Issue of Feb. 7, 2005
By: Sara Carpenter
LAW
Bankruptcy attorney Eric W. Sleeper has joined the West Windsor office of Herrick, Feinstein LLP. He will concentrate on business and real estate workouts, restructurings and reorganizations, insolvency counseling, advising institutional investors and investment funds, and counseling in bankruptcy-related litigation.
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William J. Thompson of Archer & Greiner has been named chair of the firm’s matrimonial and family law department. He brings more than 25 years of family law experience to the position in a career that has included serving as an editor of the New Jersey Family Lawyer, co-chair of the Camden County Family Law Committee, and as chairman of the New Jersey State Bar Association Family Law Section. Woodward/White Inc. recently named him Best Lawyer in America for 2006.
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Rocky L. Peterson, a partner of the Princeton law firm of Hill Wallack, where he is a member of the firm’s litigation division, municipal and school law practice groups, recently was selected by he Garden State Bar Association and the Commission of Professionalism in the Law as a recipient of a Professional Lawyer of the Year Award.
The awards are given annually to lawyers who set a positive example for others in the profession.
A member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, he has served as chair of both the NJSBA Minorities in the Profession and Bar/Law School Liaison committees.
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Fox Rothschild LLP recently welcomed Michael P. Hackett as an associate in the litigation department, resident in its West Windsor office. His practice focuses on plaintiff’s personal injury litigation.
MARKETING
John Polich has joined Australia-based Roy Morgan International as senior vice president. From the firm’s expanded U.S. headquarters in Princeton, Mr. Polich will introduce the firm’s survey, sales and strategy software focusing on the value of brands and of customers for manufacturers, advertising agencies and media.
Mr. Polich’s extensive marketing experience includes media head at Market Opinion Research; The New York Times’ research director and, later, group marketing director; president of the Simmons-Scarborough ratings partnership; director of research for the Gannett thinktank at Columbia University, and vice president at CMGI and Greenfield Online.
He will be relocating to West Windsor.
Among Roy Morgan’s services is Mapes and Ross, the long-established TV commercial and print copy testing firm in Princeton.