Saturday, December 27, 2014

A Raritan Icon Passes Away



This week, one of the best and most varied of legal minds, and a person of great personal integrity left his family and friends behind.

Although I knew Dan Soriano only professionally while I served on the Bridgewater-Raritan Board of Education, it was there that I became acquainted not merely with his all-encompassing skills as one of the most expert of legal minds in the field of education law, but also the integrity with which he exhibited and practiced those skills.

Dan did not simply advise the board and the administration on what it wanted to hear, but what it needed to hear.  I’ll always remember a case that he should have walked away from and which he did.  His judgment was impeccable.

That is a rare trait in an attorney and it is worth gold, yet it is one that money can’t buy.  He blessed the board with his character and advice for 30 years until 2005.

It is not unusual for small towns like Raritan to produce outstanding people.  Dan Soriano is one of them.

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