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About the Authors

Daniel J. Siegel, Esq., Editor

Mr. Siegel is the principal of the Law Offices of Daniel J. Siegel, LLC, a general practice law firm in Havertown, Pennsylvania, where his practice focuses on providing professional guidance to law firms, representation be-fore disciplinary authorities, and appellate and trial court brief writing ser-vices. Mr. Siegel’s focus on ethics and professional responsibility has devel-oped from his service on various bar association committees, and from his experience transitioning his practice from a small personal injury firm to a mid-size mass tort firm, and then to his own firm, which is concentrated on ethics, professional responsibility, appellate advocacy, workers’ compensa-tion, and disability. In addition to authoring Changing Law Firms: Ethical Guidance for Pennsylvania Law Firms and Attorneys, Mr. Siegel has served on the Pennsylvania Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility since 1987 and is currently co-vice chair of the committee. He has also been an active member of the Philadelphia Bar Association Professional Guidance Committee since 1990. Mr. Siegel has served as a writer, lecturer, and course planner for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the American, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia Bar Associations, and the American, Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Associa-tions. He has authored numerous books, as well as the “Technology” and “Ethics” columns in The Philadelphia Lawyer, the quarterly magazine of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and “Tech Brief,” the technology column in Trial, the monthly magazine of the American Association for Justice (formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America). Mr. Siegel can be contacted at dan@danieljsiegel.com.

Ronald M. Agulnick, Esq.

Mr. Agulnick maintains his law office in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he practices in the fields of real estate, municipal law, and land use litigation. He received his B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1954, his J.D. from Temple University School of Law in 1960, and a master of science in transportation engineer-ing from Villanova University in 1984. He is an adjunct professor at Vill-anova University School of Law, where he teaches land use law. He has

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been named by Philadelphia magazine as one of Pennsylvania’s Super Lawyers practicing in the environmental and land use areas. Mr. Agulnick is a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature’s Joint State Gov-ernment Commission’s Advisory Committee on Real Property Law. He is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and served as vice chair of the Environmental and Land Use Committee. He is a mem-ber of the Legal Action Committee of the National Association of Home Builders, and a member of the Steering Committee of the NAHB LANDS Network, a nationwide network of land use attorneys. He has participated in the drafting and negotiation of important land use legislation including revisions to the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code. He has been a frequent lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and other profes-sional and educational associations.

Sara A. Austin, Esq.

Ms. Austin is a partner with Austin Law Firm LLC in York. She has served as a past president of the York County Bar Association, the Penn-sylvania Bar Institute, and the Middle District Bankruptcy Bar Associa-tion, and is a member of the York County, Pennsylvania, and American Bar Associations. She has also served on the board of governors for the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Before entering private practice, Ms. Aus-tin served as a law clerk to the Honorable Ross W. Krumm, United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Virginia. She received her J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law (College of William & Mary) and her B.A. from the University of Virginia. Ms. Austin also was named 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 Super Lawyer in the Corporate Counsel edi-tion of Super Lawyers magazine for employment and labor practice areas.

W. Steven Berman, Esq.

Mr. Berman is an associate at Napoli Shkolnik, PLLC, a nationally known plaintiff’s law firm headquartered in New York City. Mr. Berman is an ex-perienced litigator who manages the firm’s New Jersey office. His practice primarily focuses on the litigation of complex mass tort litigations involv-ing products liability, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, environmental issues, negligence, and class actions all over the country. Mr. Berman is lead counsel in many of the firm’s oil and gas cases filed in Pennsylvania.

Jerry B. Chariton, Esq.

