People in the News—Dec. 13, 2018—Duane Morris
Duane Morris named partners James J. Holman and Meagen E. Leary as co-chairs of the business reorganization and financial restructuring practice group.
December 13, 2018 at 11:30 AM
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Elected and Appointed
Duane Morris named partners James J. Holman and Meagen E. Leary as co-chairs of the business reorganization and financial restructuring practice group.
Holman and Leary succeed partner Rudolph “Skip” J. Di Massa Jr., who has led the group since 2001. Di Massa will continue practicing as a partner in the group.
Holman, of the firm's Philadelphia office, practices in the areas of commercial finance law, business reorganization, and business and municipal insolvency.
He represents institutional lenders, trust companies, insurance companies and businesses in a broad spectrum of transactions, including corporate finance, business restructuring and bankruptcy.
Leary, of the firm's San Francisco office, maintains a national creditors' rights, commercial real estate finance and bankruptcy practice.
Leary and her team handle all aspects of commercial loan workouts, bankruptcies, real estate finance and lender liability litigation, and commercial loan and real estate transactions.
|Events
In commemoration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Dec. 3, attorneys and staff in the Philadelphia office of Reed Smith wore purple to show support for the day.
The Reed Smith team included Philadelphia office managing partner Wayne Stansfield and Luke Debevec, who spearheaded the creation of the firm's LEADRS (Looking for Excellence and Advancement of persons with Disabilities at Reed Smith) business inclusion group.
|Additions
Christopher Barrett joined Conrad O'Brien as an associate.
Barrett is based in the firm's main office in Philadelphia.
He joined the firm's education law practice, where he represents and advises K-12 schools in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
He works with schools on all aspects of operations and counsels charter schools from the application drafting process through startup and ongoing operations.
Barrett also has experience as a solicitor to schools throughout New Jersey.
In that capacity, he provided daily counsel to school administrators, public boards of education and charter schools, litigated matters on behalf of his school clients before state courts and state and federal administrative agencies, and provided trainings and seminars to school board members, school administrators and staff members.
He earned his law degree from Widener University School of Law.
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