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Additions

McNees Wallace & Nurick welcomed new associate Jacquelyn A. Kunkel to the firm's corporate and tax practice group.

Kunkel will practice in the firm's Harrisburg office with a focus on taxation and business planning.

Kunkel has experience helping individuals resolve tax disputes with the IRS, providing federal, state and international tax planning advice in M&A transactions, and assisting with entity formation.

Prior to joining McNees Wallace, she worked at a large accounting firm in the international and M&A tax groups.

Speakers

Dilworth Paxson partner Thomas Wyatt is a scheduled panelist at the mid-Atlantic conference of Regulatory Utilities Commissioners' 23rd annual education conference on June 26.

Wyatt's session, “Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty? Valuing Municipal Water Acquisitions,” is set to run from 10:15-11:15 am.

Wyatt is part of the firm's corporate and business department as well as a member of the securities and mergers and acquisitions practice groups.

Based in the firm's Philadelphia office, Wyatt brings broad-based securities and corporate governance experience, including work on public offerings, acquisitions, dispositions and transition matters.

Elected and Appointed

S. David Fineman, managing partner of Fineman Krekstein & Harris, is the board chair of the new Fair Elections Center, a D.C.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to removing barriers to registration and voting for traditionally underrepresented constituencies.

The Fair Elections Center will continue the work of the Fair Elections Legal Network, which spent 12 years fighting this battle.

The center is a national, nonprofit, nonpartisan voting rights and election reform organization that works to improve election administration through legislative, legal and administrative reform, to protect access to the ballot through litigation, and to provide election law expertise, voter information and technical assistance to voter mobilization organizations.

Throughout his 40-year career, Fineman has counseled individuals, business owners and government employees on commercial litigation, business disputes, public finance, real estate and tax issues.

Announcements

Swartz Campbell opened a Baltimore office.

The office will be initially staffed by lawyers of the firm who are admitted in Maryland and who represent insurers and self-insured in litigation matters.

The office will be led by partner Edmund K. John, who has practiced complex commercial litigation matters including products liability for over 30 years.

Joining him on matters will be Beth Valocchi, a partner in the firm's Wilmington, Delaware, office, and Lisa Balestrini, an associate in the firm's Scranton office.

The Baltimore office will be the firm's 11th office in the United States.

The office is located at 300 E. Lombard St., Suite 840, Baltimore, Maryland, 21202.

The firm's Baltimore phone number is 410-885-4220 and its fax number is 410-819-2380.