People in the News—March 28, 2019—Greenblatt Pierce
Greenblatt, Pierce, Funt and Flores participated in the Lemon Run to raise money for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.
March 28, 2019 at 11:00 AM
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Greenblatt, Pierce, Funt and Flores participated in the Lemon Run to raise money for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation. The firm participated as “Team Harry” in honor of cancer survivor Harry J. Kane III, the son of Greenblatt Pierce partner Harry J. Kane Jr. The team raised close to $9,000 for the event.
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation was started by the parents of Alexandra Scott in 2005 after she passed away at the age of eight from cancer. When first diagnosed before her fourth birthday, she told her parents she wanted to set up a front yard lemonade stand to raise money for doctors to find a cure. At the time of her death, her stand raised over $1 million. To date, the foundation itself has raised more than $150 million.
|Honored
Samuel C. Totaro Jr. was chosen to receive the Ursinus College Alumni Award for Service to Humanity.
This award pays tribute for time volunteered for the benefit of a community or nonprofit institution.
Totaro, a partner with Curtin & Heefner, practices in the field of adoption law and related adoption litigation.
He participated in over 4,000 adoptions of children, representing adoptive parents, birth parents and adoption agencies.
Totaro was lead counsel in Gibbs v. Ernst, a 1994 Pennsylvania Supreme Court case that established the rights of adoptive parents to be compensated for the failure of adoption agencies to fully disclose all relevant and material information in its possession to the adoptive parents prior to adoption.
Totaro is past president of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and served on the board of trustees of the National Council for Adoption in Washington, D.C., and the board of trustees of both the Bucks County Bar Association and the Bucks County Bar Foundation.
He is a past president of the Richboro and Churchville Rotary Clubs.
He also served for two decades as chairman of the board of trustees of the Silver Springs/Martin Luther School, a residential treatment facility and school for emotionally disadvantaged children in Plymouth Meeting.
Totaro received the Bucks County Bar Association's Mark E. Goldberg Award for Community Service and the United States Congressional Angel in Adoption Award.
|Speakers
Steven A. Hann, principal at Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin and the East Region solicitor for the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association, was the sole presenter at three webinars designed for PMAA members throughout Pennsylvania.
The webinars were “Privatization: Investor-owned Utility Acquisitions of Municipal or Authority-owned Water and Wastewater Systems—The Legal Landscape in 2019”; “Ask the Solicitor: An Insight to Some Frequently Asked Questions”; and “Ten Things Authority Board Members and Management Employees Should Know.”
Hann focuses his practice on environmental and municipal law and chairs Hamburg Rubin's environmental law department.
He also has a practice in municipal law, where he represents and advises municipalities and municipal authorities throughout Pennsylvania on a wide variety of issues.
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