September 2007 - Philadelphia Bar Association

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Philadelphia
2007
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The Monthly newspaper of the Philadelphia Bar Association
Vol. 36, no. 9
September 2007
Bylaw Vote
Set for Oct.
Quarterly
Photo by Jeff Lyons
n By Jeff Lyons
Lynn A. Marks (center) meets with Women in the Profession Committee Co-Chairs Maria A. Feeley (left) and Roberta
D. Liebenberg after learning she was the recipient of the 2007 Sandra Day o’Connor Award.
Marks to Receive O’Connor Award;
Temple's Hart to Address Members
n By Jeff Lyons
Lynn A. Marks, a champion for
court reform in Pennsylvania, has been
named recipient of the Philadelphia
Bar Association’s 2007 Sandra Day
O’Connor Award.
The award is conferred annually on a
woman attorney who has demonstrated
superior legal talent, achieved significant legal accomplishments and has
furthered the advancement of women
in both the profession and the community. The award presentation will be
made during the Association’s Quarterly Meeting and Luncheon on Tuesday,
Oct. 16 at the Philadelphia Marriott
Downtown. Ann Weaver Hart, the first
woman president of Temple University,
will be the keynote speaker at the event.
“Lynn has spent her entire career
fighting for justice for individuals who,
without her efforts, would have no
voice,” wrote former Chancellors Robert C. Heim and Bennett G. Picker,
who nominated Marks, along with
Shira Goodman.
“She has fought for women who
The Board of GoVernors has approved for submission to the members
changes to the Association’s bylaws that
will be voted upon by the members at the
Oct. 16 Quarterly Meeting and Luncheon.
The changes involve the administration of official Bar Association publications; the composition of the Board of
Governors; the quorum necessary for the
Board of Governors; an expansion in the
methods of communication to the Cabinet and the Board of Governors; as well as
the removal of the 100-mile limit for law
professors to be eligible to be members of
the Association. The action came at the
Board’s July 26 meeting.
The publications proposed bylaw
continued on page 16
were abused or raped; she has fought
tirelessly for court reform; and she has
fought to make our profession and our
justice system free of bias. Her vision,
commitment and advocacy have furthered the important goals of ensuring
social justice and promoting equal
opportunities for everyone.”
Marks has served as executive director of Pennsylvanians for Modern
Courts since 1990. PMC is a statewide
nonprofit organization working to
improve the administration of justice
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Advisory Editors
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Molly Peckman, Esq.
Marc W. Reuben, Esq.
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Executive Director
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Protect Civil Rights for Everyone
in Nation’s War on Terrorism
As the battle to preVent terrorist
violence continues, the importance of
preserving constitutional liberties grows
even more critical.
While most of us understand the
necessity for broad intelligence gathering to prevent acts of terrorism, we must
not sacrifice the very civil liberties we are
fighting to protect in the ongoing struggle
against those who would do us harm.
Early last month, Congress amended
the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,
greatly broadening the power of government agents to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens
without judicial oversight. The law expires
in six months, unless Congress renews it.
The administration has said the
measure is needed to speed the National
Security Agency’s ability to intercept,
without warrants, telephone calls, e-mails
and other communications involving
foreign nationals reasonably believed to
be outside the United States, provided
that “foreign intelligence information” is
at stake.
Civil liberties groups say it goes too
reptitiously bypassed judges and decided
far, because it enables the government to
on their own to tap phones and invade
wiretap U.S. residents communicating
homes, abuses have occurred,” she said.
with overseas parties without adequate
The Philadelphia Bar Association, like
oversight from the courts or Congress.
the ABA, is deeply concerned that in
At the American Bar
passing revisions to the
Association’s Annual
FISA, Congress allowed
By Jane Dalton
Meeting in August, the
a great expansion of the
ABA called on Congress
warrantless surveillance
to scrap this law expandof American citizens,
ing the government’s
without adequate
power to eavesdrop on
checks and balances to
U.S. citizens. ABA Presiprevent invasions of
dent Karen J. Mathis
privacy. Privacy is a conreiterated the associcept deeply relished and
ation’s longstanding
easily understood. We do
position that “we must
not expect Big Brother,
protect our citizens, but
in the name of national
at the same time protect
security, to eavesdrop
our liberties.” Mathis urged Congress
on our private communications without
to restore adequate judicial review of
our knowledge and with no independent
eavesdropping cases when it returns from
review.
recess this month.
A vital role of our Bar Association and
“History demonstrates time and again
for each of us as lawyers is to educate the
that when government agents have surcontinued on page 19
CLE Program on Success for Women Sept. 18
The Women in the Profession Committee and Flex-Time Lawyers LLC will
host a seminar “Successful Interviewing
and Beyond: Learning to Effectively
Navigate Your Way as a Woman Lawyer
to Ensure Success” on Tuesday, Sept. 18
at 4 p.m. at The CLE Conference Center
on the 10th floor of the Wanamaker
Building.
This program will offer discussions
of how women law students and practitioners can develop the skills to succeed
and how employers can achieve more
diversity. The first panel will discuss how
women law students can select a womanfriendly employer and how practitioners
and employers can create and ensure
more gender diversity. The second panel
will share interview tips and information
about what employers want. It will also
uncover how women practitioners successfully conduct themselves professionally and navigate their way in the profession. A cocktail reception will follow.
The first panel, “The Cheat Sheet:
Strategies to Select, Create & Ensure a
Woman-Friendly Employer,” which is
available for one ethics credit of CLE, in-
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cludes Deborah Epstein Henry (moderator), founder and president, of Flex-Time
Lawyers LLC, and of counsel, Schnader,
Harrison, Segal & Lewis; Heather Harrington, an associate with Wilson, Elser,
Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, LLP;
Linda Dale Hoffa, assistant U.S. attorney,
assistant chief, Criminal Division, Eastern
District of Pennsylvania; Roberta D.
Liebenberg, a partner with Fine, Kaplan
and Black, R.P.C.; and Elaine Petrossian,
assistant dean for career strategy and advancement, Villanova University School
of Law.
The second panel, “Interviewing Tips
to Learn What Employers Want and
Proven Methods on How to Conduct
Yourself Professionally,” includes Kathleen
D. Wilkinson, a partner with Wilson,
Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker
LLP; Sarah E. Davies, hiring partner with
Cozen O’Connor; Katherine Hatton,
vice president, general counsel and secretary, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation;
For additional information or to
register for the Sept. 18 program,
visit pbi.org.
Sunah Park, a partner with Thorp Reed
& Armstrong, LLP; Molly Peckman, special counsel and director of professional
development at Pepper Hamilton LLP;
and Peggy Simoncini Pasquay, manager
of attorney recruitment and relations,
Duane Morris LLP.
Participants wishing to receive the
CLE credit will be required to pay a fee of
$25 for members of the Philadelphia Bar
Association admitted for more than five
years, and $20 for members of the Philadelphia Bar Association admitted for less
than five years. Visit pbi.org or call PBI
at 1-800-932-4637 to register. To attend
the program and reception without CLE
credit, contact Dawn Burger at 215-2386367 or dburger@philabar.org.
Sponsors include Pennsylvania Bar
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School Of Law.
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civil rights committee
Group Keeps Eye on Human Rights in Mexico
Why should what happens in MeXico - let alone Oaxaca, Mexico - matter?
That may have been a question for some
when they learned that Peter Bloom,
executive director of JUNTOS, an organization that advocates for the Latino
immigrant community, was speaking at
the Aug. 2 meeting of the Civil Rights
Committee. The answer splits into a
practical part created by physical and
economic realities, and an idealistic part
that flows from our professed principles
- sometimes adhered to and sometimes
ignored.
Mexico and the United States have
been intertwined from the beginning.
The continental U.S. would be significantly smaller and natural resource poorer
were it not for the taking of almost half
of Mexico after it lost a mid-19th century
war with its North American neighbor.
The peoples are closely and probably
permanently intertwined. Millions from
the U.S. visit Mexico. Many have moved
there and many have retired there. Tens
of millions of Mexicans and Mexican
descendents live in the United States,
thousands in the Philadelphia Area, many
of them from Oaxaca. Millions of people
and billions of dollars crisscross the border annually.
We should also care about Mexico
because the best of our nation in the best
of times has opposed human rights violations the world over. Our zeal sometimes
wanes with the nearness of the violations,
and with the exception of problems in the
U.S. itself, no problems are closer than
Mexico’s.
Bloom explained that Mexico is
experiencing crisis. In addition to the toofamiliar economic problems that seem to
In addition to the toofamiliar economic
problems that seem
to grow acute every
other decade, Mexico
has been rocked by
the well-publicized - if
now largely forgotten
in the U.S. - Zapotista
Revolution that began
in the early 1990s.
grow acute every other decade, it has been
rocked by the globally well-publicized
- if now largely forgotten in the U.S.Zapotista Revolution that began in the
early 1990s. More recently, Mexico has
been convulsed by non-violent popular
movements following a mining disaster;
a sharply contested, allegedly stolen 2006
presidential election; and several major
land seizures by the government. These
popular movements have been met with
massive government force in the form of
militarized police.
Oaxaca is the latest and largest example. Sparked by a 2006 teachers strike,
estimates are that more than 20 strikers
and activists have been killed by police, as
well as an American freelance journalist
whose photographed murder caught the
attention of the world media for a day.
Hundreds of activists have disappeared
without legal process, hopefully to jails,
the alternative being so much worse.
Bloom pointed out that notwithstanding its razor-thin victory (or loss and
Photo by Jeff Lyons
n By Michael J. Carroll
Peter Bloom, executive director of JUnToS, said the people of oaxaca, Mexico
are suffering from both political and economic turmoil.
electoral theft) in the 2006 presidential
election, the ruling PAN party government continues to play to its narrow
base and makes no attempt to broaden
it. Some analysis holds that Mexico may
be heading toward a tipping point where
non-violent political movements will be
displaced or absorbed by the small, but
potentially growing armed revolution-
ary groups that exist in various parts of
Mexico. Should that happen, many in
the U.S. will be interested in our neighbor and the answer to the question why
Mexico matters will become more clear.
Michael J. Carroll, an attorney with Community Legal Services, is co-chair of the Civil
Rights Committee.
Photo by Polly W. Coxe
public interest
reception
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Chancellor-Elect A. Michael Pratt
(from left) is joined by Maureen olives,
director of public interest programs
at Temple University Beasley School
of Law; Public interest Section Chair
Cindy Rosenthal and Joseph A. Sullivan, co-chair of the Delivery of Legal
Services Committee, at a reception for
law students working in public interest
jobs on July 26. The event was held at
Pepper hamilton LLP.
philadelphiabar.org
YLD Update
Attorneys to Rock Lawyerpalooza on Oct. 25
n By Stephanie J. Mensing
For those about to rock, the Young
Lawyers Division salutes you.
The YLD will host its first-ever Lawyerpalooza concert event on Thursday,
Oct. 25 at Kildare’s at 2nd and South
streets from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. Tickets
are $10 and include drinks and food.
So what exactly is Lawyerpalooza?
Simply put, it’s a concert featuring bands
made up of Philadelphia lawyers of all
ages. While new to Philadelphia, Lawyerpalooza is popular with the Seattle legal
community, which recently hosted its
fifth annual Lawyerpalooza. After hearing
about Lawyerpalooza’s success in Seattle,
Alan Nochumson, Chair of the Young
Lawyers Division, suggested a similar
event for the Philadelphia Bar Association.
