Elected and Appointed

Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano partner Thomas J. Giordano Jr. was named to the board of directors of the Lupus Foundation of America.

Giordano leads Pond Lehocky disability, the firm's Social Security and disability insurance arm. Lupus is an autoimmune disease that causes the body's immune system attacks a person's own tissues and organs. The Lupus Foundation of America is devoted to solving the mystery of lupus.

Giordano participates in speaking engagements for the foundation, discussing the rights that those suffering from the disease have.

Giordano previously served on the board of directors of the Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania.

A graduate of Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey, Giordano is a founding partner of Pond Lehocky.

He currently serves as the chair of the Social Security disability committee of the American Association of Justice and as the co-chair of the Social Security disability section of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

Events

The 14th annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics and Culture, titled "Liberalism, Accommodation and the Profanity of Law," is set to be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 16 at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.

It is slated to feature Nomi Stolzenberg, the Nathan and Lilly Shapell chair in law at USC.

The 14th annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics and Culture aims to ask how some of the basic conceptual building blocks of the liberal state can be fortified, reformed or limited, in response to growing dissatisfaction with the paradoxes or perversities of life in a classically liberal regime in the early 21st century.

Through a conversation among scholars of law, religion, history and theology, the conference will explore links between liberalism and conservatism, pluralism and empire, states of exception and states of law.

It will further explore the interpenetration of religion and secularism, and theories of God, human nature and law, drawing on recent and classical scholarship for and against "political theology."

Inspired by the work of Stolzenberg, the conference will focus on what Stolzenberg terms "the profanity of law," the future of liberalism, and the future of accommodation litigation in the federal courts.

This event is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for 5.5 substantive and 1 ethics CLE credits.

Speakers are set to include: Stolzenberg; Susanna Blumenthal, William Prosser professor of law and professor of history and co-director of the program in law and history at the University of Minnesota Law School; Abner S. Greene, Leonard F. Manning professor of law at Fordham University School of Law; Suzanne Last Stone, professor of law and director of the Center for Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at the Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; Patrick McKinley Brennan, professor of law and John F. Scarpa chair in catholic legal studies at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law; Jonathan Sheehan, director of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion and Professor of History at the University of California Berkeley; Steven Smith, Warren Distinguished professor of law, co-executive director of the Institute for Law and Religion and co-executive director of the Institute for Law and Philosophy at the University of San Diego School of Law; and Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell professor of law at Harvard Law School.

Speakers

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young partner Kristin J. Jones served as a panelist at the International Legal Technology Association's 2019 Educational Conference in Orlando.

Jones presented on the panel, "Client Security Audits: I Get Them All the Time. How Can I Make Responding to Them Easier?"

The session discussed best practices and methods to help manage client demands in respect to client audits.

Jones advises clients in privacy and data security matters, working to protect clients before and after a cyber incident–from preparing privacy and security policies to guidance on responding to a data breach.

In addition to her client work, Jones serves as chief privacy officer for the firm and is responsible for protecting the firm's data from unauthorized users.