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Steven V. Turner retired from the Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of General Counsel (OGC) service in August 2015. Prior to that time he served in a number of OGC positions, most recently as Chief Counsel to the Department of State. In that capacity, Steve advised the Secretary of the Commonwealth and Department staff on legal and administrative matters. Steve’s tenure at OGC also included service as Chief Counsel to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency; Chief Counsel to the Office of Inspector General; and Deputy General Counsel in the OGC Main Office. Steve also served as a Prosecuting Attorney for the Department of State’s Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs, where he prosecuted professional misconduct cases; and as a Senior Deputy Inspector General for the Office of Inspector General. Before joining OGC, Steve served as an Assistant City Solicitor in the Philadelphia City Solicitor’s Office, as Deputy Chief Counsel to the Pennsylvania Crime Commission, as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh, and as a Member Attorney of the law firm of Cozen and O’Connor in Philadelphia. Steve received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Redlands in Redlands, California in 1979, and his Juris Doctor from Temple University School of Law in 1984.

Steve has volunteered in programs serving children, both in the Philadelphia area and in Harrisburg. He received the 1992 Philadelphia Bar Association Craig M. Perry Community Service Award for his volunteer work performed at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Steve was featured on the cover of the spring 1996 issue of Philadelphia Lawyer magazine and in a corresponding article entitled “the New Face of Pro Bono – Enhancing the Lawyers Image.” Since moving to Harrisburg, he has volunteered at the Hershey Medical Center Children’s Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and also the Ronald McDonald House in Hershey. Steve is a volunteer with the Gift of Life Organ Donor Program and Caring Hearts Pet Therapy Program. He has served as a domestic violence advocate, trainer and pro bono PFA attorney for the YWCA of Greater Harrisburg’s Domestic Violence Legal Clinic, a co-founder of YWCA’s Men Against Domestic Violence Program and a member of the Dauphin County Domestic Violence Task Force. Steve has received the 1997 Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Young Lawyers Division Michael K. Smith Excellence in Service Award and PBA Government Lawyer of the Year Award in 2006. Steve received the Dauphin County Bar Association’s Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year Award for 2016, and a Pennsylvania Bar Association Pro Bono Award for 2016.

Steve worked for the YWCA of Greater Harrisburg in the Violence Intervention and Prevention Program from February 2016 until December 2017. He served as a Crisis Advocate Coordinator and Training Specialist focusing on human trafficking, sexual assault and domestic violence victims and survivors. He currently is an independent contractor providing human trafficking victim advocacy and training.

Mr. Davis, is still, after 50 years of practice in Georgia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, actively engaged in the solo private practice of law in Harrisburg, PA. His practice focuses upon representation and advice to lawyer respondents, judicial officers, government employees and officials and others in Pennsylvania and West Virginia before professional and judicial discipline boards and the State Ethics Commission. He counsels law firms, lawyers, judges, government officials and employees and other professionals on questions of professional responsibility, ethics, malpractice avoidance and the law of lawyering. He also provides advisory opinions and serves as an expert witness on questions of professional responsibility, ethics, fiduciary duties of lawyers and other professionals and the law of lawyering. Mr. Davis has taught numerous classes and seminars on legal ethics and professionalism and malpractice avoidance for the Widener University Law School, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pennsylvania Bar Association and a number of other state and private continuing education organizations. He provides written materials for most of the CLE classes he has taught and has occasionally written articles for publication on ethics and professional responsibility topics.

Nicole Baselj, MSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P is the Unit Director at UPMC Forensic Nursing Department. The Forensic Nursing Department is currently the only mobile unit in the Central Pa region that provides 24/7 medical forensic care to patients of any age and gender who have experienced sexual abuse and/or assault, intimate partner violence, non-fatal strangulation, elder abuse, and human trafficking.

Nicole’s nursing career began in emergency nursing in 2012, followed by forensic nursing in 2013. She had the opportunity to expand her nursing skills in Hospice and Interventional Radiology but always continued to explore her passion for forensic nursing. Nicole holds a Master of Science in Nursing from Chamberlain University and received her undergraduate nursing degree from Penn State University. Nicole is certified as both a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Adult/Adolescent (SANE-A) and Pediatrics (SANE-P). She is currently the treasurer of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the International Association of Forensic Nurses. Nicole serves on numerous multidisciplinary teams in the surrounding counties. She is also the chair of the Cumberland County Sexual Assault Response Team and co-chair of the UPMC Forensic Nurse Council. Nicole serves as an adjunct instructor for the UPMC SANE-A Course. She is deemed an expert witness in Dauphin, Cumberland, Perry, and York County. Nicole provides education and training on topics ranging from sexual violence, drug facilitated sexual assault (DFSA), teen dating violence, non-fatal strangulation and human trafficking.