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NEW JERSEY
Tracey Salmon-Smith has a proud West Indian background, as her mother is from Trinidad and Tobago, and her father’s family is from St. Lucia. Education was always important, and she wanted to be a lawyer from elementary school. After stintsasanAssistantU.S.Attorneyandin-housecounselforaglobalfinancefirm,Traceynowspecializesinfinancialservices litigation, with a heavy helping of pro bono projects, such as leading a team of lawyers to assist asylum-seeking immigrants.
NEW YORK
Craig Carpenito is the co-founder of a charitable organization called The Daniel Anderl Judicial Protection Project, named for Craig’s personal friend Danny Anderl, who was tragically murdered and whose father was critically wounded by a self-described anti-feminist in an attempt to kill Danny’s mother, U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas, simply because she had the “audacity” to be a Latina woman who had ascended to the federal bench. The charity raises awareness and funds to lobby for judicial privacy protections, raise money for educational scholarships to students in the memory of Danny, and to help victims in need. Craig also serves on the boards of several other organizations, including the New Jersey Reentry Corporation Training Center, Seton Hall University School of Law Board of Visitors, Newark Boys Chorus School and the Newark Police Foundation. During college, Craig was an NJSIAA certified baseball and softball umpire.
Eric Moran honed the trial skills of listening and storytelling as a bartender during college and law school summers at one of the Jersey Shore’s most famed establishments. Years later, he quite possibly met some former patrons as a corruption prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office (working for a time under his 2022 co-inductee, former U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito). Eric teaches White Collar Crime at Rutgers Law School, hopefully not how to do it but rather what to do about it. Eric spends his leisure time trying to divine what kind of fly a trout will take off a cold-water stream and trying to convince his pre-teen daughters to join him in the hunt.
Thomas M. Prato was an Assistant District Attorney for Monroe County (New York) from 1992 to 1997 and now pri- marily defends physicians against malpractice claims. Tom has served on multiple not-for-profit boards focused on youth hockey play and participation and he has coached and managed several youth hockey teams.
NORTH CAROLINA
Charles Raynal is the grandson of a trial lawyer and the son of a Presbyterian minister and a teacher. Charles is the past Board Chair of SAFEchild, a child abuse prevention organization, and continues to represent the interests of neglected and abused children in Guardian ad Litem appeals to the North Carolina appellate courts. Charles plays bass guitar, fiddle, and mandolin in a rock and roll band that has played dive bars, a large amphitheater, a university campus, charity events, and the Rock & Roll marathon.
NOVA SCOTIA
Rory Rogers had the foresight in late 2019 to buy a ninety-eight-year-old, off-the-grid, four-bedroom log cabin on a se- cluded Nova Scotia lake. Given no road access, it has provided a convenient base for some of his fleet of seven canoes; and has provided at least a partial response to his kids’ frequent inquiry as to why any family much less one man could possibly need seven canoes. The log cabin has been a wonderful respite for Rory and his family during the worst of the COVID-19 shutdowns. He recently added solar power at the log cabin to host Elon Musk’s Starlink for satellite internet access, but the jury remains out as to whether that was a good idea.
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