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Elected and Appointed

Hyland Levin announce its new name: Hyland Levin Shapiro. The change occured when Mark D. Shapiro became a name partner.

Shapiro is a real estate transactional lawyer. Over the past two years, the firm’s transactional real estate team, led by Shapiro, closed over 75 transactions for clients with a collective value in excess of $2.5 billion.

Admitted in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Florida, his practice focuses on development, leasing and loan transactions. He often represents multifamily apartment building owners in acquisitions and financings and retail and office landlords in leasing matters.

His franchise practice includes counseling regional and national franchisors on franchise structuring, operational, relationship and regulatory issues and multi-unit franchisees.

Active in the community, Shapiro was a board member since 2003 and on the executive committee since 2005 of the Samost Jewish Family & Children’s Service, serving as president from 2012 to 2014.

Shapiro also sits on the board and executive committee of the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey and the board of the Jewish Community Foundation.

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Principal John N. Joseph was appointed as chair of Post & Schell’s internal investigations and white-collar defense practice group. Joseph succeeds Ronald H. Levine, who founded the practice at the firm 17 years ago and continues as a principal with the practice.

Joseph will oversee the practice’s representation of clients that include individuals and companies located throughout the United States and abroad.

The group focuses on criminal and civil fraud and corruption investigations and on litigation involving the federal False Claims Act, health care, tax offenses, energy, federal procurement, financial and securities violations, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, public corruption, cybersecurity and data breaches and environmental violations, among others.

Additions

Weber Kracht & Chellew welcomed associate attorney Macy T. Laster to the firm. She joins the firm’s practice area of criminal defense.

Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, Laster received her law degree from Syracuse University College of Law in 2018. She worked as a student attorney in the Disability Rights Clinic offering free legal services to underserved communities.

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The Mayers Firm announce that Jessica L. Bowman joined the firm as an associate.

Bowman will focus her practice in the defense of significant personal injury and property damage claims, insurance coverage, insurance fraud, insurance bad faith claims, commercial litigation, as well as the representation of the seriously injured.

Bowman received her J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law. During law school, she interned for U.S. Magistrate Judge Linda Caracappa for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and also for state Sen. Charles Mcilhinney.

Upon graduating from Temple and prior to joining The Mayers Firm, Bowman focused her practice on insurance defense, including property damage, personal injury, construction defect and uninsured/underinsured claims.

Active with the Montgomery Bar Association, Bowman volunteers for the Montgomery Child Advocacy Project, a nonprofit organization where she works with children and families, advocating for their rights against abuse, neglect and trafficking.

Events

The Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel will hold a CLE program titled “Leaders in the Courtroom: From the Trial Courts to the United States Supreme Court” beginning at 4:15 p.m. March 7, 2019, in the Ninth Floor Conference Center, 1515 Market Street, Philadelphia. One substantive CLE credit is offered. The price is $30, which includes a catered reception. For more information, please call 844-744-5600.

Announcements

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