“I thought it would be great to try
something outside the box for a YLD
event. Everyone loves music and we seem
to have many lawyers who are passionate
not only about the law, but about playing
music,” said Nochumson.
Although this is our first year, Philadelphia’s Lawyerpalooza is attracting quite a
bit of attention. Numerous Philadelphia
lawyers, as well as lawyers in New Jersey,
have expressed interest.
“This is a great event for the Philadelphia Bar. First, it’s great for the band
members and their professional colleagues
to share in a fun non-law experience,
and to be able to get to know each other
in a non-adversarial setting, which I
think helps increase the civility within
the profession as well as enjoyment in its
practice,” said Jessica Birk, an associate
at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker &
Rhoads, LLP, who will be performing at
Lawyerpalooza.
“But an event like Lawyerpalooza
is also great for clients and others in the
community who may otherwise have
a very one-dimensional view of what
a ‘lawyer’ must be like. Lawyers are so
often portrayed in the media as humor-
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less buzz-kills, or interested only in being
combative, that I think it’s important
to show the community that lawyers are
approachable people with creative and
gregarious sides as well,” Birk said.
The Lawyerpalooza planning committee has put together an interesting lineup, made up of Philadelphia lawyers playing various styles of music. Some of the
bands confirmed include A Band Called
M, Class Action, and Pray for Mojo.
Formed in 2004, A Band Called M
is a rock-n-roll cover band that features
Montgomery McCracken lawyers playing
classic southern rock, traditional rock,
and contemporary rock hits. For Lawyerpalooza, they will feature a special line-up
with its female members on lead vocals
and plenty of three-part vocal harmonies.
Class Action, comprised primarily of
legal minds from Marshall, Dennehey,
Visit philadelphiabar.org to purchase
tickets for Lawyerpalooza on Thursday, oct. 25 at Kildare’s.
Warner, Coleman & Goggin, play rockn-roll hits at various local bars and at
private events.
Joe Schwartz, an employment lawyer,
and Aaron Gorodetzer, an associate at
March, Hurwitz and DeMarco, of Pray
for Mojo, will perform acoustic versions
of fan favorites. Pray for Mojo won the
2004 Philadelphia City Paper’s Reader’s
Choice award for best local band. Other
performers at Lawyerpalooza include
Brad Shuttleworth (Shuttleworth Law,
LLC), Lev Kalman (Blank Rome LLP),
Matthew Hoffman (Duane Morris LLP),
and Jim Wells (Haines & Associates).
Stephanie J. Mensing, a partner at Wisniewski
& Mensing, LLP, is a member of the Young
Lawyers Division Executive Committee. If
your band is interested in playing at Lawyerpalooza, e-mail smensing@wm-law.net.
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Bar Foundation
Law Firms Making a Difference in Philadelphia
It’s time to step up
Our legal service
year’s Raising the Bar Campaign, our
with an allocation of how you would like
By Elaine Rinaldi
to the plate in support
agencies work every
legal service agencies are still only able to
your pledge to be distributed; or 3) direct
of the Raising the Bar
day to make the lives
provide counsel to 20 percent of those in
contribution to one of our legal services
Campaign. We need
of those less fortunate
need. At a time when law firm revenue
agencies. Contact Maureen Mingey at
the financial support of
better and do so at great
per lawyer and profits per partner are
the Bar Foundation at 215-238-6334 to
every law firm to ensure
personal sacrifice. Unlike
soaring, financial support of our legal
make your pledge today.
that Philadelphia is a
lawyers in private law
service agencies has not measurably imAs Winston Churchill once said, “We
place where everyone has
firms, our legal service
proved. We must band together to make
make a living by what we get, we make
access to justice.
agency lawyers make
access to justice a reality.
a life by what we give.” The Philadelphia
So far, 74 law firms
significantly less in
If your firm is not already on the list
Bar Foundation asks you to give and we
have pledged to make a
salary notwithstanding
below, talk to your partners today and
accept with heartfelt thanks and gratifinancial contribution
substantial law school
make the commitment for 2007. You
tude.
to the Philadelphia Bar
debt. If they can commit
can contribute in any of three ways: 1) a
Foundation and our legal service agencies
their lives to serving those less fortunate
donation to the Bar Foundation for its
Elaine Rinaldi, a partner at Cozen O’Connor,
in an amount of at least $300 per lawyer.
in our community, we in the private secgeneral grantmaking fund; 2) a donais president of the Philadelphia Bar FoundaLast year we had 133 law firms support
tor should help raise the bar on financial
tion to the Philadelphia Bar Foundation,
tion.
the Raising the Bar Campaign. So much
giving and ensure that these dedicated
remains to be done to reach our goal.
lawyers can continue to serve more of the
To join the Access to Justice CamThe firms listed below have recommitted
disadvantaged and make our community
paign, visit philadelphiabar.org and
significant financial resources in support
a better one.
click on the Bar Foundation’s page.
of the Raising the Bar Campaign. If your
Even with increased giving from last
firm is not listed below, please contact us
and provide us with your urgently needed
support for this critical fundraising campaign. We need every law firm and corporate legal department to support this
Editor’s note: List complete as of Aug. 22, 2007.
Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C.
Abrahams, Loewenstein & Bushman, P.C.
Kovler and Rush, P.C.
campaign in order to ensure that those in
Archer
&
Greiner,
P
.C.
Layser & Freiwald, P.C.
need of legal services get them.
Ballard
Spahr
Andrews
&
Ingersoll,
LLP
Levy, Angstreich, Finney, Baldante, Rubenstein & Coren, P.C.
If you have read my articles this past
Berger
&
Montague,
P
.C.
Lindy & Associates, P.C.
year, you have noted countless stories of
Blank
Rome
LLP
Littler Mendelson P.C.
the successes achieved by our legal service
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Margolis Edelstein
agencies in Philadelphia - the victims
Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.
Marks, O’Neill, O’Brien & Courtney, P.C.
of domestic abuse aided by the lawyers
Law Office of Jeffrey Campolongo
Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin
at the Women’s Law Project; successful
Chimicles & Tikellis LLP
Martin, Banks, Pond, Lehocky & Wilson
Chapter 7 bankruptcies filed by the ConThe Law Offices of Lenard A. Cohen, P.C.
Anne S. Maxwell, Esquire, P.C.
sumer Bankruptcy Assistance Project on
Conrad O’Brien Gellman & Rohn, P.C.
McCarter & English, LLP
behalf of the elderly; Community Legal
Cozen O’Connor
Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP
Services’ continual efforts to fight predaDechert LLP
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Dilworth Paxson LLP
Pansini & Mezrow
tory lending and much more.
Donovan Searles, LLC
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Larry Pitt & Associates, P.C.
Duane Morris LLP
Post & Schell, P.C.
Duffy & Keenan
Raynes McCarty
Law Offices of Sharon M. Erwin, L.L.C.
Reed Smith LLP
Feldman & Pinto, P.C.
Ross Feller and Casey
The Philadelphia Bar Foundation
Feldman, Shepherd, Wohlgelernter, Tanner & Weinstock
Law Office of Jeffrey S. Saltz, P.C.
is pleased to announce that applications
Flaster/Greenberg P.C.
Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky, P.C.
are now being accepted for the Morris M.
Fox Rothschild LLP
Sandals & Associates, P.C.
Shuster Public Interest Fellowship ProGay, Chacker & Mittin, P.C.
Saul Ewing LLP
gram, established in 2003 as a result of a
Gibbons P.C.
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
generous donation by Morris M. Shuster
Paul J. Giordano, P.C.
Seidel Weitz Garfinkle & Datz, LLC
Sidney L. Gold & Associates, P.C.
Shrager, Spivey and Sachs
to the Bar Foundation.
Haines
&
Associates
Law Offices of David T. Shulick
This program is intended to assist pubHangley
Aronchick
Segal
&
Pudlin
Howard M. Soloman, Esq.
lic interest lawyers who face large student
Harkins
Cunningham
LLP
Volpe and Koenig, P.C.
loan obligations that threaten their ongoPeter
Hearn,
PC
The Weinstein Firm
ing service as public interest attorneys.
Hoyle, Fickler, Herschel & Mathes LLP
Weinstein Schleifer and Kupersmith P.C.
To be eligible for the Shuster FellowJosel & Feenane, P.C.
White and Williams LLP
ships, an applicant must be a full-time
Kirschner & Gartrell, P.C.
Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen LLP
lawyer employed at a qualifying organizaKleinbard Bell & Brecker LLP
Woodcock Washburn LLP
tion, who is financially eligible and has
Klevan & Abramowitz, P.C.
Zarwin, Baum, DeVito, Kaplan, Schaer & Toddy, P.C.
completed the requisite number of years
Kline & Specter, P.C.
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‘Chambermaid’
Author Touts
Her First Novel
Bar Foundation Seeks
Nominees for Awards
n By Sapna K. Anderson
The Philadelphia Bar Foundation
is requesting nominations for the Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award and the
Citizens Bank Pro Bono Award. The
Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award
recognizes attorneys working in the nonprofit legal services community.
Past recipients of the Bar Foundation
Award are Frank Cervone of the Support Center for Child Advocates (2005)
and Prof. Louis Rulli of the University of
Pennsylvania Law School (2006).
Prior to presentation of the Bar Foundation Award in 2005, the Apothaker
Award went to non-lawyers. Those recipients included Maurice Fagan; Women
Organized Against Rape; Spencer Cox;
Northwest Interfaith Movement; Dr.
Carter Zeleznik; Women Against Abuse;
Max Weiner; John Guinther; Bennie
Swans; Sister Mary Scullion; Frankford
Human Relations Coalition; Abraxas;
Philadelphia Citizens for Children and
Youth; Parkway South Community
Group; Mediation Program at Good
Shepherd; House of Umoja; Joseph Peters
Institute; Hospitality House; Operation
When Saira Rao graduated from
the New York University School of Law
five years ago, and began a prestigious
clerkship on the Third Circuit Court of
Appeals in Philadelphia, she could not
have predicted that the experience would
transform her into a controversial author.
But the novelist appears ready and
willing to take on the challenges of this
role. Rao met with members of the South
Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia
on Aug. 2 to promote her debut effort,
Chambermaid, a behind-the-scenes account of a young law graduate and her
eye-opening stint as a federal law clerk.
Rao spoke about her legal experience,
the impetus for her book, and the subsequent attention it has garnered. Rao then
opened the floor to questions.
Chambermaid follows the experiences
of Sheila Raj, an idealistic graduate of a
top-10 law school who secures a plum
clerkship with a legal legend. Raj’s hopes
sink, however, when she discovers that
the legal legend in question, Judge Helga
Friedman, is a nightmarish and oppressive
“sociopath” of a boss. The character of
Helga Friedman has prompted quite visceral reactions amongst the legal community, particularly in Philadelphia. Much
of this reaction stems from the inevitable
parallels drawn between Rao’s Friedman,
and her former boss, Judge Dolores K.
Sloviter of the Third Circuit, for whom
Rao clerked.
The fact that the novel, published by
Grove Press, is set in Philadelphia only
Saira Rao
heightens the belief among critics that the
novel is a vindictive attempt to lampoon
the former chief judge. During her appearance at the SABA-Philadelphia event,
Rao did not comment on her intentions
in this regard, and strongly rejected any
suggestion that the novel should have
been set anywhere else. Rao insisted
that the backdrop of Philadelphia was
necessary because both the story and its
characters were intimately tied to the city.
Given this, the white-hot buzz that
the book created after its recent release
was not completely unexpected to Rao.
