PLW People in the News—Jan. 14, 2020—KingSpry
King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul announced that Jessica F. Moyer was appointed to the office of deputy managing partner.
January 14, 2020 at 11:30 AM
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Elected and Appointed
King, Spry, Herman, Freund & Faul announced that Jessica F. Moyer was appointed to the office of deputy managing partner.
The firm's partners elected Moyer to the position at their annual meeting.
Moyer concentrates her practice in family and education law.
She is president of the board for Via of the Lehigh Valley.
Moyer is the chair of the family law committee for the Northampton County Bar Association, is involved in the Pennsylvania Bar Association family law section, and in 2018 was among the PBA's Presidential Award winners for her work on the association's Good Governance Task Force.
Additionally, attorneys Kevin C. Reid and Donald F. Spry II were reelected to the executive committee for two-year terms.
Reid is chair of the law firm's public finance law practice and a former managing partner of the firm.
Spry is a founding partner and heads the family law practice group.
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Barley Snyder announced that partner Jill Sebest Welch was named the new chair of the firm's employment practice group.
Welch joined the firm in 2005 and brings nearly two decades of legal experience to her new leadership role.
In addition to the employment practice group, she also is a member of the firm's litigation practice group and the food and agribusiness, construction and banking industry groups.
Welch succeeds past chair Jennifer Craighead Carey, a partner at the firm who will continue her service to clients as a member of the practice group.
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MacElree Harvey announced the election and promotion of Caroline G. Donato, Lindsay A. Dunn and Tiffany M. Shrenk to partner.
Donato joined MacElree Harvey as an attorney in the business department in August 2014.
She transitioned to criminal defense after starting the corporate compliance, investigations and criminal defense practice group with Peter Kratsa.
She is chair of the new lawyers committee of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a member of PACDL's CLE committee.
Dunn joined MacElree Harvey in the land use department in November of 2015 with nearly a decade of land use, real estate, zoning and municipal litigation experience.
She has experience representing contractors, businesses and individuals.
Shrenk joined MacElree Harvey in August 2016 after a nearly six-year tenure at another firm in Wilmington, Delaware.
Shrenk has experience in personal injury and civil litigation, trusts and estate litigation, real estate litigation and contractual disputes and consumer fraud.
She also serves as volunteer attorney guardian ad litem for the Office of the Child Advocate.
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