Additions

Umar A. Sheikh joined Offit Kurman in the firm's Metropark, New Jersey, office as a principal-level attorney.

Sheikh's practice concentrates on all aspects of real estate law—purchases, sales, financing, development, leasing, evictions, foreclosures, management—and those areas of law that are related to real estate—corporate, tax, asset protection, estate planning and litigation.

He represents parties in the purchase, sale and financing of multifamily, mixed-use, commercial and retail properties.

He also represents borrowers in CMBS transactions, hard money lenders and “fix and flip” investors.

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Elizabeth Graham-Rubin joined Conrad O'Brien as of counsel in the firm's Title IX, due process and campus discipline practice.

Rubin will work with the group of attorneys who represent and counsel both accused and complainant students throughout the country who have suffered from a lack of fairness during a campus investigation and disciplinary proceeding arising from a Title IX or student code violation in higher education.

She brings many years of investigative and trial experience to Conrad O'Brien.

Rubin joins Conrad O'Brien from the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, where she has spent several years working as an assistant district attorney.

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Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott added associate K. Wesley Mishoe to its Harrisburg office and litigation division.

Mishoe focuses his practice in the area of commercial litigation.

Prior to joining private practice, he served as an assistant attorney general in Atlanta, and as a law clerk for Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan E. Schwab of the Middle District of Pennsylvania and U.S. District Judge William W. Caldwell of Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Elected and Appointed

Robin B. Snyder, shareholder and member of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin's board of directors, was named assistant director of the health care department at Marshall Dennehey.

In this role, she will assist Kevin FitzPatrick, director of the health care department, in managing and supervising the firm's 80-plus health care attorneys throughout 14 offices.

A civil litigator and trial lawyer, Snyder has more than 20 years of medical malpractice litigation experience.

In addition to health care liability, she also defends clients in education and employment law-related matters.

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John C. McMeekin II, a member of Rawle & Henderson's executive committee, was elected vice chair of the American Bar Association tort trial and insurance practice section (TIPS) at the ABA TIPS midyear meeting.

McMeekin is set to start his term as vice chair in August.

McMeekin is currently serving as section secretary of ABA TIPS.

He represents clients as local, national and trial counsel in environmental, toxic and mass torts product and related class actions, products liability, insurance coverage and aviation litigation.

Honored

Odia Kagan, an attorney who focuses on technology transactions, privacy and data security, was honored as Committee Chair of the Year by the Philadelphia Bar Association business law section.

Kagan is co-chair of the section's cyberlaw committee, which provides programming on matters of privacy and data security to Philadelphia-area attorneys.

At Ballard Spahr, Kagan counsels clients on privacy and data security matters with a focus on EU compliance and the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation.

A transactional attorney, she advises companies on privacy aspects of mergers and acquisitions, technology transactions and the engagement of third-party vendors.