People in the News—April 30, 2018—South Asian Bar Association
The South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia had its first gala this year and honored Emilie Ninan, who leads Ballard Spahr's public finance department.
April 30, 2018 at 10:00 AM
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The South Asian Bar Association of Philadelphia had its first gala this year.
They honored Emilie Ninan, who leads Ballard Spahr's public finance department.
|Speakers
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young attorney Karl S. Myers served as a moderator at the 2018 Commonwealth Court practicum on April 9.
The program, titled “Practices, Procedures and Perspectives From the Bench,” was presented by the Pennsylvania Bar Association's administrative law section and took place in the Commonwealth Court's en banc courtroom in Harrisburg. Myers' panel, titled, “Court Operations,” featured three Commonwealth Court administrators who discussed the court's rules and procedures in a Q&A session with Myers.
Myers is an appellate lawyer who has argued and briefed dozens of precedent-setting cases before the appellate courts of Pennsylvania and other jurisdictions.
He maintains a particular focus on cases before the Pennsylvania Supreme, Commonwealth and Superior Courts, including litigation involving state constitutional challenges, insurance insolvency and regulatory matters, Pennsylvania Right-to-Know Law requests, government contracting and bid-protest disputes, complex commercial actions and many other types of civil cases.
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Vasilios J. Kalogredis served as moderator of a panel on practice consolidation at the Dermatological Society of New Jersey's conference in Monroe, New Jersey, on April 21.
Kalogredis also presented “A Pro-Physician Health Care Attorney's Perspective on Dermatology Practice Transactions” talk at the conference.
Kalogredis is a shareholder and chairman of Lamb McErlane's health law department.
He has been practicing health law for over 40 years, exclusively representing physicians, dentists, group practices, other health care professionals and health care-related entities.
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On Monday James W. Cushing of the Law Office of Faye Riva Cohen is scheduled to speak to the fifth grade class at Chester A. Arthur School as part of the Philadelphia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division's “Lawyer in the Classroom” event.
He is an associate at the Law Office of Faye Riva Cohen and a research attorney for Legal Research Inc.
Cushing has been a practicing attorney since 2002, passed the bar in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and is currently licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania.
|Elected and Appointed
The Law Offices of Manuela Morais principal Manuela Morais was appointed to the Girl Scouts of Central & Southern New Jersey board of directors.
Morais has been practicing law for nearly 20 years and represents corporate clients, their employees and individuals before federal governmental agencies.
Morais earned her J.D. at the Widener University School of Law in 1999.
She is licensed as a practicing attorney in New Jersey and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Burlington County Bar Association.
Prior to founding her own law firm, Morais was of counsel and managed the immigration practice at Blank Rome as well as working as an associate in the immigration practice at Pepper Hamilton.
She also served as a congressional aide to U.S. Rep. Robert E. Andrews, D-New Jersey.
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