Speakers

Vasilios Kalogredis, chairman of Lamb McErlane's health law department, was a co-presenter on a webinar discussing how dental practice sales and valuations are being impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The program focused on how to provide counsel for clients planning to sell or transition their dental practice and whether now is the right time.

The webinar is available to be viewed on Youtube.

Kalogredis exclusively practices health law, representing physicians, dentists, group practices, other health care professionals and health care-related entities.

Kalogredis frequently lectures both locally and nationally on health law topics, and he has published articles on current issues in health law.

Elected and Appointed

Philadelphia lawyer Kathleen D. Wilkinson, a partner at Wilson Elser, became president-elect of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

Wilkinson is currently completing her term as PBA vice president and will serve as the association's 2021-22 president.

Wilkinson represents Philadelphia lawyers on the PBA board of governors, and she served in the PBA House of Delegates.

She is chair of educational programs for the federal practice committee executive council, co-vice chair of the PBA planning committee, co-vice chair of the PBA quality of life/balance committee, co-chair of the commission on women in the profession quality of life committee, and the immediate past chair of the PBA civil litigation section.

Wilkinson is a member of other committees, including the finance, membership development and minority bar committees.

She was chair of the PBA membership engagement blue ribbon panel on millennials, mothers and minorities and is a past chair of the PBA commission on women in the profession.

In addition, Wilkinson served on the board of directors for Pennsylvania Bar Institute and was a zone one director for the PABAR-PAC and co-chair of the 2007 PBA midyear meeting.

She is a zone one director and a life fellow of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, the charitable affiliate of the PBA.

In 2013, Wilkinson served as the 86th chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

She filled a variety of leadership roles in the Philadelphia Bar Association since 1998, when she co-chaired the association's women in the profession committee. She was the bar association's secretary, vice chancellor, chancellor-elect and a member of the bar association's cabinet.

Wilkinson was the 2019 chair of the federal courts committee.

Wilkinson is the recipient of the Philadelphia Bar Association's 2019 Sandra Day O'Connor Award.

She was a member of the executive council of the National Conference of Bar Presidents and remains a member of the NCBP program committee.

Wilkinson served on the boards of directors for the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program and Philadelphia Defender Association. Wilkinson served on the board of the Forum of Executive Women and was the program chair.

Wilkinson received the C. Dale McClain Quality of Life/Balance Award, the Gilbert Nurick Award, and the PBA Commission on Women in the Profession's Anne X. Alpern Award in 2008.

Wilkinson is a member of the Chester County Bar Association, the Delaware County Bar Association and the Montgomery Bar Association.

Wilkinson is the secretary of the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel, which presented her with the William J. O'Brien Award.

She is a founding member of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Willard O'Brien Inn of Court, was its first woman president in 2004, and serves as an honorary member of the inn.

A civil litigator with more than 30 years of experience, Wilkinson defends complex cases involving employment, professional liability, construction, products, asbestos, medical devices and pharmaceuticals.

Wilkinson also serves as a judge pro tem and special master in state and federal court.

She received her Juris Doctorate from the Villanova University School of Law.

In 2013, the Villanova Law Alumni Association named her the recipient of the Gerald Abraham Alumni Association Award for service to the law school. She is also a member of the Alumni Association board of the law school.