Gibbons Staff Are Celebrated for Contributions to Diversity, Business, Leadership, and Pro Bono Work

Gibbons P.C. congratulates Renée L. Monteyne, Angela Pandolfo Roy, Bria S. Beaufort, and Michael A. Conforti for their recent recognitions spotlighting their respective dedication to and excellence in diversity, equity, and inclusion; business; leadership; and pro bono legal work.

Renée L. Monteyne, Director of Professional and Organizational Development

Profiles in Diversity Journal^® Women Worth Watching^® in Leadership Award

This Profiles in Diversity Journal^® honor recognizes dynamic women who are using their talents and influence to enhance their workplaces and communities. In her role at Gibbons, Ms. Monteyne oversees the diversity, pro bono, and other firm statistics for national surveys, listings in key publications, supplier diversity and vendor audits, and requests for proposals; plays an integral role on the firm’s Mansfield Certification Team; coordinates all of the professional development needs of the firm, from internal continuing legal education and mentoring programs to external client events; and much more.

She is among 70 recipients of this year’s Women Worth Watching^® in Leadership Awards and joins more than 2,000 former honorees, including Gibbons’s June M. Inderwies, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer; Christine A. Amalfe, Chair, Employment & Labor Law (ELL); Kim M. Catullo, Chair, Products Liability; Jennifer A. Hradil, Co-Chair, Business & Commercial Litigation (BCL); Susan L. Nardone, Director, ELL; Camille V. Otero, Chair, Environmental; Jennifer Phillips Smith, Chair, Real Property; and Kristin D. Sostowski, Director, EEL.

Angela Pandolfo Roy, Chief Marketing Officer (CMO)

NJBIZ Leading Women in Business Award

Formerly the NJBIZ Best Fifty Women in Business, this program has been expanded to recognize even more “women who have made a significant impact on business in New Jersey as well as in their communities.” Ms. Roy is one of 60 top leaders throughout the state to be selected for a Leading Women in Business Award.

As Gibbons’s CMO, Ms. Roy works with management to define practice development and communications priorities in order to create and execute the most effective supporting campaigns and programs. She focuses in particular on the design and execution of client relations and business development strategies, as well as the firm’s inward- and outward-facing promotional and communications plans and platforms, addressing consistency of messaging and positioning throughout various outlets and media. She also engages all firm legal departments and offices in marketing initiatives.

Bria S. Beaufort, Employment & Labor Law Group Associate

Profiles in Diversity Journal^® Emerging Leader Award

Ms. Beaufort and her fellow honorees were chosen for the magazine’s inaugural Emerging Leader Awards for positively influencing their work environment and colleagues through their personal qualities and actions.

In her practice at Gibbons, Ms. Beaufort defends employers in pre- and post-litigation matters arising from workplace disputes and provides counsel regarding compliance with workplace laws, policy revision and implementation, and more. She is active in numerous bar associations, particularly the Essex County Bar Association (ECBA), for which she has assumed numerous leadership roles and was sworn in this past May as the ECBA’s Young Lawyers Section Trustee. She is the recipient of the ECBA’s 2024 Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award.

Michael A. Conforti, BCL Associate

New Jersey State Bar Association Distinguished New Lawyer Award

The New Jersey State Bar Association’s 2024 Distinguished New Lawyer Award acknowledges the pro bono contributions and leadership of lawyers in practice for 10 years or less. At Volunteer Lawyers for Justice (VLJ), Mr. Conforti has helped more than 60 VLJ clients and donated 180 hours of pro bono legal services over the past five years. His pro bono experience includes issues impacting the reentry population, primarily criminal record expungement, with some driver’s license restoration and child support modification.

At Gibbons, Mr. Conforti handles a wide variety of cases in both state and federal courts throughout New Jersey and New York. His practice centers on complex civil litigation and includes general strategic guidance, litigation avoidance strategies, mediation, arbitration, resolution of contractual disputes, construction claims, securities claims, and trial, in addition to management of bankruptcy-commercial overlaps.

About Profiles in Diversity Journal^®

Profiles in Diversity Journal^® is a quarterly publication dedicated to promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion in the corporate, government, nonprofit, STEM, and higher education sectors. Since 1999, Diversity Journal has helped stimulate organizational change by profiling the visionary leadership, innovative programs, and individual commitments that make it happen.

About NJBIZ

NJBIZ, the definitive voice of New Jersey business news, is the most mature and distinguished voice in the state. Serving the community since 1987, NJBIZ provides business leaders and executives with the news and information that matters most. We connect and inform businesses through targeted networking and lead-generation opportunities via our recognition events, thought-leadership panel discussions, weekly lists, the annual Book of lists, along with premium online data. NJBIZ is in the business of connecting people and brands with information and each other.

About the NJSBA Pro Bono Awards

The NJSBA Pro Bono Awards recognize exemplary pro bono work that has a significant impact on access to justice for underserved communities in New Jersey. All are welcome to attend the New Jersey State Bar Association’s annual Pro Bono Awards, dedicated to attorneys who show outstanding commitment to providing legal services to the state’s underserved residents. The awards will honor six individuals, firms and corporate legal departments who have gone above and beyond in their volunteerism to ensure fair representation under the law.