Events

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young announced the firm's Malvern office donated over 1,000 pounds of nonperishable food items to The Chester County Food Bank.

The Chester County Food Bank was formed in 2009 to address the hunger problem in Chester County.

They are the central hunger-relief organization in the county, serving over 50,000 people with limited or uncertain access to adequate food each year.

Additions

Dilworth Paxson announced the addition of partner Terry Mutchler to the firm's litigation practice, resident in the firm's Philadelphia office.

A First Amendment lawyer and former Associated Press journalist appointed by Gov. Ed Rendell to create Pennsylvania's Office of Open Records to government transparency, Mutchler practices transparency law.

Mutchler's practice focuses on media companies and multinational corporations alike.

She represents defense contractors, pharmaceuticals, colleges and universities, and health care providers to develop and execute strategies to maximize records access laws; provides compliance training to clients; and guides reporters, government officials and C-suite executives through a variety of disputes toward non-litigation solutions.

Mutchler clerked for both the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois and the Executive Office of the President of the United States during the Clinton administration, focusing on privacy issues.

She was appointed as Illinois' first public access counselor and served as a senior adviser and speech writer to the Illinois attorney general.

Mutchler testified before Congress, advised state legislatures and consulted with journalists, judges, policy makers and a representative of The Hague seeking to duplicate the Pennsylvania model of open government in their jurisdictions.

Before entering the field of law, Mutchler was an investigative reporter for the Associated Press, becoming the first woman to be appointed AP Statehouse bureau chief in Springfield, Illinois.

She also served as AP correspondent in Atlantic City, New Jersey, covering President Donald Trump, and Juneau, Alaska, covering politics and the environment.

Mutchler received her Juris Doctor from the John Marshall Law School in Chicago.

She was a Bohnett fellow for senior executives in state and local government at the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government.

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Robin Weiss joined Conrad O'Brien as a litigation associate.

Weiss' practice involves commercial litigation, where she represents clients in a range of commercial litigation matters, such as construction disputes and breach of contract matters.

She also focuses on professional liability matters, where she represents firms and attorneys in legal malpractice matters and physicians and hospitals in medical malpractice disputes.

Prior to joining Conrad O'Brien, Weiss was an associate at a Pennsylvania-based litigation firm, focusing on representing plaintiffs in medical malpractice, negligence, products liability and insurance coverage disputes.

Weiss earned her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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