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Elected and Appointed

James J. Kozuch, a shareholder of Caesar Rivise, was elected president of the Bar Association of Lehigh County during the annual membership meeting.

Kozuch is set to serve as president of BALC until January 2020.

Kozuch heads the Lehigh Valley office of Caesar Rivise, a 20-attorney intellectual property law firm with offices also in Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware.

A longtime resident of the Lehigh Valley, he has been an active member of BALC since 1985 and currently serves as a delegate in the House of Delegates of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

He served on the board of commissioners for Salisbury Township and on the board of commissioners for Lehigh County.

Kozuch litigates intellectual property and commercial cases and has been lead counsel in jury trials and bench trials.

He also is a registered patent attorney, an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution, and a licensed professional engineer with experience in the energy and chemicals industries as an engineer and strategic planner.

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Holland & Knight senior counsel Lori Atkin joined the board of directors of the Homeless Advocacy Project.

HAP was founded in 1990 to meet the legal and advocacy needs of homeless individuals and families in Philadelphia.

Atkin is one of 350 lawyers, paralegals and law students who volunteer their services to support HAP's mission.

She is an employee benefits attorney who represents a wide range of employers, including for-profit, nonprofit, governmental and church entities.

She focuses her practice on all aspects of defined benefit, defined contribution and hybrid plans, such as cash balance plans, from inception through termination.

Speakers

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young partner Steven B. Davis and insurance financial and regulatory specialist Stephen J. Johnson spoke at the Pennsylvania Association of Mutual Insurance Companies Business Transactions Seminar on Jan. 24 in Harrisburg.

Their panel, “Regulatory & Corporate Considerations,” discussed regulatory requirements for corporate transactions and regulatory factors and influences that impact business transactions.

Davis is an insurance regulatory and coverage practitioner.

As chair of Stradley Ronon's insurance practice, Davis helps manage the firm's insurance-related regulatory and coverage dispute and litigation engagements.

For more than 20 years, he provided counsel and services in hundreds of insurance regulatory, coverage and litigation matters.

He was previously general counsel of the Pennsylvania insurance department.

Johnson, who previously served as deputy insurance commissioner of the Pennsylvania insurance department, advises on insurance and insurer-related financial transactions with a focus on identifying and addressing insurance regulatory issues.

He works with clients on the insurance regulatory implications of mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures; implementation of new regulatory requirements; reviewing transactional documents for insurance regulatory issues and possible alternatives; designing and developing presentations to regulators; and creating and assessing workout options for troubled companies.

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On Jan. 31, Susan Maslow, a founding partner and business law attorney with Antheil Maslow & MacMinn in Doylestown, participated in a continuing legal education webinar titled “Protecting Workers and Managing Company Risk in Supply Chains: Moving from Policies to Contracts.”

Maslow is a member of the American Bar Association business law section's working group, which developed model clauses to incorporate human rights protections in international supply chains.

The program explained how these clauses make supply chain control and worker protection both legally effective and operationally likely by moving the commitments that companies require of their suppliers into the actual contract documents, where they have greater impact.