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Sidney L. Gold
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 49 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Civil Rights
Temple University
Sidney L. Gold is a New Jersey and Pennsylvania employment lawyer with extensive experience counseling employers regarding compliance with Title VII, the ADA, and the ADEA and FMLA. Mr. Gold has significant experience in representing both private sector and public sector employers, including state universities and municipalities in employment and civil rights matters. His labor law firm was lead counsel in the nationwide class action against Abercrombie & Fitch. Mr. Gold has written extensively on issues of employment discrimination and has authored many articles for the Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly. Mr. Gold has also given presentations on...
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Christopher Ezold
Bala Cynwd, PA Employment Law Attorney with 29 years of experience
Employment, Business and Health Care
Villanova University School of Law and Villanova University School of Law
Christopher E. Ezold focuses his practice on assisting small and medium-sized businesses incorporate and grow their businesses. Mr. Ezold is a current member of the Board of Directors of the Main Line Chamber of Commerce, and has been designated as the Chamber’s General Counsel. Mr. Ezold is also a member of the Board of the Center for Advancement in Cancer Education, and is a volunteer attorney with the Support Center for Child Advocates. Mr. Ezold is the former chair of the Main Line Chamber of Commerce’s Technology Committee, and has given presentations on employment and technology-related areas.
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Eric A. Shore
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Personal Injury and Social Security Disability
University of Pennsylvania Law School
President/Managing Attorney, since January 1, 1999 of Law Offices of Eric A. Shore. Eric A. shore has helped more than 40,000 injured and disabled workers to receive a total of more than $250,000,000 in settlements and expected lifetime benefits. Areas of Practice: Social Security Disability, Personal Injury, Workers’ Compensation
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Holly C Frey
Bensalem, PA Employment Law Attorney with 8 years of experience
(215) 639-0801
3331 Street Road
Two Greenwood Square, Suite 128
Bensalem, PA 19020
Employment
Widener University Delaware School of Law
The Firm of Karpf, Karpf, & Cerutti, P.C. focuses on informing employees and former employees about their legal rights concerning the workplace and helping them to take swift legal action on their behalf when necessary.
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Jeremy Donham
York, PA Employment Law Attorney with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Widener University Commonwealth Law School and West Virginia University
Jeremy Donham has a practice focused in the field of Employment Discrimination, Wrongful Termination and Workplace Privacy. Mr. Donham is admitted to practice in all Pennsylvania and West Virginia State Courts. He is admitted to all Federal District Courts in Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He is also admitted to the Federal District Courts of Northern West Virginia.
Mr. Donham was a prosecutor in Pennsylvania before opening a practice in employment and workplace civil rights. Mr. Donham gives personal attention to his clients by providing technologically based client interaction portals where clients can view and upload...
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Bryan S. Arcé
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 14 years of experience
(215) 239-3036
1500 Market St
12th Floor, East Tower
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Free ConsultationEmployment
Brooklyn Law School
Bryan was born in Los Angeles, CA. He attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Michigan where he received his Bachelors of Arts Degree. He obtained his Juris Doctorate law degree from Brooklyn Law School.
Mr. Arce is a member of the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, New Jersey State Bar Association, and Pennsylvania State Bar Association. He is admitted to practice law in the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and the District of Columbia.
Prior to coming to the firm, Mr. Arce worked as a Judicial Intern for the Equal Employment Opportunities...
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Timothy S. Seiler
Bensalem, PA Employment Law Attorney with 10 years of experience
(215) 639-0801
3331 Street Rd., Two Greenwood Sq, Suite 128
Bensalem, PA 19020
Free ConsultationEmployment and Civil Rights
Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law
The law offices of Karpf, Karpf & Cerutti, P.C. focuses almost exclusively in the area of employment law and civil rights litigation. Our offices service clients in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.
We pride ourselves on achieving the best possible outcome for our clients.
