People in the News—April 24, 2018—Fine, Kaplan and Black
Roberta Liebenberg, a partner at Fine, Kaplan and Black, received the Hortense Ward Courageous Leader Award from the Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law on April 13.
April 24, 2018 at 10:00 AM
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Roberta Liebenberg, a partner at Fine, Kaplan and Black, received the Hortense Ward Courageous Leader Award from the Center for Women in Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law on April 13.
Liebenberg focuses her practice on antitrust, class actions and complex commercial litigation.
|Events
The Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia is set to hold a reception and ethics CLE for the Philadelphia legal community.
Its first reception is scheduled on April 30 at the Union League of Philadelphia for the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia and the Municipal Court of Philadelphia, honoring Judge Matthew D. Carrafiello.
The reception will be preceded by a one ethics credit CLE beginning at 4:15 p.m.
The topic of the CLE will be “The Impaired Lawyer: Alcohol and Drug Addiction in the Legal Community.”
The scheduled guest speakers include Brian S. Quinn, of Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers, Abraham Reich, chair emeritus of Fox Rothschild, and Link Christin, executive director of Caron Treatment Centers.
Nonmembers are invited to attend for a $25 fee for the CLE and reception.
Those that would like to attend the ethics CLE must register through: https://tinyurl.com/y8hox3tz
|Additions
Jennifer Caraway is a new associate at Goldberg, Miller & Rubin's Philadelphia office who focuses her work primarily on the defense of clients in automotive negligence, including first party, third party and coverage issues.
Caraway graduated from Temple University's Beasley School of Law.
She was a member of the Latin American Law Students Association as well as the Women's Law Caucus, where she was a mentor to incoming students.
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Edward “Ned” M. Dunham Jr. joined Spector Gadon & Rosen.
Dunham, a Harvard Law School graduate, practiced most recently at the Philadelphia law firm of Kleinbard LLC.
He is an insurance coverage lawyer and litigator.
His algorithm-based cyber exposure assessment process generates a report to the client in a few business days in readable and understandable C-suite language enabling a client to make informed risk management decisions as to whether to ignore certain risks, fix them, or transfer them by way of cyber risk insurance.
|Announcements
AARP Pennsylvania and Philadelphia's SeniorLAW Center announced a new partnership that will use the power of the city's most prominent law firms to advocate for issues impacting the lives of older adults.
The Pro Bono Action for Community Impact in Pennsylvania, a SeniorLAW Center and AARP partnership, will leverage pro bono partnerships with law firms to fight for policy changes that expand legal protections and resources for seniors and raise the visibility of issues important to older adults.
The partnership will be led by former Pennsylvania Secretary of Aging Nora Dowd Eisenhower, who will serve as project director.
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The Legal and Pennsylvania Law Weekly are looking for verdicts and settlements to report.
If you're a plaintiffs or defense attorney who has obtained a verdict or settlement in Pennsylvania county or federal court recently, email Zack Needles at [email protected].
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