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Additions

Attorney Joshua M. Baker joined the employment law and civil rights practice groups of Greenblatt, Pierce, Funt and Flores as an associate.

His work will focus on securing justice and compensation for those whose rights have been violated in the workplace and elsewhere.

Before becoming an associate, Baker worked for the firm for nearly four years as a law clerk. During most of his tenure as a law clerk, Baker was also a full-time law student at Rutgers Law School.

During the fall of 2017, Baker served as an intern in the chambers of Judge Theodore A. McKee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Baker taught English as a foreign language in South Korea from 2011 to 2014 before returning to the U.S. and joining Greenblatt Pierce.

He is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Speakers

Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano senior associate Frank Ciprero is scheduled to participate as faculty at a CLE course called “Tough Problems in Workers' Compensation 2019,” presented April 9 by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

The seminar will tackle the latest issues facing workers' compensation practitioners in a point/counterpoint style.

Ciprero is set to focus on impairment ratings evaluations in the wake of Protz v. WCAB and Act 111.

For more information, visit www.pbi.org.

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Joseph R, Pozzuolo is scheduled to present a seminar to the graduating medical professionals at the Sidney Kimmel Thomas Jefferson University Medical School at noon April 11.

The course is titled “Practical and Legal Consideration of Planning Your Professional Future”. Pozzuolo is the senior shareholder of Pozzuolo Rodden, P.C. Counselors at Law.

He primarily practices in the areas of business, tax, estate planning and administration and high profile, selective, intricate family law litigation.

He is a member of the American Bar Association committee on taxation, the Philadelphia Bar Association on probate and trust law, the Philadelphia Estate Planning Council and is past president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Alumni Association of Beta Gamma Sigma, the National Business Honorary Society.

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Honored

Harold Berger, managing principal emeritus and a founder of Berger Montague, Philadelphia, was the recipient of a National Lifetime Achievement Award from Who's Who in America and Who's Who in American Law.

Recipients of the award must be selected from a listing in Marquis Who's Who publication for more than 20 years, have a record of published articles, and have received awards outside of Marquis Who's Who.

Berger is the recipient of the Inaugural Lifetime Commitment award from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Legal Intelligencer.

A former Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge, he is also the recipient of a Special Service award from the Pennsylvania State Conference of Trial Judges and served as national chair of the Federal Bar Association committee on the federal and state judiciary.

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Nicholas E. Chimicles, founding partner and chairman of Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith, was honored by the American Hellenic Institute at its annual dinner, receiving AHI's Hellenic Heritage Achievement and National Public Service Award.

The award is conferred on Greek Americans, philanthropists and philhellenes based upon their career achievements and contributions to the Greek American community or community at large.

AHI was founded in 1974 and became a leading public policy and advocacy center that works to strengthen relations between the United States and Greece and Cyprus, championing the rule of law and American values in foreign policy, especially in the eastern Mediterranean.