“I knew that it might be scandalous,” she
said of the novel, which, she acknowledged, was born out of her discomfort
with the consequences of a federal judicial
system that places so much power in
the hands of unaccountable judges with
lifetime appointments. But, ultimately,
Rao thinks that the novel helps shine a
spotlight on the federal judiciary, its “lack
of transparency,” and the personalities
who occupy the chambers of America’s
federal courthouses. “I have to believe
that’s a good thing,” she said.
Understanding; Philadelphia Unemployment Project; St. Francis De Sales
Peace Program; Gloria Guard; National
Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered
Women; and Action Alliance for Senior
Citizens.
The Citizens Bank Award recognizes
achievement in pro bono legal service,
whether by a law firm or by a corporate
law department.
Past winners of the Citizens Bank
Award include Geanne K. Zelkowitz,
Madeline M. Sherry and Morgan, Lewis
& Bockius, LLP (2003); Margaret A. McCausland, and Schnader Harrison Segal
and Lewis LLP (2004); Ballard Spahr
Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP (2005); and
Pepper Hamilton LLP (2006).
These awards will be presented at the
Bar Foundation’s Andrew Hamilton Gala
on Saturday, Nov. 17. Please submit nominations in writing, either by e-mail to
mmingey@philabar.org or by hard copy
to Maureen Mingey, Philadelphia Bar
Foundation, 1101 Market St., 11th floor,
Philadelphia PA 19107. Nominations are
due by 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 14.
Sapna K. Anderson, an associate with Pepper
Hamilton LLP, is secretary of the South Asian
Bar Association of Philadelphia.
Bar’s Nominating Commitee Formed
The Nominating Committee of the
Philadelphia Bar Association has been
formed. Committee members are Alan
M. Feldman, Chair, Gaetan J. Alfano,
Michael G. Balent, Hope Caldwell, Andrew A. Chirls, Merritt A. Cole, Jane
Leslie Dalton, Jeffrey L. Dashevsky, Patricia A. Dubin, William P. Fedullo,
Laura A. Feldman, Sidney L. Gold, Mich
ael B. Hayes, Kim R. Jessum, Sayde
J. Ladov, Linda M. Martin, Scott A.
Mayer, Joseph S. Mitchell III, A. Michael
Pratt, G. Bradley Rainer, Stephanie
Resnick, Stacy A. Tees and Stewart M.
Weintraub. Association Secretary John E.
Savoth serves as a non-voting member of
the committee.
The committee has scheduled dates
for its next meetings. They are Thursday,
Sept. 6 at 12 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 11 at
3:30 p.m. and Friday, Oct. 12 at 3:30
p.m.
Offices for which candidates are being
solicited are Vice Chancellor, secretary,
assistant secretary, treasurer, assistant treasurer, and five seats on the Board of Governors, three of which are to be nominated by the Nominating Committee. Each
Board seat carries a three-year term.
Individuals who wish to be considered for any of the above offices should
submit a resume of their background and
indicate the position for which they wish
to run. Materials should be submitted to
the Chair of the Nominating Committee, Alan M. Feldman, c/o Susan Knight,
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Lawyers Reaching into the Blogosphere
PhiLAWdelphia (philawdelphia.
wordpress.com). Gabrynowicz explained
that she knew very little about blogs two
Whether it’s for marketing puryears ago when she started researching
poses or keeping a group of attorneys
an article about the local political scene.
apprised of what’s going on, lawyers are
She found that the blogs she was reading
joining the ranks of Internet bloggers.
gave her “a little bit more than what the
The Association’s Law Practice Manmainstream media was giving [her].”
agement Division’s Technology ComAfter being elected Secretary of the
mittee presented a program on blogging
YLD last year, Gabrynowicz took responfor lawyers at its July meeting. Chaired
sibility for PhiLAWdelphia and through
by Daniel J. Siegel and Carl Roberts
both necessity and intrigue, she began to
and moderated by Jenkins Law Library
blog. DuFrayne said that the YLD blog
Deputy Director
was not originally
Kathy Coon, the
intended to connect
seminar offered
the Bar Association
valuable insight and
with other attorneys.
instruction from
“Our blog was born
some of Philadelphia’s Visit philadelphiabar.org to listen to out of an idea to try
the podcast from this meeting.
most noted bloggers.
and interact more
The panelists offered
with law students.”
insight about how to start a blog, how to
As the blog became more active, it
maintain a blog, and how to avoid pitfalls
grew to encompass issues surrounding
and trouble areas in the blogosphere.
lawyers and the local legal community.
“A blog is a Web log,” said Coon. “It’s
DuFrayne was approached by the YLD
an online journal where you share your
because she was working at a public interthoughts, your ideas, your opinions, your
est organization and the YLD was looking
research; anything you want someone to
for a public interest presence.
read about.” She explained that the words
Divorce attorney Charles Meyer of
“Web log” were shortened to “blog” in
Fox Rothschild LLP started his own blog
1997 and truly took off during the heated
last year for a much different reason. “I
political climate of the 2000 election.
started my blog for marketing purposes,”
Coon added that one research group has
said Meyer. “I wanted to continue to
estimated there to be over 70 million
build my practice and it was another
blogs currently in operation.
outlet for people to learn my name and
Jocelyn Gabrynowicz and Abbie Duwhat I do.”
Frayne of the Young Lawyers Division
Meyer scans local and national news
are involved with the YLD’s own blog,
sources for family law issues that others
n By Brian K. Sims
Podcast
Spotlight
“
A blog is a Web log. It’s an online journal
where you share your thoughts, your ideas, your
opinions, your research; anything you want someone to read about.
”
may not be seeing or considering to put
on his blog. He also looks to interesting cases that come down through the
court system. He added that marketing
to clients proved to be a mistake because
“the people that read them are not the
type of clients he wants.” He now focuses
on marketing to potential referral sources
such as other lawyers, psychologists and
accountants.
David Hoffman is an assistant professor at Temple University and blogger for
concurringopinions.com, a blog for
law professors from around the country.
“I think the reason I write now has to
do with a question that faces a lot of law
professors which is relevancy.” He says
that determining your usefulness and
relevance outside of academia is a concern
for many professors. “You write one big
article a year as a law professor. You have
all these other ideas that you want to
think about and share but they don’t
really fit within the thesis.”
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg, a well-known
political blogger for Young Philly Politics,
got into blogging as a result of his involvement in the 2004 presidential elec-
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“After the election I was thinking,
‘What should I do?’ ” He started youngphillypolitics.com to interject a broader
scope of information than was being
reported in the traditional media. “The
papers had declining coverage of local
politics for years. There was really a missing voice in the media,” he said.
Urevick-Ackelsberg voiced concern
that the label of “blog” can sometimes be
detrimental for larger, online discussion
groups because there can be the misperception that they are simply a vehicle
for one individual to express his or her
opinion as opposed to a larger, discussion
and information-based site.
Overall, the panelists agreed that the
motivation to blog can be as varied as the
topics themselves. Members of the legal
community can find plenty of subjects
and locations to express their opinions
and keep up with the news, politics, law
and even the local restaurant scene.
Brian K. Sims of Seltzer & Associates, P.C.
is an associate editor of the Philadelphia Bar
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Wireless Philadelphia’s Goal: Get Entire City Online
Wireless Philadelphia is an ambitious initiative to make broadband Internet access more available and affordable
for the people of Philadelphia through a
ubiquitous wireless Internet network that
will support small business, government
efficiency, an improved visitor experience
and most importantly, digital inclusion.
The main players are Wireless Philadelphia, a small nonprofit organization;
EarthLink, which is building the network
at its own expense, providing discounted
accounts to low-income families, and
creating free access zones throughout
the city; and the City of Philadelphia,
which created the Initiative and leases
streetlamps to EarthLink for placement of
network equipment.
More than half of Philadelphia’s
roughly 600,000 households lack Internet
access – one of the lowest Internet penetration rates in the United States. Barely
25 percent of Philadelphians who are
connected have broadband service. According to the Pew Internet and Ameri-
can Life Project, an additional digital
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dial-up users: broadband users engage in a
much wider variety of constructive online
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that this is new technolBy Greg Goldman
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ogy, being deployed at a
Penn Foundation, PNC,
scale never tried before.
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There are bound to be
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vice at the beginning. We
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porters, along with our
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6ABC. Since starting in
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low-income families. We
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tion of Philadelphia with the Cecil B.
municipal wireless network in the world,
Moore Community Service Award.
including free access in 23 major and
Today, the network covers roughly 50
neighborhood parks, totaling 10 square
percent of the city’s 135 square miles. For
miles. No major city is remotely as close
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receive home broadband service and the
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Bar’s Web Site Upgrades
Calendars, Archives Podcasts
n By Brett Schaeffer
The Philadelphia Bar Association’s
Web site continues to offer members
new and useful features. New to the site
this month are Section-specific calendars and an easy-to-use archive of the
Association’s podcasts.
In addition, the Young Lawyers Division blog, PhiLAWdelphia, continues to
grow and expand its readership since its
February launch.
Want to see all of your Section meetings scheduled for September? Simply go
to your Section’s homepage and in the
left navigation click on “Event Calendar.”
From there you can see what meetings
are scheduled and you can click on those
meetings to register immediately online.
Since launching its podcasts in 2006,
the Association has recorded more than
100 speaker programs, Association
events and engaging one-on-one inter-
views. Now, it’s easier to find all of those
podcasts. Go the main podcast page on
the Web site and in the left navigation
you’ll see a list of the podcast archive
categories. Choose “Major Events” to
find podcasts of previous quarterly meetings or look through the “Hot Interviews
with Very Cool People” to find podcasts
with some of the city’s top leaders.
Discover what the Association’s young
attorneys have to say on topics ranging from surviving the first year of law
school and helpful interview techniques,
to using a job recruiter and the state of
diversity at the city’s law firms on the
YLD blog. From the Assocation’s Web
site, go the Young Lawyers Division page
and click the PhiLAWdelphia link, or
type phiLAWdelphia.wordpress.com into
your Web browser.
Look for more enhancements to the
Assocation’s Web site in the coming
months, including a new video series.
webCheck
To see the latest enhancements to
the Philadelphia Bar Association’s
Web site, visit philadelphiabar.org.
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Philadelphia Bar Association
and the Friends of the National
Association of Women Judges
Invite You to Attend
The 29th Annual
NAWJ Conference Luncheon
Friday, November 9, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.
Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue
Keynote Speaker: Judith Rodin, Ph.D.
President, The Rockefeller Foundation
NAWJ was founded in 1979 and is comprised of over 1,200 federal, state, municipal, administrative, military and tribal
women judges at both the appellate and
trial levels from every state in the nation.
NAWJ’s 29th Annual Conference will be
held in Philadelphia, and in connection
with that conference, there will be a luncheon held on Friday, Nov. 9 at the Park
Hyatt at the Bellevue, open to the public.
This year’s luncheon will feature keynote
speaker Judith Rodin, Ph.D., current president of the Rockefeller Foundation and the
past president of the University of Penn-
sylvania. It will be attended by hundreds
of leading federal and state women judges
from across the United States. Also in attendance will be a number of distinguished
women judges from foreign countries.
Please join us for what is sure to be an exciting event.
To register for the Friday, Nov. 9 luncheon, please complete the registration form below and send with a check or credit card information to:
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women in the profession committee
Find Niche that Makes You Happy, Panelists Say
While some attorneys find themselves questioning how they can develop
business or distinguish themselves from
the few attorneys who already share their
specialty, others question whether that
specialty is the right one for them, and if
not, whether a change is possible.
