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Chen-Gray Law was pleased to sponsor a fitting event for the Igloo Jaguars Midge Minor A/AA U15 Team (Price) and support Endeavor Athletic apparel company. Our firm hosted a fitting event for the team and donated an “Exceed Tech Top” to each player. Endeavor Athletic Apparel Partner and CEO Jared Beach, along with former NHL-star Danny Briere, were on-hand to fit the players and discuss the athlete-developed and athlete-tested clothing line. NHL superstars like Johnny Gaudreau chooses the Endeavor sports apparel for its cutting-edge of technology. Thank you to Jared and Danny for helping the boys to a great start to the season!

We are pleased to announce the launch of our brand new website! After months of hard work and dedication, we are delighted to officially announce the launch on June 5, 2017. Please visit us at www.chengraylaw.com.

Joe Hernandez, a reporter with WHYY, the NPR station in Philadelphia interviewed Shereen Chen about the Trump executive order that would reexamine U.S worker visa programs.

“Whenever there’s a [proposed] law change, there’s a flux,” said Shereen Chen, a South Jersey-based immigration attorney, whose clients have been calling her with worried questions since the executive order leaked. Chen said there’s an uneasy feeling in the air, which she explained with a Star Wars analogy. “It’s almost like there’s a flux in the Force.”

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Congratulations to our Partner, Shereen C. Chen, who received a Professional Lawyer of the Year award from APALA at the New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law annual awards luncheon earlier this month.  The Professional Lawyer of the Year awards were presented in cooperation with bar associations across New Jersey to lawyers who are respected by their colleagues for their character, competence and exemplary professional behavior.  Shereen is pictured with her parents, as well as Judges Simandle and Albin.

MARLTON, NJ – Shereen C. Chen was selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers© 2014. The attorneys are chosen in a vote by peers who practice in the same areas of law. Ms. Chen was chosen for Immigration Law and has been included each year since 2009.

MARLTON, NJ – Shereen C. Chen was named one of New Jersey’s top 100 attorneys in the newly released listing from New Jersey Super Lawyers.

Ms. Chen, who lives in Mount Laurel, was named for her work as an immigration attorney. Ms. Chen’s clients include professional athletes, opera stars, religious leaders, high net worth investors, health care employees, corporations, golf courses and resorts along with nonprofit organizations, including temples and shrines across the United States.

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Attorney Shereen C. Chen spoke about the joys and the honor of being a U.S. citizen last week during the Citizen Naturalization Ceremony at Burlington County Superior Court in Mount Holly.

Chen became an American citizen at the age of 16. Her family came here from Taiwan when Shereen was only two years old. In her law practice Chen assists sports stars, business people, medical personnel, religious leaders and those from a variety of walks of life with citizenship and immigration. She has been an immigration attorney for the past 15 years and has received numerous awards and honors for her work including this year being named an Outstanding Woman of the Year in Burlington County.

Twenty-five new citizens received certificates and were welcomed last week during the ceremonies.

“It’s always an honor to participate in these ceremonies,” Chen said. “I love to see the happiness on the faces of the new citizens. It reminds me how fortunate we are to live in this country and how we should never take it for granted.”

Nine women will be honored at this year’s Outstanding Women Awards banquet to be held Thursday, March 31 at Merion Caterers in Cinnaminson. The honorees cover a range of categories, and include a social studies teacher and mentor who “makes history come alive,” a breast cancer survivor who counsels other cancer victims, and a doctor who helps women without insurance receive necessary healthcare. Add to that Victoria Lee, a Moorestown High School senior, who will also receive a $500 scholarship for her efforts to publicize poverty and abuse of women in places around the world. The awards program is sponsored and run by the county’s Advisory Council on Women.

“There is no getting around it, this is an outstanding lineup of high achievers,” said Freeholder Mary Ann O’Brien. “As always, the advisory council has brought before us an impressive group of individuals with outstanding records of community involvement and leadership.”

Shereen C. Chen Gray, Esq. of Mount Laurel

Through her work for the firm in Marlton in which she practices in Immigration and Nationality law, she has aided women in terrifying situations, like the Chinese girl who needed to get away from her abusive family, and orphaned refugees from the Sudan. She continues to help women through her work for Jewish Family and Children’s Service. Her pro bono work, helping battered women and children gain residency, earned her the New Jersey Bar Association’s Award in 2006.

by Kathryn Finegan Clark

Shereen Chen is there for those trying to find their way to America.

For many New Jersey immigrants — like the Chinese girl who escaped an abusive family, the orphaned refugees from Sudan or the Colombian couple forced to flee violent guerrillas — the enduring female symbol of freedom in America isn’t the Statue of Liberty. It’s Shereen Chen.

“The realization on someone’s face that they have received permanent residency in the United States, forever, is an amazing thing to witness,” she says. “I love what I do.”

As of counsel at Ballard Spahr in Voorhees, Chen, 34, is primarily responsible for the immigration cases handled by the firm’s offices across the eastern United States. She has celebrated several happy outcomes since joining the firm in April 2003.

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The biographies that follow are of 40 young New Jersey lawyers we think are worth watching, not only for what they have achieved so far in their careers but more so for the potential they show to be among the leaders of the New Jersey bar in the not-so-distant future.

We selected the lawyers based upon information provided by their firms or gleaned from other sources. In choosing them, we looked at such indicators as achievement in practice areas; record of publication, lecturing and presenting to professional forums; recognition by peers and professional organizations; leadership positions at the firms; leadership in bar groups; merit-based membership in professional groups; pro bono and civic activity; and special challenges overcome in attaining career success.

We favored lawyers who have taken charge of practice groups or committees in their own firms at a young age. The field was not limited to partners (though many are) nor was it restricted to large firms. Sometimes, the best indicator was the founding and/or growing of a small firm or a practice area within a firm.

The attorneys chosen represent a broad spectrum of the bar, covering an array of practices. Some are litigators and some are devoted to transactional and compliance-oriented areas. What all have in common is that they have distinguished themselves early in their professional lives and promise more of the same.

Any qualitative list is necessarily subjective, and there are doubtless numerous young attorneys who have yet to gain public attention. As we repeat this selection in future years, they may be chosen. But for now, the 40 lawyers listed are well qualified to carry the distinction.

– Ronald J. Fleury
Editor-in-Chief

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