Areas of Law:
Employment Law
Employment Discrimination
Employer Liability
Sexual Harassment
Wrongful Termination
Race Discrimination
Sex Discrimination
Religious Discrimination
Pregnancy Discrimination
Whistle Blowing
Family and Medical Leave
Restrictive Covenants
Wage and Hour Law
Overtime Claims
Severance Packages
Contract Law
ERISA violations
Timothy's Bar Admissions include: Pennsylvania State, New Jersey State, Federal Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Middle District of Pennsylvania, Western District of Pennsylvania, District of New Jersey and Third Circuit Court of...
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Marc Goldich
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Employment, Consumer, Products Liability and Securities
Temple University Beasley School of Law and Arizona State University
After spending over a decade at a large international law firm representing the world’s leading companies in high-stakes disputes and complex commercial litigation, Mr. Goldich switched sides and founded Axler Goldich LLC, a class action and personal injury firm devoted to helping consumers, employees, and investors from all across the nation who have been harmed by corporate negligence or wrongdoing. At Axler Goldich, Mr. Goldich maintains a robust practice focused on representing clients in class action and individual cases against corporate defendants such as pharmaceutical manufacturers, financial institutions, automobile manufacturers, and national and international corporations in a variety of industries....
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David Matthew Cedar
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Attorney with 32 years of experience
Employment, Environmental, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Rutgers School of Law-Newark
David Cedar is the co-founder of Williams Cedar and prior founding member of the Cedar Law Firm, Merovitz & Cedar, L.L.P. and Merovitz, Cedar and Gruber., L.L.C. He is a graduate of Rutgers State University, School of Law, Camden (1992). He is admitted to practice in the bars of Pennsylvania (1993) and New Jersey (1992), along with various district courts and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. David Cedar was appointed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney (2001) a honor awarded to less than 1% of all attorneys...
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Andrew Sacks
Jenkintown, PA Employment Law Attorney with 40 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business, Cannabis Law and Workers' Comp
Dickinson School of Law
Attorney Andrew Sacks received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Grinnell College and his Juris Doctorate from Dickinson School of Law. He began his legal career practicing personal injury law in Philadelphia. Later, he began administrating legal service plans for large labor unions, servicing a collective membership of over 50,000 members and their families.
In 1994, Mr. Sacks purchased his employer's assets and launched Sacks Weston, LLC. The firm handles personal injury, medical malpractice, maritime matters, and significant efforts were devoted to toxic tort and environmental contamination litigation.
Sacks Weston, LLC pioneered N.O.R.M. litigation, which resulted in the largest, single-landowner verdict in...
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Gary Green
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Attorney with 52 years of experience
(215) 574-0600
Sidkoff, Pincus & Green, P.C.1101 Market St
2700 ARAMARK Tower
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Free ConsultationEmployment, Antitrust, Appeals and Business
Villanova University School of Law
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Ari R. Karpf
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 20 years of experience
(215) 639-0801
1810 S. Rittenhouse Square
The Savoy Building, Unit B-2
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Free ConsultationEmployment
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
Have you been wrongfully fired?
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In these tough economic times, it may seem that your employer has all the power. You may think that you have few, if any, rights against the actions of your employer. But this is simply not true. Federal, state, and local laws protect workers and regulate various aspects of the employer-employee relationship. Our employment attorneys in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York can advise you how these various laws apply to your situation.
Wages and overtime
Leave time
Hiring and firing
Discrimination and hostile work environments
Pensions and employee benefits
Workplace safety
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Virginia Lee Hardwick
Doylestown, PA Employment Law Attorney with 9 years of experience
Employment, Business and Civil Rights
New York University School of Law
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Maria Elena Bermudez
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 16 years of experience
(267) 460-1099
Registered: 744 South St. #768
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Philadelphia, PA 19147
Free ConsultationEmployment and Social Security Disability
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Maria Bermudez is an attorney and legal consultant assisting disabled individuals nationwide, including the U.S. territories. She focuses her practice on disability advocacy in the areas of Social Security disability and Long-Term disability under private policies.
Over the last fourteen years, she has held positions with the federal government, an international defense firm, plaintiff's firm and currently operates her own practice - Law Office of Maria E. Bermudez, LLC doing business as Disability Advocacy Group. Before practicing law, she served as a law clerk in the Family Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey. Ms. Bermudez has spent considerable...
