Elected and Appointed

Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads announced that John J. Powell was elected to the firm's partnership.

Powell is located in the firm's Philadelphia office and was previously an associate.

Powell is a member of the firm's litigation department.

He handles a variety of complex litigation, including high-stakes commercial disputes, intellectual property, white-collar criminal, securities and antitrust matters in federal and state courts around the country and in international arbitration.

He represents large companies and clients in the financial services, computer software, health care, real estate, gaming, automotive and heavy machinery industries, as well as individuals, including a professor at an Ivy League law school, the European CEO of a global equipment manufacturer, a chemical scientist, and an indigent man wrongly convicted of murder.

Before joining Montgomery McCracken, Powell was an associate at another law firm and an analyst at an investment bank.

He currently serves on the board of advisors of technology company Text IQ, as a secretary and member of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project advocates for innocence board, as an executive committee member of the Temple American Inn of Court, and as a regional board member of Indego Africa, a nonprofit social enterprise that works to help Rwandan artisans access international markets.

He earned his Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School and is admitted to practice in New York and Pennsylvania.

Speakers

Barry L. Cohen and Julie Latsko from Royer Cooper Cohen Braunfeld, along with Kate Saba from Debevoise & Plimpton, were set to present a webinar on "Trends in Trade Dress" for the American Bar Association section of intellectual property.

Cohen is a partner at Royer Cooper.

He handles litigation, intellectual property litigation, commercial litigation, employment and international matters.

Latsko is an associate with Royer Cooper.

She focuses her practice on litigation.

Saba is an associate in Debevoise's litigation department.

Announcements

Pond Lehocky Giordano LLP and Paganos Restaurant provided meals to emergency medical technicians for National EMS Week at one of the largest hospitals in Philadelphia caring for COVID-19 patients.

The firm joined with Paganos this afternoon to provide lunches consisting of sandwiches, wraps and salad to transport nurses, paramedics and emergency medical technicians at JeffSTAT, a medical transportation service owned and operated by Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. JeffSTAT transports patients to any receiving hospital in the Southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware regions by air or ground.

National EMS Week is typically celebrated the third week of May by communities across the nation and honors the contributions of emergency medical services practitioners.

The lunch donations are a part of a larger pandemic initiative that Pond Lehocky kicked off, donating and delivering $10,000 worth of meals to health care workers battling the coronavirus on the front lines, volunteering weekly at Share Food Program, and providing pro bono representation to COVID-19 victims.

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