People in the News—May 1, 2018—Goldberg Segalla
Chimdi N. Ginsburg Tuffs joined Goldberg Segalla in the firm's general liability practice group.
May 01, 2018 at 10:00 AM
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Additions
Goldberg Segalla added associate Chimdi N. Ginsburg Tuffs to the firm's general liability practice group in Philadelphia.
Tuffs was previously with Hill Wallack.
Tuffs represents and defends a wide variety of insureds, employers and third-party administrators in premises liability, personal injury and products liability matters throughout Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.
As a litigator and trial attorney, she draws on prosecutorial and courtroom experience earned as an assistant district attorney, first as a city prosecutor in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office Court of Common Pleas trial unit, and then as a felony prosecutor in the Richmond County District Attorney's Office sexual assault and domestic violence bureau.
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Ricky M. Guerra joined Blank Rome's Philadelphia office as an associate in the general litigation group.
Guerra joins Blank Rome from Lavin, O'Neil, Cedrone & DiSipio where he gained experience in matters involving personal injury, general liability, medical malpractice, products liability and commercial litigation.
He has also secured defense verdicts within the Philadelphia Compulsory Arbitration Program.
Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Guerra earned his J.D. from Villanova University School of Law.
|Speakers
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young partner Alan R. Gedrich served as a panelist at the Chartered Financial Analyst Society of Philadelphia compliance luncheon.
Gedrich discussed recent regulatory developments impacting registered investment advisers, including U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission initiatives.
Gedrich represents open and closed-end investment companies, exchange traded finds, registered investment advisers, hedge funds, independent trustees of mutual funds and investors in private and public funds.
His practice also includes mergers and acquisitions of registered investment advisers and change of control transactions, public and private securities offerings and general corporate work.
|Honored
Theodore “Ted” Simon, a Philadelphia criminal defense lawyer of the Law Offices of Theodore Simon, was the dinner chair for the 60th anniversary of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers “Foundation of the Defense Celebrating NACDL at 60.”
The event honored the role of criminal defense lawyers and featured keynote remarks by Michelle Alexander, author of “The New Jim Crow,” where she received the Champion of Justice Civil and Humanitarian Award on April 20 at Cipriani's in New York.
Simon is a past president of the NACDL, a trustee of the Foundation for Criminal Justice and the president of the Jenkins Law Library.
He has a local, national and international trial and appellate practice and acts as a legal and media consultant.
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