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Additions

McNees Wallace & Nurick added Alexandra Snell.

Snell joins the McNees Wallace corporate and tax and health care practice groups. While in law school, Snell participated on the student bar association, serving as both vice president and president.

She also served as an associate editor on the Drexel Law Review and worked at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as a legal intern.

She spent her summers interning for CGA Law Firm in York and for McNees Wallace. Snell received her J.D. from the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law.

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Melissa N. Fann joined the Pittsburgh office of Dinsmore & Shohl as an associate. She practices out of the firm's corporate department.

Fann focuses her practice on health care law, corporate law, regulatory and compliance issues and food and drug law.

She previously interned with Judge Michael Wojcik of the Commonwealth Court, worked at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Health Law Clinic, served as a teaching assistant in the health care compliance graduate certificate and legal writing programs, and worked for a nonprofit environmental law firm.

She received her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and her M.P.H. from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health in health policy and management.

Speakers

Lisa L. Prince, of counsel in the Philadelphia office of Rawle & Henderson, is scheduled to participate on the faculty for the annual Dispute Resolution Institute (DRI) Personal Injury Practicum on Nov. 8 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.

The practicum is designed for plaintiff and defense personal injury attorneys and offers practical tips and insight.

Prince will speak in the session titled “Social Media & Discovery: The Defense Perspective.” The session will examine issues related to collection of plaintiffs' social media information as evidence in lawsuits, including admissibility of “public” versus “private” postings, admissibility of deleted postings, guidelines on accessing an individual's social media postings, and authentication of social media accounts.

Prince concentrates her practice in the areas of premises liability, products liability, commercial motor vehicle and construction law matters.

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