Speakers

Shauna Itri, a partner at Seeger Weiss in Philadelphia, is slated to speak at the annual conference of Taxpayers Against Fraud on Friday at the Washington Marriott Georgetown in Washington, D.C.

"Blowing the Whistle in the Digital Age" is set to begin at 1 p.m. on the last day of the three-day conference, during which Itri will share the stage with Simson Garfinkel, senior computer scientist for confidentiality and data access of the U.S. Census Bureau, and Mark Pastin, CEO of the Council of Ethical Organizations in Alexandria, Virginia.

Itri leads litigation teams in complex fraud cases in state and federal courts.

Her practice focuses on representing whistleblowers in False Claims Act lawsuits and tax and securities whistleblowers with claims under IRS and SEC programs.

She also represents plaintiffs in class actions such as securities, consumer and government fraud, antitrust and cases involving patent harm.

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The John F. Scarpa Center for Law and Entrepreneurship in partnership with the Villanova School of Business is set to present "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Law."

Arup Ras and his team from Alphaserve will present an interactive course introducing these technologies.

The lecture will be followed by a panel of senior leaders at Philadelphia area law firms discussing the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on their practices, followed by a reception.

The program is scheduled to be held from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.

This lecture is approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for three substantive CLE credits.

Elected and Appointed

Cliff Rieders, partner in the law firm of Rieders, Travis, Humphrey, Waters & Dohrmann, was named as an adviser to the American Law Institute's restatement of the law (third) torts: defamation and privacy project.

Rieders was originally an elected member to the American Law Institute, having been recommended by two federal judges.

More recently, Rieders was named a life member.

The American Law Institute proposes restatements of the law, which are relied upon by every state in the Union and by many legal systems abroad.

In some jurisdictions, the restatements are internalized as organic law, and in others the restatement may be utilized as guiding principles.

The restatements are formulated by reporters, with the assistance of advisers, and below the adviser level are consultative groups.

The process is intended to create restatements of the law that are cogent, understandable and supported by subcommittee notes.

The American Law Institute meets through its congress in Washington, D.C., in May of every year.

Rieders received his juris doctorate degree from Georgetown University Law Center.

He is board certified and served as a past president of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, now known as the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, and the Federal Bar Association, Central Pennsylvania chapter.

Rieders is a published author of many textbooks and op-eds and writes on a variety of topics.

Additions

Philadelphia labor, employment and workers' compensation law firm Willig, Williams & Davidson announced that labor attorney William J. Campbell IV joined the firm.

Campbell focuses his practice on labor law.

He holds a law degree from Rutgers Law School.

While at Rutgers, he served working families as a two-time Peggy Browning Fund fellow with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Sheet Metal Workers' Union, Local 19.

Prior to joining Willig Williams, Campbell garnered civil litigation experience as a law clerk to Presiding Judge Timothy W. Chell of the New Jersey Superior Court's Civil Division.

Campbell is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.