People in the News—Sept. 5, 2019—McNees Wallace
McNees Wallace & Nurick attorney Vasiliki Karandrikas was inducted into the Rotary Club of York.
September 05, 2019 at 11:00 AM
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Elected and Appointed
McNees Wallace & Nurick attorney Vasiliki Karandrikas was inducted into the Rotary Club of York.
Karandrikas was sponsored by Kevin Schreiber, president of the York County Economic Alliance.
Karandrikas served as chair of the Energy Bar Association's state commission practice committee and chair and vice chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's public utility law section.
She serves on the York County Cultural Alliance's allocation committee and gala planning committee and volunteers with Wills for Heroes.
Practicing in the McNees energy and environmental law practice group, Karandrikas advises commercial, industrial and institutional customers regarding electricity and natural gas procurement.
Her practice also involves advising clients on the development of on-site generation projects and renewable energy matters, including power purchase agreements for renewable energy supply.
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Five Pennsylvania Bar Association leaders began new terms representing the Pennsylvania delegation in the American Bar Association House of Delegates.
The following PBA delegates are starting new two-year terms:
Sara A. Austin, a partner in the Austin Law Firm in York and former PBA president and chair of its solo and small firm section.
Charles Eppolito III, a partner at White and Williams in Philadelphia and immediate past president of the PBA.
Michael H. Reed, special counsel and former partner at Pepper Hamilton in Philadelphia and past president of the PBA and the first person of color to lead the association.
David E. Schwager, a partner in the Wilkes-Barre law firm of Chariton, Schwager & Malak and president-elect of the PBA.
Thomas G. Wilkinson Jr., a partner in Cozen O'Connor's Philadelphia's office and past president of the PBA and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, will be serving a new three-year term.
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The Pennsylvania Innocence Project's president Howard Scher announced the appointment of Nan Feyler as the project's new executive director.
The Pennsylvania Innocence Project is dedicated to securing freedom for individuals imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, preventing wrongful convictions, and helping exonerees transition to freedom.
The project is set to celebrate its 10th year Oct. 30 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and Nov. 13 in Pittsburgh, at the offices of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney.
Previously, Feyler was deputy commissioner for public health programs in the city of Philadelphia's Department of Public Health between 2008 and 2015.
She also served as the executive director of Nationalities Service Center, a multicultural, multilingual nonprofit agency that provides services to the Philadelphia region's immigrant and refugee population.
Before that, she was the executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania for nine years.
She began her career in Philadelphia as an attorney with the Defender Association of Philadelphia.
Feyler graduated from New York University School of Law. She held the Phyllis W. Beck Professorship of Law Chair at Temple University Beasley School of Law from 2015 to 2016.
|Speakers
The Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy is set to host Robert Louis Wilken, William R. Kenan Jr. Emeritus Professor at the University of Virginia, for the Law and the Augustinian Tradition Lecture Series "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom."
The program is scheduled for 4 p.m. Thursday.
This lecture is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for one substantive CLE credit.
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