Flaster Greenberg is excited to announce the recipients of our 2026 Laura B. Wallenstein Memorial Scholarship in partnership with Rutgers University Law School – Camden. The scholarship is awarded to first- and second-year law students attending Rutgers University School of Law – Camden, who embody longtime Flaster Greenberg shareholder, Laura B. Wallenstein’s, passion for excellence in law and who share her ambition for the advancement of women in the legal profession.
Rutgers Law Students Tiffany Giang and Nicole Lema were each awarded $2,500 to help offset the cost of law school tuition. These magnificent women law students embody Laura Wallenstein’s interest in law, leadership, or entrepreneurship. This initiative, which honors Wallenstein’s memory, is part of Flaster Greenberg’s ongoing commitment to supporting the next generation of women in law as they pursue meaningful careers and help shape the future of the profession.
Tiffany Giang is a current 2L at Rutgers Law School. During her time at Rutgers, she has been actively involved in the Minority Student Program (MSP), where she served as an MSP Teaching Fellow. She has also served as secretary and now co-president of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA). Tiffany is a staff editor for the Rutgers Camden Law Review and a member of the Hunter Moot Court. She externed with Justice John J. Hoffman in Fall 2025 and will extern with Judge Edward Keil in Fall 2026. During her 1L year, Tiffany was a Philadelphia Diversity Law Group Fellow at Independence Blue Cross.
Nicole Lema is a New Jersey native and a first-generation law student at Rutgers Law School. Prior to law school, she pursued a career in human resources, specializing in people operations in the tech industry. At Rutgers, she is actively involved as co-president of ALIANZA, the Latino law society, an active member in the Minority Student Program, and the ABA’s Employment Law Section Student Liaison.
Sy Nicholson, Director of Development, Rutgers University, Rutgers Law School, Rutgers Law School Foundation; Rhasheda Douglas, Assistant Dean, Director of the Minority Student Program, Rutgers Law School; Scholarship Recipients Nicole Lema and Tiffany Giang; Mariel Giletto, Business & Corporate Law Shareholder & Immediate Past Chair of DEI Committee, Flaster Greenberg; Karen Roberts, Chief People Officer, Flaster Greenberg
Laura B. Wallenstein, a 1977 graduate of Rutgers Law School, was the first woman to ever hold the position of shareholder at Flaster Greenberg. She passed away in September of 2022 at the age of 77.
An accomplished and trailblazing attorney, Wallenstein joined Flaster Greenberg in 1980 and became an equity shareholder after just five years, when only ten percent of the partners at law firms were women. She was a name shareholder of the firm, until it was abbreviated to Flaster Greenberg PC in 1999. Wallenstein was a champion for women’s causes and regularly mentored younger female attorneys. Early on, she helped spearhead and develop an internal women’s group where the women lawyers would gather to support, learn from, and share with each other. This has since been formalized as the firm’s internal Women’s Initiative Committee, which continues to support the professional development and work-life balance of the firm’s women attorneys. Wallenstein concentrated the entirety of her legal practice in corporate, business, tax planning, and family wealth transfers. She also practiced in health care law. She was known within the firm as the unofficial head of its Trusts & Estates Practice and was the architect and draftsperson for most of the estate planning documents the firm uses to this day. She also served on the firm’s management committee and was regarded by all who knew her as one of the leaders of the firm. She retired in 2016.
While attending Rutgers Law School, Wallenstein was an editor of the Law Review and upon graduation was the valedictorian of her class. She also was a 1966 graduate of Smith College with a degree in mathematics and earned her LLM in Taxation from NYU in 1981.
