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Additions

William W. Campbell and his staff joined Nikolaus & Hohenadel.

Campbell was named a partner with Nikolaus & Hohenadel.

With this addition the firm will grow to a firm of 27 attorneys and 38 staff with offices in Lancaster, Columbia, Elizabethtown, Strasburg and now Quarryville.

Campbell's main practice involves estates, certain aspects of real estate and general practice.

He has also practiced criminal law and has argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Houston Harbaugh added Christopher M. Jacobs to the firm as a director in its insurance coverage and bad faith and commercial litigation practices.

Prior to joining Houston Harbaugh, Jacobs was a member of Burns White where he was co-chair of the insurance coverage and extracontractual litigation practice group.

Jacobs has served as counsel for major national insurers in actions involving construction defect claims, latent and progressive injury claims, long-tail environment exposure claims, disputed uninsured and underinsured motorist claims, first-party property losses and excess verdicts.

His practice also involves the preparation of coverage opinions and analyses in matters involving reservation of rights, disclaimer of coverage, examinations under oath, declaratory judgments and extracontractual exposure.

He has handled disputes involving trigger, allocation and reallocation of losses in complex coverage claims; horizontal and vertical exhaustion; the interaction among primary, excess and umbrella policies; targeted tender issues; and personal and advertising injury claims.

Elected and Appointed

Barley Snyder partner Joseph R. Falcon III of the firm's intellectual property practice group was named the vice chair of a national patent group.

Falcon will serve as vice chair of the patent legislation of the American Bar Association section of intellectual property law.

The ABA's section of intellectual property law works to advance the development of intellectual property laws, and their fair and just administration.

Falcon will help oversee and assist in the development of ABA policy on pending federal legislation relating to U.S. patent laws or affecting U.S. patent rights.

Falcon is based in the firm's Malvern office.

He also is a chair for the intellectual property law section at the Chester County Bar Association.

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Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin's Joseph J. McGrory Jr. was elected as a voting member to the Pennsylvania Bar Association House of Delegates.

The House of Delegates is the body charged with setting the policy of the PBA.

McGrory is chairman of the municipal law department at Hamburg Rubin and is a member of the real estate department.

He has 34 years of experience handling zoning, subdivision, land development and municipal law matters.