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Michael Donovan
Malvern, PA Employment Law Attorney with 39 years of experience
Employment, Appeals, Consumer and Securities
Vermont Law School
DONOVAN LITIGATION GROUP, LLC, located in Malvern, Pennsylvania, is a law firm dedicated to providing first class litigation services to investors, consumers and small businesses. The firm’s principals have substantial trial and appellate court experience prosecuting complex commercial and consumer cases. The founding member of the firm has appeared or argued before the United States Supreme Court, various federal and state appellate courts, the state Supreme Courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and federal and state trial courts throughout the country. The firm’s nationwide practice focuses on class actions, shareholders’ rights, consumer and commercial litigation as well as employment-related disputes....
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Steven Kapustin
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer
Employment, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Real Estate
Temple University
Steven Kapustin, Partner in Reger Rizzo & Darnall’s Philadelphia office, has served as an arbitrator and mediator for over 45 years, mostly concerning commercial disputes. As a litigator, he has represented petroleum refineries and marketers, distributors, franchisors and franchisees, developers, business owners, securities firms, investors, automobile dealers, and individual professionals.
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Tom Ford
MOUNT POCONO, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 41 years of experience
Employment, Arbitration & Mediation and Business
Cleveland State University
I was originally trained and certified as a mediator by the Cincinnati Institute of Justice in 1982, when serving as a neutral for the City of Cleveland, Ohio. In 2013, I refreshed my training with a 40-hour American Arbitration Association mediation skills training seminar. While I maintain a modest private law practice representing small businesses in NEPA, the focus of my practice is now as a neutral, facilitating the resolution of conflicts and settlement of disputes for businesses and individuals. I am equipped to facilitate the resolution of most any kind of conflict, but my three decades...
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Ms. May Mon Post
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Immigration
Temple University
Ms. Post is an experienced counselor and litigator, concentrating her practice in the representation of employees in all aspects of employment related litigation in federal court and before administrative agencies. This includes claims of sexual harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, wrongful discharge, and discrimination based on race, gender, color, religion, national origin, disability, age, and pregnancy.
As a litigator, Ms. Post has represented both employees and employers in litigation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, the American Arbitration Association, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Pennsylvania Human...
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Kevin Cornish
Norristown, PA Employment Law Attorney with 17 years of experience
Employment, Business, Construction and Personal Injury
George Mason University School of Law
Kevin Cornish focuses his practice on commercial, civil, and contract & business litigation. His clients include individuals as well as local, regional, and national businesses. Kevin has handled cases involving contract disputes, the Mechanic’s Lien Law, the Contractor Subcontractor Payment Act, the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Real Estate Seller Disclosure Law, and the Landlord Tenant Act. Kevin’s experience includes resolving cases through trial, arbitration, and negotiation.
Prior to joining High Swartz LLP in November 2012, Kevin represented clients as a litigation associate for a prominent Montgomery County law...
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Jill L. Walsh
Doylestown, PA Employment Law Attorney
Employment and Business
University of Baltimore School of Law
Offering 25 years combined legal and human resources experience, representing individuals in all aspects of employment law, including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour issues, employee benefits, reductions in force and wrongful discharge. I also develop/present training, and counsel employers on workplace investigations, employment decisions, policy development, and other employment matters.
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Harold M. Goldner
Fort Washington, PA Employment Law Attorney with 43 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business and Civil Rights
Boston University School of Law
Mr. Goldner’s practice is devoted to relieving sources of conflict and stress in the workplace. He handles employment discrimination claims on behalf of both employees and employers from filing of claims through trial, verdict and appeal. He prepares human resources policies and procedures for employers as well as offering training to employers and even fellow lawyers on employment claim avoidance. He drafts and interprets restrictive covenants and other professional contracts both on behalf of those businesses seeking to secure their assets and for employees looking to make career changes, and enforces and defends these contracts in state and Federal courts....