Mr. Chariton is the senior partner in the Wilkes-Barre law firm of Chari-ton, Schwager & Malak. He is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, in which he chairs the Tax Issues Relevant to Trusts and Estates Subcommittee of the Fiduciary Litigation Committee. He maintains an active civil practice concentrating in estate planning and ad-

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ministration, taxation, real estate transactions, title insurance, general corporate and other business matters, and related litigation. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of The Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Law School, Mr. Chariton is admitted to practice before all Pennsylvania courts, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsyl-vania, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States Tax Court, the United States Court of Federal Claims, and the Supreme Court of the United States. A past assistant Luzerne County district attorney, Mr. Chariton is a member of the Luzerne County, Penn-sylvania, and American Bar Associations. He is a past chair of the Penn-sylvania Bar Association’s Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section and of its Probate and Trust Law Division. For many years, Mr. Chariton served as chair of the Estate Planning Committee in the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section. Before this chairmanship, he served as chair of that section’s Probate Procedures and Orphans’ Court Practice Committee. Mr. Chariton is a past chair of the American Bar Association Tax Section’s Small Firm Lawyers Committee. He currently serves as the chair of the Luzerne County Bar Association’s Orphans’ Court Rules Com-mittee and is a member of the Penn State University’s President’s Planned Giving Advisory Council. Mr. Chariton is a past president of the Estate Planning Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania. He is a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estates Counsel, in which he is a mem-ber of the Charitable Planning Committee and subcommittee chair of the Tax Controversies in Litigation of the Fiduciary Litigation Committee. He has been a licensed title insurance agent for more than 40 years. Pres-ently, he is co–vice chair of the PBA Gaming Law Committee and the PBA’s Charitable Organizations Committee, and is a member of the Shale Energy Law Committee. He has participated in numerous educational programs in the United States and abroad for the American Bar Associa-tion, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, and vari-ous nonprofit organizations. Mr. Chariton is one of the authors of PBI Press’s Estate Planning in Pennsylvania, and also has written for Experi-ence, the American Bar Association’s publication of its Senior Lawyers Division.

Tate J. Kunkle, Esq.

Mr. Kunkle is an associate in the Environmental Litigation Department of Napoli Shkolnik PLLC in New York City. His practice in state and federal courts focuses on plaintiff’s mass tort litigation, concentrating on helping people harmed by exposure to hazardous water and air contaminants. Mr. Kunkle attended Pace University School of Law, known for its world-renowned environmental law program. There he received his J.D. and LL.M. in environmental law. Mr. Kunkle has been recognized by his peers as a prominent attorney in the field of environmental law and has been

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named a Rising Star by the New York Super Lawyers directory in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. Mr. Kunkle was named a Top 100 Trial Law-yer by the National Trial Lawyers in 2013 and 2014, and one of the Top 40 Under 40 in the State of New York by the National Trial Lawyers in 2012, 2013, and 2014. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Environmental Trial Lawyers Association.

Evan R. Luce, Esq.

Mr. Luce is an associate with Fox Rothschild LLP, who focuses his prac-tice on a wide range of business matters. He received his B.A. from Rut-gers University and his J.D., cum laude, from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law. While in law school, he served as a judicial intern for the Honorable R. Barclay Surrick of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to his practice of law, he led sales teams for a Fortune 500 company and worked in executive recruiting for pharmaceutical, engineering, and software clients. Mr. Luce is a mem-ber of the Philadelphia Bar Association and the New Jersey State Bar As-sociation. He is admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern Dis-trict of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey and the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Jeffrey A. Marshall, Esq., CELA

Mr. Marshall is the founder of and currently serves of counsel with Mar-shall, Parker & Weber LLC, which has offices in Williamsport, Wilkes-Barre, Jersey Shore, and Scranton. His principal area of practice is elder law, including estate planning, long-term care planning, care manage-ment, and estate administration. Mr. Marshall has written and lectured extensively on elder law and elder care planning. He has been a contribut-ing author for editions of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Estate Plan-ning in Pennsylvania and Elder Law in Pennsylvania. His articles have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines, newsletters, and legal journals, and on his blog, Marshall Elder and Estate Planning Blog. He has been quoted on elder law issues by the Wall Street Journal, Time mag-azine, Kiplinger’s Retirement Report, and the Chicago Tribune. He can also be followed on Twitter: @ElderLawGuy. Mr. Marshall was the 2008 recipient of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Excellence in Elder Law Award. In 2011, he was the recipient of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys’ Outstanding State Chapter Member Award. He has been listed for many years in Best Lawyers in America and as a Super Lawyer in the field of elder law. In 2014, he was selected by US News Best Law-yers® as the Lawyer of the Year in elder law for the Harrisburg, Pennsyl-vania, metropolitan region. Mr. Marshall has served on the board of direc-tors of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Pennsylvania Alzheimer’s

