(TRENTON) – Angelo J. Genova, Esq., a leading labor and trial law lawyer, will receive the 2010 Annual Achievement Award from the Hall Institute of Public Policy – New Jersey.

“Through his work as an attorney, as a community leader and as a philanthropist, Angelo Genova makes New Jersey a better place every day of the year,” said George E. Hall, the founder of the Hall Institute. “We are proud to honor Mr. Genova for his outstanding contributions to public policy in our state.”

Genova will receive the Annual Achievement Award at the Hall Institute’s 2010 Gala Reception on March 18, 2010, at the East Brunswick Hilton.

(Click here to view the Hall Institute's Interview with Angelo Genova)

“The mission of the Hall Institute – to foster solutions to public policy issues through constructive debate and dialogue – is consistent with my personal approach to the challenges confronting our state today,” Genova said. “I am most pleased to be selected for this honor by an organization that shares my philosophy on public policy.”

Genova is a partner and co-founder of Genova, Burns & Vernoia of Newark, N.J. He is a leading member of the New Jersey Bar in the practice areas of labor and employment law, election law and complex litigation and appeals.

As a labor lawyer, Genova has represented management for several decades in traditional labor and employment law matters in the private and public sectors. He has served four New Jersey governors as the State’s labor negotiator with unions representing over 40,000 public workers. Complementing his employment law practice, Genova is a noted advocate in election law matters and as a trial lawyer. As an election lawyer, he has successfully litigated many high profile and precedent setting cases expanding and protecting voter rights, having served as counsel to the campaigns of numerous gubernatorial, and federal, state and local office holders and candidates.

Genova also is actively involved in philanthropic and community activities, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of Newark, the Newark Museum, the Montclair State University Foundation, the American Conference on Diversity, the Legal Services Foundation of Essex County, the New Jersey Network Foundation, Volunteers of America: Delaware Valley, and the New Jersey Italian and Italian American Heritage Commission Foundation. He also serves on the board of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Newark and is past president of the Center for Italian & Italian American Culture, Inc.

Genova will be the second recipient of the Hall Institute’s Annual Achievement Award. The first award was presented in March 2009 to Robert P. Haney Jr., a Hall Institute trustee and a partner in the New York office of the Covington & Burling law firm.

The Hall Institute is a non-partisan, not-for-profit foundation established to explore social, economic, educational and cultural issues. Located in Trenton, the institute has posted several hundred essays and on its website at www.hallnj.org in an effort to generate debate and discussion and develop solutions to the problems confronting the state and its residents.

The institute has conducted a series of special events, including online virtual debates for New Jersey’s last three statewide elections, as well as several public forums on public policy issues in New Jersey. The organization also produces public affairs television, podcasts and blogs, and has published two books -- The State of the Garden State and Reaction and Reform in New Jersey. Both are compilations of the major papers posted on its website. A third volume, Creating A Common Future: New Jersey and Public Policy, was posted on the Hall Institute website.

For more information about the institute and its upcoming gala and reception, call 609-392-2237 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

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