law Day ceremony on Thursday, May 4, from 4 to 5 p.m. in Courtroom 307 West at the Monmouth County Courthouse, 71 Monument Park, Freehold.

The program will focus on this year’s national theme “Cornerstones of Democracy: Civics, Civility, Collaboration.”

Assignment Judge Lisa P. Thornton will give opening remarks. Municipal Court Judge Susan Schroeder Clark will present the keynote address on the impact of social media in schools. Monmouth Bar Association President F. Bradford Batcha will speak and join Judge Thornton in the presentation of awards to the student winners of the Law Day art, poetry, and essay contests. The Daniel J. O’Hern Mock Trial Award will be presented to the Colts Neck High School Mock Trial Team. The Abraham Zager Award for Professionalism will be presented to past bar association president James M. McGovern Jr. 

The ceremony is cosponsored by the Monmouth Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar Foundation and is made possible with funding from the IOLTA Fund of the state bar.
 
A livestream of the program can be viewed here. 

Other Monmouth Vicinage Law Day activities include a student Law Day symposium to be held on Wednesday, May 31 at the Monmouth County Courthouse. The program will feature keynote remarks on social media in our community by Municipal Court Judge Susan Schroeder Clark, an interactive mock trial, and a session on collaboration among the three branches of government on the issue of social media.  

To learn more about the Monmouth Vicinage Law Day activities, please visit the vicinage’s Law Day page. 

For more information contact Ombudsman Lauren Wicke at 732-358-8700, ext. 87260 or Lauren.Wicke@njcourts.gov.