Additions

Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads announced that Fabiana Pierre-Louis, a former assistant U.S. attorney and supervisor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey is returning to the firm in its Cherry Hill, New Jersey, office as a partner in the firm’s white-collar and government investigations practice group after almost a decade.

Pierre-Louis served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Newark, New Jersey, office and was later promoted to serve as attorney-in-charge of the Trenton, New Jersey, office and then the Camden, New Jersey, office.

She will be handling matters out of the firm’s Cherry Hill, Philadelphia and New York offices.

As a member of the criminal division and the attorney-in-charge of the Camden office, Pierre-Louis was responsible for supervising all aspects of criminal matters including criminal trials, investigations and prosecutions of large-scale mail and wire fraud offenses, health care and government fraud matters, and narcotics, firearms and violent crime offenses.

She also investigated and prosecuted her own individual caseload focusing on public corruption matters, federal narcotics offenses, export control violations, defense contracting fraud, national security matters and child exploitation offenses.

Before serving as an assistant U.S. attorney, Fabiana was an associate in Montgomery McCracken’s white-collar and government investigations practice group.

As a member of the practice group, she represented and counseled clients in white-collar crime and government investigation matters involving consumer fraud, antitrust, marketing of pharmaceutical products, securities fraud, internal corporate investigations.

She also handled civil litigation matters involving breach-of-contract, professional liability, personal injury and real estate disputes.

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Seeger Weiss announced that litigator Shauna B. Itri joined the firm as partner.

Itri is a litigator of complex fraud cases in both state and federal courts.

Her practice focuses on representing plaintiffs in class actions in antitrust claims and in cases involving patient harm.

Itri also has experience representing whistleblowers in False Claims Act litigation and whistleblowers with claims under the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower programs.

Itri was previously a shareholder at U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and will be resident in Seeger Weiss’ Philadelphia office.

Itri also served as adjunct professor at Villanova University, where she taught a course on white-collar crime and corporate deviance, and teaches a course on corporate deviance at Widener University, also as an adjunct professor.

Itri currently serves as president and board member of the Junior League of Philadelphia, a women’s organization committed to promoting volunteerism, developing the potential of women, and improving the community through effective action and leadership of trained volunteers.

Speakers

Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano associate Eric J. Stark is set to speak at the upcoming annual fall meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s workers’ compensation section.

He will be co-presenting a session on utilization reviews, which are initiated by insurance carriers to determine the “reasonableness and necessity” of medical treatment.

The fall section meeting is scheduled for Sept. 26 through Sept. 27 at the Hershey Lodge and Convention Center in Hershey.

The meeting is presented by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

Stark’s session is scheduled to take place from 10 to 10:45 a.m. Sept. 27. Stark works out of the firm’s Harrisburg office, concentrating his practice on advocating for injured workers.

Prior to joining Pond Lehocky, Stark was partner at a large defense firm in Harrisburg, representing employers and insurers in workers’ compensation and employment law matters.

He litigates workers’ compensation matters from the initial claim stage through the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Stark is a regular instructor at the Carlisle Army Barracks’ Boots to Business program and speaks for the First Step Entrepreneur program through the Small Business Development Center at Kutztown University.

He also serves on the board of directors for Cornerstone Youth Center in Elizabethtown.