PLW People in the News—Nov. 26, 2019—Barley Snyder
Barley Snyder announced the firm's partnership reelected Jeff Lobach as its managing partner and chief executive officer for a two-year term starting in 2020.
November 26, 2019 at 11:30 AM
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Elected and Appointed
Barley Snyder announced the firm's partnership reelected Jeff Lobach as its managing partner and chief executive officer for a two-year term starting in 2020.
Lobach's fourth term as managing partner is set to start Jan. 1.
The position entails the oversight of operations and the long-term planning for the firm. In Lobach's six years in this role, the firm grew from about 55 attorneys in 2014 to more than 100 attorneys currently.
The firm opened five offices during Lobach's managing partner tenure.
It tripled the size of its existing Hanover office and moved its Malvern office to a location that will allow for future growth.
Lobach is a member of the firm's business, finance and creditors' rights, real estate and education practice groups, as well as the construction, health law, banking and hospitality industry groups.
Lobach volunteers and speaks at organizations like WellSpan Health, York College of Pennsylvania, the York County History Center, the York County Community Foundation, WellSpan York Hospital, the Boy Scouts of America and others.
Additions
King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul added attorney Scott J. Gaugler, who will focus his practice in the area of special education law and education law.
Gaugler returns to the Lehigh Valley after working in the civil division of the Franklin County, Ohio, Prosecutor's Office, where he focused primarily in labor and employment law representing county agencies and boards.
Gaugler earned his Juris Doctor from Capital University Law School.
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Blank Rome announced that Jill Lipman Beck joined the firm's Pittsburgh office as an associate in the general litigation group.
Beck concentrates her practice on a range of general litigation matters.
Prior to joining Blank Rome, Beck was a judicial law clerk for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Christine Donohue where she conducted Pennsylvania, federal and multistate legal research and drafted majority and minority opinions addressing issues of first impression, questions of statewide public importance, state and federal constitutional claims, and cases that resulted in a sentence of capital punishment.
She also served as a law clerk for Donohue during her term on the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Beck began her legal career working as an attorney at KidsVoice, where she represented abused, neglected and at-risk children in Allegheny County before magisterial district judges and in Juvenile Court, Orphans' Court and the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.
Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, Beck earned her Juris Doctor from Duquesne University School of Law.
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