Steve Hann, Hamburg Rubin Mullin Maxwell & Lupin

Speakers

Steven A. Hann of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin participated in a webinar for the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors titled "The Pros and Cons of Selling Municipal Water/Sewer Assets."

During the presentation, Hann provided an overview of privatization issues impacting water and wastewater authorities in Pennsylvania, as well as an update on recent case law and administrative/statutory issues of interest.

Hann is a principal at the Pennsylvania law firm of Hamburg Rubin, where he focuses his practice on environmental and municipal law and chairs the firm's environmental law department.

He represents a client base that includes municipalities, municipal authorities, business entities, individuals, builders and developers, all of which are affected by federal and state environmental laws and regulations.

Hann handles all facets of environmental litigation with government agencies and private parties.

He also advises clients on regulatory and compliance issues, environmental permitting, environmental issues arising in business and real estate transactions, and land use and zoning issues.

Hann provides clients with counseling on legislative and regulatory developments at both the federal and state levels.

In addition to his environmental law practice, Hann has a practice in the area of municipal law, with a specific emphasis on municipal authorities.

Hann is the East Region solicitor for the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Association, covering the eastern half of Pennsylvania, and interacts regularly with PMAA staff and member authorities on a range of issues related to the management and operation of water, wastewater, stormwater and solid waste authorities.

Hann is also a frequent speaker at PMAA conferences, seminars and webinars.

He is a graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Additions

FisherBroyles announced that Judge Patrick J. Murphy joined the firm in Philadelphia.

Murphy served as the 32nd U.S. under secretary of the Army and was the first veteran of the Iraq war to be elected to the House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania's eighth congressional district between 2007 and 2011.

Murphy is the latest partner to join FisherBroyles.

An entrepreneur and general partner at the Stony Lonesome Group, Murphy joins the firm from Dilworth Paxson and focuses his practice on entrepreneurship, innovation and emerging companies.

Additionally, as a commissioner on the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission, he advises C-suite leaders on cybersecurity and data privacy with recent updates to the Sarbanes Oxley Act.

As a former federal and military prosecutor and a former partner at two Am Law 100 firms, Murphy provides counsel on best practices and strategy for contentious situations.

Murphy is a member of several public and private sector boards, including director of BAE Systems Inc., chairman of the Cerner federal board, director of the Adobe federal board, executive chairman of WorkMerk, director of Psych Hub, and director of CTIS.

Murphy currently holds the distinguished chair of innovation at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was a board member from 2011 to 2016, and also served as assistant professor from 2000 to 2003.

He was a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago in 2015 and served as a guest lecturer at

Harvard University, Stanford University and Princeton University.

He earned his Juris Doctor from Widener University Commonwealth School of Law.

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