Addressing those issues was a panel of
women lawyers who shared their advice
and experiences with the Women in the
Profession Committee at a recent meeting.
The panel on “How to Develop a
Niche Practice,” featured Ellen C. Brotman, a partner at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP, who
concentrates in both white collar criminal
law and professional responsibility; Jeanne
L. Bakker, a partner at Montgomery
McCracken, who concentrates in ERISA
litigation; Min Suh, a partner at Fox
Rothschild LLP who concentrates in
business immigration law; and Lynanne
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Women in the Profession Committee Co-Chairs Maria A. Feeley (from left) and Roberta D. Liebenberg welcomed panelists
Ellen C. Brotman, Min S. Suh, Lynanne B. Westcott and Jeanne L. Bakker to the Committee’s July 31 meeting on developing a niche practice.
who concentrates in criminal defense and
commercial litigation.
Brotman said one way to develop busi2:26 PM Page 1
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is to actively participate in an organization
likened the process of choosing a niche
that targets your practice area. Brotman
to choosing a major in college. “You
developed contacts and business in her
have to know who you are before you
white-collar defense practice by joining
know where you want to go,” she said.
the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal
Suh first started as a bankruptcy lawyer,
Defense Lawyers and volunteering to
but early on, admitted to herself that she
organize several association seminars. In
didn’t find the work as interesting as she
assembling potential speakers for those
thought she would. She decided to try her
seminars, she was able to network with
hand at commercial litigation, but again
several noteworthy individuals involved
felt unsatisfied. Finally, she went into imin white-collar criminal defense. Brotmigration law, and found that the type of
man continues to develop contacts for
work that she did truly resonated with her
her professional responsibility practice by
interests and personality.
authoring a regular column in The Legal
For more senior attorneys, moving
Intelligencer.
from one niche to another may presBakker said that finding a niche can
ent some challenges. Still, “You’ve got
involve a changing
options,” says Wescott,
set of goals that
who recommended
requires flexibility
that if you are in a
and the ability to
large firm and think
re-tool yourself, if
you have an interest
necessary. Although Visit philadelphiabar.org to listen to in a different specialty,
she began her
explore that area of law
the podcast from this meeting.
practice wanting to
by asking for an assignrepresent unions,
ment from an attorney
after working for a few years in that area,
who works in that area. There may be a
she realized that she wanted to move
project where the expertise that you have
toward working with multi-employer
from your current area of law may benefit
plans. Positioning herself for that change
the attorney from whom you are seeking
required her to not only gain skills in that
a project. In encouraging other attorneys
area of law, but to research the type of
to find an area of law that satisfies their
work that other firms did and to patiently
interests, Wescott said, “You should not
wait for the right position to become
be afraid to take risks, you should never
available.
underestimate your worth … and you
Each of the panelists agreed that in
should never sacrifice your happiness.”
order to find the area of law for which
you are best suited, it is essential to know
Ria C. Momblanco, an associate with Fine,
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2007 Bench-Bar
Conference Guide
September 28-29, 2007
Bally’s Atlantic City is the site for the Philadelphia Bar Association’s 2007 Bench-Bar Conference on Sept. 28 and 29. A total of 7 CLE credits are available.
Philadelphia Bar Association
gratefully acknowledges the
generous support of the 2007
Bench-Bar Conference sponsors.
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2007 BEnCh-BAR ConFEREnCE
14 Different Programs,
7 CLE Credits Available
at Bench-Bar Conference
n By Jeff Lyons
A total of 7 CLE credits and 14
different courses are available at the Association’s 2007 Bench-Bar Conference on
Sept. 28 and 29 at Bally’s Atlantic City.
This year’s conference, “Saddle Up to
a Bench-Bar Bonanza,” has a Wild West
theme and includes a black tie and blue
jeans reception on Friday evening, Sept.
28. Sponsors for the 2007 Bench-Bar
Conference include USI Colburn Insurance Service, LexisNexis, PNC Wealth
Management, Trial Technologies, JAMS,
Veritext and Kroll.
This year’s conference is expected to
bring together hundreds of lawyers and
judges for two days of programming that
lets practitioners and the judiciary share
ideas and best practices.
The opening luncheon “Chow at the
Chuckwagon” begins at 11:15 a.m. on
Sept. 28. Lunch is followed by a screening of “Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s American Journey.”
Following a short break, four additional CLE programs are available beginning
at 4 p.m. All of the programs following
the opening luncheon and film screening
are 1-credit programs.
“Unforgiven” is a Young Lawyers Division-sponsored program on the Internet
and defamation. The course planners are
Natalie Klyashtorny and John Papiano.
Speakers for this program will be announced at a later time.
Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge
Correale F. Stevens and Commonwealth
Court Judge Robert E. Simpson Jr. are
the panelists for “Marshall Dillon,” a
program on appellate advocacy.
The Family Law Section will present “Billy the Kid” - Right Down the
Middle: Equally Shared Physical-Custody
in Philadelphia County. Course planners
Mark Momjian and Megan Watson will
be joined by panelists Philadelphia Court
of Common Pleas Judge Holly Ford, custody master Fern Caplan and Julia Swain.
“Gunfight at the OK Corral” is the
Business Law Section program on Dispute Resolution Clauses in Agreements:
Drafting Tips and Practical Considerations. The faculty for this program
include Mitchell Bach, Judge Diane M.
Welsh and Paul D. Weiner.
“Calamity Jane and the Dalton Gang”
is the theme of the black tie and blue
jeans reception beginning at 6:30 p.m.
The four-hour reception includes food,
drink and the opportunity to mingle and
network with colleagues and members of
the judiciary.
Breakfast (Tequila Sunrise) will be
available from 8 to 9:30 a.m. on Saturday morning. Saturday’s programming
begins at 8:30 a.m. with “Young Guns”
- Procedures for Motion Practice in the
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
This YLD-sponsored breakfast program
will include discussion of both procedures and arguments related to Discovery
Motion Practice and Pretrial Motion
Practice. Philadelphia Court of Common
Pleas Judges Matthew D. Carrafiello and
Annette M. Rizzo will be joined on the
panel by Jennifer S. Coatsworth, Scott W.
Reid and moderator Heather Herrington.
Attendees for this program will be eligible
to win a raffle for a free iPod.
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
Supervising Judge William J. Manfredi
is a speaker for the 9:45 a.m. program
“The Pony Express” - Electronic Filing in
Municipal Court and the Court of Common Pleas. Judge Manfredi will be joined
by Judge Robert S. Blasi, supervising
judge for the Civil Division of Municipal Court; Rudolph Garcia; and court
administration officials Harold Palmer
2007 Bench-Bar Conference Schedule
Friday, Sept. 28
9:30 a.m....................................................................................................................Registration
11:15 a.m............................................................................................................................ Lunch
12 p.m........................................................................................................Conference Welcome
12:15 p.m..............................................................................................Soul of Justice screening
1:15 p.m..............................................................................................Break with dessert buffet
1:30 p.m..................................................................................Soul of Justice panel discussion
2:30 p.m...............................................................................................................................Break
2:45 p.m.................................................................. Soul of Justice panel discussion continues
3:45 p.m...............................................................................................................................Break
4 p.m........................................................................................................................CLE seminars
• Unforgiven - The internet and Defamation
• Marshall Dillon - Appellate Advocacy
• Billy the Kid - Right Down the Middle: Equally Shared Physical Custody
• Gunfight at the oK Corral - Dispute Resolution Clauses in Agreements:
Drafting Tips and Practical Considerations
6:30 - 10:30 p.m..................................................................................................Grand Reception
Saturday, Sept. 29
8 a.m................................................................................................Breakfast and registration
8:30 a.m.................................................................................................Breakfast CLE seminar
• Young Guns - Procedures for Motion Practice in the Philadelphia
Court of Common Pleas
9:30 a.m.............................................................................................................................. Break
9:45 a.m................................................................................................................ CLE seminars
• The Pony Express - Electronic Filing in Municipal Court and the Court
of Common Pleas
• The Proposition - Get a Job/You’re Fired! Earning Capacity Litigation
in Philadelphia County
• Bad Day at Black Rock - Alternative Courts
• Little house on the Prairie - Stolen houses
10:45 a.m..................................................Break with light refreshments and hotel check-out
11:15 a.m..............................................................................................................CLE seminars
• Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Practical insights into Software Licensing Agreements: Drafting Tips and Practical Considerations
• The Wild Bunch - Special needs Trusts
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Facilitating the Appellate Process
• The Gunslinger - Electronic Trial Advocacy
12:15 p.m............................................................................................................................Break
12:30 p.m.........................................................................................................Closing Luncheon
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and Theresa Cannon. The program is
sponsored by the State Civil Litigation
Section.
The Family Law Section program “The
Proposition” - Get a Job/You’re Fired!
Earning Capacity Litigation in Philadelphia County includes Megan Watson,
To register for the Philadelphia Bar
Association’s 2007 Bench-Bar Conference, visit philadelphiabar.org.
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas
Judge Elizabeth Jackson, Michael Grasso
and Dina Ronsayro.
“Bad Day at Black Rock” is a program
on alternative courts and is presented
by the Criminal Justice Section with
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Golfers looking to eXtend their
stay in Atlantic City following the
2007 Bench-Bar Conference can make
reservations at Atlantic City Country
Club, ranked the top public/daily fee golf
course in New Jersey and one of the Top
100 classic golf courses in the country by
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Atlantic City Country Club, a 6,577yard par 70 course, has also been named
by Turnstile’s Golf & Travel Magazine as
one of America’s best resort courses.
Six USGA Major Championships have
been contested at this legendary course.
Walter Travis won the 1901 USGA
Amateur Championship; Babe Didrickson Zaharias won the first of three USGA
Women’s Open Championships in 1948;
and Don January captured the inaugural PGA Senior Tour event contested at
ACCC in 1980.
The Atlantic City Country Club
underwent an $8 million dollar renovation commissioned in 1998 to restore
the course while enhancing the dramatic
skyline views of Atlantic City.
For more information, call 609-2364400.
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2007 Bench-Bar Conference
Judge Henderson’s Career
Subject of Film, Discussion
n By Jeff Lyons
A panel of judges will lead the
discussion following a screening of “Soul
of Justice: Thelton Henderson’s American
Journey,” the opening program for the
2007 Bench-Bar Conference at Bally’s
Atlantic City on Friday, Sept. 28.
The opening luncheon program is
sponsored by the Public Interest Section,
the Asian American Bar Association of
the Delaware Valley, the Barristers Association of Philadelphia, the Hispanic Bar
Association, the South Asian Bar Association and the National Bar Association
Women Lawyers Division.
“Soul of Justice” presents the life and
work of one of the first African-American
federal judges in the United States and
chronicles the impact of his decisions
on the lives of millions. The film follows
Judge Henderson from his time in the
U.S. Department of Justice during the
civil rights movement through his current
position on the U.S. District Court for
the Northern District of California.
Panelists for this 3 CLE credit program (1 substantive, 2 ethics) include
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Theodore
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Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge
President Judge Louis J. Presenza,
William G. Babock and Douglas B.
Marlowe.
“Little House on the Prairie” is
the Real Property Section program
on stolen houses with Philadelphia
Court of Common Pleas Presidenet
Judge C. Darnell Jones II, Michael
Balent, Joan Decker and Sharon
Wilson. A 30-minute break with
refreshments follows, and conference
attendees will be able to check out at
this time.