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Association Public Policy Coalition, and numerous local organizations. He is past president of the Pennsylvania Association of Elder Law Attorneys and past chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Elder Law Commit-tee, and has served on the Council of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Elder Law Section. A native of Lock Haven, Mr. Marshall received his B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1967 and his law degree from Stanford University in 1972.

John R. Martin, Esq.

Mr. Martin is a partner in the firm of Pillar+Aught, in Harrisburg. His practice focuses on representing employers in all aspects of employment law and litigation, including gender, age, disability, and race discrimina-tion cases, wrongful discharge and breach-of-contract cases, wage cases, cases under the Family and Medical Leave Act, noncompete and breach of fiduciary duty injunctive relief cases, and unemployment compensation cases. Mr. Martin regularly represents employers in actions brought be-fore the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the Equal Employ-ment Opportunity Commission, and state and federal court. In addition to representing Pennsylvania-based businesses of all sizes, Mr. Martin has represented several national companies in connection with employment defense litigation. He is a frequent lecturer, giving presentations on a wide range of employment law topics such as social media, wage and hour issues, discrimination, and sexual harassment. In addition to providing clients with advice regarding employment issues on a day-to-day basis (handbook and policy review, questions regarding employee discipline, etc.), Mr. Martin trains human resource professionals, supervisors, and employees on a variety of employment-related topics. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and Dauphin County Bar Associations.

Timothy Murray, Esq.

Mr. Murray is a partner in the Pittsburgh firm of Murray, Hogue & Lan-nis. He updates the landmark contract law treatise Corbin on Contracts, is the co-author of Corbin on Contracts Desk Edition, and has written exten-sively for Lexis on contract law matters. He has updated numerous chap-ters in Lexis’s formbook series Current Legal Forms, including the chap-ters on sales, franchising, joint ventures, assignments, and others. He serves on the editorial advisory board for Lexis Practice Advisor Journal. Mr. Murray helped to rewrite the Pennsylvania suggested standard con-tract law jury instructions and has represented numerous businesses and individuals in all manner of contract transactional matters and disputes, including, among many others, General Motors Corporation, Bayer Corpo-ration, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Avery Dennison, Alcoa, Nissan North America, companies of the Marmon Group, Mazda Motors of America, General Reinsurance, Lanxess Corporation, TWA, Kawasaki Motors,

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Nova Chemicals, Renda Broadcasting, and Electrolux. Mr. Murray has lectured extensively on contract law. He has been a member of the Penn-sylvania bar since 1984, and is also admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, in 1981, and his J.D in 1984 from the University of Pittsburgh.

Matthew J. Parker, Esq., CELA

Mr. Parker is a principal of Marshall, Parker & Weber, LLC, with offices in Williamsport, Jersey Shore, Wilkes-Barre, and Scranton. His legal practice is focused on elder law, estate and special needs planning, and es-tate administration. Mr. Parker received his B.S. from the University of Pittsburgh and his J.D. from Penn State Dickinson School of Law. He is Certified as an Elder Law Attorney (CELA) by the National Elder Law Foundation under authorization from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He is also proud to represent veterans as a VA-accredited attorney for the preparation, presentation, and prosecution of claims for veterans benefits before the Department of Veterans Affairs. Mr. Parker gained national ac-claim when he won a landmark decision in the federal court case, James v. Richman. The case established specialized Medicaid annuities as a means of protecting the financial resources of married couples when one spouse needs nursing home care. His victory in this case has provided an addi-tional planning technique for thousands of seniors throughout Pennsylva-nia and other states. Mr. Parker has taught for the Pennsylvania Bar In-stitute and is a frequent speaker to consumer and professional groups on elder law issues, including guardianship and estate planning. He is also an author of chapters in PBI’s Estate Planning in Pennsylvania and Elder Law in Pennsylvania. Mr. Parker is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Elder Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar As-sociation, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Elder Law Attorneys.

