Additions

Ming He joined Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel.

He assists in the preparation, filing and prosecution of patent applications as well as conducting searches and reviews to assist in due diligence, patentability and freedom to operate analyses.

Registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, He specializes in chemical and pharmaceutical patent applications.

Prior to his career in intellectual property law, he worked as a senior process chemist at a pharmaceutical company in Delaware, developing manufacturing processes and providing chemical and technical solutions to clients.

He also has experience in creating synthetic versions of a variety of chemicals for research purposes, as well as, beginning his career as a senior research assistant in Unilever's research and development department in Shanghai.

Speakers

Sarah A. Eastburn of Eastburn and Gray is set to serve as a panelist at a free divorce seminar hosted by cBridge in Doylestown on March 20.

The seminar is titled “Financial Impact of Divorce” and the panel will discuss the short- and long-term financial implications associated with a divorce.

Eastburn's professional practice at Eastburn and Gray includes wills, trusts and estates, litigation and taxation.

She advises clients at all stages of estate planning including wealth transfer, asset protection and succession strategies.

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Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young partners Craig R. Blackman and Mark A. Sheehan presented a webinar on Feb. 28 titled, “Directors and Officers Insurance, Independent Directors Liability Insurance and Cyber Insurance: What Every Mutual Fund Director Ought to Know.”

The webinar was held by the Mutual Fund Directors Forum and hosted by Stradley Ronon.
Blackman is co-chair of the firm's insurance practice and cyber insurance groups.

Sheehan focuses his practice on investment management law and complex securities law issues for investment companies and their boards of directors/trustees, investment advisers, broker-dealers and other investment management industry participants.

Events

Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law and the Science History Institute are set to present “Scientific Expertise in the Courtroom” at 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on March 29 at the Science History Institute on 315 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia.

Testimony by scientific experts plays a key role in criminal and civil cases throughout the United States.

Yet it is an area that is continually evolving as cutting-edge scientific procedures are developed and new ethical questions are raised.

Villanova Law and the Science History Institute are set to bring together scholars and experienced practitioners in evidence, psychology, economics and ethics to tackle some of the field's most pressing issues.

Topics of discussion include the crisis in forensic science; the standards for admissibility of expert testimony, including statistical estimation evidence; the problem of bias in expertise; the ethical dilemmas of attorneys drafting expert reports; and the ethical challenges when consulting experts become testifying experts.

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Employees of Kline & Specter prepared “Breakfast for Dinner” for about 80 people at the Ronald McDonald House in West Philadelphia.