At 11:15 a.m., the Business Law
Section will present “Treasure of the
Sierra Madre” - Practical Insights
into Software Licensing Agreements:
Drafting Tips and Practical Considerations with panelists Marc Zucker,
Michael Ecker and Steve Foxman
and Philadelphia Court of Common
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McKee; Philadelphia Court of Common
Pleas Judges Nitza Quinones I. Alejandro,
Frederica Massiah-Jackson and M. Teresa
Sarmina. U.S. District Court Judge Louis
H. Pollak will offer remarks before the
screening of the film.
Judge McKee joined the Third Circuit
in June 1994. He is a former assistant
U.S. attorney and deputy city solicitor.
He was a lecturer at Rutgers University
Camden Law School and served as a
judge on the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas from 1984 to 1994. He is a
1975 graduate of the Syracuse University
College of Law.
Judge Massiah-Jackson is former
president judge of the Philadelphia Court
of Common Pleas. She was elected to the
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in
1983. A 1974 graduate of the University
of Pennsylvania Law School, the judge
practiced corporate and civil litigation
with Blank Rome LLP before advancing
to the bench. She also worked with the
Senate of Pennsylvania as chief counsel
of the Senate Insurance and Business
Committee. Judge Massiah-Jackson was
a lecturer at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania from 1992 to
Pleas Judge Howland W. Abramson.
“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” is a program that will
focus on appellate practice and offer
practical tips on dealing with the
Prothonotary’s Office and facilitating
the appellate process. Pennsylvania
Superior Court Judge Richard B.
Klein, Charles Becker, Robert L.
Byer and Pennsylvania Superior
Court Prothonotary Karen Bramblett
are the panelists.
“The Gunslinger,” a State Civil
Litigation Section program on electronic trial advocacy, includes panelist
Robert J. Mongeluzzi.
“The Wild Bunch,” the Probate
and Trust Section’s program on special needs trusts, with Kevin M. Scott,
Roberta D. Pichini and Philadelphia
Court of Common Pleas Judge Anne
E. Lazarus.
The 2007 Bench-Bar Conference
wraps up at 12:30 p.m. with the
luncheon “High Noonish,” sponsored
by PNC Wealth Management.
2002, where she taught Legal Studies and
Business Law.
Judge Sarmina sits in the Homicide
Program of the Criminal Trial Division
of the Philadelphia Court of Common
Pleas. She was elected to the Court of
Common Pleas in 1997. Prior to her election, she worked as a law clerk, assistant
district attorney and deputy and senior
deputy attorney general.
Judge Pollak was commissioned to
the U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania in July 1978. He
assumed senior status in 1991. He was a
member of the faculty of Yale Law School
from 1955-1974 and served as dean from
1965 to 1970. He was on the faculty
of the University of Pennsylvania Law
School from 1974 to 1978 and served as
dean from 1975 to 1978. He is a 1948
graduate of Yale Law School. Judge Pollak is a U.S. Army veteran and served as
law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Wiley B. Rutledge from 1948 to 1949.
He was in private practice in New York
City from 1949 to 1951 and worked as
an attorney in the U.S. State Department
as special assistant to ambassador-at-large
Philip C. Jessup from 1951 to 1953. He
Henderson
was assistant counsel of the Amalgamated
Clothing Workers in New York City in
1954 and 1955.
Judge Quinones I. Alejandro is a 1975
graduate of the University of Puerto Rico
Law School. She was elected to the Court
of Common Pleas in 1991.
She was a staff attorney with Community Legal Services from 1975 to
1977 and worked as an attorney advisor
with the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, Social Security Administration, Office of Hearings and Appeals
from 1977 to 1979. From 1979 to 1991,
she worked as a staff attorney for the
Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of
District Counsel.
Reserve Rooms
by September 6
Bally's Atlantic City features a spa,
fitness center and 18 restaurants.
Bally’s Atlantic City is now accepting reservations for attendees of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s 2007 Bench-Bar Conference on Sept.
28-29. This year’s conference is expected to bring
together hundreds of lawyers and judges from the
Philadelphia area for two days of programming
that lets practitioners and the judiciary share ideas
and best practices.
Bally’s Atlantic City offers a world-class spa, salon, fitness center and 18 restaurants to meet every
craving. Experience the Old West at Bally’s Wild
Wild West Casino with nearly 74,000 feet of
gaming accessible via a short connected walkway.
Hotel reservations must be made by Thursday,
Sept. 6 to receive the special rates. Rooms Thursday night Sept. 27 are $99, Friday night rooms are
$144 and Saturday night rooms are $189.
Call 1-800-345-7253 for reservations and
mention you are attending the Philadelphia Bar
Association Bench-Bar Conference to get these
special room rates.
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September 28-29, 2007 - Bally’s Altantic City
(Please Note: Judges will receive separate conference materials)
Each attendee must fill out a registration form in its entirety (non-attorney guests may be included on the form). Make checks payable to Philadelphia Bar
Association and mail to: 2007 Bench-Bar Conference, Philadelphia Bar Association, 1101 Market St., 11th Fl., Philadelphia, PA 19107, or pay with your credit
card below and fax to (215) 238-1159. Online registration is also available at philadelphiabar.org. NOTE: Hotel reservations must be made separately by calling
(800) 345-7253. Mention “Philadelphia Bar Association” to take advantage of the special room rate of $99 per night on Thursday, $144 on Friday and $189 on
Saturday (plus taxes). Hotel reservations must be made by Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007.
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wachovia fidelity award
Deadline for 2007 Nominations is October 12
Nominations are now being accepted for the Philadelphia Bar Association’s
2007 Wachovia Fidelity Award, presented annually to a member of the Association, who through volunteer activities,
rendered over a considerable period of
time, has made significant improvements
to the administration of justice.
The criteria for the award are:
• Significant accomplishments in
improving the administration of justice
(preferably in Philadelphia);
• The absence of prior recognition for
this work by the Philadelphia Bar Association;
• Distinguished service consistently
rendered over a considerable period of
time or a single outstanding achievement
in a particular year. (The fact that this
single achievement may have occurred
some years ago in not material so long as
it has not been recognized.);
• The accomplishment must arise from
voluntary activities rather than for service
rendered as a paid professional; and
• It is preferred that the recipient be a
member of the Philadelphia Bar Associa-
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tion not now in public office or directly
involved with the court operations or any
other public service activity.
Previous winners of the Wachovia
Fidelity Award are William R. Klaus
(1966); Frank Zal (1967); Sidney Schulman (1968); Fairfax Leary Jr. (1969);
Herman I. Pollock (1970); Leon J.
Obermayer (1971); Robert D. Abrahams
(1972); Elwood S. Levy and Edward
W. Madeira Jr. (1973); Henry T. Reath
(1974); Edwin D. Wolf (1975); Marjorie
Greenfield and James R. Redeker (1976);
Judge Nochem S. Winnet (1977); Morris L. Forer (1978); William E. Zeiter
(1979); Lewis H. VanDusen Jr. (1980);
John Rogers Carroll (1981); Robert W.
Sayre (1982); Frank J. Benasutti and
Michael A. Bloom (1983); Seymour I.
Toll (1984); Henry W. Sawyer III (1985);
Carl Oxholm III (1987); Francis P.
Devine III (1988); Robert B. Wolf and
Maureen McCullough (1989); William
H. Brown III (1990); Alba MartinezVelez (1991); Richard N. Weiner (1992);
Thomas B. Rutter (1993); David N.
Hofstein and Mary Gay Scanlon (1994);
David Unkovic (1995); Suzanne E. Turner and Bruce A. Franzel (1996); Gerald
A. McHugh and Joseph A. Torregrossa
(1997); André L. Dennis (1998); William H. Ewing (1999); David T. Sykes
(2000); Robert C. Heim (2001); Barbara
Sicalides (2002); Larry Fox (2003); Frank
J. Montemuro (2004); Lawrence J. Beaser
(2005); and Stephen D. Brown and Samuel W. Silver (2006). The award was not
presented in 1986.
Nominations should be made in writing. Please include a detailed statement
setting forth information and reasons
why you are recommending the nominee.
Nominations should be sent to Tracey
McCloskey, Philadelphia Bar Association,
c/o Fidelity Award Committee, 1101
Market St., 11th Floor, Philadelphia PA
19107. The deadline is Friday, Oct. 12.
VARRATO – Estate of Edythe Varrato, deceased.
Late of Philadelphia County, PA. Letters Testamentary
on the above Estate have been granted to the
undersigned, who requests all persons having claims
or demands against the Estate of the decedent to make
known the same, and all persons indebted to the
decedent to make payment without delay to
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in Pennsylvania, particularly in the areas
of judicial selection, judicial discipline,
jury service, court funding, and increasing
racial, ethnic and gender fairness.
Marks has also served as the executive
director of Women Organized Against
Rape and board chair of the Women’s
Law Project and the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered
Women.
She has received numerous awards,
including the Bar Association Public Interest Section’s Andrew Hamilton Award,
the Women’s Center of Montgomery
County’s “Making a Difference Award,”
and a Philadelphia City Council Proclamation “in tribute to her life’s work of
making this world and especially this city’s
justice system better for its thousands of
clients.” She was named a “Woman of
Distinction” in 2001 by the Philadelphia
Business Journal. She is co-chair of the Association’s Legislative Liaison Committee.
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Hart assumed Temple’s presidency
on July 1, 2006. She previously served
as president of the University of New
Hampshire and provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Claremont
Graduate University, in Claremont, Calif.
Her prior appointments include professor of educational leadership, dean of the
Graduate School and special assistant to
the president at the University of Utah.
Hart received an M.A. in History and
a Ph.D. in Educational Administration,
both from the University of Utah. Her research interests include leadership succession and development, work redesign and
organizational behavior in educational
organizations, and academic freedom and
freedom of speech in higher education.
She has published more than 85 articles
and book chapters and five books and
edited volumes.
The Women in the Profession Committee established the O’Connor Award
in 1993 to recognize the important
contributions that women attorneys
in Philadelphia have made to the legal
profession.
Tickets to the oct. 16 Quarterly
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U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Jean FitzSimon meets with Bankruptcy Committee Chair Bradford J. Sandler on Aug. 1 at the Cherry Street Tavern
as part of the Committee’s afternoon chat series. The afternoon chats
spotlight leaders of the bankruptcy bar for an up-close and personal perspective on everything from legal issues and current events to careers and
personal histories in an informal setting. More than 30 people attended
the event, sponsored by Parcels, inc.
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Sunah in the City
The Best Seats in the House are with Family
On a Very humid
I had asked my mom
By Sunah Park
evening not too long
if she wanted to go to a
ago, I sweated it out at
game for her birthday,
a Phillies game (by the
but she declined and said
way, excessive sweating
she already had the best
does not result in weight
seat in the house.
loss). I usually do not go
Having been in
to Phillies games unless
Philadelphia my whole
someone else pays or
life, I grew up watching
they’re box seats. Luckthe Eagles, Phillies and
ily, the Phillies won that
Sixers with my mom.
night so it was worth it.
I grew up watching
I grew up watchClint Eastwood, Charles
ing the Phillies with my mom and we
Bronson and Steven Seagal movies with
watched the games comfortably from our
my dad. Both of them said it was their
couch. When the new ballpark opened,
way of escaping some of the stress in their
lives. Personally, I watched sports and
action movies, not only because I enjoyed
watching sports and action movies but
because I loved the time I spent with each
of my parents.
