Area students receive $5,000 in the name of firm’s founding attorney Gerard Pellegrini
(Springfield, MA) Five area students recently were each awarded a $1,000.00 Gerard L. Pellegrini Scholarship to advance their education by the law firm that bears his name.
The Gerard L. Pellegrini Scholarship is an award that goes to a member of a local union affiliated with the Western MA Labor Federation or their spouses or dependents. Applicants were asked to submit their high school or college transcripts, written recommendations, a recital of their community service activities and an essay detailing the importance of the Labor Movement to their family.
“This has become a meaningful way for us to commemorate the commitment of the firm to families of organized labor,” said Charlie Casartello, Managing Partner at the law firm of Pellegrini, Seeley, Ryan and Blakesley. “We wanted a to recognize the importance of labor in our community and celebrate the contribution of Gerard L. Pellegrini. Gerard was a tireless advocate for worker’s rights and fought on behalf of injured workers for 50 years. As this is still our mission today we created this scholarship in his honor,” Casartello added.
Winners of this year’s awards are: Lauren Blanchette of Springfield, John Burns of East Longmeadow, Maya Crivelli of Springfield, Bryan Torres of Chicopee, and Claire Winston of South Deerfield.
Pellegrini, Seeley, Ryan and Blakesley is a law firm of more than fifteen lawyers who devote their practice to protecting the rights of injured persons.