Speakers

Jennifer Platzkere Snyder, a Dilworth Paxson partner and member of the firm's labor and employment group, is ­scheduled to present at three Pennsylvania Bar Institute CLE events in November.
Snyder is set to speak on “Business Divorce: Startup to Litigation to Resolution” on Nov. 6 and Nov. 8 and then on “Digital Forensics and Employment Law: Trends, Legal Standards and Ethical Obligations” on Nov. 15.
Each session has been approved for six Pennsylvania CLE credits.
Snyder represents public and private sector employers in addressing all aspects of labor and employment law, including traditional labor-management relations, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, restrictive covenants and trade ­secret disputes, whistleblowing, executive employment agreements, ­wage-and-hour audits, personnel policies, reductions in force and employee discipline and ­discharge matters.
She provides guidance to employers on avoiding litigation risks where possible and litigates disputes before federal and state courts, administrative agencies and arbitrators.

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Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young partner Steven A. Scolari presented at the Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia's Excellence Awards: Winner's Roundtable on Oct. 11.
The roundtable focused on effective ­succession planning for small and midsize growth-oriented businesses.
Scolari, co-chair of the firm's closely held and family owned businesses practice group, provides legal and business advice to executives and owners of both private and public businesses in connection with a variety of transactional matters, as well as business succession planning engagements.
Those transactional matters include mergers and acquisitions, debt and ­equity financing transactions, joint ventures, and corporate restructurings and reorganizations.

Additions

Swartz Campbell added Kristopher A. Kachline as partner.
Since 2012, Kachline has been lead counsel in the litigation of over 200 occupational cancer claims arising out of 2011's Act 46, which amended the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act to include cancer in as a presumptively work-related occupational disease, if certain criteria are met.
In addition to occupational cancer claims, Kachline also handles a variety of cases involving toxic exposure and cardiac conditions, along with general employment and workers' compensation cases.
He graduated with his law degree from Widener University School of Law in 2010.

Events

On Oct. 13, managing partner Nicholas J. LePore III (pictured far right) and the team from Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis proudly “showed their stripes” in support of the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House and families of seriously ill children.

Announcements

During the week of Oct. 16, deliveries began of the hard copy and electronic ­format of Cliff Rieders' encyclopedic work, “Medical Malpractice in Pennsylvania, Law and Forms.”
Rieders has been the sole author of this text since its inception more than 15 years ago.
The topics covered by the text deal with federal and state issues, including a plethora of regulatory and legislative enactments.
Rieders, a partner in the law firm of Rieders, Travis, Humphrey, Waters & Dohrmann in Williamsport, has been a longtime National Board of Trial Advocacy-certified attorney. •