People in the News—May 3, 2019—Greenberg Traurig
Continuing its expansion, the Philadelphia office of Greenberg Traurig held a client- and community-focused event to celebrate its move to Three Logan Square.
May 03, 2019 at 11:00 AM
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Events
Continuing its expansion, the Philadelphia office of Greenberg Traurig held a client- and community-focused event to celebrate its move to Three Logan Square.
Guests at Greenberg Traurig's event included a cross-section of clients, elected officials, nonprofit leaders, other local stakeholders and global firm leadership, including Greenberg Traurig Chief Executive Officer Brian L. Duffy, co-president Ernest LaMont Greer and senior chairman Cesar L. Alvarez.
Pictured, from left, are Alvarez, Duffy, Philadelphia managing shareholder Curtis B. Toll and Greer.
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Speakers
Jeffrey P. Fritz of Soloff & Zervanos presented a training program titled “Civil Justice for Victims of Crime in Pennsylvania” to district attorneys and victim service providers at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office along with the National Crime Victim Bar Association/National Center for Victims of Crime.
Fritz is a past president of the National Crime Victim Bar Association.
The program covered the differences in the civil and criminal justice systems, considerations for victims in the court system, obtaining civil justice, and the role of victim service providers in obtaining civil justice.
Announcements
Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig announced that it, along with Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky and Duffy & Partners, donated funds to Vetri Community Partnership for the purchase of a mobile teaching kitchen.
The donation is made to honor the victims of a July 1, 2014, food truck explosion that occurred in the Feltonville section of Philadelphia.
The owner of the food truck and her daughter both died from injuries sustained when a propane cylinder on the food truck exploded. Several other people in the truck's vicinity were severely injured.
Feldman Shepherd attorneys represented the food truck owner's family.
The combined donation of the three law firms will be used by Vetri Community Partnership to purchase a third mobile teaching kitchen, which is a modified food truck carrying supplies needed to teach pop-up cooking classes and conduct demonstrations at schools, community events and farmers markets.
Vetri Community Partnership is a nonprofit organization founded in 2008 by chef Marc Vetri and restaurateur Jeff Benjamin.
Vetri uses mobile teaching kitchens to teach kids and adults how to cook and to provide them with positive experiences around healthy food that inspire them to make better-informed food choices and, in the process, reduce the chances of nutrition-related diseases, such as obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
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