SIDEBAR: Outgoing Bay Ridge Lawyers Association President Lisa Becker
Lisa M. Becker is a Brooklyn-born attorney who currently resides in Staten Island with her husband Ralph Mercante and their two sons James and Mark Mercante. She went to Nazareth Regional High School before earning her bachelor’s degree at St. John’s University and her law degree at CUNY Law School at Queens College. The immediate past president of the Bay Ridge Lawyers Association, Becker has been working as an attorney for 20 years with a focus on employment and education law.
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