Biographical Information:
Julia A. López was a summer associate at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A. during the summer of 2005, and joined the firm as an associate on the Mass Tort Class Action Litigation Team in 2007. Upon graduation, Ms. López served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable John E. Wallace, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey from 2006-2007.
While attending Rutgers School of Law-Newark, Ms. López was the Editor-in-Chief of the Rutgers Law Review and President of the Association of Latin American Law Students. Ms. López served as a judicial intern for the Honorable James R. Zazzali, Retired Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey from 2004-2005. She was also a Teaching Assistant for the Legal Research & Writing Program, a Clinic Law Student for the Rutgers Community Law Clinic, and a Study Group Facilitator for the Minority Student Program. Ms. López was a Hispanic Bar Association Scholarship Recipient in 2004, 2005, and 2006. During the summer of 2004, she was a summer associate with Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti, LLP.
Ms. López serves as Press Secretary on the Executive Board of the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey. She is also a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Middlesex County Bar Association, New Jersey Association for Justice (formerly ATLA-NJ), National Association of Shareholder and Consumer Attorneys, American Bar Association, and the National Hispanic Bar Association. Most recently, Ms. Lopez was appointed by Allen A. Etish of the New Jersey State Bar Association to the Diversity Committee.
Publication:
Melinda Colon, Julia Lopez & Erica Rodriguez, Yes, We Can! - Minority Women Attorneys & Politics, 14:3 ABA - The Woman Advocate 1 (Spring 2009).