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Honored

Founding partner William Antheil of Antheil Maslow & MacMinn received the Pennsylvania Bar Association 50-Year Member Award at the association's annual meeting.

Antheil practices estate planning and administration and business law at Antheil Maslow in Doylestown.

His practice areas include business transactions, taxation, tax litigation, estate planning, probate litigation and business finance, with a concentration in domestic and cross-border business capital problems and federal, state and international tax.

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The Pennsylvania Immigration Resource Center named Barley Snyder partner David Freedman its Pro Bono Attorney of the Year for 2018.

Freedman received the award at PIRC's annual “Light of Liberty Awards” in York.

This is the second time Freedman has been honored with the award.

Freedman, who speaks fluent Spanish, volunteers with PIRC helping immigrants to the United States receive legal aid they would not have at their disposal otherwise.

The organization provides free legal representation, legal counsel, education and advocacy to help immigrants obtain or protect their legal status.

PIRC was born out of the Golden Venture saga in the mid-1990s, when York County attorneys and leaders helped Chinese immigrants detained at the county's prison.

Lobach was one of the lead attorneys on the case.

Freedman is a member of the firm's immigration and employment practice groups and the firm's hospitality and food and agribusiness industry groups.

He is the vice president of the board of directors for the Lancaster Bar Association.

Additions

Saxton & Stump added Katherine McSorley to the firm's Malvern office as a paralegal.

She will provide support to attorneys in the firm's health care litigation and mitigation and medical device litigation groups.

McSorley has nearly 15 years of paralegal litigation experience.

She will work with the firm's trial attorneys in all phases of litigation.

Prior to joining Saxton & Stump, McSorley worked as a litigation paralegal in multiple Philadelphia law firms.

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Legal marketing professional Brian N. Lovequist joined Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young as the director of marketing.

Lovequist will provide leadership to the firm's marketing department, as well as strategic direction and oversight of firmwide and practice-specific marketing efforts.

He will be responsible for the development, implementation and execution of marketing and promotional strategies in areas that include creative and content marketing, marketing and digital technology, and external and internal marketing communications.

Prior to joining Stradley Ronon, Lovequist was the director of marketing and business development at Archer & Greiner.

Before his tenure of 15 years at Archer & Greiner, he was assistant director of alumni relations at Loyola University Maryland.

Lovequist is a member of the Union League of Philadelphia, Legal Marketing Association–Metro Philadelphia chapter, Delaware Valley Legal Marketing Association, and Public Relations Society of America–Philadelphia chapter.

Speakers

Gawthrop Greenwood partner Denise Antonelli, an estate planning lawyer with more than 30 years of experience, was invited by the Chester County Community Foundation to speak on charitable gift planning.

Presenting before local nonprofit leaders, Antonelli served on a three-person panel called

“Attracting Endowed & Planned Gifts: The Role of Professional Advisors in Charitable Gift Planning.”

She gave her legal perspective on the ways donors and nonprofits can benefit from planned giving, and how professional advisers can support and advance those efforts.

Topics included: who should focus on charitable giving; varying income levels and goals; how charities can better position themselves to be the beneficiaries of planned gifts; and ensuring that a donor's wishes are understood and carried out.

The event was part of the C4 Workshop Series presented by the Chester County Community Foundation.

Antonelli took part in previous panels with the Chester County Community Foundation, as well as with the Chester County Estate Planning Council, where she serves as a board member.