People in the News—Feb. 21, 2018—Blank Rome
Blank Rome partner Sophia Lee, who serves as a member of the firm's diversity and inclusion committee, was elected to the board of directors of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania for a one-year term.
February 21, 2018 at 10:00 AM
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Elected and Appointed
Blank Rome partner Sophia Lee, who serves as a member of the firm's diversity and inclusion committee, was elected to the board of directors of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania for a one-year term.
She was sworn in by Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Stella M. Tsai at the APABA-PA Lunar New Year banquet, which was held Feb. 2 at the Ocean Harbor restaurant in Philadelphia.
At Blank Rome, Lee concentrates her litigation practice in the energy industry, handling commercial, environmental, products liability and toxic tort matters.
She is a lecturer and CLE faculty presenter on matters concerning litigation management and best practices, e-discovery and information management, professional responsibility and ethics, trial advocacy skills, substantive legal issues and diversity and inclusion in the legal profession for various legal associations, organizations, law schools and law firms.
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Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano promoted associate Stephen R. Miller to partner.
Miller is the first attorney to join the firm's partnership outside of the four founding members: Samuel H. Pond, Jerry M. Lehocky, David F. Stern and Thomas J. Giordano Jr.
In just 18 months, Miller made partner at Pond Lehocky.
Miller started his career as a defense litigator for employers and insurance companies.
Following a stint at a large regional defense firm, he moved to Post & Schell where he spent 13 years, the last seven as a partner.
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Duane Morris' James H. Steigerwald is set to become co-head of the firm's 250-lawyer commercial, securities and antitrust litigation division and Dana J. Ash is set to become head of the 70-attorney products liability and toxic torts practice division.
Both Steigerwald and Ash are partners in the firm's Philadelphia office.
Steigerwald is a trial lawyer who has tried cases before federal and state courts across the country, obtaining multimillion-dollar verdicts as well as defense verdicts.
Ash practices in the areas of products liability and business litigation and has conducted trials in state and federal courts across the United States.
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McNees Wallace & Nurick attorneys Julia Coelho, Nicole Kaylor, Fritz Kriete and Adeolu Bakare are set to serve as judges for the Transactional LawMeet Regional Competition being hosted by Widener Law Commonwealth on Friday.
Coelho concentrates her practice in the areas of health care and corporate law.
Kaylor is a member of the corporate and tax group where her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions.
Kriete practices in the food and beverage, corporate and tax and automotive dealership law groups.
Bakare practices in the firm's energy and environmental and public sector practice groups.
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Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young's chief information officer Brett C. Don served as a panelist at Legaltech's 2018 conference on Jan. 30 in New York City.
Don's panel, presented by International Legal Technology Association, “Leadership for IT,” discussed how to evolve an IT organization from a reactive, operational service model to a proactive, strategic, customer-facing service model.
Don is chief information officer at Stradley Ronon.
He is responsible for the cost-effective delivery of technology services to more than 200 attorneys in the firm's eight offices.
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