Mary Ann Petrillo, Esq.

Ms. Petrillo has been a practicing attorney since 1983, with an office lo-cated in Irwin, Pennsylvania. She was awarded the 2011 and 2013 Trib-une Review Readers’ Choice Award Gold for Highest Ranked Attorney in Westmoreland County. Her practice emphasis includes adoption, estate planning, elder law, and estate administration. Ms. Petrillo was recog-nized as the 2009 recipient of a federal award entitled “Angels In Adop-tion” issued from the Congressional Coalition on Adoption, honoring her lifetime achievement as an advocate on behalf of children, especially those in foster care. Ms. Petrillo is a summa cum laude graduate of Mercyhurst College with degrees in sociology and law enforcement. Earning a J.D. in 1983 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Ms. Petrillo has

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been involved in the advocacy of children and the elderly for three dec-ades. She is a member of the board of directors of CASA of Westmoreland Inc. and serves as a volunteer member of the board of directors of Red-stone Highlands in furtherance of her interest in elder care. As an instruc-tor for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, and as a fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, Ms. Petrillo teaches continuing legal edu-cation for members of the legal profession. She is a member of the Norwin Chamber of Commerce, the Westmoreland County Bar Association, and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton parish. She is the former adoption department co-ordinator for the Allegheny County Orphans’ and Juvenile Courts.

Manny D. Pokotilow, Esq.

Mr. Pokotilow is senior counsel and a former managing partner of the in-tellectual property law firm of Caesar Rivise, PC, in Philadelphia. For more than 50 years, his practice has consisted of all aspects of intellectual property law, particularly litigation, involving the enforcement of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets. Mr. Pokotilow is now also fo-cusing his practice in alternative dispute resolution. He is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Poko-tilow has been lead intellectual property counsel in numerous landmark cases involving patents, trademarks, and copyrights. He has also medi-ated to conclusion high-profile cases and arbitrated complex cases. Mr. Pokotilow is a past chairman of the American Bar Association’s Propri-etary Rights in Software Committee of the Computer Law Division of the Section of Science and Technology. He is also one of the founders of the Al-ternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and has been a member of the panel of mediators since its inception. Mr. Pokotilow is a former mem-ber of the Mediation Panel of the International Trademark Association and past President of the Historical Society of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In 2015, he was elected President of the Jenkins Law Library, the country’s oldest law library. Mr. Pokotilow has received numerous awards and honors, including Best Law-yers Philadelphia’s Lawyer of the Year 2013 for trademark law, Lawyer of the Year 2012 for patent litigation, and Lawyer of the Year 2016 for intel-lectual property litigation; Managing Intellectual Property magazine’s 2013 Pennsylvania IP Litigator of the Year award; Chambers and Part-ner’s Star Rating from 2011 to 2015 and First Tier Rating from 2003 to 2010 in intellectual property; Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Top 10 List from 2011 to 2015 and Top 100 list from 2006 to 2016; the PBI Arthur Seidel Award in 2012; and the Philadelphia Intellectual Property Associa-tion’s Distinguished Intellectual Property Practitioner Award in 2015.

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Scott M. Pollins, Esq.

