Dear Friends & Colleagues,   The Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyers Trust Account Board is pleased to share its 2018 Annual Report. Please distribute to your members as appropriate.   Since the inception of the Pennsylvania IOLTA program, we have been committed to supporting the delivery of free civil legal aid to low-income Pennsylvanians. In support of our mission, the Pennsylvania IOLTA Board makes annual grants to more than thirty legal aid organizations and each of Pennsylvania’s nine law schools. The full list of grantees begins on page 13.   Of special interest to the legal community, the IOLTA Board’s new

New Britain, PA – Partner Mark Cheramie Walz of Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams is a featured speaker at the Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo and Conference (PETE&C), a multi-day summit for educational, networking and award programs focused on technology in the educational field. Attendees come from a variety of perspectives: teachers, administrators, technology directors, school board members and more. The event will be held February 10-13 at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, PA.   Cheramie Walz’s session, scheduled for Wednesday, February 13 at 8:00 A.M., is entitled “Making Sense of the COPPA Law.” In it, he will provide a detailed

Perkasie, PA – Weber Kracht and Chellew Attorneys at Law are pleased to welcome associate attorney Macy T. Laster to the firm. A Bucks County native, Laster brings tenacity and experience to the firm’s practice area of Criminal Defense. Laster considers it her duty to provide counsel for good people who find themselves in bad situations. “Clients know they can count on me to solve their legal issues. Whether it is a minor issue such as a parking ticket or a larger concern where the client is facing a felony charge, my clients turn to me to take something that may

Curtin & Heefner LLP is pleased to announce that Maureen Carlton and Kyong Growney have joined Ernest Closser and Frank Guarrieri in the management of Curtin & Heefner LLP. Under Mr. Guarrieri’s twenty five plus years of management, the Firm has a history of leadership within the legal profession, in government and in the region, as it continues to grow with offices in Yardley, Doylestown, New Hope and Berwyn, Pennsylvania and Princeton, New Jersey. The formation of the Management Team has strengthened the administration and operations of Curtin & Heefner LLP, while at the same time maintaining its established foundation

On January 31st, Employment Law Partner Patricia Collins of Antheil Maslow & MacMinn, presented an online continuing legal education webinar “Employment Law, Ethics & Professional Responsibility” offered by Celesq, Attorneys Ed Center.  This seminar reviewed the ethics issues that arise for employment attorneys in representing organizations.  The program identified risks for attorneys resulting from close involvement with the operations of the client.  Topics examined included:  negotiating employee contracts, drafting policies that impact client contact, termination or resignation of client contracts, attorneys as fact witnesses, attorneys as investigators, and maintaining professional distance.

Curtin & Heefner LLP is pleased to announce that Andrew Griffin has joined the Firm as an Associate in the Firm’s Real Estate Department. Mr. Griffin, who will practice out of the Firm’s Yardley office, is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association concentrates his practice on various areas of civil litigation, including real estate disputes, school law, tax assessment appeals, bankruptcy, and general civil litigation. Mr. Griffin is a 2014 graduate of the Duquesne University School of Law.   Curtin & Heefner has provided over 80 years of value-added service. The firm’s storied history ranges from the U.S. Congress

“Today, I am announcing my candidacy for Judge on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas. As both a former prosecutor who fought zealously to make sure that those guilty of committing crimes were brought to justice and as a lawyer who has defended those accused of committing criminal acts, I have served as an advocate on both sides of the criminal justice system.”   Serpico is a former Chief Deputy District Attorney of Bucks County serving under Alan Rubenstein. He is past President of the Bucks County Bar Association. As a criminal defense attorney, he represented hundreds of individuals

On January 31st,  Susan Maslow, a founding Partner and Business Law Attorney with Antheil Maslow & MacMinn in Doylestown, Pa,  participated in a continuing legal education webinar entitled “Protecting Workers and Managing Company Risk in Supply Chains: Moving from Policies to Contracts”.  Ms. Maslow is a member of the American Bar Association Business Law Section’s working group which has developed  model clauses to incorporate human rights protections in international supply chains.  The program explained how these clauses make supply chain control and worker protection both legally effective and operationally likely by moving the commitments that companies require of their suppliers

Saxton & Stump is pleased to welcome Kevin H. Mosser, MD as Senior Medical Consultant. Dr. Mosser most recently served as the president and CEO of WellSpan Health, an integrated health system of eight hospitals, more than 1,000 physicians, and over 200 ambulatory sites. Utilizing his knowledge of the healthcare field, he will assist the firm’s medical professional liability defense lawyers by providing clarity into clinical issues within cases. To read more about Dr. Mosser joining the firm, please visit https://www.saxtonstump.com/media/kevin-mosser-md-joins-saxton-stump-as-senior-medical-consultant/

(DOYLESTOWN, Pa.) Dianne C. Magee, an attorney with Grim, Biehn & Thatcher and Solicitor for the Bucks County Area Agency on Aging, has announced her candidacy for judge for the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas. Magee is running for one of three vacancies on the Court. In a legal career spanning more than three decades, Magee has been a staunch advocate for the most vulnerable members of our communities – the elderly, disabled, children and families in crisis. As a respected authority on elder law issues, and recognized by community leaders and attorneys statewide, Magee would be the first