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Movers & Shakers

By ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
April 27, 2007

Mayerson Stutman Abramowitz Royer, LLP (New York): Marguerite E. ('Lily') Royer, a partner at the firm, recently became a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Royer, who received her J.D. from Pace University, has been a member of the New York Bar since 1980.

Karen M. Platt has also joined Mayerson, Stutman as an associate. She comes to the firm from Manhattan-based Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, where she practiced matrimonial and entertainment law. Platt received her B.S. from Pennsylvania State University, with distinction, and graduated magna cum laude from New York Law School. She is a member of the New York and New Jersey State Bars.

Flaster/Greenberg (Trenton, NJ): T. Sandberg Durst (family law) has come on board as partner. Durst was previously at the Lawrenceville, NJ, office of Princeton, NJ-based Stark & Stark.

Mayerson Stutman Abramowitz Royer, LLP (New York): Marguerite E. ('Lily') Royer, a partner at the firm, recently became a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Royer, who received her J.D. from Pace University, has been a member of the New York Bar since 1980.

Karen M. Platt has also joined Mayerson, Stutman as an associate. She comes to the firm from Manhattan-based Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, where she practiced matrimonial and entertainment law. Platt received her B.S. from Pennsylvania State University, with distinction, and graduated magna cum laude from New York Law School. She is a member of the New York and New Jersey State Bars.

Flaster/Greenberg (Trenton, NJ): T. Sandberg Durst (family law) has come on board as partner. Durst was previously at the Lawrenceville, NJ, office of Princeton, NJ-based Stark & Stark.

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