Mr. Pollins is the principal of Pollins Law in Swarthmore and Wayne. He represents employees who are facing challenging issues with their current or former employers. Mr. Pollins is a member of the executive board of the National Employment Lawyers Association and president of their Eastern Pennsylvania chapter. He is a former co-chair of the Plaintiffs’ Employment Panel for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Penn-sylvania. He is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Employ-ment Rights and Responsibilities Committee, the American and Pennsylva-nia Associations for Justice, the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association, and the Maryland Employment Lawyers Association. Mr. Pollins received his J.D. from Dickinson School of Law and his B.S. from Bucknell University. He has spoken on numerous occasions about em-ployment law issues, including employee handbooks, the FLSA, interaction of ADA/ERISA/FMLA, unpaid internships, and tax issues in employment cases.

A. Tereasa Rerko, Esq.

Ms. Rerko is a partner in the Greensburg, Pennsylvania, office of Quatrini Rafferty, P.C., and concentrates her practice in the area of social security disability. She has practiced law since 1984, and is a member of the West-moreland, Pennsylvania, and American Bar Associations and the Pennsyl-vania Trial Lawyers Association. She has consistently been listed in Who’s Who of American Lawyers every year since 1997. Ms. Rerko previously served on the board of directors of United Way of Southwestern PA and was a member of its Women’s Leadership Council, and served on the board of directors of accessAbilities, Inc., as vice president and chair of the Board Development Committee. She also served as a member of the board of directors for the accessAbilities Foundation, its sister agency. Ms. Rerko was involved with the former Girl Scout Council of Westmoreland for more than 17 years. Most recently she served two three-year terms as president of the board. She has also served as nominating committee chair and member at large of the board. As president, she initiated and finalized the council’s first strategic planning effort. Ms. Rerko has also served sev-eral terms on the board of directors of ParentWise of Westmoreland County and has been a member of the Zonta Club of Westmoreland. She has also been a member of the Executive Women of Westmoreland and previously served as chair of the Westmoreland County Commission for Women and Families, of which she continues to be a member. Ms. Rerko received her B.A. in political science, cum laude, from California Univer-sity of Pennsylvania in 1979 and her J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1984.

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Jonathan Samel, Esq.

Mr. Samel chairs the Business/Tax, Estates & Trusts, and Elder Law De-partments of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin, PC. For more than 30 years, he has successfully combined his practical experience in business law, estates, real estate law, and financing matters with a de-tailed technical knowledge of tax law to assist clients around the Dela-ware Valley. His practice focuses on structuring and implementing busi-ness transactions and tax planning for closely held businesses and individuals. His work includes assisting clients with all legal and tax as-pects of the formation and operation of various business entities, including proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies, and joint venture, and he regularly negotiates and structures the pur-chase and sale of businesses, including asset sales, stock sales, corporate reorganizations, and other similar arrangements. Mr. Samel has substan-tial experience in the area of estate and gift taxation and in drafting wills, trusts, and other agreements designed to preserve wealth and minimize taxes. He is also the chair of the firm’s Automobile Dealership Group, which assists automobile dealers with the acquisition and sale of dealer-ships, franchise litigation, succession planning, real estate law, environ-mental issues, employee relations, and other regulatory issues affecting automobile dealers. Mr. Samel was selected as a 2016 Top Attorney by Philadelphia Life magazine for estate planning and administration, elder law, and business law. He is a member and past chairman of the Corpora-tion, Banking and Business Law Committee of the Montgomery Bar Asso-ciation. He is also a member of the Probate, Estates and Trusts Commit-tee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and of the Montgomery County Estate Planning Council. He serves on the advisory board of the Delaware Valley Family Business Center. Mr. Samel received his undergraduate de-gree from the University of Rochester (B.A. 1974), and his law and mas-ter’s degree in tax law from Temple University (J.D. 1978, LL.M. 1990).

