People in the News—Aug. 23, 2018—Reger Rizzo & Darnall
Reger Rizzo & Darnall partnered with Lincoln Financial and Blank Rome to provide backpacks filled with school supplies for children living at the Salvation Army's Eliza Shirley House in Philadelphia.
August 23, 2018 at 12:00 PM
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Reger Rizzo & Darnall partnered with Lincoln Financial and Blank Rome to provide backpacks filled with school supplies for children living at the Salvation Army's Eliza Shirley House in Philadelphia.
The backpacks were, of course, chosen in the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles' colors. Reger Rizzo, Lincoln Financial and Blank Rome employees raised more than $1,200 to provide high school-aged students with backpacks that were stuffed with the supplies they need for the upcoming school year.
Supplies included flash drives, calculators, notebooks, binders, pens and pencils, markers, folders, crayons and many other necessary essentials.
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Thomas, Thomas & Hafer added Chloe E. Gartside as a new attorney to the firm.
Gartside is an associate in the Philadelphia office.
Gartside has settled five- and six-figure cases on behalf of workplace discrimination victims while managing large case loads.
She has defended municipalities in civil litigation claims brought under the Pennsylvania Subdivision Tort Claims Act and has represented health care providers in personal injury protection arbitrations as well as representing plaintiffs in third-party litigation.
Gartside has worked as an independent family law attorney as well as in defense and employment law firms.
Gartside was a legal intern for the Defender Association of Philadelphia and a legal intern for the Delaware County Public Defender's Office.
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Gross McGinley welcomed attorney Nicholas Sandercock to the firm.
Sandercock joins the firm's litigation department, assisting the medical malpractice defense team and commercial litigation clients.
Prior to joining Gross McGinley, Sandercock worked for a large Philadelphia law firm, assisting in premises liability, products liability, professional liability, general liability matters.
He also served as a summer intern for Gross McGinley's medical malpractice defense team prior to graduating law school.
He earned his J.D. from Temple University's Beasley School of Law in 2017.
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