Doylestown, PA – Partner Susan J. Smith of Williams Family Law, P.C. has joined the board of trustees of the Bucks County Historical Society, the private non-profit organization charged with collecting, preserving and interpreting the rich history and culture of Bucks County and the Delaware Valley region.   The historical society operates the Mercer Museum, Spruance Library and Fonthill Museum, and is the primary inheritor of the material and intellectual legacy of Henry Chapman Mercer. This includes a nationally significant collection of tools and artifacts that illuminate the history of pre-industrial America. The historical society is governed by a volunteer

The law firm of Antheil Maslow & MacMinn will host a meet the candidate event supporting Partner Denise M. Bowman’s campaign for Common Pleas Judge.  The event will be held on Tuesday, April 23rd from 5-7 p.m. at the firm’s Doylestown office at 131 West State Street. Denise Bowman, an experienced and respected attorney and community leader is a partner in the firm’s Commercial Litigation department.   She has represented and advocated for numerous businesses, individuals, non-profits and governmental entities throughout Bucks County in a wide variety of civil and commercial disputes.  An attorney for 20 years, she has represented clients

Robert Szwajkos, a Partner at Curtin & Heefner LLP in its Commercial Services Department, and a former Clerk, U.S. Bankruptcy Court (EDPA), has been elected to serve as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Bucks County Credit Counseling Center. The Bucks County Credit Counseling Center, an award winning non-profit service sponsored by regional banking and professional organizations, at its offices in Levittown, Doylestown, and Richboro, has provided confidential credit counseling services since 1994. During 2018, the Center assisted 4,230 clients with budget and debt management, credit report review, financial fitness and student loan counseling, first time homebuyer education,

Blue Bell and Doylestown, PA – John A. VanLuvanee, Julie L. Von Spreckelsen and Zachary A. Sivertsen successfully represented The Verrichia Company (“Verrichia”) on an exclusionary zoning challenge related to a commercial real estate development project in Plumstead Township, Bucks County. The Court’s decision to sustain the challenge is significant because it recognizes “retail stores with fuel dispensing facilities” as a distinct and legitimate land use; invalidating Plumstead Township’s zoning ordinance as exclusionary.   Senior Judge Robert J. Shenkin of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County, issued an order sustaining a substantive validity challenge, filed on behalf of

Doylestown, PA – Eastburn and Gray attorney Erin K. Aronson, Esq. served as the coordinator of the 2018-2019 Pennsylvania Bar Association/Young Lawyers’ Division Mock Trial Competition for Bucks County. The competition featured 17 teams and resulted in a win for Central Bucks High School South, who will move on to compete in the regional phase of the competition. This county-wide, annual competition is organized by the Young Lawyers’ Division (YLD) of the Bucks County Bar Association (BCBA) as part of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) statewide competition. Locally, BCBA members generously give their time and expertise to serve as team

Doylestown, PA – Kellie A. McGowan, Esq. will serve as faculty at a PBI Real Estate seminar on Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Philadelphia, PA. Ms. McGowan is one of three faculty to participate in this real estate seminar entitled Key Mistakes to Avoid with Residential Agreements of Sale, to be held at the PBI Philadelphia conference center and simulcast in multiple Pennsylvania locations.  The panel will focus on 2019 revisions to the PAR form residential agreement, and discuss key issues often encountered in practice. Ms. McGowan is a shareholder in the Real Estate, Land Use and Zoning, and Banking

Samuel C. Totaro, Jr. has been chosen to receive the Ursinus College Alumni Award for Service to Humanity. This award pays tribute for time volunteered for the benefit of a community or non-profit institution. Totaro, a Partner with Curtin & Heefner is best known for his accomplishments in the field of adoption law and related adoption litigation. He has participated in over 4,000 adoptions of children, representing adoptive parents, birth parents and adoption agencies. Totaro was lead counsel in Gibbs vs. Ernst, a 1994 PA Supreme Court case which established the rights of adoptive parents to be compensated for failure

THE UNITED STATES District COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA ANNOUNCES NEW SCHEDULE FOR ATTORNEY ADMISSIONS TO EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA  PHILADELPHIA, PA– Chief Judge Juan R. Sánchez announces that the Eastern District of Pennsylvania will conduct attorney admissions ceremonies on Thursdays at 10:30 a.m. in Courtroom 5-A in the Philadelphia Byrne Courthouse. In the event the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is closed or a federal holiday falls on a Thursday, the next attorney admission ceremony will take place the following Thursday.  Applicants and sponsors should report to the Clerk’s Office on the second floor of the Byrne Courthouse

(February 28, 2019) Mannion Prior, LLP, a trust and estate litigation firm headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, is delighted to announce that the Honorable Stanley R. Ott (Ret.) joins the firm in an Of Counsel role. Mannion Prior’s focuses its practice on trust and estate litigation across Pennsylvania in the Orphans’ Court Division. The firm has successfully represented clients in seminal trust and estate matters for nearly twenty years. In 2018, Judge Ott retired as a Senior Judge in Montgomery County – the 38th Judicial District – after 31 years of experience on the bench. Judge Ott’s decisions are

March 4, 2019, Doylestown, PA—The Bucks County Democratic Committee has overwhelmingly endorsed Jordan Yeager for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County. The Committee, which is the authorized body of the Democratic Party in Bucks County, held its endorsement meeting Saturday at Klinger Middle School in Upper Southampton, PA. Over 91 percent of Committee members voted for Yeager on the first ballot, with 328 out of 359 members present voting for Yeager. Yeager far exceeded the 60 percent threshold for receiving the Committee’s endorsement and was the only candidate endorsed on the first ballot. The endorsement means