PLW People in the News—Nov. 6, 2018—Marshall Dennehey
Matthew P. Keris, shareholder in the Scranton office of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, was elected the Atlantic regional director of the Defense Research Institute.
November 05, 2018 at 12:30 PM
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Matthew P. Keris.
Elected and Appointed
Matthew P. Keris, shareholder in the Scranton office of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, was elected the Atlantic regional director of the Defense Research Institute (DRI). Keris previously was DRI's Pennsylvania state representative and membership chair.
He will serve a three-year term on the organization's board of directors, to culminate in 2021.
A member of Marshall Dennehey's health care department, Keris represents physicians, medical groups and health care institutions in a variety of health care liability matters. In addition to his defense practice, he lectures nationally on litigation issues pertaining to the use of electronic medical records.
He is also the author of the book “Electronic Medical Records and Litigation,” published by Thomson Reuters.
|Additions
Gawthrop Greenwood announced that two new attorneys joined the firm.
• Robert C. Jefferson IV is an associate attorney practicing in municipal government law, as well as land use, land development and zoning.
A former assistant district attorney, Jefferson spent six years at the Chester County DA's Office prosecuting 19 jury trials and more than 20 bench trials for criminal cases ranging from felonies to misdemeanors.
Jefferson earned his law degree at University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
• Kari Springer joined Gawthrop Greenwood as an associate attorney.
Springer has served as a law clerk and summer associate at the firm for the past year as she worked toward her law degree.
During that time, she focused her practice in the firm's trusts and estates department.
She recently graduated from Villanova University's Charles Widger School of Law.
|Honored
Loreen M. Burkett of Weiss Burkett was named Business Person of the Year 2018 for Lebanon by the Community of Lebanon Association.
The award ceremony occurred on Oct. 9.
Burkett has practiced law in Lebanon County since 1988 and has been a custody conciliator, mediator and divorce master for the Lebanon County Court of Common Pleas.
She focuses her practice on family law issues and estate probate.
She served as Lebanon County's standing guardian ad litem beginning in 1991.
Burkett also instituted a custody clinic for low-income residents of Lebanon County in 1991.
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