Hon. Lori K. Serratelli

Judge Serratelli earned her Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Vermont in 1975 and received her Juris Doctorate from Capital Univer-sity Law School in Columbus, Ohio, in 1978. She served on the Law Re-view and co-authored a comment on child support issues. After beginning a solo practice in 1978 in Harrisburg, emphasizing family law and employ-ment discrimination, her husband, Steven J. Schiffman, joined her in 1980 to form the partnership of Serratelli & Schiffman, which grew over the decades to Serratelli, Schiffman & Brown, PC, a 12-member law firm emphasizing a wide spectrum of civil law practices. Over her 38 years in private practice, Judge Serratelli litigated extensively in the area of fam-ily law in the county courts throughout Central Pennsylvania and in the area of employment discrimination in the three federal district courts. She

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has handled appeals to the Pennsylvania Superior and Supreme Courts and to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She is also admitted to the United States Supreme Court. Judge Serratelli has been involved in the Harrisburg community in a variety of charitable and advocacy nonprofit organizations. She currently serves on the board of PA CASA, the state-wide organization supporting Court Appointed Special Advocates for chil-dren who are abused or neglected. She served as a volunteer CASA in Cumberland County from 2010 until joining the PA CASA board in 2014. She received the 27th Annual YWCA Tribute to Women of Excellence Award on March 16, 2016, from the Greater Harrisburg YWCA recogniz-ing her lifetime commitment to end racism and work on behalf of women’s rights to legal, social, and economic equality. She has been committed to pro bono legal service throughout her legal career. During law school, she volunteered to represent indigent individuals seeking welfare assistance through the appeals process. Judge Serratelli has been committed to the mediation process to resolve disputes, saving parties from the high finan-cial and emotional cost of litigation. She worked in the ABA pilot project, the Night Prosecutor Program, at Capital University Law School, in which she mediated neighborhood disputes. Following law school, as an attor-ney, she was trained in mediating personal injury cases and successfully mediated those matters for several years. She is also a trained family law mediator. She served as a volunteer mediator for the Susquehanna Town-ship Human Rights Commission, after helping to draft the local human rights ordinance. As an attorney, she represented clients in numerous me-diations through the federal court and with private mediators. On June 13, 2016, Governor Wolf honored Judge Serratelli by nominating her to fill a vacancy on the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas. The nomina-tion was unanimously approved on a bipartisan basis by the Pennsylvania Senate. She was sworn in as judge on July 15, 2016, to serve an appoint-ment through January 1, 2018. Judge Serratelli serves in the Family Law Court, and hears Civil and Orphans’ Court matters, as well. She serves on the Self Help Center Committee, oversees the Hon. Todd A. Hoover Pro Bono Guardian Monitor Program, presides over Naturalization Court and is working on forming a steering committee to bring a CASA program to Dauphin County to train volunteer CASAs to assist the court on cases in-volving dependent children facing abuse or neglect.

Ronald J. Shaffer, Esq.

Mr. Shaffer is senior counsel with the firm of Fox Rothschild LLP, where he has served on the firm’s executive committee and is former chair of the Litigation Department. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1976 with a B.A. in political science and received his J.D. from Vill-anova University School of Law in 1980. Upon graduation, Mr. Shaffer served a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., Jus-

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tice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. In 1983, he joined Fox Roths-child LLP. Mr. Shaffer has represented clients in state and federal courts across the country, is adept at successfully managing client interests both in and out of a courtroom, and has significant experience in alternative dispute resolution. He has represented clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies with international operations in complex commercial disputes to family-owned businesses with regional operations. Mr. Shaffer handles a broad range of commercial litigation matters, including various types of intellectual property disputes, trade secrets, securities, and class actions, as well as corporate and shareholder disputes.

Todd J. Shill, Esq.

