Griesing Law

Additions

Griesing Law announced the addition of Hope A. Comisky as a member in the firm's employment practice group.

Comisky practices employment law and brings more than 35 years of employment counseling and litigation experience to the firm.

Comisky counsels clients on employment issues, provides training to managers and staff, and offers strategic advice on employment litigation matters.

Furthermore, she has experience arbitrating and mediating employment and commercial disputes as a member of the American Arbitration Association's panel of arbitrators, and as appointed under the alternative dispute resolution program of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She is also a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and a member of its selection committee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Comisky is also a frequent lecturer and author on employment law and professional responsibility topics and served as an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School where she teaches seminars on professional responsibility.

Comisky's professional responsibility experience comes from more than a decade as a partner and professional responsibility counsel and then general counsel for a large Philadelphia-based law firm.

She also co-chaired the Philadelphia Bar Association professional guidance committee for two terms.

Comisky received her Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. After law school, Comisky was a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Joseph L. McGlynn Jr. of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Honored

Ballard Spahr real estate attorney Eileen B. Quigley received the Philadelphia Bar Association's Harris Ominsky Award, which honors a preeminent real estate attorney in Philadelphia.

The Harris Ominsky Award is one of two awards given annually by the Philadelphia Bar Association real property section. It recognizes legal talent and achievements, contributions to the public interest, and integrity.

Quigley counsels businesses, individuals, developers, nonprofits and universities in a range of real estate matters.

She focuses on land use, entitlements, zoning, administrative law and historic preservation issues.

Before joining Ballard Spahr, Quigley served for seven years in the city of Philadelphia law department, where she represented city government departments.

Quigley served as chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association real property section from January 2017 through December 2017. She also held the positions of vice chair, secretary, treasurer and executive committee member in the section.

Announcements

Celebrating the firm's 20th anniversary this month, the family law attorneys of Pollock Begg embark on a third decade of helping clients resolve domestic relations matters.

The firm formed as Pollock Begg Komar Glasser in 2001 when two of the biggest law firms in Pittsburgh eliminated their matrimonial law departments. David S. Pollock, partner and head of Reed Smith's matrimonial group, sought out divorce and domestic relations lawyers in western Pennsylvania, recruiting partners Todd M. Begg, Daniel H. Glasser and Candice L. Komar from Buchanan Ingersoll.

The firmed opened in the Frick Building with two associates and three administrative staff.

Pollock Begg today has 15 lawyers and 30 employees, making it one of the largest law firms in western Pennsylvania focused solely on family law. Attorneys from the firm serve in leadership positions within matrimonial law organizations and participate in pro bono work, volunteer and community endeavors.

Expanding its name to Pollock Begg Komar Glasser & Vertz in 2012, the firm welcomed named partner Brian C. Vertz. The firm added a sixth partner, Joseph R. Williams, in 2015 and two more, Stephanie L. Jablon and Heather Trostle Smith, in 2018 before simplifying its name to Pollock Begg in 2019.