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Additions

Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin expanded its Philadelphia casualty department with the additions of Tara Gill Nalencz as shareholder and Kimberly House as associate.

Nalencz is a litigator who defends clients in serious, high-exposure and catastrophic cases.

She represents clients in a variety of businesses and industries, including product manufacturers of both consumer goods and industrial machinery and equipment.

She additionally defends construction companies, property managers, propane, natural gas and oil suppliers and dram shop liability actions.

Fluent in Spanish, Nalencz also represents international clients or those who have suits brought against them internationally, such as defending hotel owners and operators in actions where the underlying accident took place outside the United States.

Active in Philadelphia’s legal and civic communities, Nalencz is involved in the First Judicial District of Philadelphia’s annual Law Day program.

She also provides pro bono legal services helping individuals successfully obtain U.S. citizenship.

House represents and defends product manufacturers, building materials suppliers, hotels and construction companies in complex and catastrophic personal injury claims and wrongful death suits.

She is a graduate of Wake Forest University School of Law and is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina and Michigan.

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Dilworth Paxson announced the addition of associate Jessica Titler-Lingle to the firm’s litigation department.

Titler-Lingle focuses her practice on complex and commercial litigation and represents individual, institutional and corporate clients in a variety of contexts, including commercial fraud claims, securities litigation, shareholder oppression lawsuits, ERISA litigation, products liability litigation, commercial torts and contract disputes.

She is a class action litigator who prosecutes ERISA, securities, data breach and products liability class actions across a range of industries.

She received her Juris Doctor from the Temple University Beasley School of Law.

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Klehr Harrison Harvey Branzburg announced that Matthew M. McDonald joined the firm as a partner in its corporate and securities practice group.

McDonald previously served as senior vice president and deputy general counsel to GAIN Capital, a provider of foreign exchange and over-the-counter derivative trading services.

While his practice is focused on advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, investments, securities compliance and corporate governance, McDonald also has experience in contract drafting and negotiation, litigation management, regulatory compliance and human resources legal support.

McDonald also represents private and public clients in private equity and PIPEs transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities reporting and public offerings and corporate governance.

Prior to working at GAIN Capital, McDonald worked at Drinker Biddle & Reath as a partner in its corporate and securities group.

Elected and Appointed

Robert H. Louis, a partner in Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr, was appointed chair of the financial services and retirement planning committee of the American Bar Association senior lawyers division for the 2019-2020 bar year.

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Jan P. Levine, a partner with Pepper Hamilton, was elected as a member of the American Law Institute, an organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize and otherwise improve the law.

ALI selects members on the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in improving the law, and membership in the organization is limited to 3,000 individuals.

Levine is a member of Pepper Hamilton’s health sciences department.

She focuses her practice on a range of complex commercial litigation, including health care litigation, antitrust, unfair trade practices, consumer protection, class actions and multidistrict litigation.

She received her Juris Doctor from Temple University Beasley School of Law.