People in the News—Jan. 3, 2019—Willig Williams
Philadelphia labor, employment and workers' compensation firm Willig, Williams & Davidson attorney Ryan Allen Hancock received the Philadelphia Bar Association's PNC Wealth Management Achievement Award.
January 03, 2019 at 11:00 AM
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David N. Hofstein, chair, Philadelphia Bar Association PNC Wealth Management Achievement Award committee; Ryan Hancock, of counsel at Willig Williams; Salvatore J. Patti, SVP, regional managing director, PNC Wealth Management; and Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor Mary F. Platt attend the Philadelphia Bar Association Annual Luncheon on Dec. 5 in Philadelphia. Photo: Thomas E. Rogers/Philadelphia Bar Association
Honored
Philadelphia labor, employment and workers' compensation firm Willig, Williams & Davidson attorney Ryan Allen Hancock received the Philadelphia Bar Association's PNC Wealth Management Achievement Award, which honors significant accomplishments in improving the administration of justice.
Hancock was recognized for his dedication to helping low-income Philadelphians overcome past criminal convictions through pro bono litigation. In 2009, he joined two other Philadelphia-based civil rights attorneys to create Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity, which helps Philadelphians expunge criminal records that can hinder them from attaining employment, housing and other benefits for which they otherwise are qualified.
|Speakers
Steven L. Sugarman, founding principal of the Berwyn law firm Steven L. Sugarman & Associates, was a featured speaker at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's 22nd Annual Real Estate Institute. Sugarman presented on recent decisional and statutory law affecting condominium and homeowner associations throughout Pennsylvania in the course titled, “Annual Condo/HOA Case Law and Legislative Update.”
Sugarman is set to speak next at the Community Association Institute's 40th Annual Law Seminar held from Jan. 23 to 26 in New Orleans.
A member of the College of Community Association Lawyers, Sugarman also serves as an adjunct professor at Villanova University's Charles Widger School of Law where he developed and teaches the course, “Condominium and Homeowner Association Law.”
|Elected and Appointed
On Dec. 12, 2018, James W. Cushing was invited onto the executive committee of the family section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
Cushing is senior associate at the Law Office of Faye Riva Cohen and research attorney with Legal Research Inc.
Cushing's practice focuses on family, unemployment compensation, contracts and landlord/tenant.
His family practice consists of cases of divorce, child support, child custody, protection from abuse, adoption and related issues.
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