Elected and Appointed

Susan E. Piette, principal at Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin, was named to the Board of Accion Comunal Latinoamericana de Montgomery County.

ACLAMO Family Centers, a nonprofit organization, provides educational programs, social services and health access to Latino and other low-income residents by empowering them to succeed and become productive members of society.

Piette concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning, elder law, guardianships and estate administration. She also assists families with family wealth management and business succession planning.

Piette provides clients with estate planning services, helping them create customized estate plans.

Her focus also includes an emphasis on the senior population and individuals with long-term care Medicaid needs.

In addition to her estates practice, Piette has experience in municipal law, land use, zoning and real estate matters, and she assists her clients in analyzing and implementing their estate and long-term care plans.

She is a member of the Pennsylvania and Montgomery bar associations, the Mayflower Society, and the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Additions

Robert A. Graci, former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge and retired chief counsel to the judicial conduct board of Pennsylvania, joined Saxton & Stump as senior counsel.

Graci will provide appellate, internal investigations and Title IX services. He will also provide alternative dispute resolution services through Optimal Dispute Resolutions, a subsidiary of Saxton & Stump.

As chief counsel to the Pennsylvania judicial conduct board, Graci was chief legal adviser to the board and was responsible for supervision of the board's staff, investigations and prosecutions before the Court of Judicial Discipline.

Graci served on the Superior Court from 2002 to 2004 before becoming a member in the Harrisburg office of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott focusing his practice on appeals, white-collar criminal defense, general litigation, regulatory and administrative law and governmental relations. He chaired the firm's appellate practice group.

Prior to his appointment to the bench, Graci was the assistant executive deputy attorney general for law and appeals of the criminal law division of the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.

Graci authored several articles and CLE course materials.

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McNees Wallace & Nurick announced the addition of Teresa C. Marino to the firm's family law practice group.

Marino focuses her practice on establishing individual goals for her clients and discussing long-term consequences.

Prior to entering private practice in 2011, Marino served as a law clerk to Judge David R. Workman of the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas, where she worked on family law and juvenile delinquency matters.

Marino received her law degree from the University of Baltimore School of Law.