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Additions

Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy announced that Peter A. Greiner and Kierstin M. Lange joined the firm as shareholders.

Greiner focuses his practice primarily in personal injury litigation involving professional malpractice and other torts including products liability, civil rights violations and dram shop actions.

Greiner also represents clients in complex commercial litigation including health care fraud, shareholder disputes and noncompete agreements.

Prior to joining Zarwin, Greiner spent seven years at Sprague & Sprague.

Greiner served as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia for five years.

Lange joined the firm as a shareholder in the commercial litigation group with a specialty in real estate litigation.

Lange lilitigates complex commercial disputes on behalf of small and large corporations, commercial land owners, property management companies, asset managers and REITs.

Lange represents commercial landlords, owners and management companies in all aspects of leasing and lease enforcement.

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Littler Mendelson added Karl A. Fritton as a shareholder in its Philadelphia office.

Fritton was previously a partner at Reed Smith and a former leader of the firm’s labor and employment practice group.

Fritton focuses his practice on labor management relations, including collective bargaining, arbitration and litigation before the National Labor Relations Board and federal courts.

He handles labor negotiations, labor arbitrations and union representation petitions.

Fritton represents regional and national employers in a variety of industries, including energy, power generation, waste management, maritime, media, food distribution, health care, higher education, construction and manufacturing.

He assists clients in planning for and conducting labor negotiations, defending their interests before the NLRB and in arbitrations under their collective bargaining agreements.

Fritton advises employers with both union and nonunion workforces on maintaining productive labor relations and advises on the labor aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Honored

Stephen Raynes of Raynes Lawn Hehmeyer is receiving the American Association for Justice’s Pro Bono Award for his campaign against the Canadian Government on behalf of the Canadian thalidomide survivors.

Raynes’ involvement with the thalidomide survivors began 50 years, when his late father represented and secured recoveries for Canadian and American children who suffered birth defects as a result of thalidomide, a drug marketed as a treatment for pregnancy morning sickness.

Raynes continued his father’s work when several Canadian survivors who were not represented by his father or outlived their original settlements were in need of additional financial support due to the drug.

Raynes created and led a pro bono campaign against the Canadian Government that after two years led to a unanimous vote by the Canadian Parliament and the establishment of a more than $250 million fund for the Canadian thalidomide survivors.

The award is given annually to one trial lawyer in the country for public service.

Speakers

Eileen Murphy, an attorney with Berner Klaw & Watson, served as a case law, rules and legislative updates panelist at the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s family law section summer meeting.

She presented case law on precedential decisions by the Pennsylvania Superior Court related to equitable distribution.

Murphy practices all aspects of family law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

She is active with the Pennsylvania Bar Association family law section as a council member and the Philadelphia Bar Association family law section, where she is currently serving as treasurer.

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