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Elected and Appointed

Drinker Biddle & Reath partner Elizabeth A. Diffley was selected by the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia as a member of the 2019 Greater Philadelphia Leadership Exchange Cohort.

The GPLEX Cohort is a diverse network of influential individuals within the region.

Diffley serves as an adviser to public and private clients on corporate and securities matters, including capital raising transactions, public company reporting and compliance, and mergers and acquisitions, as well as general corporate matters.

She advises companies, boards and committees on a variety of corporate governance, state corporate law and related matters.

Diffley serves as co-chair of Drinker Biddle’s capital markets and securities team.

She also serves on several firm committees, including the women’s leadership committee, and runs various aspects of the corporate associates training program.

Additions

Willig, Williams & Davidson announced that attorney Jessica Kolansky joined the firm.

Kolansky concentrates her practice on finance-related issues on behalf of consumers, primarily residential foreclosure, consumer lending and bankruptcy.

As a litigator, she represents clients in state and federal courts, with a primary focus on matters involving residential mortgage lending, commercial lending and consumer finance, including claims arising under the Truth in Lending Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act and the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

She negotiates and obtains loan modifications for borrowers to allow them to remain in their homes.

Kolansky is a member of the National Kidney Foundation’s patient advocacy and engagement program, the Kidney Advocacy Committee.

Kolansky earned her law degree from Rutgers Law School.

She participated in the Child and Family Advocacy Clinic as a student law guardian, the Appellate Advocacy Moot Court, the pro bono bankruptcy project; and as a certified New Jersey mediator.

Speakers

McNees Wallace & Nurick attorney Stephanie J. Sprenkle is slated to present “Drafting Legal Opinion Letters 2019” for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in Philadelphia on Aug. 23.

Sprenkle, along with attorneys from DLA Piper and Blank Rome, will explain the language used and practices customarily followed by Pennsylvania lawyers in rendering and receiving basic opinions given in most corporate and unsecured banking transactions.

The course will be a guide for those giving and receiving third-party legal opinions, as well as litigators and judges who are tasked with determining whether an opinion giver is liable for a third-party legal opinion given in a transaction.

Sprenkle practices in the McNees real estate practice group where she assists purchasers and sellers in the acquisition and disposition of real property and development of real estate with negotiating development agreements, easement agreements and agreements concerning covenants and restrictions for developers, property owners and tenants.

She represents tenants and landlords with respect to commercial leasing, particularly in retail and office leasing and financial institutions and borrowers regarding real estate and asset-based lending financing, restructures and participation and intercreditor agreements.

Announcements

The Delaware Business Court Insider is seeking contributors to provide analysis and insight into recent Delaware Court of Chancery decisions, as well as litigation and issues currently of interest to the business law community.

Potential topics that would be appropriate include, but are not limited to, arbitration, books-and-records requests, breach of contract lawsuits, controlling stockholder litigation, derivative claims, discovery disputes in commercial litigation, corporate dissolution, breach of fiduciary duty lawsuits, intellectual property litigation, jurisdictional battles in corporate litigation, merger and acquisition lawsuits, special committee decisions, corporate governance, limited liability company litigation and limited partnership agreement litigation.

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