Speakers

Daniel E. Cummins of the Clarks Summit firm of Cummins Law recently prepared and presented variations of a year end civil litigation update at the separate Lackawanna, Luzerne, and Monroe Bench Bar Conferences.

Cummins also prepared the program and served as a panelist for the recent Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) CLE titled "Settlement Strategies & Tips 2024."

Cummins is the managing partner of Cummins Law and has over 25 years of civil litigation and insurance defense experience.

His practice areas include: automobile/trucking insurance defense; UM/UIM cases; premises liability defense; products liability defense; medical/dental malpractice defense; professional liability defense; insurance coverage questions/litigation; bad faith defense; insurance subrogation; property and casualty defense; and fire losses (defense or subrogation).

He also is a certified federal court mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Cummins is thus available to assist all litigants and businesses and carriers in bringing their matters to a close by way of mediation.

Additions

McNees Wallace & Nurick continues to grow and strengthen its team with the addition of three new associates who have successfully passed the Pennsylvania bar exam: Madeleine Baione, Tre Blomeier and Erika Firestone.

Baione is based in Lancaster and practices in the firm’s labor and employment group. She previously served as a law clerk at McNees, supporting the firm’s workers compensation team. Prior to law school, she worked as a claim manager for September 11th Victim Compensation Fund claims and a legal intern for Cumberland County Judge Edward E. Guido. Baione’s experience includes working at a Lancaster-based law firm and Johns Hopkins Health System Corporation.

She earned her J.D. from the Penn State Dickinson School of Law where she also served as a research assistant, teaching assistant and legal intern. Baione also holds an M.B.A. from Penn State Harrisburg and a bachelor’s degree from Dickinson College.

Blomeier joined the corporate and tax team in McNees’ Harrisburg office. Prior to joining McNees, he worked as a research assistant, summer associate, legislative intern and business development analyst intern.

His experience includes work in financial regulation, ESG policies, voluntary carbon markets, litigation support and legislative research. Blomeier earned his J.D. from the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School with a concentration in antitrust law and a bachelor’s degree from the Fox School of Business at Temple University.

Firestone practices in McNees’ real estate team from the firm’s Harrisburg office. Having served as a law clerk, Firestone rejoined McNees after graduating from law school. She previously worked as a judicial extern, legal intern, legislative assistant and senior designated school official.

Firestone’s experience includes work with the U.S. District Court, Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission, Harrisburg University, and the Office of Pennsylvania State Rep. Carl W. Metzgar. She earned her J.D. from the Widener University Commonwealth Law School, her master’s degree from the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and her bachelor’s degree from Temple University.