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Additions

Timoney Knox has expanded the law firm with the additions of attorneys Bernard F. Siergiej, Dawn N. Cohen, Thomas J. McTear, Andrew W. Knox and Emily K. Christian.

Siergiej is of counsel to the firm, and focuses his practice in the areas of wills, trusts, estate administration, taxes and real estate.

Cohen and McTear are members of the firm's insurance industry group and focus their practice on insurance and commercial litigation.

Knox is a member of the litigation department and concentrates his practice on education, trust and estates litigation, as well as civil litigation, personal injury and medical malpractice.

Christian is an associate in the wills, trusts and estates group and focuses her practice on estate planning and special needs trusts.

Timoney Knox's practice areas include business, corporate and tax law, education law, students' rights, insurance industry law, employment law, municipal law, real estate and zoning law, special needs trusts, civil litigation and wills, trusts and estates law.

Elected and Appointed

Andrew Chirls was named chairman of the Human Relations Commission of the borough of Narberth.

Narberth borough council member and chair Aaron Muderick appointed Chirls to the commission for a four-year term and as its inaugural chairperson.

Chirls is a past chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association and is a member of the commercial litigation/business dispute, and real estate practice areas of the Philadelphia-based law firm of Fineman, Krekstein & Harris.

In June 2017 by unanimous vote, Narberth borough became the 43rd municipality in Pennsylvania to adopt a nondiscrimination ordinance, filling a gap in state and federal law by prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, and certain other characteristics not included in federal and state law.

The legislation amended the borough code to establish a Narberth Human Relations Commission, to be made up of five regular and two alternate members.

The commission will be empowered to receive and respond to complaints of discrimination in the areas of employment, housing and commercial property, and public accommodations.

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Katherine Hatton, vice president and general counsel at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was elected to the board of directors of the Public Interest Law Center.

Formerly, Hatton was vice president and general counsel of Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., publisher of The Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News and philly.com, with responsibility for overseeing the legal affairs of the company, including its business and First Amendment matters.

Before joining PNI in 1992, Hatton was a shareholder at the Philadelphia law firm now known as Kohn Swift & Graf, where she focused her litigation practice on media issues, particularly First Amendment concerns.

The Public Interest Law Center uses legal strategies to advance the civil, social and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality and poverty.

Events

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young attorneys and staff in the firm's Philadelphia office donated blood for an American National Red Cross blood drive on Aug. 1.

The effort was organized by Stradley Ronon's American Red Cross blood drive committee, a group of attorneys and staff who work and volunteer with the Red Cross. Stradley Ronon donated 28 pints of blood, which will save up to 84 patients' lives.

The Red Cross donates collected blood to cancer, burn, sickle cell and trauma patients who cannot produce their own healthy blood.