Honored

Ayodele Gansallo, a senior staff attorney at HIAS Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, was selected for the fourth annual Pennsylvania Bar Association Immigration Law Pro Bono Award.

She is set to be presented with the award Tuesday at a reception at White and Williams' Philadelphia office.

HIAS Pennsylvania will also be honored at the program.

The Immigration Law Pro Bono Award is sponsored by Green and Spiegel and coordinated by the PBA immigration law committee.

Gansallo is being recognized for her years of service on behalf of immigrants and refugees. She has devoted her career to representing victims of persecution, abuse and discrimination seeking asylum in the United States.

Gansallo joined HIAS Pennsylvania in 1988.

She is an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Transnational Legal Clinic and also serves as secretary of the Philadelphia chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Additions

Goldberg, Miller & Rubin added Jessica Keller as an associate in the Philadelphia office. Her practice primarily focuses on general liability, automobile accidents, premises liability cases, dog bites and intentional torts.

Keller graduated from Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law. She was a member of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project where she taught inner-city kids about the Constitution in addition to coaching two students in a moot court competition.

She also served as a summer clerk for Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Mark I. Bernstein.

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Bernard C. Devieux joined the Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware, offices of McCarter & English.

He joins as an associate in the firm's corporate, securities and business transactions group. Devieux's practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing transactions, securities law compliance, public company reporting requirements, corporate governance and commercial contracts.

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The Chartwell Law Offices added workers' compensation attorney Derek Goldstein.

Goldstein focuses his practice on workers' compensation representing employers and insurance carriers, criminal defense, as well as foreclosure, where he has successfully litigated on behalf of several banking institutions.

Speakers

Elaine Yandrisevits of Antheil Maslow & MacMinn is set to participate as faculty Dec. 3 at a National Business Institute continuing education program focusing on the requirements, procedures and pitfalls of fiscal planning with supplemental needs trusts.

The legal briefing will provide an overview of the specialized skills required to provide special-needs beneficiaries with financial structure and stability and enable accountants, attorneys and financial planners to offer clients guidance on this estate planning tool and find creative cost-effective ways of funding supplemental needs trusts.

Yandrisevits is an associate in Antheil Maslow's estates and trusts practice group, She focuses her practice on estate planning, trusts and estate administration and assists with fiduciary litigation matters.

Announcements

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