My parents left Philly for North Jersey
a couple of years ago. I try to go to visit
them at least once a month, but I still
miss my mom yelling at the TV when
Von Hayes would inevitably strike out
and my dad laughing with glee as Clint
Eastwood nailed the bad guy. I recently
saw “The Bourne Ultimatum” and I can’t
wait to see it again with my dad when
I go to visit. And with fall approaching,
I am looking forward to watching the
Eagles with my mom over the phone.
All of us relieve stress in varied ways
– exercise, travel, meditation, cooking, or
sleeping. There is also always a Phillies,
Eagles, Flyers or Sixers game in season.
But for some of us, just spending time
with family will do the trick. I am the first
to admit I was spoiled living in the same
town as my parents for so much of my
life. It takes only a trip a couple of hours
north from Philly for me to get the best
seats in the house.
program, to ensure the executive branch
has not and does not overstep its powers.
Our resolution was adopted based on
concerns among many of our members, members of Congress and the public that the executive branch, in conducting such surveillance, has encroached
upon the rights, authority and prerogative
of both the Congress and the courts,
placing the long-cherished doctrine of
separation of powers in jeopardy.
We communicated our position to
the Pennsylvania congressional delegation, pressing for an investigation because
of the vital importance of ensuring that
the balance of powers among the three
branches of government is respected, and
the civil rights of our citizens are protected.
A six-month sunset provision on the
sweeping legislative authorization of
unchecked government snooping is not
enough. What is needed is a law that
protects our constitutional freedoms as
well as our national security, with appropriate judicial oversight and congressional
review. Only then can we ensure that our
government’s actions are necessary,
justified and consistent with the U.S.
Constitution.
Frontline
American public about the critical need
for true checks and balances, where the
courts, Congress and the executive branch
all play roles in making sure that no one
branch violates our citizens’ civil rights.
Consistent with your Bar Association’s
mission to improve the administration of
justice and build public understanding
of the importance of the rule of law in a
democratic society, we have lent our voice
to this threshold issue that strikes at the
heart of our civil liberties.
Last June, our Board of Governors
adopted a resolution supporting a full and
formal investigation by Congress into the
NSA’s warrantless electronic surveillance
Sunah Park, a partner at Thorp Reed &
Armstrong, LLP, is editor-in-chief of the Philadelphia Bar Reporter.
Jane Dalton, a partner at Duane Morris LLP,
is Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Her e-mail address is Chancellor@
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NAWJ to Convene in Philadelphia in November
The Philadelphia Bar Association welcomes the 2007 National Association of
Women Judges’ 29th Annual Conference
to Philadelphia Nov. 7 – 11 at the Four
Seasons Hotel.
“We are honored to welcome members of the NAWJ to Philadelphia, and
salute them for their dedication to preserving judicial independence, ensuring
equal justice and access to the courts for
women, minorities and other historically
disfavored groups, providing education,
and increasing the numbers and advancement of women judges at all levels,”
said Bar Association Chancellor Jane L.
Dalton.
Senior Judge Norma L. Shapiro, U.S.
District Court for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania, and Senior Judge Carolyn
Engel Temin, Philadelphia Court of
Common Pleas, are co-chairs of the 29th
Annual Conference. “We extend our congratulations to the
Honorable Norma L. Shapiro and the
Honorable Carolyn Engel Temin, and
thank them for their outstanding contributions to our profession and tireless
dedication to ensuring fairness and gender equality in our courts. As trailblazers
who have paved the way for many, they
are invaluable role models who continue
to inspire us always,” said Chancellor
Dalton. “Likewise, we congratulate the
Honorable Brenda Stith Loftin, NAWJ
President, and Honorable Fernande R.V.
Duffly, President-Elect, for their accomplished leadership and vision.”
In connection with the annual conference, there will be a luncheon held on
Friday, Nov. 9 at the Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue, open to the public.
For ticket information, visit nawj.org.
This year’s luncheon will feature
keynote speaker Judith Rodin, Ph.D.,
president of the Rockefeller Foundation
and the past president of the University of
Pennsylvania. It will be attended by hundreds of leading federal and state women
judges from across the United States.
Also in attendance will be a number of
distinguished women judges from foreign
countries.
NAWJ was founded in 1979 and is
comprised of more than 1,200 federal,
state, municipal, administrative, military
and tribal women judges at both the appellate and trial levels from every state in
the nation.
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in the delivery of legal services to clients
(regardless of geography).
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The Contract Administrator is responsible for reviewing all client contracts, ensuring appropriate terms and conditions are incorporated, and for
qualifying subcontractors and reviewing changes to standard subcontract.
tion and guidelines. Please note that the
deadline for submitting an application for
a Shuster Fellowship to the Philadelphia
Bar Foundation is Friday, Sept. 14. The
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Cheap Eats
The Whole Enchilada (and More) at Hot Tamales
Hola, mi amigos! The Spanish greeting is to get you in the mood for a trip
with Chip south of the border, without
even leaving Center City. Finally, there
are as many options for Mexican meals
in town as there are Steven Starr restaurants, in fact, he even has one, but the
options are still slim for those who are as
budget-driven as me.
My top recommendation for cheap
Mexican eats is Hot Tamales, located at
1805 JFK Boulevard, in the strip with
City Garden (the fastest-delivered Chinese food in Center City). Hot Tamales
is a no-frills, counter-service, take-out
business with plenty of tables for eat-in
customers. They are only open from 11
a.m. until 3 p.m. and do not be daunted
by the lines. Patient and efficient folks
take your order with nary a taco nazi in
sight. Those not eating in don’t spend too
long dawdling against the wall, waiting
for their orders that are called out. I kill
the time trying to guess who the orders
belong to, as in “Calione of the cheapest in
By Chip Berger
fornia chicken burrito,
the city at $5.39 and
no dairy.” I look around
with a bottom layer
to see if anyone looks
of tortilla shells, is not
lactose intolerant.
fancy but filling. I like
There are plenty
a place where the most
of vegetarian options
expensive thing on
including hummus and
the menu is $6.49 (a
chips ($2.79), bean chitwo-pound burrito that
litos ($1.99) and black
could feed you for days).
beans and rice ($1.29).
My recommendation is
I have not dared try the
the chicken quesadilla
potato pierogi burrito,
that at just $2.09 will
but someone I know swears it is the best
leave you money for a side of guacamole
$2.59 lunch in town. The real bargains
(99 cents) and a drink.
are the beef, turkey and bean tacos at only
Other Mexican meal options include
$1.19 each, and a chicken taco will set
the Santa Fe Burrito Company in the
you back $1.49. Hey, this is Philadelphia;
Liberty Place Food court. It is shopping
where you can’t get a cheese steak and
mall food, but the daily special is usually
a Coke for under $10 anymore, forget
a good deal. Then there is Qdoba, at 15th
about the fries. At Hot Tamales, you can
and Walnut, 11th and Walnut and 19th
easily get out of the door for about five
and Chestnut streets. They have $2 tacos
bucks.
and a $5.99 trio, which includes soup, a
Hot Tamales’ chicken Caesar salad is
taco and a regular drink. You also get to
watch them custom-make your order as
you go through the line, a good time to
plea for extras.
If someone else is buying, you can
check out Tequila’s (16th and Locust) or
El Vez (13th and Sansom). My not-socheap but really good and fun choice is
the Mexican Post at 16th and Cherry
streets. Old City dwellers have been
spoiled by their version down at Front
and Chestnut so this one is a welcome
and popular addition to the Center City
dining and drinking scene, especially with
the outdoor patio, killer combos and
one of the biggest selections of tequila in
town.
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convenience over atmosphere, so Hot
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Phoenix Wright Brings
Courtroom to Video Game
n By Baron C. Giddings
Many people, eVen years ago, said
that courtroom-style video games would
just not be exciting, fun and fulfilling,
if it even kept the player’s attention long
enough to be judged. I object to this
statement!
Capcom’s “Phoenix Wright: Ace
Attorney” (available for the Nintendo
DS) is one of the most well thoughtout games I have played, especially for a
handheld console game. There are two
additional titles in the series (“Phoenix
Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for All” and
the soon-to-be released “Phoenix Wright:
Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulation.”)
Capcom has another “legal” game on the
market, based on a cartoon from Cartoon
Network’s “Adult Swim.” That game,
“Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law” for
the PlayStation 2 and PSP, features the
exploits of the animated attorney who
defends cartoon clients.
You play as the defense attorney, Phoenix Wright, who is fresh out of law school
and was just hired by a firm. Your first
case is a murder mystery and although
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tricky, it is the easiest case you will have to
face while playing this game. The game is
very unique in the way that it forces you
to change your thought process (if you are
not a lawyer already). Although the game
may be nice enough to give you hints as
to the crime in the beginning (like letting
you see the murder) it still challenges you
to prove who did it. The real game begins
when you are halfway through the five
cases you will be taking on. The game’s
motto is “thinking outside the box,” as it
makes you do this for all the cases, even
while collecting evidence. If you decide
to play this game, you will find yourself
stuck, not only by the cases, but also by
the process of finding evidence as to what
really happened.
The game’s colorful screen is one that
is stunning for a word-bubble, movingcharacter game. The visual scenery is a
type of wacky cartoonish view that will
have you giggling because of the emotions the characters show from time to
time. Not only did the producers of this
game add a lot of brain-teasing moments,
they also added a couple of humorous
moments, such as the suspect that was
known by the name “Oldbag” who is an
elderly lady with a furious attitude. The
audio and vocals of the game, along with
the visual effects, really stand out. This
game also has a really cool voice recognizer. If you lose the pen that came with the
console or you are just too lazy to press
the button on the screen, like I was at
times, then you can shout “Objection” or
“Press” and it will follow the command.
This game is one to be played if you
are ever looking for a legal game to pass
your time. After playing this game, I will
object whenever I hear someone proclaim that there are no fun court games
out there. If you have a Nintendo DS
console, then I recommend this game
even for older adults, as it is one of the
simpler games to handle and all you need
is a sharp mind to enjoy.
Baron C. Giddings is a senior at Wissahickon
High School in Ambler, Pa.
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Arts & Media
Gimmicks, Special Effects Can’t Save Some Films
n By Marc W. Reuben
I was recently dragged to see the
newest Harry Potter film, and I much
disliked it although I was told it was in
3-D. Really! Real 3-D, Myrtle! Gosh
oh golly! I haven’t seen anything in 3-D
since “Kiss Me Kate” in 1953, when I
was taken to the old State Theater (in
West Philadelphia) and saw that film in
first run. I wore the colored glasses and
was somewhat impressed when Kathryn
Grayson threw a tankard at the audience
during her rendition of “I Hate Men.” It
was all swell, although why it was better
in 3-D eluded me even then.
Of course, the makers of movies since
found out that there was really no reason
for 3-D and no one mourned its demise,
especially after Cinerama came out in
1957. I saw “This is Cinerama” at the old
Midtown (now the Prince). At one point,
you could see the movie at the theater
and then walk across a street to Kuglers
and get a good meal - and all for a buck!
Ah the good old days!
Kuglers is long gone, as is Lew Tendlers
and Schrafts and the Randolph and the
Mastbaum (of blessed memory - not to
mention the Earle) not to mention H
and H and those wonderful baked beans
and coffee and the chocolate cream roll
(where else could you eat a decent meal
for six bits?). Oh tempora!
The fact is that all these wonderful old
places have faded into history and live
with those of us who lived in a nation
where it was once thought that giving
people value for their money was a good
thing and that successful businessmen
were those who built up businesses rather
than wound them down. No new generation can change that and those who try
give the nation a black eye.
Hence comes Harry Potter, a thoroughly depressing movie for adolescents.
