PLW People in the News—Dec. 3, 2019—Timoney Knox
Timoney Knox partner Catherine Harper, a practicing attorney for more than 30 years, received recognition for her efforts to protect the natural world and promote healthy communities.
December 03, 2019 at 11:30 AM
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Honored
Timoney Knox partner Catherine Harper, a practicing attorney for more than 30 years, received recognition for her efforts to protect the natural world and promote healthy communities.
The Montgomery County Planning Commission presented Harper with the 2019 Planning Advocate Award, which recognizes individuals or organizations that make contributions to advancing or promoting planning in Montgomery County.
Prior to her election as a state representative, where she served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly from 2000 through 2018, Harper was active in county and local government.
She maintains a general practice with a focus on land use, particularly municipal, conservation and zoning law.
She also represents land trusts, landowners and conservancies in preservation projects and in drafting and enforcing conservation easements.
She has experience in municipal law and currently serves a solicitor to the Milford zoning hearing board in Bucks County, the Springfield Montgomery County zoning hearing board and Hatfield Borough..
Harper helped protect more than 3,000 acres of land through conservation easements while serving on the Montgomery County lands trust board.
Additions
Saxton & Stump added four new professionals.
The concierge services team added two new professionals in Lancaster—Shelby M. Snyder as event coordinator and Diane B. Kosicki as concierge/client service associate.
In these roles Snyder and Kosicki support the firm's service environment.
Barbara A. Seddon joined the firm's finance department as an accountant in the Lancaster office and supports client billing efforts as well as reconciling the firm's books and records to ensure accuracy and timeliness of financial data.
Seddon served in various accounting and business management roles in the public-school system before joining Saxton & Stump.
The firm's marketing and business development team added Andrea E. Collins as marketing coordinator.
In this role, Collins coordinates the firm's editorial activities, including writing and editing articles and communications.
She most recently worked in marketing for a regional bank.
Announcements
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney officially moved the firm's headquarters and nearly 350 employees into its new office in Pittsburgh's Union Trust Building.
The firm, which is the building's largest tenant, announced the intent to move in May 2017.
The Union Trust Building, designed by Frederick Osterling for Henry Clay Frick and built in 1915, underwent a $100 million design and technology transformation by The Davis Cos. over a two-year period.
The 500,000 square-foot building a 150-foot high rotunda with an original stained-glass skylight, a 70-seat conference facility, a 400-seat auditorium and other amenities for the tenants and the public.
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