People in the News—Dec. 4, 2019—Reed Smith
A team of approximately 50 Reed Smith attorneys, staff and their guests packed more than 20,000 pounds of potatoes for families in need at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
December 04, 2019 at 11:00 AM
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A team of approximately 50 Reed Smith attorneys, staff and their guests packed more than 20,000 pounds of potatoes for families in need at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
Reed Smith partner John McIntyre is chairman of the board of the food bank. This month marks the second time the firm has volunteered at the food bank in 2019.
Honored
Capehart Scatchard announced that shareholder Sanmathi Dev received the Rutgers School of Law–Camden Alumni Association's 2019 Recent Graduate Award.
Dev graduated from Rutgers Law School–Camden in 2011.
The Recent Graduate Award recognizes alumni who graduated within the past 10 years and made contributions to the legal profession, local community and the law school.
Dev concentrates her practice on school law and labor and employment law.
She has experience representing, advising and defending boards of education and charter schools in all areas of school law.
She leads Capehart Scatchard's School Law Blog, which focuses on cases, court decisions and current developments affecting education law in the state of New Jersey.
Dev is the chair of the firm's diversity and inclusion committee.
Dev also serves as the firm's hiring shareholder.
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Ellen Brotman of BrotmanLaw participated in a panel titled "Let's Be Careful Out There: Changing Ethics for Criminal Defense Lawyers" at the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers annual White Collar Crime Conference.
The panel discussed ethics issues in the Varsity Blues prosecutions and other recent cases.
The panel was moderated by William W. Taylor III of Zuckerman Spaeder in Washington, D.C., and also included Kathleen Clark of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law; Michael Frisch of Georgetown University Law Center; and Michael Heiskell of Johnson, Vaughn & Heiskell.
Brotman practices in the fields of professional responsibility and ethics and white-collar criminal defense.
Additions
Alan Borowsky joined the Morgan & Morgan childhood sexual abuse victims practice group in the firm's Philadelphia office.
Borowsky's primary practice areas include crime victims' rights, sexual abuse and human trafficking.
Borowsky spent nearly 10 years at the Delaware County District Attorney's Office Special Victims Unit, where he prosecuted adult and child sexual abuse cases and domestic violence cases.
In 2015, he was cross-designated as a special assistant U.S. attorney.
He became chief of the district attorney's human trafficking unit in 2017.
Elected and Appointed
Barley Snyder announced that attorney Abby Medin Tucker was named to the board of directors at the Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership.
LHOP works to cultivate partnerships and resources to increase the availability of quality, fair and affordable housing in central Pennsylvania.
It works with partners to help people of the community buy, rent or build a home.
In addition to her appointment, she has been named secretary of the board.
Tucker is part of the firm's real estate and business practice groups.
She also is on the board of SoWe, a community organization supported by LHOP which works to improve the Southwest Lancaster neighborhood.
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