Stark & Stark is proud to announce its 8th Annual Summer Associate Program. Four Summer Associates will be joining the firm from June 3 through July 26th. They will be gaining a broad range of legal experience over the course of the program by working with various practice groups at the firm.
“We are excited to welcome Dillon Collins, Neil Ren, Ezra Rothenberg, and Areej Tariq to Stark & Stark’s Summer Associate Program,” said Managing Shareholder Michael Donahue. “This Program epitomizes our commitment to nurturing talent and fostering the future leaders of the legal profession.”
Dillon A. Collins will be a third-year law student at Temple University Beasley School of Law. He obtained his B.A. from Marlboro College as well as his M.S. in Education from Johns Hopkins University. Dillon is staff editor on the Temple Law Review. He previously served as a Legal Intern for the Education Law Center in Philadelphia, as well as for the School District of Philadelphia Office of General Counsel. He has worked as a High School teacher in Hawaii, both for Konawaena High School, and Teach for America Corps.
Neil Ren will also be a third-year law student at Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he serves as Co-President of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association and Public Outreach Coordinator of Temple. He obtained his B.A. from Bucknell University, and served as a Law Clerk for Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin, PC where he was a Montgomery Bar Association Robert E. Slota Jr. Diversity and Development Internship Participant. He has experience volunteering and working as a Steering Committee member for Pennsylvania Stands Up – Lehigh Valley Chapter, and worked as a partially accredited representative for the Department of Justice for the Immigrant Justice Corps.
Ezra Rothenberg joins Stark & Stark for the second year in a row as a member of the Summer Associate Program. He attended Bais Medrash Ateres Shlomo for his undergraduate degree and will be a third-year law student at Seton Hall University. He is the Founder and former President of Kollel Zichron Sender, a non-profit educational initiative geared towards creating practical Jewish Law programs for post-graduate Rabbinical students based in Israel.
Areej Tariq will be a third-year law student at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and received her undergraduate degree from Rutgers University in Camden, NJ. She was a member of the Dean’s Cabinet for Diversity, an SBA Social Justice & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee Member, a member of the Foreign Direct Investment International Arbitration Moot Team, a Backus Scholar, the Co-President for South Asian Law Student Association, the Vice- President for The Refugee Outreach Collective, and a member of the Muslim Law Student Association and Asian Law Student Association. She served as a Judicial Intern for the Honorable Judge Philip J. Degnan in the Superior Court of New Jersey in Newark, NJ.
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