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SPRING 2016

Content for Winter 2017

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

KURT ALTHOUSE, President

JOAN E. LONDON, President-Elect
JEFFREY A. FRANKLIN, Vice President
LISA A. SICILIANO, Secretary

Features:

JUSTIN D. BODOR, Treasurer
MARY KAY BERNOSKY, Director

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MICHAEL A. SETLEY, Director
DAWN M. L. PALANGE, Director
DANIEL C. NEVINS, Director

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GABRIELA G. RAFUL, Director
J. BENJAMIN NEVIUS, Director
HONORABLE JILL GEHMAN KOESTEL,
Immediate Past President

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MICHAEL C. WIEDER, President YLS

BAR ASSOCIATION STAFF

DONALD F. SMITH, JR., ESQUIRE, Executive Director
ANDREA J. STAMM, Lawyer Referral/Secretary

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KAREN A. LOEPER, Law Journal Secretary
PAULA J. ZIEGLER, Communications Manager
RAINY LEONOR-LAKE, Community Outreach Coordinator
BRITT KOBULARCIK, Bookkeeper/Events Coordinator
JOHN E. REIGLE, Law Journal Editor
AMY J. LITVINOV, Law Journal Assisitant Editor

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Batdorf Lecture On Evictions
"The Krukker" Entertains at the Holiday
Benefit Luncheon
Kicking Off The Holidays

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Pennsylvania's Drug Immunity Statute:
Interpreting A Public Health Law In The Criminal
Courts, Giving The Overdose Victim Immunity

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Law Foundation of Berks County
2016 Annual Giving Campaign
In Memoriam
Pro Bono Celebration

Departments:
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PA High Court Takes Unprecedented Action
To Support Public Defenders.
Now, How About Supporting Civil Gideon?

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Thank You

P U B L I S H E D

Professor Duane To Speak Locally

24 Annual Meeting
32 Team Spirit Mixes with Holiday Spirit
34 New Attorneys Welcomed

MATTHEW M. MAYER, Barrister Editor

Our thanks are extended to the numerous people
who have contributed to The Berks Barrister.
Your time, energy and efforts are
sincerely appreciated.

Assert the Fifth, Assert the Sixth.
6 Don't
Then Shut Up!

President's Message

31 Restaurant Review

20 Technology Frankly Speaking

35 Spotlight on New Members

26 Book Review

39 Poetry

30 Miscellaneous Docket

COVER: BLEACHER SPECTATORS (L-R): Front Row-Sharon Gray,
Julie Marburger, Kelsey Frankowski, Sara Clipp, Stephanie Hager and Rachelle
Cecala; Back Row-Mari Andracchio, Tina Boyd, Nicole Manley, Elizabeth Ware,
Susanna Fultz, Julie Ravis and Amanda Kosmerl


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