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June holds the highest non-attorney position in the firm, giving her primary responsibility for both facilities operation and personnel management for more than 300 employees in eight offices and six states. By the time she reached her current position, she had worked for Gibbons for more than 25 years, beginning as a paralegal and rising through the ranks. In her various leadership roles, she has guided the firm through two decades of tremendous growth – from a 90-attorney practice in Newark to a regional powerhouse with 200 attorneys in eight offices. June oversees the daily operations of the firm, including personnel, finance, benefits, technology, and compensation. She is also responsible for drafting policy for all of these key areas and has influenced policy to ensure the firm is able to respond to the changing external forces that any dynamic organization regularly faces. June oversees the firm’s initiatives, for example: to formulate smart growth strategies and evaluate target markets; to identify, negotiate, and custom design office space, and to serve as main firm liaison with building management; to recruit, motivate, and retain a diverse and highly talented pool of legal and administrative personnel; to equip all of the firm’s professionals with the most leading-edge tools and current training in the areas of information technology, research and knowledge management, and financial administration; and generally to secure the most productive workforce and outstanding work product by ensuring the firm’s seamless operation, every day.

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Experience

Legal Work Highlights

June’s achievements have included:

    • Leading at least eight significant office openings and/or relocations, including the firm’s efforts in negotiating, designing, and moving to new state-of-the-art, 100,000-square-foot headquarters in 2007;
    • Developing the Gibbons Experience, an award-winning, generous package of benefits and personnel policies that has earned the firm inclusion on such lists as Working Mother’s “Best Law Firms for Women” and the Best Places to Work in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia;
    • Creating Gibbons Goes Green, to help further the firm’s environmentally-conscious business practices;
    • Working with a dedicated group of women attorneys to launch the Gibbons Women’s Initiative in 1997, which won the Catalyst Award in 2009 for its development of educational programs, mentoring, and advancement of women attorneys;
    • Overseeing Gibbons Cares, the firm’s platform for charitable and community outreach which includes annual donations of more than $1 million and extensive volunteer service, all in support of the communities in which the firm has offices; and
  • Supervising the firm’s internship programs including a week-long internship for New Jersey Law and Education Empowerment Project students and the firm’s corporate intern program with Cristo Rey Newark High School, which provides work experience to economically disadvantaged high school students and has hosted more than 20 student interns since the school’s founding four years ago.

Education

Pace University

B.B.A.

Courts

June is admitted to practice before the following court(s):

Recognition

Local & National Recognition

Award Selection Methodology

Recipient, CIANJ/Commerce “Enterprising Women in Commerce Award – Platinum Award,” 2022

Named to the NJBIZ Winners Circle, 2022

Named to Profiles in Diversity Journal’s “Women Worth Watching” list, 2022

Recipient, Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children’s Vitae Discimus Award, 2015

Named one of New Jersey’s “Best 50 Women in Business” by NJBIZ, 2011

Recipient, Executive Women of New Jersey’s Salute to the Policy Makers Award, 2010

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Association of Legal Administrators

 

American Management Association

 

Society for Human Resources Management

 

New Jersey State Bar Association

 

Institute of Management & Administration

Civic Activities

Civic & Charitable Organizations

Cristo Rey Newark High School
Past-Chair, Board of Directors