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Timoney Knox, LLP is pleased to
announce that Christine M. Gordon has
been elected a partner of the firm effective
January 1, 2021. Gordon, of Ivyland,
Bucks County, joined the firm in May
2011 and focuses her practice on school
and special education law. She helped
develop the firm's Students' Rights practice,
which represents parents and students
with disabilities in securing appropriate
educational programs and services, as
well as in education-related matters
involving school bullying, discrimination,
harassment, and sexual and/or physical
abuse in schools.
Robert C. Gerhard, III recently
authored the 17th Edition of his elder law
treatise, Pennsylvania Medicaid, Longterm Care, published January 2021 by
the George T. Bisel Company. The text
discusses the eligibility rules for medical
assistance (Medicaid) benefits that pay for
in-home and nursing facility care.
Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell
& Lupin is pleased to announce that
William G. Roark recently received
the Special Achievement Award from
the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA)
recognizing his work in starting up the
Association's Medical Marijuana & Hemp
Law Committee several years ago. Special
Achievement Awards are given at the behest
of the PBA Board of Governors. They
recognize those lawyers and individuals
who have provided time and resources
to improve the association and the legal
profession.
High Swartz, a full-service law firm in
the greater Philadelphia area, is pleased to
announce its merger with the Law Offices
of Glen-David Schwarzschild, LLC. Glen
is a skilled Real Estate tax attorney and will
continue to practice out of the new High
Swartz office in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

High Swartz is pleased to announce that
Elizabeth C. Early has been elected
partner at the firm. Ms. Early joined High
Swartz in 2015 and focuses her practice
primarily on divorce, custody, support,
equitable distribution, pre- and postnuptial agreements and abuse matters.
Shemtob Draganosky Taylor, PC, one of
Montgomery County's leading divorce and
family law firms is pleased to announce
that Emily E. Farris has joined the firm
as an associate. Emily graduated magna
cum laude, from High Point University
in 2015 and earned her Juris Doctor, cum
laude, from the Drexel University Thomas
R. Kline School of Law in 2020. For her
extraordinary academic performance in law
school, Emily received the CALI Excellence
for the Future Award as the top performing
student in her Family Law and Professional
Responsibility classes.
The Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA)
LGBTQ+ Rights Committee presented
its 2020 David M. Rosenblum LGBTQ+
Public Policy Award to Ellen S. Fischer
of Bloom Peters, LLC of Horsham virtually
at an awards ceremony as part of PBA
Committee/Section Day. Fischer recently
moved to Bloom Peters, a female-owned
firm in Montgomery County, PA. The
award honors an individual who has
effected change resulting in a positive
impact for the LGBTQ community and
who has used their position of leadership
to inspire others to act and promote civil
rights and equality.
At its regularly scheduled meeting of
February 1, 2021 the Judicial Conduct
Board of Pennsylvania ( " Board " ) elected
its officers for the coming year. The
Board unanimously re-elected Thomas
J. Elliott as Chair, Judge Nina Wright
Padilla as Vice-Chair, and Judge Renée
Cohn Jubelirer as Secretary. The twelve-

member Board is an independent
Board within the Judicial Branch of
the Commonwealth's government that
comprises twelve Pennsylvania citizens:
three judges, three lawyers, and six nonlawyer electors. Mr. Elliott is a Senior
Shareholder and Vice President of the
Elliott Greenleaf law firm. He is a former
member of the Disciplinary Board of the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and is
currently a member of the Pennsylvania Bar
Association's Committee on Legal Ethics
and Professional Responsibility. He is
currently President of the Historical Society
of the United States District Court for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Wisler Pearlstine, LLP is pleased to
announce that attorneys Benjamin A.
Andersen and Joseph M. Blackburn
have been elected to partnership. Mr.
Andersen's experience includes cases in
the following areas: Breach of contract
cases covering a variety of diverse subjects
and industries; Copyright and trademark
infringement; Disputes over rights in and
ownership of residential and commercial
real estate (including commercial
landlord-tenant disputes); Creditors'
rights (including secured transaction
disputes and Adversary Proceedings in U.S.
Bankruptcy Courts); and Disputes between
co-owners/shareholders of businesses
(colloquially termed " business divorces " ).
Mr. Blackburn handles a broad range of
real estate, zoning, and land use matters on
behalf of corporate and individual clients,
including applications to zoning hearing
boards for variances and special exceptions,
applications to municipal governing bodies
for conditional uses, subdivisions to create
new building lots, new land development
projects, and transactional work related to
the preparation of agreements of sale, deeds
and easements, and declarations.

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