Essex Vicinage to Hold Law Day Program

The Essex Vicinage, in partnership with the Essex County Bar Association, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, and the Essex County Sheriff’s Office, will hold its annual Law Day celebration on Friday, May 5. 

This year’s theme is “Cornerstones of Democracy: Civics, Civility and Collaboration.”

The day will start with countywide mock trial events. Superior Court and municipal court judges will visit schools to lead the students through a fictional court case and discuss the Law Day theme. Attorneys and sheriff’s officers will accompany the judges. This year’s Essex Vicinage Law Day program will reach students at 30 local schools.

An awards ceremony honoring the winners of the Law Day art, essay and poetry contests will take place at 2:30 p.m. in courtroom 200 of the Essex County Historic Courthouse, 470 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Newark. Trial Court Administrator Edward D. Wingren III will present the awards to the winning students. 

Participants will receive a publication containing students’ outstanding contest submissions and historical information and photographs of the Essex County court complex.  

For more information, contact Ombudsman Sarah Hatcher at 973-776-9300, ext. 56886.