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Jeffrey Jacob Goldin
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Attorney with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Traffic Tickets
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Aggressive representation in and out of the courtroom. As a member of the litigation department at Greg Prosmushkin, P.C., I focus on ensuring my clients have zealous representation in all their matters. My primary practice focuses on; Personal Injury; Criminal Defense; DUI/DWI; Motor Vehicle and Traffic Offenses; Contract Disputes; Employee Wage Disputes and Unemployment Appeals. I am a member of several legal associations such as the New Jersey State Bar Association, the Philadelphia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association.
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Bret R. Goldstein
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Attorney
(215) 495-6528
Cira Centre, 13th Floor
2929 Arch St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Employment, Business, Insurance Defense and Workers' Comp
Rutgers University - Camden
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Scott L. Feldman
Doylestown, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Employment, Business, Collections and Landlord Tenant
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Scott L. Feldman is a sole practitioner with offices in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Now in his thirty-first year, Mr. Feldman focuses his practice on Landlord and Tenant Law and Consumer and Commercial Collections and Litigation. He represents several large apartment complexes, and advises their rental managers and corporate personnel. He is a graduate of the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie-Mellon University and the Widener University School of Law, where he was a two-year member of the Moot Court Honor Society. Mr. Feldman is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey State and Federal Courts,...
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Shawn McBrearty
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 5 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business, Civil Rights and Legal Malpractice
Drexel University School of Law and Temple University
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Beth A. Hurley
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Employment, Bankruptcy, Business and Real Estate
Fordham University School of Law
I am an experienced Attorney at Kang Haggerty LLC. My practice areas include Bankruptcy, Real Estate, and Business Law. I am dedicated to helping business and individuals achieve the best possible legal outcomes.
I received a B.A.S.W. and B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. In 2004, I earned my J.D. Cum Laude, from Fordham University School of Law. I am admitted to practice law in both Pennsylvania and New York.
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Karen Elizabeth Eichman
West Grove, PA Employment Law Attorney with 21 years of experience
Employment, Business, Estate Planning and Probate
Widener University Delaware School of Law
Creative Problem Solver, with a personal touch.
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Michael J. Davey
West Chester, PA Employment Law Attorney with 19 years of experience
(610) 431-4600
113 East Evans Street Matlack Bldg, Suite D-1
Suite B
West Chester, PA 19380
Employment and Medical Malpractice
Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law
Michael is an Associate in the litigation department of Eckell, Sparks, Levy, Auerbach, Monte, Sloane, Matthews & Auslander, P.C., where in addition to heading up the Firm’s Employment Law & Discrimination practice, he also represents plaintiffs in personal injury litigation matters. Michael currently serves as the Chair of the Auto Law Section for the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ)—a state-wide trial lawyers’ organization—as well as President of the Young Lawyers Section of the Delaware County Bar Association. He is also a past-President of PAJ Young Lawyers’ Section. Michael is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the U.S....
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Michael J. Needleman
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Attorney with 23 years of experience
(215) 495-6513
Cira Centre, 13th Floor
2929 Arch St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Employment, Business and Insurance Defense
Widener University School of Law
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Murray Eckell
West Chester, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 65 years of experience
(215) 925-4435
113 East Evans Street Matlack Bldg, Suite D-1
West Chester, PA 19380
Employment and Business
Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law
As head of the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practice, Murray began the practice of law in the City of Chester in 1959 following his graduation from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania. His undergraduate work was completed in 1956 at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
After practicing at the law firm of Snyder and Snyder for three years, Murray practiced alone for a short time. Thereafter, he, along with Don Sparks, formed Eckell & Sparks in the spring of 1964 which was the genesis of the present law firm. During his first 15 years of practice, Murray engaged in the...
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Philip W. Fisher
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 35 years of experience
(215) 495-6555
Cira Centre, 13th Floor
2929 Arch St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Employment, Business, IP and Real Estate
Villanova University School of Law
Philip W. Fisher, Partner at Reger Rizzo Darnall LLP Philadelphia Office and Chair of the Firm’s Corporate & Business Services Group, has extensive experience in a wide range of matters, including structuring and negotiating mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, private securities offerings, corporate finance, secured transactions, licensing, leasing, joint ventures and real estate transactions.
