People in the News—April 20, 2018—Kleinbard LLC
Leen Al-Alami joined Kleinbard LLC as an associate in the business and finance department.
April 20, 2018 at 10:00 AM
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Leen Al-Alami joined Kleinbard LLC as an associate in the business and finance department.
Al-Alami focuses her practice on corporate and securities matters, with particular emphasis on private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance issues.
She represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, venture capital firms and strategic buyers and sellers across various industry sectors.
Prior to joining Kleinbard, Al-Alami was an associate in the corporate and securities group at Dechert.
She received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2013.
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Bazelon Less & Feldman added employment litigation and counseling attorney Deirdre E. Groenen to its firm.
Groenen brings to the firm experience in employment law, which she acquired as the vice president of human resources and general counsel for a major and rapidly growing local energy/remodeling company, and prior to that, as a litigation associate with a large Philadelphia-based law firm.
She has knowledge and hands-on experience with a wide range of important employment-related issues, including Fair Labor Standards Act wage-and-hour disputes, employment discrimination and harassment, unemployment, performance management and issues involving regulatory matters and compliance.
|Events
Join Justice Rising Advocates, Community Legal Services' young professionals advocacy group, for a CLE titled “A Decade of Diversion: An All-Sides View of Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention” starting at 5 p.m. on April 25 at Magna Legal Services on 1635 Market St.
The CLE will explore the innovative, intersecting programs that formed after the 2008 economic collapse to preserve homeownership.
Topics include predatory lending, tangled title and how legal aid, municipal services, the courts, and the bar can work together for successful outcomes.
To register, go to: this link..
|Speakers
Six McNees Wallace & Nurick attorneys are set to speak at the 2018 Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors solicitor's seminar on April 23 and 24.
On April 23, Adam Santucci is set to present “Labor & Employment Law Update” to the PSATS Solicitors Association, in addition Dana Chilson and Kandice Hull are scheduled to discuss “Using Eminent Domain for Public Projects and to Fight Blight” and Langdon Ramsburg is set to cover “Alternative Ways to Provide Police Protection.”
On April 24, Jennifer Will and Crystal Clark are set to discuss “Why Do Public Sector Employees Have So Many Rights?”
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Jennifer Platzkere Snyder, Dilworth Paxson partner and a member of its labor and employment group, is set to present a program at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's two-day Employment Law Institute titled “Ethics in Employment Law” between 1:15 and 2:15 p.m. on April 26.
Snyder represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, with clients ranging from entrepreneurial startups to the Fortune 500, as well as municipal governments and not-for-profit organizations.
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