What I saw at this overcrowded theater in
the suburbs was a film light on dialogue
and wit, but filled with special effect gewgaws that were absolutely useless. That is
where the 3-D process came into it. Filmmakers in the 1950s came to understand
that merely throwing something towards
the camera was not a dramatic device.
Nothing becomes more meaningful closer
to you, unless, of course, you are a physician in an operating room. Think of it - a
bowel resection in 3-D! There is an audience for it I am sure. Anyone who could
sit through a movie about over mature
students who cast spells could certainly
find abdominal surgery interesting.
Which reminds me, since the film
was playing in the suburbs, none of the
city-dweller yelling at the screen was
present. I stopped going to local theaters
because I could not stand a) the movies; and b) the audiences. Having been a
critic for years, I was used to the quiet of a
screening room where a disgruntled critic
would emit a disparaging word once in a
while (note: during a screening of a Leone
spaghetti western one of the characters
said “It’s a long way to the pass” to which
the Bulletin’s Ernie Scheier retorted “From
Parma.”) But yelping at the screen is not
all the trouble one can experience in a
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Chair May Mon Post (from left) is joined
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theater. The “Big Gulp” is a form of blad-
der-filling refreshment that guarantees the
consumer will make at least four trips to
the bathroom during the run of a film.
And it works equally well on youth and
according to...
What’s the Worst Film You’ve
Ever Seen?
Staherski
McGohon
Costa
“The Next Karate Kid” with Hilary Swank as Ralph Macchio.
Need I say more?””
- Ben Staherski
“Meg Ryan isn’t very believable as a doctor in “City of Angels” and
Nicholas Cage is an angel; also not believable. And they fall in love.
It would have been better if Meg Ryan was an angel and Nicholas
Cage was an actor and if it was a comedy.”
- Mary McGohon
“3 Men and a Baby” is the worst movie ever. Corny plot, corny
characters, but worst of all it shows two one-time heroes, Tom
Selleck (“Magnum, P.I.”) and Ted Danson (Sam Malone of
“Cheers”), stooping to the level inhabited by the likes of Steve Guttenberg.
- Paul Costa
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old folks. It is especially troublesome for
the elderly, who cannot see well in the
dark as they trek to the bathroom. They
tend to trip.
In better times, when people went to
the films as a treat and did not consider
that they were still sitting in their television chair, audiences were a lot more
considerate and better dressed. People
did not drink gallons of sugared fluid and
pop out to the restroom every 15 minutes
(never sit in an end seat at a local theater).
It is even worse with tiny children with
tiny bladders because they pop out with
their parents - hopefully - every few minutes. And if you see a small child exiting
a bathroom alone, do not go in whatever
you do. You will slip on the wet floor and
get God-knows-what all over you.
Oh yes. The 3-D. Well that was useless
in 1953 and it is equally useless today
when people have not yet determined a
good meaning for it. No director has ever
Bylaws
amendment calls for editorial board
members to be appointed by either
the Chancellor or by a majority of the
publication’s editorial board, with all
appointments being approved by the
Board of Governors. The appointees will
serve three-year terms and the appointments can be renewed following approval
by the Editorial Board and the Board of
Governors.
The proposed amendment to the composition of the Board of Governors makes
the Chancellor immediately prior to the
past Chancellor an ex officio non-voting
member of the Board. This amendment
will also allow the Chancellor to appoint
an additional member to the board who
is a member of a racial minority.
used it well. Not even Roger Corman
and his cheesy output could do justice to
this process that does nothing to improve
a film. Maybe someone will find a real
value for it someday. But as of now, we
are stuck with the same uninspired people
aiming things toward the camera as if that
matters. John Candy was not so outrageous when he held up a glass of water
and moved it back and forth in front of
a television camera. To him it was mock
3-D, but he was really right on the beam
about it. The movies, like the wizard
tale, are so dull that the audience is more
interesting to watch as they jump up and
down to relieve their undersized bladders.
Thank God they tore down the Mastbaum.
Marc W. Reuben, a sole practitioner, is an
advisory editor to the Philadelphia Bar Reporter. He has been writing about the Arts and
Media since 1973.
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For the complete text of the proposed bylaw amendments, turn to
Page 24.
Another proposed amendment will
reduce the number of members needed
for a quorum of the Board of Governors
from 20 to 18 voting members.
It is also proposed that the Cabinet
and Board of Governors will be permitted
to receive electronic communication of
meeting agendas and materials.
The final proposed amendment allows
Bar Association membership to any
full-time member of the faculty of any
accredited law school.
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3 Appointed to Bar Reporter Editorial Board
n By Jeff Lyons
The Board of GoVernors has approved the appointment of three new
members to the Editorial Board of the
Philadelphia Bar Reporter. The appointments of Kathryn C. Harr, Ria Momblanco and Regina Parker were approved
at the Board’s July 26 meeting.
Harr, an associate with Trujillo Rodriguez & Richards, LLC, is a 2002 graduate (cum laude) of Temple University
Law School, where she served as managing editor of Temple Law Review. While
in law school, she acted as a mediator in
Landlord Tenant Court in Philadelphia
and completed an internship with the
U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern
harr
Momblanco
District of Pennsylvania. She served on
the board of directors of the Wissahickon
Art Center from 2002-2006. Harr is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania and the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of
Parker
Pennsylvania.
Momblanco, an associate at Fine,
Kaplan and Black, R.P.C., received her
law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2002, where she
was a senior editor and the technology
editor for the Law Review. Prior to law
school, she worked as a business management consultant for Ernst & Young, LLP.
She received her undergraduate degree in
chemical engineering from the University
of California, Los Angeles.
Parker, an associate with Mattioni,
Ltd., is a 2000 graduate of Widener
University School of Law and a 1996
graduate of Temple University. She has
been active in various civic and charitable
services, including coordinating a mock
trial program for the Pennsylvania Trial
Lawyers Association; participation in
community center clothing drives; Meals
on Wheels, and similar activities; and appearing as a career day speaker in public
school programs.
Notice to Philadelphia Bar Association Members
Pursuant to Section 1100 of the
Philadelphia Bar Association bylaws,
notice is hereby given to all members of
the Philadelphia Bar Association that the
following amendments to the bylaws of
the Philadelphia Bar Association were
considered at the July 26, 2007 Board of
Governors meeting and were approved
for submission to the members at the
October Quarterly meeting to take place
on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007 at Noon at
the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott.
1. Section 100(A)(1)(c) shall be
amended and restated as follows:
Section 100. Classes of Membership;
Rights.
(A) There shall be the following classes
of membership:
(1) Regular Member. A Regular Member shall be a member of the Bar
(a) of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,
or the United States Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit; or
(b) of any court of record whose office
or principal practice is in the City of
Philadelphia; or
(c) of any court of record who is employed in the City of Philadelphia or who
maintains therein his or her principal
office or of any court of record, who is a
full-time member of the faculty of any
accredited law school.
2. Section 208(A) and (B) shall be
amended and restated as follows:
Section 208. The Board.
(A) The members of the Board entitled
to vote, shall be:
(1) the Officers, all of whom shall serve
for a term co-extensive with their respective terms of office;
(2) the immediate past Chancellor;
(3) the immediate past Chair of the
Board;
(4) a representative of each Section
designated by the Section and then serving as a member of the highest executive
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body of the Section who shall serve for a
term of one year (provided that no such
representative shall serve for more than
three consecutive one-year terms); the
Chair of each Section shall notify the
Chair of the Board on or before December 31 of each year of the identity of the
person designated by the Section to serve
as a member of the Board during the following calendar year as a representative of
the Section;
(5) 15 persons elected by the Members
as provided in Section 300(A)(1)(c),
consisting of three classes of five Members
each, who shall serve for a term of three
years, one class being elected each year;
(6) three persons appointed by the
Chancellor pursuant to Section 208(D),
each of whom shall serve for a term of
three years, one person being appointed
each year;
(a) In order to transition the 208(D)
appointments from two members with
two year terms to three members with
three year terms, the 2008 Chancellor
shall on or before Jan. 15, 2008, appoint
one member to a term ending Dec.
31, 2009 and one member whose term
shall expire Dec. 31, 2010. As of Jan.
15, 2009 and each year thereafter, the
Chancellor shall appoint one member to
a three year term as defined by 208(D);
(7) the Chair and Chair-Elect of the
Young Lawyers Division; and,
(8) the Chair of the Law Practice Management Division.
(B) The Chancellor immediately prior
to the immediate past Chancellor and
the President of the Philadelphia Bar
Foundation shall be ex officio non-voting
members of the Board.
3. Section 210(B) shall be amended
and restated as follows:
Section 210. Procedure; Quorum.
(B) Except as otherwise provided by
these Bylaws, eighteen (18) members
of the Board eligible to vote shall be
necessary to constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business, and the acts of
a majority of the members of the Board
eligible to vote present at a meeting at
which a quorum is present shall be the
acts of the Board. The members of the
Board present at a duly organized meeting can continue to do business until
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Note: While the following listings have been verified prior to press time, any scheduled
event may be subject to change by the committee or section chairs.
Monday, Sept. 3
Labor Day: Bar Association offices closed
Board Room.
Tuesday, Sept. 4
Appellate Courts Committee: meet-
Philadelphia Bar Foundation Board of
Trustees: meeting, 12 p.m., 10th floor
Board Room.
Committee on the Legal Rights of Persons with Disabilities: meeting, 12 p.m.,
11th floor Committee Room.
Wednesday, Sept. 5
Delivery of Legal Services Committee:
meeting, 8:30 a.m., 10th floor Board
Room.
Rules and Procedures Committee: meeting, 12 p.m., 10th floor Board Room.
Lunch: $7.50.
Bench-Bar Scholarship Reception: 5:30
p.m., 11th floor Conference Center.
Thursday, Sept. 6
Civil Rights Committee: meeting, 12
Lunch: $7.50.
Friday, Sept. 7
Committee on the Legal Rights of
Lesbians and Gay Males: meeting, 12:30
p.m., 11th floor Committee Room.
Wednesday, Sept. 12
ing, 12 p.m., 10th floor Board Room.
Lunch: $7.50.
Thursday, Sept. 13
Legislative Liaison Committee: meet-
ing, 12:30 p.m., 11th floor Committee
Room South. Lunch: $7.50.
Friday, Sept. 14
Philadelphia Lawyer magazine Editorial
Board: meeting, 12:30 p.m., 11th floor
Committee Room South.
Monday, Sept. 17
Public interest Section Executive Committee: meeting, 12 p.m., 10th floor
Board Room.
Young Lawyers Division Cabinet: meet-
ing, 12 p.m., 10th floor Cabinet Room.
Small Business Committee: meeting,
12 p.m., 11th floor Committee Room
South. Lunch: $7.50.
City Policy Committee: meeting, 12
Lunch: $7.50.
Board Room.
Tuesday, Sept. 18
Section Chairs: meeting, 8:30 a.m.,
10th floor Board Room.
Cabinet: meeting, 12 p.m., 10th floor
Board Room.
health Care Law Committee: meeting,
11th floor Committee Room South.
Lunch: $7.50.
Tuesday, Sept. 11
Wednesday, Sept. 19
Criminal Justice Section Executive Com-
Workers’ Compensation Section
mittee: meeting, 12 p.m., 10th floor
Executive Committee: meeting, 10:30
Monday, Sept. 10
Family Law Section: meeting, 12 p.m.,
11th floor Conference Center. Lunch:
$7.50.
Business Law Section Executive Committee: meeting, 12 p.m., 10th floor
Notice
adjournment, notwithstanding the loss of
a quorum.
