Media Mentions

"Walking the halls of his high school in Hawthorne, Derek Demeri knew he wasn’t like the other kids. 'I faced a lot of challenges coming out in high school,' he said. While some teens at that time might have hid or tried to blend in to avoid conflict and confrontation, Demeri turned his struggle into action by founding the school’s gay-straight alliance. . . . " Read the full article : https://outinjersey.net/q-law-creates-a-space-for-lgbtq-legal-professionals/

New Jersey’s LGBTQ+ bar association — which refers to itself as Q Law — formally launched in late October and hosted its first meet-and-greet happy hour in Collingswood just a few days later. But even though the organization is brand new, its journey didn’t just begin. Read the full article : https://epgn.com/2025/11/11/q-law-launches-as-new-jerseys-lgbtq-bar-association/

“From that moment, I decided, as well as a few others, that the time was right to form our own independent bar association so that we could address the issues that we believe needed to be addressed, and could collaborate with the state bar moving forward on ways that we can collaborate,” [Q Law President Derek] Demeri said. To read the full article, visit https://www.law.com/njlawjournal/2025/11/03/desire-for-community-and-lgbtq-advocacy-spur-founding-of-q-law-nj-inc-/?slretu

A new LGBTQ+ affinity bar association for New Jersey - Q Law - has launched, seeking to create a community for LGBTQ+ lawyers and carry on a history of legal advocacy for gay rights in the Garden State. To read the full article, visit https://www.law360.com/articles/2406864/nj-bar-group-starts-as-independent-voice-for-lgbtq-attys .