Mr. Shill is a partner in the firm of Pillar+Aught, in Harrisburg. His prac-tice focuses on representing employers in all aspects of employment law and litigation, including gender, age, disability, and race discrimination cases, wrongful discharge and breach-of-contract cases, wage cases, cases under the Family and Medical Leave Act, noncompete and breach of fidu-ciary duty injunctive relief cases, and unemployment compensation cases. Mr. Shill has served as a mediator in federal court litigation, and regu-larly represents employers before state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and many other states, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Bureau of Un-employment Compensation. In addition to representing medium- to large-sized Pennsylvania businesses, Mr. Shill has acted as lead litigation coun-sel to national companies such as Cingular Wireless, LLC, AT&T Wireless Services, Inc., AT&T Mobility, LLC, Securitas Security Services USA, Inc., T-Mobile USA, Inc., DirecTV, and McDonald’s Corp. Mr. Shill is also a frequent lecturer and regularly trains human resource and personnel managers, supervisors, and in-house counsel regarding employment-related topics. He has authored several articles for training purposes, and has been featured in Law360’s popular Employment Law newsletter and website. In addition to his employment and labor practice, Mr. Shill is a commercial litigator and, notably, is one of the founding members of the firm’s entertainment and sports practice group. He represents on-air TV and radio personalities, authors, screenwriters, film directors, and musi-cians. As part of his entertainment law work, Mr. Shill has acted as pro-duction attorney for independent films and regularly counsels both United States and international entertainment clients. He has appeared on Date-line NBC and has successfully negotiated and reviewed contracts with en-tertainment companies such as Fox, the Sundance Film Channel, FuseTV, NBC/Universal, and Cumulus Media.

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Timothy A. Shollenberger, Esq.

Mr. Shollenberger is the founder and senior partner of Shollenberger Jan-uzzi & Wolfe, LLP, of Enola. He graduated summa cum laude from Dick-inson College in 1978 and attained his J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law in 1981. He has been continuously licensed to practice law since Octo-ber 27, 1981. Mr. Shollenberger has been selected for admission into both the Million and Multi-Million Dollar Advocate Forums. He has attained a well earned reputation as a staunch advocate for his clients. He has tried personal injury cases to verdict in seven different counties and the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He has arbitrated many more cases in various counties across the Commonwealth. He has successfully handled major cases for injured motorists and motorcyclists, as well as people injured be-cause of medical malpractice and defective products. In his career, he has attained numerous six-figure settlements and in 2003, 2005, and 2011, seven-figure settlements on behalf of injured clients. He has developed a referral practice in which other attorneys who do not handle personal in-jury cases themselves refer those cases to him. Mr. Shollenberger has also attained statewide recognition for his work in educating other attorneys. He currently lectures for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute on personal in-jury law. Mr. Shollenberger has also served the legal community in other ways. For many years, he worked tirelessly for the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, serving as president from 2000 to 2001. The associa-tion bestowed upon him two of its most prestigious awards, the Milton D. Rosenberg Award for his leadership, work, and devotion to the association and the Community Service Award in recognition for his outstanding work in the community. Mr. Shollenberger is also active in the local com-munity. He has served on numerous committees for the local chapter of the American Heart Association and conducted mock trials in local ele-mentary schools to warn children of the perils of tobacco. For this latter work, he received a citation from the Pennsylvania House of Representa-tives and the Volunteer of the Year Award from the United Way Capital Region. Attorney Shollenberger is a member of the Pennsylvania, Cum-berland, and Dauphin County Bar Associations as well as the Pennsylva-nia and American Association for Justice.

Marc Robert Steinberg, Esq.

Mr. Steinberg has been the managing partner of Rubin, Glickman, Stein-berg & Gifford since 1980, and has been a member of the firm since 1976. He has been litigating civil and criminal cases in federal and state courts for over 44 years, and actively continues to do so. Mr. Steinberg is the only attorney in Bucks or Montgomery County certified as a Criminal Trial At-torney by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and recognized by the Su-preme Court of Pennsylvania. He graduated from Temple University School of Law in 1973, and holds an undergraduate degree from Pennsyl-

