Additions

Saxton & Stump added attorney Barry A. Solodky as senior counsel and leader of its newly formed bankruptcy and creditors' rights practice.

Solodky began serving clients in bankruptcy law more than four decades ago, handling all aspects including Chapter 7, 11, 12 and 13 proceedings. He is also a member of the firm's business and corporate and real estate groups.

In his practice, Solodky represents secured and nonsecured creditors, businesses, vendors, suppliers, bankruptcy trustees, purchasers of assets and individual creditors on small and large claims. He assists clients in negotiating alternatives for bankruptcy including loan workouts, debt restructuring and lien issues.

Solodky previously served 33 years as a court-appointed Chapter 7 trustee providing independent oversight for bankruptcy cases and as counsel for other fellow trustees.

He was appointed as a receiver in several cases, managing assets for insolvent businesses during proceedings. Solodky is also an appointed mediator in the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Alongside retired U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, who joined the firm in 2018, and retired Judge Robert A. Graci of the Pennsylvania Superior Court, who joined the firm in 2019, Solodky adds to resources for the firm's attorneys handling receiverships and alternative resolutions.

Solodky received his Juris Doctor from Duquesne University School of Law.

He is regularly invited to lecture on bankruptcy issues and is an annual guest speaker at the Lancaster Bar Association Bankruptcy Seminar.

Speakers

Steve Yusem, an arbitrator and neutral, taught a course in international commercial arbitration at the Royal University for Women located in Riffa, Bahrain, at the invitation of the kingdom of Bahrain.

RUW was founded in 2002 by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa as one of only two law schools in the world teaching women exclusively.

The Fulbright Specialist Program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the Department of State, under whose auspices Yusem travelled serving as a Fulbright specialist, promotes ­linkages ­between U.S. professionals and their counterparts at host institutions around the world.

Yusem collaborated with the RUW law faculty to focus on training students to participate in the 27th Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot at Vienna. In addition to international commercial arbitration, he taught the American arbitration process.

Yusem previously taught arbitration in Mongolia, Macedonia and Iran.

Whether serving under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association or as an ad hoc individual neutral, Yusem adjudicates commercial, construction and other disputes as a sole arbitrator or as an arbitration panelist.

He is a fellow of both the College of Commercial Arbitrators and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, having completed a training course at Keble College at the University of Oxford.

He is a past chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association alternative dispute resolution committee and helped enact the Pennsylvania Revised Uniform Arbitration Act. He also serves as a mediator, having been certified by the Center for Excellence in Dispute Resolution in London.

Yusem earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Elected and Appointed

Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin announced that 12 associates and four special counsel were elevated to shareholder status. Additionally, the firm promoted one associate to the position of special counsel.

In Philadelphia, the new shareholders are Christine Pellegrini Busch and Jonathon Cross. Busch, formerly special counsel, is now a shareholder in the firm's casualty department. Busch has defense litigation experience and currently handles asbestos and toxic tort, environmental litigation and motor vehicle and bad-faith litigation.

Cross, formerly special counsel, is now a shareholder in the firm's professional liability department. Cross defends sports and recreation facility owners, coaches and instructors, youth athletic organizations, professional athletes and more, when claims are made against them. He also has experience in litigating sports-related concussion claims, and often provides legal counsel to contractors, architects and engineers, and accountants in professional liability matters.

In Pittsburgh, Brett Shear, formerly an associate, is now a shareholder in the firm's health care department. Shear represents physicians, medical professionals and hospitals in a variety of health care liability and medical malpractice actions.

In Moosic, the new shareholders are Michael Connolly and Mark Kozlowski.

Connolly, formerly an associate, is now a shareholder in the firm's casualty department.

Connolly primarily handles matters involving premises liability, automobile and general liability.

He defended a number of industrial workplace accident cases and regularly deals with matters involving the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Mine Safety and Health Administration. He also litigates wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases pertaining to surface mining accidents, motor vehicle, products liability and UIM claims.

Kozlowski, formerly an associate, is now a shareholder in the firm's professional liability department. Kozlowski focuses his practice on civil rights, constitutional law and municipal liability.