Rutgers Holds Careers in Law Panel February 13

 

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – When economic times get tough, college seniors get going – to graduate or professional schools. As New Jersey and the nation continue to find their places in the new economic reality, that axiom has never been truer.

Law school always has been a popular way station between the sheltered world of undergraduates and the real world of competition-hardened business people. But many who contemplate a career in the law actually know little about the profession’s many opportunities when they complete those lengthy law school applications and sign up for the perspiration-inducing LSATs.

To introduce interested students to some potential career paths, the Office of the Vice President for Undergraduate Education at Rutgers will present its annual Careers in the Law panel 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, 191 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick. The public is invited to this free program. Milton Heumann, professor of political science and prelaw adviser, will moderate. Topics and panelists follow:

• Small firm civil litigation: Craig M. Aronow is a founding partner of Rebenack Aronow Mascolo LLP, New Brunswick. He focuses on civil trial practice and litigation in the areas of personal injury, construction and commercial law, and is licensed in New York and New Jersey. Aronow is treasurer of the Middlesex County Bar Association. He is coach of the Rutgers University Mock Trial Association. He earned his law degree with honors, Cum Laude, from the Quinnipiac University School of Law.

• Sports Law: Jennifer Duberstein is a corporate lawyer working in the sports industry. She is a business affairs executive at CAA sports, a division of the Creative Artists Agency. Previously, she was senior legal counsel for Major League Soccer (MLS) and Soccer United Marketing. Prior to MLS, Duberstein worked at Time Warner and Proskauer Rose LLP. She earned her law degree from Northwestern University Law School.

• Criminal Defense: Gerald L. Shargel is founder of the New York law firm that bears his name. A member of the New York bar since 1969, he limits his practice to the defense of serious criminal cases. Over the past several decades, Shargel has handled numerous high-profile cases at the investigative, trial and appellate level. His cases include a broad array of white collar and nonwhite collar crimes.

• Patent Law: Gilberto M. (Ybet) Villacorta is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Foley & Lardner LLP. His practice focuses on assisting technologically diverse clients with their intellectual property and business transactions needs. Some of these needs include planning, development and maintenance of patent and trademark portfolios; licensing, marketing, product development negotiations and the preparation of the resulting agreements; and due diligence investigations in connection with mergers, acquisitions and financing. Villacorta received his law degree from Fordham University School of Law, his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Rutgers.