People in the News—June 14, 2019—Williams Family Law
Attorney Melanie J. Wender of Williams Family Law was a featured speaker at the 2019 Family Law Institute, hosted by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
June 14, 2019 at 11:00 AM
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Attorney Melanie J. Wender of Williams Family Law was a featured speaker at the 2019 Family Law Institute, hosted by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.
Wender joined a panel of colleagues in presenting “Case Law, Rules & Legislative Updates.”
Wender is experienced in all issues surrounding the complexities of a divorce, such as equitable distribution, custody, spousal support, child support and settlement agreements.
She has resolved custody cases ranging from unmarried same-sex couples to custody agreements between long-distance parents.
She also has experience in adoption issues.
Outside of her professional work, Wender volunteered for causes such as Protection from Abuse actions in Bucks County; the Mazzoni Legal Center, which provides health care and legal services to members of the LGBT community; and the Montgomery Child Advocacy Program, where she represents abused or neglected children.
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Fort Washington-based Timoney Knox added Daniel Grossman as an associate to the firm. Grossman is a member of the firm's insurance industry team.
He focuses his practice on insurance and commercial litigation.
Grossman handles matters involving insurance litigation including coverage disputes, bad faith cases and the investigation of potential insurance fraud.
Prior to joining Timoney Knox, he represented defendants in criminal matters, including serious felonies and jury trials in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and in the Philadelphia Municipal Court.
He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Montgomery Bar Association.
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Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young added Myles A. Seidenfrau as counsel in the firm's financial services litigation group.
Seidenfrau represents banks, mortgage lenders and services, student lenders and debt collection companies involving claims under banking, consumer protection and other related laws and regulations such as the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Truth in Lending Act,
Telephone Consumer Protection Act and Fair Credit Reporting Act.
Prior to joining the firm, Seidenfrau served as senior vice president and assistant general counsel at Bank of America where he provided legal counsel on regulatory compliance, litigation management and vendor oversight.
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Blank Rome announce that of counsel Stephen H. Alpert and Jill Mindlin, along with associates Tyler Mullen and Alexandra Wysocki and their longtime paralegal Kareem Ansley, joined the firm's finance, restructuring and bankruptcy group, which also recently added finance partners Mitchell M. Brand and Harris J. Diamond.
Mullen and Wysocki are both based in the firm's Philadelphia office. They join Blank Rome from Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young.
Mullen and Wysocki concentrate on a range of finance, restructuring and bankruptcy matters, including asset-based and real estate lending and other finance transactions.
Mullen earned his Juris Doctor from Penn State Dickinson Law.
Wysocki earned her J.D from the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law.
She previously served as a judicial intern to Judge M. Teresa Sarmina of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and as a fellow for the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.
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