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Speakers

Partner Andrew E. Faust of Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams is set to be a featured presenter at the annual Lehigh University Special Education Law Symposium, to be delivered remotely via distance learning per social distancing guidelines, on June 22.

Faust, who participates annually in the symposium, will reprise his role in "You Be the Judge: Dueling Attorneys," a session addressing common special education issues faced by districts. Faust will present the perspective of an attorney who represents school districts in Pennsylvania.

Joining Faust will be Dennis McAndrews, an attorney who represents parents, and Pennsylvania hearing officer Brian Jason Ford.

Faust and McAndrews will discuss a situation involving a fictitious student and share their perspectives on the scenario, such as whether the district has fulfilled its obligation or whether the student is entitled to compensatory education.

Ford and the workshop participants will then collaborate on a ruling in the matter.

Faust practices in the areas of special education, student services and student civil rights.

He represents school districts and intermediate units at every level of the federal and state judicial and administrative systems, lectures to audiences of educators and attorneys, and testifies as an expert witness in court proceedings and before state and federal agencies.

The presentation is part of Lehigh University's intensive one-week symposium to be held June 21 to 26.

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[email protected] or call 610-758-5557.

Additions

Capehart Scatchard announced that Christina M. Dewland and Stacey R. Gorin joined the firm as associates in its Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, office.

Dewland focuses her practice in litigation through the federal and state courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Gorin focuses her practice in the areas of commercial litigation and creditor's rights.

Dewland earned her Juris Doctor from Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey.

Upon law school graduation, she worked as a law clerk to Judges David W. Morgan and Robert P. Becker of the New Jersey Superior Court.

She is admitted to practice law in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Gorin earned her J.D. from Rutgers Law School in Camden.

Upon law school graduation, she worked as a law clerk to Judge Richard J. Nocella of the New Jersey Superior Court.

She is admitted to practice law in New Jersey.

Elected and Appointed

Jenna King, Martin Law's newest workers' compensation associate, was nominated to the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Workers' Compensation Council during its May 2020 meeting.

King will serve a three-year term on the Workers' Compensation Council.

King joins Martin Law partners George Martin and Matthew Wilson, who have been council members since 1987 and 2007, respectively.

King is an active member in both the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia bar associations. In 2019, she was appointed as the co-chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association workers' compensation section's diversity and inclusion committee.

In the same year she became the young lawyers division liaison for the Pennsylvania Bar Association's workers' compensation section.

In the past couple of years, King became a frequent presenter of Continuing Legal Education courses throughout Pennsylvania.

In 2015, King earned her law degree from Widener University Delaware Law School.

Announcements

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