People in the News—Nov. 14, 2018—Spector Gadon
Spector Gadon & Rosen announced that Miguel D. Pena joined the firm as a member of the estates and trusts group.
November 14, 2018 at 11:30 AM
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Spector Gadon & Rosen announced that Miguel D. Pena joined the firm as a member of the estates and trusts group.
Pena practices in the areas of estate and trust planning, administration, and matters involving estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes.
He represents a variety of individuals and families in all aspects of wealth and tax planning, including formation of revocable and irrevocable trusts, directed trusts, asset protection trusts, limited liability companies and other entities, and business succession and generational wealth transfer planning.
In addition, Pena represents corporate fiduciaries and other advisers in matters relating to the validity, construction, administration, formation and modification of trusts, including the migration and modification of existing trusts through judicial and nonjudicial means, such as decanting, merger, nonjudicial settlement agreements and modifications by consent.
Pena is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and Delaware, representing clients in both jurisdictions.
He is also admitted to practice in Florida and the United States Tax Court.
He is a past chair of the estates and trusts section of the Delaware State Bar Association.
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Cozen O'Connor added IP attorney Vadim Braginsky.
He joined the firm's IP practice as counsel.
Braginsky has served a diverse range of tech clients—from startups to Fortune 50 enterprises—in the industrial and scientific instrumentation, wireless communications, software, computer architecture and information security, mobile device and Internet-of-Things, and medical device sectors.
A registered patent attorney, Braginsky provides strategic guidance on a range of other IP issues, including clearance, infringement, joint-development, licensing and IP monetization. He also counsels clients on patent litigation-related issues, including offensive and defensive case development/strategies and litigation risk management.
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Capehart Scatchard added Ruby Delarosa, Anthony A. Skalski and Jaclyn Terranova in the firm's workers' compensation department as associates in its Mount Laurel, New Jersey, office.
All three attorneys represent insurance carriers and employers in the defense of workers' compensation claims at all stages of litigation.
Delarosa received her law degree from Widener University Delaware Law School. Upon law school graduation, she worked as a law clerk to Superior Court Judge Daniel A. Bernardin in Camden, New Jersey.
Skalski graduated from Temple University's Beasley School of Law.
He is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Terranova received her law degree from Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law.
She is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
|Events
The Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel is set to hold a monthly CLE luncheon Nov. 20. The CLE, titled “The Interrogators' Guide to Depositions, Investigations and Discovery: What Civil Trial Attorneys Can Learn From the Worlds Best Interrogators,” will be presented by attorney John P. Morgenstern.
It is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at Del Frisco's Restaurant, 1426 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
For more information, call 844-744-5600.
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