Samuel H. Pond of Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano.

Speakers

Pond Lehocky Giordano LLP and Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law are slated to present a continuing legal education course titled "Professional Football: Player Injuries and Workers' Compensation Issues."

The class will cover, among other things, how the workers' compensation system deals with professional sports injuries, particularly in light of the concussion epidemic facing professional leagues.

Pond Lehocky managing partner Samuel Pond will be a panelist.

He will be joined by former Philadelphia Eagle Todd Herremans, a member of BodyChek Wellness, which produces hemp-based products for treatment of injuries.

Also serving on the panel will be Brook Gardiner, who previously served as the vice president labor relations for the National Football League and counsel for the NFL management council.

Andrew Brandt, the executive director of the Jeffrey S. Moorad Center for Sports Law at Villanova Law, will moderate the class.

The hourlong, one-credit course is set to take place March 31, at Pond Lehocky's Center City headquarters.

Registration begins at 5:30 p.m., with the session starting at 6 p.m.

The class will be followed by a cocktail reception.

Elected and Appointed

The Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania elected its officers for the coming year.

The board unanimously elected Thomas J. Elliott as chair, Judge Nina Wright Padilla of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas as vice-chair, and Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court as secretary.

The judicial conduct board is an independent board within the judicial branch of the commonwealth's government composed of 12 Pennsylvania citizens: three judges, three lawyers and six nonlawyer electors.

Elliott is a senior shareholder and vice president of Elliott Greenleaf.

He is a former member of the disciplinary board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and is currently a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's committee on legal ethics and professional responsibility.

He is currently president of the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Padilla began serving on the Court of Common Pleas in 2003.

She currently is assigned to Commerce Court, Civil Trial Division, and was previously assigned to the Motions and Statutory Appeals Program.

In addition, she also presides over class actions and conservatorships and is frequently assigned to Election Court.

Padilla currently serves as committee chair of the board of view and board of revision of taxes committee for the Court of Common Pleas board of judges.

Cohn Jubelirer is currently serving her second 10-year term as a judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Prior to assuming the bench, Cohn Jubelirer was engaged in the private practice of law, serving as vice president and shareholder at Frank, Frank, Penn & Bergstein where she practiced business, contract, employment and family law before the federal and state courts, and at Sidley & Austin.

She currently serves, via Supreme Court appointment, as co-chair of the Pennsylvania

Commission on Judicial Independence and as an inaugural member of the continuing judicial education board of judges.

Announcements

Throughout the holidays and new year, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath's Philadelphia office collected art supplies and classroom materials for Girard College elementary students.

Attorneys and staff within the office donated an assortment of markers, drawing pads, books, beads and more.

Girard College is a five-day boarding school for academically capable students, grades 1-12, from families with limited financial resources, each headed by a single parent or guardian.

All Girard students receive full scholarships to take part in the school's academic program and to live on its enclosed campus in Philadelphia.