4. Section 214 (C) shall be amended
and restated as follows:
Section 214. Place and Notice of Meetings of the Board and Cabinet.
(C) Whenever written notice is
required to be given to a member of the
Board or Cabinet, whether under the provisions of these Bylaws or otherwise, such
notice may be given to the member either
personally or by email or by first-class
mail, postage prepaid (in the case of the
notice of the first meeting of the Board in
each year), express mail or courier service,
postal or other charges prepaid, or by
facsimile transmission (with telephone
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confirmation that the transmission has
been received) to the address or facsimile
number supplied by the member to the
Association for the purpose of notice.
If the notice is given by express mail
or courier service (or by first-class mail
in the case of the first meeting of the
Board in each year), it shall be deemed
to have been given when deposited with
the courier service for delivery to the
member. In the case of facsimile transmission with telephone confirmation that
the transmission has been received, notice
shall be deemed to have been given when
transmitted.
5. Section 1001 shall be amended and
restated as follows:
Section 1001. Administration of Official Publications
The Editorial Boards of each official
a.m.,11th floor Committee Room.
Workers’ Compensation Section: meeting, 12 p.m., 11th floor Conference
Center. Lunch: $7.50.
Federal Courts Committee: meeting,
12:30 p.m., 10th floor Board Room.
Lunch: $7.50.
LegalLine: 5 p.m., 11th floor LRIS
offices.
Thursday, Sept. 20
Disaster Planning Committee: meeting,
8 a.m., 10th floor Board Room.
Law Practice Management Division
Executive Committee: meeting, 11:30
a.m., 11th floor Conference Center.
Law Practice Management Division
Technology Committee: meeting, 12
Lunch: $7.50.
Family Law Section Executive Committee: meeting, 12 p.m., 11th floor
Committee Room South.
Environmental Law Committee: meet-
ing, 12 p.m., 10th floor Board Room.
Lunch: $7.50.
Friday, Sept. 21
Social Security Disability Benefits Committee: meeting, 12 p.m., 11th floor
Conference Center: Lunch: $7.50.
Monday, Sept. 24
Young Lawyers Division Executive Committee: meeting, 12 p.m., 10th floor
Board Room.
Tuesday, Sept. 25
Women in the Profession Committee:
meeting, 12 p.m., 10th floor Board
Room. Lunch: $7.50.
Criminal Justice Section: meeting, 12
p.m., 11th floor Conference Center:
Lunch: $7.50.
Compulsory Arbitration Committee:
meeting, 12 p.m., 11th floor Committee Room South. Lunch: $7.50.
Wednesday, Sept. 26
Medical Legal Committee: meeting, 12
Lunch: $7.50.
Thursday, Sept. 27
Minorities in the Profession Committee:
meeting, 12 p.m., 11th floor Conference Center. Lunch: $7.50.
Lawyer Referral and information Service Committee: meeting, 12 p.m., 11th
floor Committee Room South.
Elder Law Committee: meeting, 1 p.m.,
10th floor Board Room. Lunch: $7.50.
Board of Governors: meeting, 4 p.m.,
10th floor Board Room.
Friday, Sept. 28
Bench-Bar Conference: 10 a.m., Bally’s
Atlantic City Resort. Registration: philadelphiabar.org.
Saturday, Sept. 29
Bench-Bar Conference: 8 a.m., Bally’s
Atlantic City Resort. Registration: philadelphiabar.org.
Register online for most events at philadelphiabar.org. Unless otherwise specified, all checks
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Bar Association-related calendar items 30 days in advance to Managing Editor, Philadelphia
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publication shall consist of Members
of the Association appointed by either
the Chancellor or by a majority of the
membership of the publication’s Editorial
Board, upon demonstration by the appointee of a commitment to the goals of
the publication. All initial appointments
shall be approved by the Board of Governors prior to the individual beginning service as a member of the Editorial Board.
The members of each Editorial Board
shall serve for three-year terms, with
all terms ending on Dec. 31. The term
of all initial appointments shall end on
Dec. 31 of the third year following their
appointment, e.g., the term of a member
appointed in June 2007 would end on
Dec. 31, 2009. Upon the expiration of a
member’s three-year term, the member’s
appointment shall be renewed for suc-
cessive terms only upon approval by a
majority of the membership of the respective publication’s Editorial Board and
approval thereafter by the Board of Governors. Current members of the Editorial
Board shall complete their present terms
and thereafter be subject to the terms
contained herein. The internal operating procedures and manner of selection
of the Editor of each official publication
shall be established by majority vote of
all members of the publication’s Editorial
Board then in office.
6. ‘Publish’ in the Definitions Section
shall be amended and restated as follows:
“Publish” shall mean notification
published in any Association publication
that is available to every Member, including electronic media, and/or in The Legal
Intelligencer.
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People
Mark A. Aronchick, a
Danielle Banks, a
founding member of
Hangley Aronchick
Segal & Pudlin and
former Chancellor of
the Philadelphia Bar
Association, has been
appointed to chair
the Committee on the Rules of Evidence
of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
partner with Stradley
Ronon Stevens &
Young, was recently
elected to the Public
Interest Law Center
of Philadelphia’s
Board of Directors.
Michael H. Reed, a partner with Pepper
Hamilton LLP, has been appointed to
the American Bar Association’s Standing
Committee on Bar Activities & Services
for a three-year term.
Alan C. Promer, a shareholder at Hangley
Aronchick Segal & Pudlin, discussed
“Ethical Dilemmas Facing Private Equity
Managers.” at the CLE International
Private Equity Seminar on June 22.
Stewart J. Eisenberg, a partner with
Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C., was a course planner
and presenter at The Pennsylvania Trial
Lawyers Association seminar “Strategies
to Overcome Jury Bias.”
Deborah Epstein Henry, founder and
president of Flex-Time Lawyers LLC and
of counsel to Schnader Harrison Segal &
Lewis LLP, was a panelist for the “Advancing Women in the Profession: Action
Plans for Women’s Bar Associations
conference in Boston in June.
Thomas G. Wilkinson, a member of Cozen
O’Connor, has been elected vice preident
of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Hope A.
Comisky, a partner with Pepper Hamilton
LLP, and Min S. Suh, a partner with Fox
Rothschild LLP, have been elected to the
Board of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
Manny D. Pokotilow,
managing partner
of Caesar, Rivise,
Bernstein, Cohen &
Pokotilow, Ltd., has
been inducted into
the Litigation Counsel of America.
Sarah A. Kelly, a
member of Cozen
O’Connor, has been
elected a Fellow of
The College of Labor
and Employment
Lawyers.
trend toward environmental regulation at
the local government level at the Montgomery Bar Association’s CLE seminar,
“Local Environmental Regulation,” on
Aug. 8.
Michael F. Barrett, managing shareholder
of Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky,
PC, has been named President-Elect of
the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.
Alexandra C.
Gaugler, an associate
with Miller, Alfano
and Raspanti, P.C.,
has been appointed
as a Hearing Committee Member
serving the Disciplinary Board of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
David I. Grunfeld of
Astor, Weiss, Kaplan
& Mandel, LLP
has been named
president of Family
Services of Montgomery County’s
Board of Directors.
Noel A. Fleming of Lundy Zateeny
Loftus, LLP was a panelist at Penn State’s
61st Annual Tax Conference on May 22.
His topic was “Exempt Organization Hot
Topics.”
Leonard A. Bernstein, a partner at Reed
Smith LLP, has been elected board
president of the Support Center for Child
Advocates, Philadelphia’s lawyer-volunteer program for abused and neglected
children.
Eric H. Weitz, a member at the civil trial
firm of Seidel Weitz Garfinkle & Datz,
LLC, has been elected to a two-year term
on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association.
Rebecca Rosenberger Smolen, a partner
Louis Coffey, of counsel to WolfBlock,
has been elected chair of the Board of the
Gershman Y.
H. Robert Fiebach, a member of Cozen
O’Connor, received the Pennsylvania
Bar Association’s President’s Award for
his work as co-chair of the Task Force
on Lawyer Advertising. The American
Bar Association recognized his commitment to upholding the standards of the
legal profession by appointing him to
its Standing Committee on Substance
Abuse.
Alan R. Gedrich, a partner with Stradley
William C. Foster, a shareholder with
with WolfBlock, participated in a panel
discussion at The Professional Women’s
Roundtable Monthly Networking Reception on July 24 at Grant Thornton in
Philadelphia.
Philip Yannella of Dechert LLP presented
Shawn R. Farrell, a partner with Cohen
Marc J. Zucker, a partner with Weir &
Partners LLP, has been named to a threeyear term as chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish
Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman
& Goggin, was a panelist at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Tort Law Update on
Aug. 16.
Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC,
has been elected to the board of the
Building Industry Association of Philadelphia.
Joseph Manko and Rodd Bender, partners
with Manko, Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP,
presented “Real Estate Development: Avoiding the Environmental Pitfalls” at the
PBI’s “A Day on Real Estate” on Aug. 2.
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Michael F. Schleigh of Deasey Mahoney
& Valentini, Ltd., has been elected to
the Associated Alumni of Central High
School Board of Mangers.
John Gullace, a partner with Manko,
Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, spoke on the
Ronon Stevens & Young, was recently
appointed to the Pennsylvania State
University’s Alumni Council for a threeyear term.
“Responding to Electronic Discovery
Requests and Preparing for Rule 26(f)”
at the Association of Corporate Counsel’s
“E-Discovery: Bridging the Gap Between
Legal and IT Conferences” seminar on
July 9.
Andrew W. Davitt,
a shareholder with
Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman
& Goggin, was a keynote speaker at a
conference sponsored by ING at Berthel
Fisher and Company Financial Services
Inc.’s annual conference held on July 20
and 21 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Carmen Romano and Edward Lemanowicz of Dechert LLP spoke at Private Eq-
uity International’s Fourth Annual Private
Equity Strategic Financial Management
Conference held July 17-18. Romano
presented “Regulatory Considerations
in Exit Strategies” while Lemanowicz’s
presentation was titled “Tax-International
Track.”
Andrea R. Kramer,
principal in the Law
Offices of Andrea
R. Kramer, has been
appointed Chair of
the Girl Scouts of
Eastern Pennsylvania.
Michael Meloy, a partner with Manko,
Gold, Katcher & Fox, LLP, was recently
appointed to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s
Cleanup Standards Scientific Advisory
Board.
Kathy Ochroch, a partner with Blank
Rome LLP, has been elected to the Board
of Trustees of the Nationalities Service
Center. The NSC provides assistance
and a safe haven to refugees, asylees and
immigrants from all countries, religious
faiths and ethnic backgrounds.
Shari Shapiro, an
associate with Obermayer Rebmann
Maxwell & Hippel
LLP, discussed the
Supreme Court
decisions in Morse
v. Frederick and
FEC v. WRTL on CN8 - The Comcast
Network’s program, “Your Morning.”
Stephen A. Fogdall, an associate with
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP,
has received the 2007 Earl G. Harrison
Pro Bono Award. Fogdall was honored
for his pro bono work, mainly in the area
of prisoner civil rights.
nnAMES ARE nEWS
“People” highlights news of members’
awards, honors or appointments of a
community or civic nature. Information
may be sent to Jeff Lyons, Senior Managing Editor, Philadelphia Bar Reporter,
Philadelphia Bar Association, 1101 Market
St., 11th fl., Philadelphia, Pa. 19107-2911.
Fax: (215) 238-1159. E-mail: reporter@
philabar.org. Color photos are also
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