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Events

Fox Rothschild participated in its first New York 5-Boro Bike Tour on May 6.

Fox Rothschild attorneys and staff, sporting Sly Fox collaboration jerseys, joined more than 32,000 cyclists in a 40-mile, traffic-free course through Central Park, Harlem, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island.

The event was sponsored by TD Bank and Bike New York, a nonprofit. Proceeds will benefit more than 50 local and national charities.

Speakers

Flaster Greenberg attorney Harry J. Giacometti is scheduled to participate as a panelist at an educational seminar during the TMA Mid-Atlantic regional symposium on June 6-7, at Harrah's Atlantic City.

The symposium will provide discussions examining some of the most relevant issues in the turnaround space, featuring panels of diverse leading professionals from the region and across the country.

Giacometti is a shareholder in the firm's bankruptcy, financial restructuring and risk management department.

His practice is focused on bankruptcy, debtor and creditors' rights, commercial law and litigation.

Additions

Matthew J. Franson joined Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy in its Philadelphia office as a new associate.

He will be representing businesses in the areas of products liability, construction defect, toxic tort and premises liability.

Franson, a 2013 graduate of Rutgers Law School, has prior experience handling a variety of civil litigation matters.

He served as a judicial extern for U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Most recently, he worked as an associate at a regional defense firm handling products and premises liability matters and mass tort litigation.

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Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel added Elizabeth Ann “Betty” Morgan to the firm.
Morgan focuses her practice in trademark law and mediation and arbitration of intellectual property matters.

Morgan has jury trial experience in federal court, including patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret matters, and has handled more than 100 matters before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

She also has managed trademark portfolios consisting of hundreds of marks and has handled worldwide rollouts of new brands.

Morgan serves as a panelist for the American Arbitration Association and National Arbitration and Mediation.

Elected and Appointed

The international employment law committee of the American Bar Association's section of international law tapped Kelly Dobbs Bunting, shareholder at the Philadelphia office of Greenberg Traurig, to join its 2018-19 steering committee.

Bunting previously served in a similar capacity during the 2014-16 terms.

The ABA's section of international law was founded in 1933 to promote interest, activity and research in international and comparative law.

Bunting is a member of Greenberg Traurig's labor and employment practice and co-chair of the firm's labor and employment practice's workforce compliance and regulatory enforcement group.

She handles a variety of employment litigation and counseling matters on behalf of employers around the world, including wage-and-hour class and collective actions; discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination and whistleblower litigation; noncompetition, non-solicitation, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and compliance issues; and labor and employment due diligence, employment and secondment agreements.