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New Britain, PA – Partner Andrew E. Faust of Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams will be a featured presenter at the annual Lehigh University Special Education Law Symposium, to be delivered remotely via distance learning per social distancing guidelines, on June 22, 2020. Faust, who participates annually in the symposium, will reprise his role in “You Be the Judge: Dueling Attorneys,” a session addressing common special education issues faced by districts. Faust will present the perspective of an attorney who represents school districts in Pennsylvania. Joining Faust will be Dennis McAndrews, an attorney who represents parents, and Pennsylvania hearing officer

 Charles W. Ormsby, Jr. has been recognized for a fourth year as a Super Lawyer® in the area of Business/Corporate Law. Howard N. Greenberg has been recognized as a  Super Lawyer® for the 11th consecutive year for his work in Business/Corporate Law. Michael J. Torchia has been recognized as a Super Lawyer® for the 12th consecutive year in the area of Employment and Labor Law.    Michael B. Dubin is honored to be a Super Lawyer® for the 7th consecutive year in the area of Business Litigation. Brian R. Price  has been recognized as a Super Lawyer® for the 12th

. The seminar focused on issues arising when employees are required to minimize employee hours and expenses during a business shutdown or slowdown, with options ranging from furloughs, reduction in hours or pay, as well as temporary or permanent layoffs. These options were presented in light of the Families First COVID Response Act, the WARN Act, the Federal Labor Standards Statute and various anti-discrimination statutes. Practical strategies were discussed in an effort to minimize employee liabilities. Mr. Gordon focuses his practice in commercial and employment litigation, including non-competes and trade secret violations, discrimination claims, wage and hour violations and contract

Antheil Maslow & MacMinn, LLP  congratulates our six 2020 Thomson Reuters Super Lawyer and Rising Star Attorneys. Each year, no more than 5 percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by Super Lawyers to receive this honor.  Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Three Partners of the firm were selected to the 2020 Super Lawyers List: Jessica A. Pritchard, Family Law, selected for the 2020 Superlawyers as well as the “Top 50: 2020

H. Jeffrey Brahin, ESQUIRE presented a webinar to the Greater Bux-Mont Chamber of Commerce on “Covid-19 Commercial Leasing Issues.” Topics included were potential defenses to default actions by landlords such as Force Majeure, Co-Tenancy and Casualty clauses, as well as common law defenses of Impossibility of Performance and Frustration of Purpose. Negotiating strategies for both landlords and tenants were discussed as well. Mr. Brahin focuses his practice on complex commercial and real estate litigation, as well as real estate and corporate transactional work.

(PERKASIE, Pa.) Grim, Biehn & Thatcher of Perkasie, Pa., is pleased to announce that Patrick Armstrong, Esq. has been appointed to serve as Solicitor for Derry Township, Pennsylvania, located near Hershey Pennsylvania.  This appointment was effective in April 2020. Armstrong is a member of the firm’s municipal practice group and has been with the firm since 2004.    Armstrong represents townships, planning commissions and individual clients in a wide variety of municipal and land use matters. He has extensive experience in appellate, zoning, litigation and real estate law.  Armstrong also represents companies and individuals in employment law and workers’ compensation

The Deadline for the June 3rd issue of the Bucks County Law Reporter will be Friday, May 22nd at 2pm.

 David Shoneman (immediate past Chair of the BCBA IP Section) is pleased to announce that Darwin IP Advisors (www.darwinipadvisors.com) successfully participated and contributed to the completion of a strategic intellectual property transaction related to the current and next generation audio/video CODECs.  This complex strategic transaction between a Japanese multinational electronics company and an American-based NASDAQ 100 / S&P 500 international company was completed by successfully proposing alternative and creative compromises.    This represents the tenth successful strategic transaction that Darwin IP Advisors was able to close since its formation in 2016. Leveraging 35+ years of engineering and legal experiences, Darwin IP Advisors operates at the intersection

Petrelli Previtera, LLC, a leading family law firm in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, is proud to provide a bi-annual $1,000 scholarship to help students achieve their goals of furthering their education. Eligible applicants for the fall 2020 scholarship must be currently attending or planning to attend a college, university, or law school during the fall 2020 academic semester, and they must be in good academic standing. To enter, students must submit a 500-word essay on the prompt provided at https://www.petrellilaw.com/scholarship/, where additional criteria and application details are also available.

Darwin IP Advisors (www.darwinipadvisors.com) is proud to announce that David Shoneman (immediate past Chair of the BCBA IP Section) was selected to be included as part of the Intellectual Asset Management IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists 2020.  In 2016, Mr. Shoneman launched Darwin IP Advisors, an advisory, consulting firm operating at the intersection of business, technology and law after a successful career as a licensing executive and intellectual property attorney in the licensing business unit of Technicolor/Thomson/GE-RCA.  He was instrumental in (i) securing over 4B$ of acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures, strategic alliances and business development initiatives, (ii) acquiring more than 5000