greenberg-traurig-sign Greenberg Traurig's Miami office. Photo: J. Albert Diaz/ALM
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Additions

The real estate group in Greenberg Traurig's Philadelphia office added attorney Jennifer L. Wunder.

Wunder, who joined Greenberg Traurig from Fox Rothschild, has experience in transactional real estate matters focused on sales, acquisitions, financing, leasing, construction contracts and other elements of due diligence.

She also handles zoning and land use matters, representing clients in application to and hearings before municipal zoning boards and governing bodies as well as real estate litigation matters.

Beyond involvement with the bar associations of Philadelphia and Bucks County, Wunder also serves as board secretary for the YWCA Bucks County and is a past member of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation's young leadership committee.

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Speakers

Steven A. Hann, principal at Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin and the East Region solicitor for the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association, spoke at the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisor's 2019 annual conference.

The title of his presentation was “Stormwater Compliance: What Your Municipality Needs to Know.”

During his presentation, Hann discussed municipal stormwater obligations in Pennsylvania, including permitting and water quality issues, as well as recent litigation related to stormwater.

Hann focuses his practice on environmental and municipal law and chairs Hamburg Rubin's environmental law department.

In addition to his statewide environmental law practice, Hann has a municipal law practice where he represents and advises municipalities and municipal authorities throughout Pennsylvania.

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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's intellectual property litigation group is scheduled to host “This Month In Intellectual Property” at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday to discuss various facets of IP.

The webinar is set to feature Skadden litigators Anthony Dreyer, Douglas Nemec and John Neukom.

“This Month in Intellectual Property” is a monthly webinar created to keep IP practitioners and in-house counsel up to date on recent decisions, legislative developments, key filings and emerging trends in IP including trademark, copyright, patent, trade secrets and right of publicity.

This month's webinar copyrights and trademarks topics include: “The U.S. Supreme Court grants cert in Allen v. Cooper, taking up the question of whether Congress validly abrogated state sovereign immunity from liability for copyright infringement through the Copyright

Remedy Clarification Act”; “An update on jury verdict in Deckers Outdoor v. Australian Leather”; and “A primer on factors for finding of willful trademark infringement.”

The patents topic is “Congress grapples with a legislative solution to the question of patentable subject matter.”

The trade secrets topic is “Recent district court cases involving alleged thefts by former employees provide important guidance and lessons for plaintiffs seeking preliminary injunctions in trade secret cases.”

To learn more, contact Leanne Musak at [email protected] or 212-735-2265.

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Events

Attorneys and staff from Greenblatt, Pierce, Funt & Flores joined cancer survivors and supporters at the 2019 Philadelphia “Get Your Rear in Gear” run/walk.

The event is an annual tradition for Greenblatt Pierce to honor firm namesake Margaret M. “Meg” Flores, who died in 2014 from colon cancer. The firm's team is named “Legs4Meg.”

The four-mile run/two-mile walk and kids' fun run took place at Memorial Hall/Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia.

The event raises funds for the Colon Cancer Coalition, a nonprofit that provides funds to increase colon cancer screenings and save lives.

Colon cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer and the second-leading cause of death in the U.S., according to the Colon Cancer Coalition.

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Announcements

The Legal is seeking contributing authors for its weekly In-House Counsel column. Articles can cover a broad range of subjects but should be of particular interest to in-house counsel.

Contact Kristie Rearick at [email protected] for more information or to submit a proposal.