William G. Roark, managing partner of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin. William G. Roark, managing partner of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin. Courtesy photo

Elected and Appointed

Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin announced that William G. Roark has been elected president of the board of Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania (LASP).

Managing partner of the firm, a fulltime administrative law attorney and adjunct professor at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, Roark has always dedicated important time to helping LASP.

The mission of LASP is to provide free "quality legal representation to low-income and vulnerable people in Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery Counties and increased access to the courts, and to change community practices and systems that cause or aggravate poverty." Assistance is regularly provided in such areas as family law, including child custody, protection from domestic violence, landlord tenant, eviction and mortgage foreclosure matters, elder law, consumer law, public benefits assistance and more.