People in the News—Nov. 5, 2018—Goldberg Miller
Goldberg, Miller & Rubin added two attorneys to the firm.
November 05, 2018 at 11:28 AM
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Additions
Goldberg, Miller & Rubin added two attorneys to the firm.
Brandon Cohen joined the firm as an associate in the Philadelphia office.
He focuses his work primarily on the defense of clients in general liability, automotive negligence, uninsured/underinsured motorist and premises liability cases.
Cohen was previously a judicial law clerk for Judge Edward C. Wright and a judicial fellow for Judge Lisa M. Rau, both of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.
He received his J.D. from Emory University School of Law in 2017.
Erik Neiman joined Goldberg Miller's Philadelphia office as an associate.
He focuses on the defense of clients in general liability, automotive negligence, uninsured/underinsured motorist, and premises liability cases.
Prior to joining the firm, Neiman gained trial experience representing plaintiffs in civil litigation throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
He also served as an assistant district attorney for the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office, representing the state in a variety of criminal trials and hearings before judges, juries and magisterial district judges.
|Elected and Appointed
Archer partner Lloyd Freeman was appointed a member of the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Advisory Board.
The advisory board is the external support group for the law school and advises the president of the university, the dean of the school of law and school faculty about the development of the law school's academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programs.
Freeman's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation matters in state and federal courts in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
He is a member of the hiring and diversity committees and coordinates the firm summer associate program.
He also is the founder and chairman of the firm's affinity group, L.E.A.D. (Lawyers Encouraging Archer's Diversity).
|Events
The Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel held a ceremony at its October monthly luncheon to mark donations made by PADC to charities designated by PADC 2018 annual award recipients.
Donations were made to Villanova University's Charles Widger School of Law on behalf of William J. O'Brien Distinguished Service Award recipient R. Bruce Morrison of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin (awarded posthumously) and to the Spruce Foundation on behalf of Joseph H. Foster Young Lawyer Award recipient Jason M. Poore of White and Williams.
|Speakers
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young attorney Kristen Gibbons Feden served as a panelist at the 2018 S.H.E. Summit on Oct. 19 in New York.
Feden's panel, “Time's Up. How to Create Non-Complicit and Zero Tolerance Culture,” discussed the Time's Up movement and its effect on business industries and local communities, and how to create a zero-tolerance culture.
Feden has experience handling civil and criminal cases. She concentrates her litigation practice on employment discrimination cases, securities litigation and other complex commercial litigation.
Through her practice, Feden conducts internal investigations for corporate, governmental and educational clients.
Prior to joining Stradley Ronon, she was assistant district attorney in the Trials Division of the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office.
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