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Speakers

Willig, Williams & Davidson announced that partner Lauren Hoye spoke at the 2019 biennial convention of the American Federation of Teachers Pennsylvania.

Hoye discussed developments in the legal landscape in the year since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees that teacher and other public employee unions cannot collect fees from nonmembers.

A partner in Willig Williams’s labor department, Hoye represents labor unions and individual employees before state and federal courts in arbitrations, negotiations and administrative proceedings.

She also provides counseling and training to her clients on public and private sector labor law as well as employment law and employment disputes.

Hoye earned her law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

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Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young attorneys Jeffrey D. Grossman and Adam J. Petitt spoke at the Association of Insurance Reinsurance Run-Off Companies Summer Membership Meeting in New York.

They presented “Hazing: Understanding the Civil and Criminal Liability Issues for Individuals and Institutions,” which addressed high-profile hazing headlines and discussed the civil and criminal liabilities that an individual or institution may face in each case, as well as potential insurance issues that may arise.

Grossman is a trial lawyer who focuses his practice on complex litigation and regulatory matters within the fields of insurance, health care and construction.

His practice entails resolving disputes between private parties as well as disputes involving industry and governmental regulators.

Petitt is a trial lawyer who counsels corporate and individual clients in complex commercial civil and regulatory matters, white-collar criminal defense, internal investigations and corporate compliance.

Petitt has experience representing carriers, providers, hospitals and health care systems in the health care industry.

He is also a member of the firm’s education practice group.

Events

Attorneys from Capehart Scatchard’s workers’ compensation department recently attended the Seventh annual Gala for Kids’ Chance of New Jersey.

The Gala was a fundraiser for Kids’ Chance, a nonprofit organization created to provide educational opportunities and scholarships for the children of workers who were fatally or catastrophically injured on the job.

John Geaney and Lora Northen, shareholders in the firm, serve as members of the Kids’ Chance board of directors, and director of marketing Carol Wright serves as an advisory board member.

This year’s Gala featured the presentation of scholarships to 20 students whose parents suffered fatal or physically catastrophic injuries while working.

Each student was awarded up to $10,000 for the upcoming school year.

Capehart Scatchard co-sponsored the scholarship given to Will Gardner whose father, Bill Gardner lost his life in a work-related truck accident.

Elected and Appointed

Ballard Spahr appointed Dominic J. De Simone and Emilie R. Ninan to co-chair the firm’s finance department, firm chair Mark Stewart announced.

De Simone and Ninan will oversee strategic direction and performance for Ballard Spahr’s national finance department, which represents clients across public and private markets in a variety of complex debt and equity transactions, bond offerings and distressed debt matters.

De Simone represents a range of clients in large-scale commercial debt and equity transactions—including multilender, portfolio and distressed asset transactions.

He will continue to lead the firm’s real estate finance group and serve on its elected board. Before joining Ballard Spahr, he was a relationship manager in the real estate banking division of PNC Bank.

Ninan is a public finance attorney who represents clients in connection with obtaining lower-cost capital financing through the issuance of tax-exempt bonds and other credit facilities.

These transactions pave the way for major infrastructure improvements, health care systems, affordable housing complexes and educational centers.

She will continue to lead the firm’s public finance group.