People in the News—Feb. 27, 2018—Philadelphia Bar Foundation
The Philadelphia Bar Foundation broadened its scope of support for the legal aid community with a 22 percent increase in grants awarded to nearly 40 Philadelphia legal aid nonprofit partners in 2017 totaling $556,550.
February 27, 2018 at 10:00 AM
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The Philadelphia Bar Foundation broadened its scope of support for the legal aid community with a 22 percent increase in grants awarded to nearly 40 Philadelphia legal aid nonprofit partners in 2017 totaling $556,550.
Grants are a fundamental part of the bar foundation's comprehensive access to justice work, which strengthens the delivery of civil legal aid.
Bar foundation grants are one of the few sources of unrestricted operating support for legal services agencies in Philadelphia that provide access to free or low-cost legal services via staff-based legal assistance, or to agencies that recruit, train and support volunteer attorneys, or who provide education on legal matters in the public interest.
|Honored
On Friday, Mazzoni Center Legal Services is scheduled to host is largest annual fundraiser, Justice in Action, at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel.
This event consists of a two-hour long continuing legal education session, followed by an awards luncheon honoring Tiffany Palmer, partner and founding member of Jerner & Palmer.
The Pennsylvania continuing legal education board has approved the 9:30 a.m.-scheduled program, “It's Not About the Cake: Religious Exemptions—Free Exercise, or License to Discriminate?,” for two credits.
The luncheon honoring Palmer is scheduled to start at noon.
|Speakers
Marc Feller, chair of Dilworth Paxson's public finance group, is set to speak at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's 2018 environmental law forum on April 12 from 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
At Dilworth Paxson, Feller focuses on all aspects of public finance transactions and municipal representation.
Feller's experience includes transportation and infrastructure financing, hospital and other health care and 501(c)(3) financings, solid waste and general obligation bonds and distressed municipalities.
|Elected and Appointed
Dean A. Walters, general counsel, chief fiduciary officer and CCO of the Philadelphia Trust Co., became an adjunct faculty member of the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law teaching in their LL.M graduate tax program.
He works closely with several large family relationships and private foundations.
Walters has experience as a practicing attorney in the trusts and estates area where he settled estates, drafted estate plans for high net worth individuals and handled Orphans' Court litigation matters.
|Additions
Gregory S. Bergman joined Blank Rome as an associate in the general litigation group, which earlier announced the addition of associate Alexandria M. Popovnak in Pittsburgh.
Bergman is based in the firm's Philadelphia office, which welcomed of counsel Judge James T. Giles and partner Charles S. Marion to the commercial litigation group earlier this month.
Bergman joins Blank Rome from Conrad O'Brien.
He concentrates his practice on general litigation matters and has litigated in state and federal court in areas such as commercial, civil rights, Title IX, white collar, municipal liability and commercial transportation.
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