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Speakers

Judy Hayman is set to serve as a panelist at a family law committee meeting at the Bucks County Bar Association on Tuesday, where she will discuss ways to obtain child support from retirement assets in situations where there is no income to attach.

Hayman is an attorney in the family law practice group at Eastburn and Gray.

She focuses her practice on all family law-related matters including: adoption, child custody, divorce, equitable distribution, prenuptial agreements, property settlement agreements, protection from abuse and child support.

Hayman litigates matters related to divorce, custody and support on behalf of her clients and is a trained mediator and collaborative divorce attorney.

 

Elected and Appointed

Geneva Brown, corporate transactions counsel at Cigna, will serve as the new chair of Justice Rising Advocates, the young supporters group for Community Legal Services Inc. Greg Bergman of Blank Rome will be vice chair, and Pat Devine of White and Williams is outgoing chair.

All three served the executive committee of Justice Rising Advocates, and Devine was a founding member.

Honored

Francine Friedman Griesing, founder and managing member of Griesing Law, received the 2019 WBE Leadership Award on behalf of Women's Business Enterprise Center East at the annual awards celebration.

The WBE Leadership Award honors a WBE that is certified by and actively participates in WBEC-East and whose leadership, mentoring, business acumen and community service contributes to the growth and development of WBENC-certified WBEs in her community.

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Matthew I. Whitehorn, a Dilworth Paxson partner, chair of the employee benefits group and chair of the pro bono committee, was selected as the recipient of the 2019 Special Recognition Award from the Legal Clinic for the Disabled.

The Special Recognition Award is given to a person, nominated by LCD's board of directors, who shows commitment to people with disabilities and LCD's work in the disability community. The award ceremony is slated to take place at 6 p.m. Thursday in The Masonic Library and Museum.

Announcements

Independent Women's Forum announced the launch of a new Independent Women's Law Center.

The center will advocate—in the courts, in Congress and in the media—for equal opportunity, individual liberty and freedom of association.

The center will also push back against attempts to convince the public that constitutionalist, originalist judges are a threat to women's rights.

Jennifer C. Braceras, a former commissioner of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, will serve as the center's director.

Erin Hawley, senior fellow at the University of Missouri's Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, will serve as the center's senior legal fellow.

IWF's recent legal work includes filing amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Harris Funeral Homes and Americans for Prosperity and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in support of Speech First.

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Potential topics that would be appropriate include, but are not limited to, arbitration, books-and-records requests, breach of contract lawsuits, controlling stockholder litigation, derivative claims, discovery disputes in commercial litigation, corporate dissolution, breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits, intellectual property litigation, jurisdictional battles in corporate litigation, merger and acquisition lawsuits, special committee decisions, corporate governance, limited liability company litigation and limited partnership agreement litigation.

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