Events

The LGBTQ & Allies Initiative at Fox Rothschild hosted a reception at Porta in Philadelphia to welcome attendees of the National LGBT Bar Association’s Lavender Law Conference and Career Fair–the country’s largest LGBTQ legal conference.

The event featured a performance by singer/songwriter Tyler Bellinger. Co-chaired by Fox attorneys Colleen McGarry, William H. Stassen and Prince Altee Thomas, the LGBTQ & Allies Initiative is dedicated to ensuring the Fox family, legal community, law students and the larger community see the firm as a model of inclusiveness and acceptance.

Speakers

Volpe and Koenig shareholder Michael Snyder was interviewed in studio live on Channel 29’s Good Day Philadelphia about The Phillies v. Harrison/Erickson by hosts Mike Jerrick and Alex Holley.

Known locally as the Phillie Phanatic Lawsuit, the case is about a company seeking to terminate the rights to the Phillie Phanatic costume under the copyright laws.

Snyder broke down the complexities of the case from an intellectual property law standpoint.

Elected and Appointed

Barley Snyder announced that partner Joseph R. Falcon III was named a membership board member of the American Bar Association section of intellectual property law.

The ultimate goal of the membership board is to advance section and association membership development objectives and commitments and engage in collaborative and one-on-one efforts to support and retain existing members and to encourage new members to join the section.

The position is Falcon’s second with the ABA section of intellectual property.

In 2018, the group appointed him as the vice chair of patent legislation, a position where he helps oversee and assist the development of ABA policy on pending federal legislation relating to U.S. patent laws or affecting U.S. patent rights.

Falcon is a member of the Barley Snyder intellectual property practice group and is based in the firm’s Malvern office.

He also is a chair for the intellectual property law section at the Chester County Bar Association and is a 2013 graduate of Leadership Chester County.

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Kelly Dobbs Bunting of Greenberg Traurig was appointed co-chair of the international employment law committee of the American Bar Association’s international law section.

Bunting was reappointed for a third year as revenue development and partnership vice chair for revenue development committee of the ABA’s labor and employment section.

This latest appointment as co-chair of the international employment committee comes after Bunting served as a member of the steering committee for four years and as a liaison for three years.

Her responsibilities in these roles include engaging attorneys in programs, policy development and publications.

Bunting is a shareholder in the firm’s Philadelphia office and serves as co-chair of the labor and employment practice’s workforce compliance and regulatory enforcement group.

She litigates federal and state class and collective actions alleging wage-and-hour violations, misclassification, overtime, minimum wage and off-the-clock work.

She also defends employers in single-plaintiff litigation involving gender, age, disability, race, national origin, religious and pregnancy discrimination, harassment and retaliation; whistleblower claims; theft of trade secrets; breach of duty; breach of employment agreements and restrictive covenants.