Vanessa Stine, Kae Greenberg, Lizo Chacker, Jessica Hilburn-Holmes and Mary Clark at the Philadelphia Bar Association's Public Interest Day celebration at the Kline Institute of Trial Advocacy.

Honored

The Philadelphia Bar Foundation recognized its 2018 Morris M. Shuster Public Interest Fellowships on Dec. 8 at the Philadelphia Bar Association's Public Interest Day celebration at the Kline Institute of Trial Advocacy. The Morris M. Shuster Public Interest Fellowship Program provides educational loan repayment assistance in the form of forgivable loans to qualifying legal aid attorneys. 

Elected and Appointed

Cedrone & Mancano founding partner Mark E. Cedrone became a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Over an almost 30-year career, Cedrone has dedicated his professional life to representing individuals and businesses having serious disputes with, or under investigation by, various governmental units and/or administrative agencies. Cedrone represents and counsels individuals and businesses in a wide range of criminal and quasi-criminal matters, ranging from complex tax matters to computer crimes to drug and firearm offenses.

Based in Philadelphia, Cedrone represents clients in all stages of the government dispute/litigation process, including investigations, plea negotiations, trials, posttrial proceedings and appeals. He represents attorneys, pharmacists, realtors and insurance brokers accused of wrongdoing by and before various licensing boards and administrative agencies. His clients also include high-ranking public officials, multinational corporations and small and large business owners.

Cedrone, a former law clerk/attorney adviser for the United States Tax Court, is one of a handful of attorneys in the Philadelphia area qualified to represent individuals in audits and investigations conducted by the Internal Revenue Service and other taxing authorities. He has experience in sensitive civil tax audits, criminal tax investigations, trials in criminal and civil tax matters, sentencing proceedings and tax appeals. He also represented clients in connection with the IRS' voluntary disclosure programs, Form 8300 investigations and various collection and innocent spouse proceedings.

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Timoney Knox announced that Kevin D. Birkhead was elected a partner of the firm.

Birkhead focuses his practice on trusts and estates, business law and taxation.

He is an active member of the Montgomery Bar Association and currently serves as co-chair of the business, banking and corporate counsel committee.

Birkhead often lectures on business and estate topics for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and Saint Joseph's University Office of Veterans Services.

He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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