Speakers

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young associate Kristen M. Feden served as a panelist at the Domestic Violence Town Hall held by Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kelly Wall on Oct. 3 in Norristown.
The panelists discussed the laws surrounding various legal proceedings that come before the family, criminal and civil benches, including protection from abuse orders and criminal matters.
The event was held in honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Feden concentrates her practice on ­complex commercial and class action litigation and white-collar defense.
Prior to joining Stradley Ronon, Feden was assistant district attorney in the Trials Division of the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office, where she served as captain of the elder abuse unit and the domestic violence unit and as a member of the sex crimes
unit.
During her tenure in the District Attorney's Office, Feden investigated and prosecuted all types of criminal cases, including cases of abuse, neglect, rape, sexual violence, internet crimes against children, financial exploitation against elders and homicides.

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Eastburn and Gray's Marc D. Jonas presented a CLE at the Montgomery Bar Association with Commonwealth Court Judge Robert “Robin” Simpson.
The seminar was titled, “Regulatory Takings Claims, Zoning Cases and Other Current Land Use Trends.”
Topics included: a discussion of important recent land use decisions; the SCOTUS decision in Murr v. Wisconsin; recent cases from the Poconos dealing with short-term rentals of residences (the Airbnb Inc. trend); and the burden of objectors in ­special exception/conditional use proceedings.
Jonas is co-chair of the firm's land use and zoning practice group.
Jonas' diverse practice has included the representation of developers of residential, commercial, institutional and religious land uses.
He has also represented neighbors concerned about the impacts of certain proposed land uses.

Elected and Appointed

The Public Interest Law Center, a nonprofit law firm that advances the civil, social and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality and poverty, elected Megan Jones Griffault of FMC Corp. and Howard Langer of Langer, Grogan & Diver.
Griffault is the global human resources director at FMC in Philadelphia and she provides strategic human resources partnership and strategy to a global division of over 4,000 employees.
She provides advice and counsel to her division president and operating committee on key strategic initiatives to drive continued growth.
Langer, a founding partner of Langer Grogan, has specialized in complex commercial litigation, particularly antitrust law, since graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School
in 1977.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo Law School and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Competition Law and Policy at the University of
Oxford.

Additions

McNees Wallace & Nurick hired Erica M. Koser as an associate.
Koser is an attorney in the financial services and public finance practice groups.
She received her law degree from George Washington University Law School.
She spent her summers interning for the National Association of College and University Attorneys and McNees Wallace. •