The New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (NJICLE) will honor Gianfranco Pietrafesa with the 2020 Alfred C. Clapp Award and bestow Distinguished Service Awards to Judge Lisa James-Beavers, Anne S. Babineau, John DeBartolo and Robyn Gigl.
The awards will be presented at a reception in the fall.
Since 1992, NJICLE has presented the Clapp Award to a member of the New Jersey legal community who exemplified excellence in continuing legal education. The Institute has also awarded several Distinguished Service Awards each year to those who have made significant contributions to its educational mission.
Pietrafesa, a partner at Archer & Greiner, Hackensack who practices in the area of corporate and business law, has long been devoted to NJICLE and continuing legal education. He has spoken at more than 40 seminars and has been program coordinator and speaker for more than 20 years.
Pietrafesa is a past chair of the New Jersey State Bar Association Business Law Section and is a current section director. He was a member of the select committee that drafted the New Jersey Revised Uniform Limited Liability Company Act for adoption in New Jersey. He also served on the editorial board of the New Jersey Lawyer for 15 years and has written numerous articles. He received the NJSBA’s 2012 Distinguished Legislative Service Award.
James-Beavers was recently appointed to the Superior Court and is a former acting director and chief administrative law judge. She has been a devoted NJICLE speaker for more than 15 years and a presenter at the Administrative Law Forum since 2010. She is a past president of the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, past chair of the NJSBA Minorities in the Profession and Administrative Law Sections, and a former trustee of the IOLTA Fund of the Bar of New Jersey.
Babineau is a shareholder in Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Woodbridge in the area of redevelopment law. She is the planning chair and moderator of the annual Redevelopment Law Institute, which she developed in 2004. Babineau has been speaker at the Land Use Institute and other seminars and webinars on redevelopment or real estate.
DeBartolo, of counsel to the Law Firm of Timothy F. McGoughran, was the NJSBA’s first representative on the New Jersey Supreme Court’s Board on Mandatory Continuing Legal Education. He has been a chair, speaker or moderator in numerous family law programs, including the Family Law Symposium since 2002. He is a former chair of the Family Law Section and NJSBA trustee.
In 2011, he received the NJSBA Saul Tischler Award.
Gigl, a partner in Gluck Walrath in Trenton, practices in the area of labor and employment and LGBTQ rights. She has participated in employment law programs for several years and made significant contributions to LGBTQ education. Gigl is a vice chair of the Judicial and Prosecutorial Appointments Committee, a member of the Diversity Committee, the Women in the Profession Section and a past chair of the LGBT Right Section. She has written many scholarly articles for legal publications.