People in the News—June 3, 2019—Weber Gallagher
Ross Goren, an associate in Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby's Philadelphia office, spoke on a panel at the RIMS 2019 National Conference in Boston.
June 03, 2019 at 11:00 AM
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Speakers
Ross Goren, an associate in Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby's Philadelphia office, spoke on a panel at the RIMS 2019 National Conference in Boston.
The program was titled “Assessing Wearables: Considerations Beyond Technology.”
The panel focused on the different types of wearables and the utilization of the data they collect and how those parameters intersect with slower-to-evolve labor, employment and human resources programs and regulations.
Goren concentrates his practice on defending employers and insurance companies in workers' compensation matters.
Goren counsels various businesses and insurance companies on managing workers' compensation risk, as well as representing them in the course of workers' compensation litigation.
He comes to Weber Gallagher from a firm in Media, where he was an associate representing employers and insurance carriers in workers' compensation matters and in employment and risk management issues.
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Ned Hark, a partner of The Law Offices of Goldsmith, Hark, and Hornak in Philadelphia was a co-course planner and presenter for the annual family law institute presented by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
Hark, a past chair of the family law sections of both the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia bar associations is a fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
He also chaired and served as a member of the lawyer referral and information service oversight committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
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Martin Law partner Joseph Huttemann is set to speak at the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers' Compensation's 18th annual Workers' Compensation Conference on Monday.
Huttemann is to present at the session Temporary Insanity—EDI and Forms, which will focus on the use of Temporary Notice provisions in the era of the Workers' Compensation Automation and Integration System.
Huttemann practices exclusively in the area of workers' compensation law. He also writes on the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act.
Huttemann presented lectures on workers' compensation and Social Security disability to the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and the Bucks County Bar Association. Huttemann is a certified specialist in Pennsylvania workers' compensation by the Pennsylvania Bar Association's section on workers' compensation law as authorized by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
Events
Cozen O'Connor chairman Stephen A. Cozen and Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano managing partner Samuel H. Pond are set to host an evening to benefit the USC Shoah Foundation's Countering Antisemitism Through Testimony program June 11.
The event is seeking to raise money to support the USC Shoah Foundation's mission of combating hate through recorded eyewitness testimony.
Elected and Appointed
Patrice S. O'Brien was appointed as a hearing committee member serving the disciplinary board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Her three-year term is set to begin July 1.
Hearing committee members serve as volunteers to conduct hearings and act as a formal reviewing body to determine if a case can move forward in pursuit of a particular course of discipline.
Patrice practices as a civil trial lawyer in the areas of medical malpractice, products liability, catastrophic loss and premises liability in the Mid-Atlantic region. She is of counsel to the firm in Rawle & Henderson's Philadelphia office.
She received her law degree from Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America.
For 10 years, she was the captain of Rawle & Henderson's race team for the annual Komen Philadelphia Race for the Cure, helping to raise funds to find a cure for breast cancer. For the last three years, she participated in the review of breast cancer research applications for the U.S. Department of Defense.
O'Brien served a two-year term as co-chair of the medical-legal committee of the state civil litigation section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
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