Philadelphia-based Spector Gadon & Rosen has started an energy and environmental practice group with the addition of environmental lawyer Kermit L. Rader, who will chair the group.

Rader, whose practice includes environmental remediations, compliance, transactions and litigation, as well as oil and gas pipeline and leasing agreements, joined the firm November 1 as a member from Lansdale, Pa.-based Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin, where he was co-chairman of the environmental practice.