Burlington Vicinage to Hold Law Day Celebration

The Burlington Vicinage, in partnership with the Burlington County Bar Association, will hold its Law Day celebration on Tuesday, May 3 at 9 a.m. virtually via Zoom. The national theme for Law Day is “Toward a More Perfect Union: The Constitution in Times of Change.”

Assignment Judge Jeanne T. Covert will read a proclamation designating May 1 as Law Day.

Students in the fifth-grade class of Sacred Heart School in Mount Holly will participate in an art project with the vicinage, illustrating their understanding of the theme. The project will run from May 2 through May 20.

The Burlington County Bar Association will hold its annual Law Day Dinner on May 3 at the Medford Village Country Club at 5:30 p.m.

The Burlington County Bar Association will host a continuing legal education program, via Zoom: “Diversity in the Classroom: How Will the Courts Rule?” on Thursday, May 5 at 4:30 p.m. First Assistant Public Defender Kevin Walker will moderate. Retired New Jersey Supreme Court Associate Justice Gary Stein; Stacey Hawkins, vice dean and a law professor at Rutgers Law School; and the Rev. Samuel Arroyo, pastor at the First Methodist Church in Hightstown and adjunct professor at Drew University, will be among the panelists.

On Friday, May 6, the Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey will hold an in-person presentation “Toward a More Perfect Union: The Constitution in Times of Change” and “The First Amendment-Technology and Circumstances the Framers Never Envisioned” at the Olde Courthouse in Mount Holly for Willingboro High School students. The presentation will feature Criminal Presiding Judge Terrence R. Cook and Superior Court Judge Lisa James-Beavers. Vicinage Ombudsman Natonya Philips will moderate.

The events are co-sponsored by the New Jersey State Bar Foundation and made possible with funding from the IOLTA Fund of the New Jersey State Bar Association.

Law Day is a national event established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1958 as “a day of national dedication to the principles of government under law.”