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Events

Lamb McErlane employees participated in the annual Legal Lemonade Day and Casual Fridays in June to support and raise funds for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation.

ALSF is a charitable nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting and finding a cure for pediatric cancer.

Lamb McErlane chairman and managing partner Joel L. Frank is chairman of the board of directors for ALSF. Pictured, from left, are Max O'Keefe, Jake D. Becker, Amy McCall, Colleen Davis, Karen Davis, Regina Moster, Karen Clark, Jennifer Wayne and Guy A. Donatelli.

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Elected and Appointed

Blank Rome partner Charles S. Marion was elected to serve as the new president of the Wharton Club of Philadelphia, the local alumni club for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

At Blank Rome, Marion focuses his practice in the areas of franchise litigation, complex business litigation, intellectual property litigation and website accessibility and other litigation brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Marion is past chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association federal courts committee and was an elected member of the executive committee of the young lawyers' division.

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The conclusion of the Pennsylvania Bar Association annual meeting signalled the start of the 2019-20 term for new members and new leadership posts for some existing members on the association's board of governors.

The new board of governors leadership is as follows:

Anne N. John of John and John is president.

David E. Schwager of Chariton, Schwager & Malak is president-elect.

Kathleen D. Wilkinson of Wilson Elser is vice president.

Charles Eppolito III of White and Williams is immediate past president.

Kim Denise Morton of Morton & Kubacke Family Law is chair of the house of delegates.

Beverly H. Rampaul of the Lancaster County Public Defender's Office is secretary.

Terry D. Weiler of Huckabee, Weiler, & Levengood is treasurer.

Jennifer Menichini of Joyce, Carmody & Moran is chair of the young lawyers division.

Alaina C. Koltash of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives' education committee is the immediate past chair of the young lawyers division.

Philip H. Yoon of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania is minority governor.

Melinda C. Ghilardi of Munley Law is unit county governor.

Jonathan M. Huerta of King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul is Zone 2 governor.

James P. Valentine of Rosenn, Jenkins & Greenwald is Zone 5 governor.

Mary E. Schellhammer, a solo practitioner, is zone 8 governor.

Kelly A. Mroz of Penn State Student Legal Services and Penn State, University Park is Zone 11 governor.

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Speakers

Jennifer Platzkere Snyder, a Dilworth Paxson partner and member of the firm's labor and employment practice group, is set to speak at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's “CLE Down the Shore 2019” conference from noon to 1 p.m. Aug. 16.

Snyder will present the topic “Ripped from the Headlines: Lawyers Behaving Badly.” In this interactive session, panelists will use hypotheticals drawn from real-life newsworthy scenarios to educate attendees on important ethics issues facing all attorneys.

The two-day conference is slated to begin Aug. 15 and will be held at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

This program offers a total of 1 ethics CLE credit.

For more information and to register, call 1-800-932-4637.