Speakers

Amy T. Brooks, a Wisler Pearlstine partner, presented on the topic “Getting PDE on Your Side” at the PASA-PSBA School Leadership Conference in Hershey.

Brooks discussed how solicitors can improve the process and outcomes of PDE investigations and audits for their clients.

Brooks works with school clients helping them to understand and navigate the existing legal framework in order to proactively achieve their goals.

She routinely litigates for school clients in administrative and local agency proceedings up through the appeals process.

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Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young partner Christopher W. Rosenbleeth served as moderator at the Bisnow Big Philadelphia Retail Event on Nov. 8.

Rosenbleeth moderated the panel “The State of Retail: A Survival Guide for the Retail Climate,” presented by Bisnow, and discussed key themes facing Philadelphia's retail industry.

Rosenbleeth is chair of Stradley Ronon's real estate practice group.

He regularly represents banks and other lenders, equity investors, developers, corporate clients and strategic and financial investors in their real estate, finance and investment activities.

Rosenbleeth advises clients in connection with transformative projects in and around Philadelphia, particularly in the Center City and University City submarkets.

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James C. Sargent of Lamb McErlane spoke at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute on “Business Divorce: Startup to Litigation to Resolution” in Philadelphia.
The course outlined understanding business divorce complexities and how to advise clients starting businesses and/or stuck in intolerable situations.

Sargent specifically discussed litigation issues, potential claims, injunctive relief, insurance coverage, e-discovery and attorney fees.

At Lamb McErlane, Sargent is a partner and co-chairman of the appellate advocacy group and part of the firm's litigation department.

Additions

DLA Piper added associate Dylan Caplan to the firm's Philadelphia office.

Caplan, who began working as a law clerk for DLA Piper in 2016, earned his law degree from the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law.

Caplan is a member of the new associates practice.

Announcements

Volpe and Koenig announced that the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society and Welcoming the Stranger have been awarded grants through its 11th annual IPromise Charitable Giving Fund competition.

Checks were presented to PAWS on Nov. 8 and to Welcoming the Stranger on Oct. 21.

Established in 2007, IPromise helps two qualifying Greater Philadelphia or Princeton, New Jersey, area nonprofit organizations each year, advancing their work by awarding $20,000 grants.

This year, organizations dedicated to animal welfare and community development were invited to apply.

To date, Volpe and Koenig has awarded more than $400,000 in IPromise grants.

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The Philadelphia office of McCarter & English sponsored and walked in the 2017 Alzheimer's Association 5K Walk to End Alzheimer's on Nov. 11 at Citizens Bank Park.

The McCarter & English team raised over $9,000 for the cause and were joined by approximately 20,000 other walkers.