Elected and Appointed

Burns White attorney Jessica M. Jurasko was selected as a 2019 fellow by the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.

As a participant in this program, Jurasko is set to learn to identify, educate and advance the next generation of leaders in the legal profession. She is the third Burns White attorney chosen as an LCLD program fellow.

Jurasko joins a group of attorneys from diverse backgrounds recognized for their potential as leaders at their organizations and within their communities.

The goal of the yearlong professional development program is to produce a generation of attorneys with strong leadership and relationship skills who are committed to fostering diversity within their institutions and the legal profession at large.

Jurasko focuses her practice in the areas of medical malpractice, health care and general liability defense litigation.

She defends nursing homes, health care organizations, hospitals, individual medical professionals, and other executives in professional, general and premises liability.

Jurasko also handles all phases of litigation and case management in occupational safety and health, complex insurance coverage and corporate contractual disputes in state and federal courts.

Additions

Barley Snyder announced that it hired Erica R. Townes as an attorney in its York office. Townes is a member of the firm's business and real estate practice groups.

She assists clients in residential and commercial development, property acquisition, lease negotiation and land use concerns.

She also assists startup business owners in forming business entities and governing documents.

She is a graduate of the Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Townes is a member of the Dauphin County Bar Association's William W. Lipsitt American Inn of Court.

She also was the coordinator for the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Region 6, District 1 High School Mock Trial Competition for 2017-18.

Announcements

Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote is collaborating with the Duquesne University School of Law to award an annual scholarship and clerkship.

The Dickie McCamey Trial Skills Diversity Scholarship aims to benefit diverse law school students who demonstrate an interest in the trial moot court program.

The honored student is set to be awarded a onetime grant of $10,000, a paid summer clerkship and access to a designated mentor from Dickie McCamey for the duration of the student's career at Duquesne University.

Dickie McCamey intends to sustain this pledge for a minimum of five years.

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