04-19-2023 Member Benefit Compliance Session

Apr19Wed2023

9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Widener Commonwealth Law School

1 Ethics Hour(s), 5 Substantive Hour(s)

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Member Benefit Compliance Session

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Widener University Commonwealth Law School | Room A180 | 3737 Vartan Way, Harrisburg, PA
*SMOKE FREE CAMPUS*

Pursuant to Mandatory CLE Rules, every attorney admitted to active practice in PA must complete twelve (12) hours of CLE each year, including two (2) ethics. Each attorney has been assigned a date for completion of the required hours. If you do not know your assigned completion date, you may call (717) 231-3380 for this information. April 30, 2022 is the next compliance date.

To assist our members in meeting the requirements, our Continuing Legal Education Committee has scheduled courses toward the end of each due date. Each course will consist of six (6) one hour segments. You may enroll for as many hours as you choose, until you reach your 12 FREE credits. (Free credits are based on calendar year participating in these seminars). In order to receive your FREE credits, your 2023 dues MUST BE PAID.

*FREE IF YOUR 2023 DUES ARE PAID | $50 per session for all others

Agenda

9:00 - 10:00 a.m. | Student Loans In and Out of Bankruptcy | James Jones & Tracy Updike
10:15 - 11:15 a.m. | The ABC’s of Family Law: An Overview of Divorce, Custody and PFA’s | Natalie Burston, Esq., Ebony Hammond, Esq. & Karen Miller, Esq.
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | PBA Malpractice Avoidance (ethics) | Edwin A. Schwartz

LUNCH PROVIDED FOR THOSE THAT HAVE REGSITERED FOR IT BELOW

1:30 - 2:30 p.m. | Government Law | Dennis Whitaker, Esq.
2:45 - 3:45 p.m. | Workers’ Compensation Case Law Update | Lucas Csovelak, Esq. & Steven Ryan, Esq.
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Same Sex Marriage in Pennsylvania and The Effect of The Respect For
Marriage Act | Thomas Gacki, Esq.

Speakers

Natalie M. Burston Law Office of Natalie Burston

?I am a lifelong Central Pennsylvania resident. I graduated from Bishop McDevitt High School in 1997 and went on to graduate from Kutztown University in 2001. After graduation, I was employed full-time by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue while attending the night division student program at Widener University School of Law. After graduating from law school, I remained employed by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue until accepting a position at the Dauphin County Public Defender’s Office.

The Public Defender’s office hired me under a MacArthur Foundation grant which was created in the wake of the Luzerne County “Kids for Cash” scandal and sought to improve juvenile representation in the state of Pennsylvania. As an attorney committed to ensuring that all children receive exemplary representation in the criminal-justice system, I participated in drafting and editing a juvenile defense manual that is used by attorneys throughout the state of Pennsylvania. For over five years, I served as a board member of the Juvenile Defenders Association of Pennsylvania. I have also lectured at numerous presentations on the effective representation of juveniles in the state of Pennsylvania.

While at the Dauphin County Public Defender’s Office, I also represented hundreds of adult clients in various stages of the criminal process. I have represented clients at both the magisterial district judge and court of common pleas levels. In this capacity, I gained invaluable trial experience that ranged from representing clients in less complex misdemeanor trials to serious felony trials.

After leaving the Dauphin County Public Defender's Office, I joined the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts (AOPC). While serving in the AOPC's Judicial Education Department, I provided continuing legal education to trial judges across the Commonwealth regarding new and emerging areas of the law. In addition, I was a contributing writer for one benchbook and oversaw the creation of another benchbook, which state trial judges reference to assist in the disposition of cases.

Professional Associations and Memberships?: Dauphin County Bar Association | Pennsylvania Bar Association | Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

Past Volunteer Experience: Harrisburg YWCA VIP Advisory Board Chair | Vice-President, Kutztown University Alumni Association | Secretary, Juvenile Defender Association of Pennsylvania

Ebony R. Hammond JSDC Law

Karen Wetzler Miller Daley Zucker, LLC

Dennis A. Whitaker HMS Legal LLP

Lucas James Csovelak Weber Gallagher

Lucas Csovelak focuses his practice on defending employers, insurance companies, and third-party administrators in workers' compensation matters in central Pennsylvania.

Lucas represents a variety of clients, including multinational package delivery companies, retail corporations, healthcare facilities, and insurance carriers. He is involved in all aspects of litigation, utilization reviews, depositions, mediations, hearings, and testimonies.

Focused on managing risk and exposure, Lucas conducts a thorough review of claims to provide clients with strategies to achieve cost-effective results. He has been instrumental in obtaining favorable decisions for clients before workers’ compensation judges, the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Appeal Board, and the Commonwealth Court.

Central Penn Business Journal recognized Lucas as one of "the most influential people in law" in 2021. Since 2020, Lucas has been recognized by the publisher of the Pennsylvania edition of Super Lawyers Magazine as a "Rising Star," an honor given to the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in the Commonwealth who are 40 years old or younger, or in practice for 10 years or less. In 2015, Lucas was named a "Select Lawyer" of Harrisburg by Susquehanna Style Magazine in workers' compensation law.

Steven R. Ryan Martin Law LLC

Steve Ryan is an associate with Martin Law who practices workers’ compensation law. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Ryan worked for a regional firm that helped claimants secure Workers’ Compensation benefits in the Susquehanna Valley. Before practicing claimant’s workers’ compensation, he had worked at a top defense firm, but he left to focus his practice on injured workers after observing the difficulties that many workers faced in the workers’ compensation system. In the Spring of 2015, Mr. Ryan became a certified specialist in Pennylsvania Workers’ Compensation by the PA Bar Association’s Section on Workers’ Compensation Law as authorized by the PA Supreme Court.*

Mr. Ryan is an active member of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ), Dauphin County Bar Association, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association. He is an avid writer and has written on numerous topics from workers’ compensation in newspapers to fictional short stories.

Mr. Ryan received his law degree from Widener University School of Law in 2007. He received his undergraduate degree in English from Brooklyn College in 2002. During law school, he was a Senior Staff Member of the Widener Law Journal and highly involved in the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP).

Thomas P. Gacki Law Office of Thomas P. Gacki

Edwin A. Schwartz McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

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