Mr. Fisher’s client base is as diverse as his experience, including start-up companies and smaller entities to large established organizations, such as software developers, private-equity companies, broker-dealers, investment advisors, distributors, banks and finance companies, manufacturing companies, technology companies, inventors and founders, and telecommunications corporations. Additionally, Mr. Fisher has...
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David L. Black
West Chester, PA Employment Law Lawyer
Employment and Business
Villanova University School of Law
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Andrew Lacy Jr.
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Attorney with 8 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Cornell Law School
I am the owner of The Lacy Employment Law firm, LLC, which specializes in worker's rights as well as civil rights. Prior to opening my law firm, I worked for one of the largest international law firms in the world.
I also took a sabbatical from large law firm life to complete a clerkship with the Honorable Cathy Bissoon in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
I tried my first federal jury trial to verdict at age 26. With that victory, I became one of the youngest lawyers to win a federal civil...
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Richard C. Sokorai
Norristown, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Employment, Business, Construction and Personal Injury
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Rich Sokorai is a Partner at High Swartz LLP. Rich concentrates his practice in trials, appeals and related advice on behalf of business entities, municipalities and individuals in municipal, commercial, and tort matters. Significant cases that Rich has handled include disputes over control of closely held corporations, franchise disputes, claims for breach of fiduciary duty for both non-profit and for profit corporations, construction disputes, ordinance validity challenges, and large tort cases.
Rich has tried cases in state courts, federal courts and boards of view, as well as administrative courts such as the Environmental Hearing Board and the Public Utility Commission. He...
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Elena Park
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Attorney
Employment and Immigration
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Ms. Park practices all areas of immigration law, with particular focus on business immigration. She has handled all types of employment based, investor, family and immigration litigation matters. Ms. Park was the recipient of the 2007 Lawyers on the Fast Track and 2008 Rising Stars.
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Robert W. Small
Philadelphia, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 50 years of experience
(215) 495-6541
Cira Centre, 13th Floor
2929 Arch St
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Employment, Business and Workers' Comp
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Katie Yingling Schellenger
Unionville, PA Employment Law Attorney with 16 years of experience
Employment, Appeals, Criminal Defense and White Collar Crime
Villanova University School of Law
Katie Yingling Schellenger is a freelance attorney who has developed exceptional legal research, writing, and analytical skills through almost a decade of experience as a federal law clerk and litigation associate at two international AmLaw 100 firms. Katie’s broad legal experience allows her to support her clients: solo practitioners, law firms, and general counsel, in a variety of ways. She provides perspective and insight to every matter, while shouldering part of the burden to meet deadlines. No project is too big or too small; Katie attacks every matter with diligence and fervor, and delivers her services in...
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Allison A. Barker
Bensalem, PA Employment Law Attorney
(215) 639-0801
3331 Street Road
Two Greenwood Square, Suite 128
Bensalem, PA 19020
Employment
Villanova University
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Kent Petry
Warminster, PA Employment Law Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business, Civil Rights and Workers' Comp
University of Pennsylvania Law School
After over a decade of legal practice, our firm has established a broad spectrum of expertise to provide you with the best services, no matter what area of law. Our firm will bring world class experience, small town service, and unparalleled advocacy to every client.
The firm utilizes modern, mobile offices and up-to-date technology in order to save costs, improve service, and provide premier legal and client services.
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Dawn Marie Schulz
Doylestown, PA Employment Law Attorney with 17 years of experience
Employment
Temple University
DawnMarie Schulz focuses her practice on Employee Benefits and Employment Law. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Schulz worked for an employee benefits software management company, where she was Vice President of Administration and Compliance. She has counseled clients (large and small, public and private) on various matters related to Health and Welfare plans, COBRA administration and compliance, HIPAA and HITECH compliance, as well as, employment discrimination, FLSA, FMLA, and employee relations. Ms. Schulz is a graduate of Drexel University and Temple University’s James E. Beasley School of Law. While attending law school, Ms. Schulz served as the Director...