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vania State University. Mr. Steinberg is a former Montgomery County As-sistant District Attorney. He is past president of the Montgomery Trial Lawyers Association and the Montgomery American Inn of Court, which he helped organize and start. He is past president of the Montgomery Bar Association, the Montgomery Bar Foundation, and the Montgomery County Trial Lawyers Association. He sat as a director of the Pennsylva-nia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (PACDL). He completed six years as a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee, the last year as chairman. Since 1997, he has served as a civil discovery master for the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. He is a co-founder of the Criminal Defense Law Commit-tee of the Montgomery Bar Association and served as chairman or co-chairman from 1988 until 1996. Mr. Steinberg sits on the House of Dele-gates of the Pennsylvania Bar Association from Zone 9. He is a frequent lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the Montgomery Bar As-sociation in criminal and civil areas. For 25 years, he taught trial advo-cacy at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University. Mr. Steinberg served as a committee member on the Pennsylvania Joint State Govern-ment Commission Advisory Committee on Wrongful Convictions. He is the immediate past president of the board of directors of the Montgomery Child Advocacy Project (MCAP), a nonprofit corporation that provides free legal services to abused and neglected children involved in court cases, which he helped start in 1999. In 2005, he was named the Trial Lawyer of the Year by the Montgomery Trial Lawyers Association. Since 2004, Mr. Steinberg has been named one of Pennsylvania’s “Super Lawyers” by a poll of his peers as published in Philadelphia magazine, and he has been named as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. From 2010 to 2017, he was named a “Best Lawyer in America” as pub-lished in Philadelphia magazine by The Best Lawyers in America, and also named a Best Lawyer by U.S. News and World Report from 2010 to 2017. He was named a Top 10 Criminal Defense Attorney in the Common-wealth of Pennsylvania by the National Academy of Criminal Defense At-torneys. Mr. Steinberg also enjoys the prestigious “AV” rating from Mar-tindale-Hubbell.

Thomas D. Sutton, Esq.

Mr. Sutton is a past president and current member of the board of direc-tors of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Represen-tatives (NOSSCR). He has represented thousands of individual disability claimants, and served as co-counsel in the United States Supreme Court case, Sullivan v. Zebley, 493 U.S. 521 (1990), a successful nationwide class action on behalf of over 400,000 disabled children. Mr. Sutton has success-fully litigated hundreds of cases in the federal courts, including preceden-tial opinions from the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

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in Ramirez v. Barnhart, 372 F.3d 546 (3d Cir. 2004), Markle v. Barnhart, 324 F.3d 182 (3d Cir. 2003), and Walton v. Halter, 243 F.3d 703 (3d Cir. 2001). He has lectured extensively on disability law throughout the United States, has testified before congressional committees, and has served as a faculty member for numerous seminars sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the United States District Court for the East-ern District of Pennsylvania, and several state bar associations. He serves on the board of directors for the Education Law Center of Pennsylvania and the Sjogren’s Syndrome Foundation. Mr. Sutton is a graduate of Hav-erford College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Adam T. Wolfe, Esq.

Mr. Wolfe is the managing partner of Shollenberger Januzzi & Wolfe, LLP in Enola. He provides aggressive and diligent representation to clients in-volved in a number of different types of injury and disability cases, includ-ing automobile accident cases, motorcycle accident cases, slip and fall cases, and social security and long-term disability cases. Mr. Wolfe re-ceived his B.A. from York College in 2002 and his J.D. from Widener Uni-versity School of Law in 2005. While at Widener, he served as an academic fellow and as a senior staff member of the Widener Law Journal (Law Re-view). For the past seven consecutive years, Mr. Wolfe has been selected by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters company, and Philadelphia maga-zine as a Rising Star. The Rising Star distinction is awarded to only 2.5 percent of all Pennsylvania lawyers each year and recognizes the top lawyers in Pennsylvania under the age of 40 and/or who have been in practice less than 10 years. Mr. Wolfe was also named a 2014 Select Law-yer by Susquehanna Style magazine and a 2015 Local Legal Leader by Harrisburg magazine. Mr. Wolfe is a frequent lecturer for the Pennsylva-nia Bar Institute and the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (formerly the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association), of which he is a member of the board of governors. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania, Dauphin County, and Cumberland County Bar Associations, as well as the Ameri-can Bar Association and the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives (NOSSCR). He is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and the United States District Courts for the Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania.

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