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The editors of The Legal Intelligencer would like to thank the legal professionals who agreed to donate their time and efforts to serve as judging panelists for our 2019 Lawyers on the Fast Track.

Melanie Breaux, in-house at The Vanguard Group Melanie Breaux

Melanie Breaux Former attorney, Larsson & Scheuritzel, currently working in-house at The Vanguard Group.

Breux's practice at Larrson & Scheuritzel encompassed a wide range of real estate transactional work, including the representation of retailers, developers, end users, borrowers, and lenders in the sale and acquisition of commercial real estate, as well as the representation of commercial landlords and tenants in connection with retail and warehouse leases across the country.

Breaux is currently working as corporate counsel in the finance group at Vanguard. Her practice focuses on commercial contracts, real estate and finance. In addition, Breaux writes and participates in speaking engagements on topics ranging from substantive legal issues to diversity and issues related to career and professionalism.

Micah Buchdahl of HTMLawyers (Photo: Courtesy Photo) Micah Buchdahl

Micah Buchdahl President, HTMLawyers

Buchdahl is an attorney focused on assisting law firms with business development initiatives. He is chair of the American Bar Association's standing committee on continuing legal education and a past chair of the ABA's law practice division. Based in Moorestown, New Jersey, he is president of HTMLawyers, a law marketing company, which he founded and has run without interruption since 2001.

He works with law firms of all sizes and practice areas on initiatives ranging from business development strategy to evaluation of existing efforts, and placement of law marketing staff.

Klair Fitzpatrick, Morgan Lewis & Bockius Klair Fitzpatrick

Klair Fitzpatrick Partner, Morgan Lewis & Bockius

Fitzpatrick, a 2018 Lawyers on the Fast Track winner, focuses her practice on helping companies navigate employment laws. Before law school, she worked as a human resources consultant. At the firm, she defends employers in a wide range of employment disputes, with a focus on class and collective actions involving systemic discrimination claims, complex multiplaintiff matters, including ERISA matters, and harassment and discrimination cases.

She is a 2019 recipient of the Philadelphia Inquirer's Influencer of Law, Rising Star award, M.H. Goldstein Memorial Prize for Labor Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School and a recipient of the Blank Rome Alvin Ackerman Prize, University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Melanie Breaux, in-house at The Vanguard Group Jason P. Lisi

Jason P. Lisi Founder and president of Lisi, Legal Internet Solutions Inc.

Lisi is founder and president of Legal Internet Solutions Inc. (LISI), a digital marketing agency with more than 20 years' experience advising and serving law firms and legal services providers. As an original member of the Villanova Center for Information Law and Policy from 1992, he was involved with the earliest use of the web in the legal profession. He frequently writes and speaks on digital marketing topics for groups such as the Legal Marketing Association, the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Association of Legal Administrators, and Drexel University's Thomas R. Kline School of Law.

He is also an active participant in the legal marketing community, serving as 2019 chair of the LMA Philadelphia LMA local steering committee, and served on the executive team of the Delaware Valley Law Firm Marketing Group.

Melissa Pang, president of APABA-PA board of directors. Melissa Pang

Melissa Pang President of APABA-PA, assistant general counsel at The School District of Philadelphia

Pang was elected president of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Pennsylvania's (APABA-PA) board of directors. Her one-year term in the position began on Jan. 1.

Melissa has been a member of the APABA-PA since 2010 and has served on the board since 2015. In 2017, she served as vice president of APABA-PA and co-chaired the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Northeast Regional Conference.

A former White and Williams attorney—where she represented and counseled domestic and international clients on M&A transactions, private equity transactions, corporate governance, and other commercial matters—Pang now serves as assistant general counsel for the Philadelphia School District.

Susan Rubinovitz of SMR Legal Search. Susan Rubinovitz

Susan Rubinovitz President, SMR Legal Search

Rubinovitz is a litigation attorney and president of SMR Legal Search, a Philadelphia-based legal recruiting company with a focus on permanent attorney placement.

Prior to becoming a legal recruiter, Rubinovitz worked as a litigator at law firms throughout the Northeast, including a large national firm where she represented financial institutions and middle market businesses in complex commercial litigation matters. She has litigated in federal and state courtrooms throughout Philadelphia, New Jersey, Baltimore and Boston achieving successful results for her clients including trying numerous jury trials to verdict.

Rubinovitz is passionate about children and animals and volunteers at and supports those causes.