Carl N. Weiner of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin.

Speakers

Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin's Carl N. Weiner presented at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's 2018 Real Estate Institute.

Weiner presented the seminar “Latest Trends in Municipal, Developer and Homeowner Association Roles in Stormwater Management” at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. The seminar covered regulations underpinning municipal stormwater responsibility, the process of transitioning responsibility for stormwater maintenance to homeowner association, and the interplay between association document and mandated stormwater disclosure documents.

Weiner co-chairs the real estate group of Hamburg Rubin. He handles an array of real estate law matters for Delaware Valley clients, ranging from zoning and land development to real- estate financing and acquisition.

A frequent lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Community Associations Institute and the Montgomery Bar Association, Weiner is a past chairman of the MBA's specialization committee and real estate land use committee.

Weiner currently serves as president of the Montgomery Bar Foundation.

Since 2009, Weiner served multiple terms as chair of the Pennsylvania legislative action committee of the Community Associations Institute. Before joining the firm in 1984, he served as a law clerk to Judge Stanley M. Greenberg of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia.

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Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young chairman William R. Sasso served as a moderator at the Main Line Chamber of Commerce's annual Summit on Business Leadership and Corporate Volunteerism on Dec. 13 in King of Prussia.

Sasso and a panel of CEOs and corporate philanthropy experts discussed how businesses address community needs. The panelists were Chris Franklin, chairman, CEO and president of Aqua America Inc.; Martha Miele, immediate past president of SEI Cares; and Pedro Ramos, president and CEO of The Philadelphia Foundation.

Sasso has been chairman of Stradley Ronon since 1994. In this role, he is responsible for oversight and management of more than 200 attorneys in the firm's eight offices.

Outside of his legal practice, he has served as chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce's board of directors, a commissioner of the Delaware River Port Authority and as a trustee of Leo Niessen Jr. Charitable Foundation. He also serves on the board of directors of the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation and the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, and Independence Health Group; the board of trustees of LaSalle University; and he was the chairman of the Pennsylvania Infrastructure and Investment Authority (PENNVEST). He is the board chair of Holy Redeemer Health System, and he serves on the board of Cancer Treatment Centers of America.

Elected and Appointed

Blank Rome announced that four associates and one of counsel were elected partner in the firm's Philadelphia office. The newly elected partners are Stephanie Gantman Kaplan, Daniel S. Morris, Lauren E. O'Donnell and Gregory F. Vizza. The new of counsel is Josef W. Mintz.

Gantman Kaplan concentrates her practice on labor and employment litigation and counseling, advising and representing clients in areas including employment policies and practices; internal and governmental audits and investigations; litigation avoidance; workplace training; defending discrimination and harassment matters; labor arbitrations; employment agreements, restrictive covenants and separation agreements; and reductions in force. She also serves as a child advocate for abused and neglected children in Philadelphia through the Support Center for Child Advocates and is an active member of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

Morris handles complex litigation matters, representing both corporations and individuals in commercial and corporate disputes, intellectual property issues and employment matters, with a focus on trade secrets theft, disputes with former executive employees, and software and technology litigation. He also has experience in business divorce litigation, representing clients in minority shareholder oppression and breach of fiduciary duty actions, derivative claims and intra-corporate disputes. Additionally, Morris conducts corporate internal investigations and handles numerous alternative dispute resolution and mediation cases. He is engaged in his local community and with nonprofit organizations, including the Philadelphia leadership council of the American Red Cross.

O'Donnell advises clients on white-collar criminal defense matters, internal investigations and health care fraud and abuse. She also represents clients in products liability cases, defending medical device, pharmaceutical and chemical companies in federal and state litigation. She is a member of the white-collar crime steering committee for the American Bar Association's Philadelphia young lawyers' division and serves as the assistant secretary for the Center City Residents' Association board of directors.

Vizza maintains a practice concentrating on business restructuring, bankruptcy and financial services. He represents clients in both transactional and litigation matters, including restructurings, reorganizations and workouts; secured transactions and creditors' rights; bankruptcy and consumer mortgage litigation; asset sales; asset-based financing; and plan negotiations.

Mintz represents clients in all aspects of bankruptcy and insolvency matters, including Chapter 7 and 11 cases, Chapter 15 and related international insolvency matters, out-of-court workouts, bankruptcy litigation, financing and asset sales. Mintz is the president of the Philadelphia/Wilmington chapter of the Turnaround Management Association, a steering committee member of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Bankruptcy Conference and a barrister of the Delaware Bankruptcy Inns of Court.