Events

Attorneys and staff from Lamb McErlane filled Christmas stockings for the Great Valley Food Cupboard. The stockings will be donated to teenagers in the Chester County area.

Speakers

Michael Kleiman was a presenter for the Montgomery County Bar Association CLE program “The Intersection of Child Custody and School Law.”

Kleiman, a founding member of Bleczinski Kleiman & Klein in King of Prussia, focuses his practice on all areas of family law.

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Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young attorney Kristen Gibbons Feden served as a speaker at Evercore Wealth Management's Wise Women event Dec. 6 in New York. Feden led a conversation on her successful prosecution of Bill Cosby and the importance of his case in the #Metoo Era.

Feden is a litigator with experience handling civil and criminal cases.

Feden concentrates her litigation practice on employment discrimination cases, securities litigation and other complex commercial litigation. Through her practice, Feden conducts internal investigations for corporate, governmental and educational clients. Prior to joining Stradley Ronon, she was assistant district attorney in the trials division of the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office, where she served as captain of the elder abuse unit and the domestic violence unit and as a member of the sex crimes unit.

Honored

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law presented its 2018 Segal-Tweed Founders Award to shareholder Michael L. Lehr of the Philadelphia office of global law firm Greenberg Traurig.

The award is one of six the Washington, D.C.-based civil rights organization presents to supporters and advocates annually. The Segal-Tweed Founders Award recognizes outstanding leadership in the effort to ensure equal rights under the law. The award is named for the organization's founding co-chairs, jurists Bernard G. Segal and Harrison Tweed.  

New York state Attorney General Barbara Underwood offered the keynote address at the awards ceremony held Dec. 5 at the Manhattan offices of Schulte Roth & Zabel.

Lehr, a member of the public finance group, devotes time to pro bono work and serves as a board member of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law as well as on the boards of Equal Justice Works and the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. He co-founded Greenberg Traurig's Philadelphia office in 1997 and currently has regional managerial responsibility for several of the firm's offices.

Announcements

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