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BEST OF THE BAR BANKRUPTCY

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of its assets, which was
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litigation throughout the
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loan and mortgage lender proceedings in various U.S.
based in Newport Beach, District Courts.
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John Dowd in a defamation
judgment dismissal of federal antitrust class actions
suit brought by baseball
against GSK seeking $3 billion in damages that alleged
legend Pete Rose.
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were tactics to delay generic market entry. He is lead counsel
to NASDAQ in the lawsuits related to Facebook’s rocky $16

STEPHEN billion IPO; successfully defended 20 class and individual

actions asserting eight-figure damages against Lubert-Adler;

KASTENBERG won dismissal of a suit by a large shareholder claiming that

Twitter didn’t properly safeguard its earnings data; and
brought a successfully resolved Lanham Act claim for GSK
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A
former homicide
prosecutor and general
counsel to the U.S. Senate
Judiciary Committee, Short
led a team that successfully
represented Uber in multiple
lawsuits surrounding its
operations in Philadelphia.
She defended the request
for a preliminary injunction
by Philadelphia taxicab and
dispatch companies seeking to

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a significant win for Uber in

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injuring 13. Snyder’s team spent cases brought in federal
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of thousands of documents, of using a $6,000 payment

JACK SNYDER conducting hundreds of hours of to sway the 2011 election

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witnesses, and conducting nearly leader in Philadelphia’s
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verdict in the liability phase of study-abroad program
the proceedings. The Salvation for the daughter of ward
Army shared damages with committeewoman Ellen
the owner of the demolished Chapman. Both Farnese
building, Richard Basciano. and Chapman were charged
Snyder also represented NASCAR with conspiracy, mail fraud,
in a consolidated action involving wire fraud and violations
three plaintiffs, one was killed, of the Travel Act. Sheppard
two were injured as a result argued that the action was
of a lightning strike at Pocono simply a politician helping
Raceway. The plaintiffs were a constituent and that the
seeking more than $32 million donation had been properly
in damages, but a jury last year reported.
found that NASCAR was not
negligent.
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colleague Ira Gubernick, vice chair of
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real estate tax challenge
to Upper Merion Area
School District’s practice
of selectively assessing
commercial property. In
the case involving lead

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Apartments, Summers
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commercial property than

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sought damages of $325 because of Puerto Rico’s

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million on claims that the debt crisis. It was covered

software giant breached its by the national media on a
contract to implement a new daily basis. The litigation,

MATTHEW statewide payroll system for

its 290,000 employees. The
which concluded following
an appeal in August 2016,

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case settled confidentially in allowed Puerto Rico time
May 2016 on the eve of what to recapture income while
could have been a four- it worked on new tax
DUANE MORRIS month trial . He obtained a
defense verdict last year for
solutions for tangible-
property.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Wright Medical Technology
LAW CENTER (1989)
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system that the plaintiff
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of Pepper Hamilton
who is considered
one of the region’s most
accomplished deal
lawyers, Abelson recently
represented restaurant
chain Bojangles’ in its IPO
and Philadelphia tech
company iPipeline in
its sale to San Francisco
private equity firm Thoma

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advising Alsbridge

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publicly traded company.
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commercial mortgage-
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backed securities and
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balance-sheet components
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and were secured by a mix
executives, led by former
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the formation of Spring
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and represents venture capital
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device combining its needleless,
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skin-surface electroporation
client Quaker Chemical Corp. in its
technology with Bioject’s jet
pending combination with Houghton
injection technology.
International, a transaction valued at
$1.5 billion, comprised of cash and
Quaker stock. He also represented

DOUGLAS Penske Truck Leasing Co. in several

recent bond offerings as well as the

RAYMOND
sale of 14 percent of the company from
GE Capital Global Holdings to Penske
Automotive Group. In addition, he
DRINKER BIDDLE helped a longtime client, mortgage
insurer Radian Group, through a series
& REATH of transactions to accomplish its goal
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA of strengthening and simplifying its
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secured a significant
victory for the city
of Philadelphia in her
representation of the
city’s Chief Grants Officer
Ashley Del Bianco and
City Controller Alan
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with a Butkovitz report that
alleged Desiree Peterkin
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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY secured a defense verdict for MORGAN LEWIS &
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DUANE MORRIS
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SCHOOL OF LAW (1985)
leave and certain other she was instead fired for a
state and local laws for legitimate nonretaliatory
employers who voluntarily reason: her clear violation
provide paid sick leave and of company policy. She
a flexible work arrangement also successfully defended
to employees. He also Oracle Corp. in a wrongful
worked with client Caron termination claim brought
Treatment Centers to by a former executive
create multiple interactive and has handled similar
social media vehicles for matters for clients such as
employees, patients and Morgan Stanley and Hewlett
family members, taking Packard.
into account not only
employment laws but also
HIPAA and FTC guidance.
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Am
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DEPARTMENT
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Pepper Hamilton lawyer
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company, Jessum century ago by specializing in by Mayor Jim Kenney

joined SugarHouse
was hired by Heraeus as its products liability and medical in January 2016 after a
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Casino as senior counsel

first in-house U.S. patent malpractice litigation, Towers career as a federal prosecutor
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in 2015 amid the casino’s

counsel. In the five years launched JURISolutions (then and litigation associate at
$164 million expansion
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since, she developed a U.S. known only as JuriStaff) in Hangley Aronchick Segal
and has dealt with various
and foreign patent portfolio 1997 with a colleague as a Pudlin & Schiller, Tulante has
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legal aspects of the project,

for a chemical business from legal staffing agency. She now defended major city legislation
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matters, contract negotiations
through internal development company that places lawyers, sugar-sweetened beverage
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as regulatory matters. Davis’
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in annual gaming revenues
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intellectual property strategies civil litigation involving the
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for businesses to gain market nonfatal police shooting of
including those involving
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the strength and volume of working his part-time pizza
employment, intellectual
their portfolio; and created delivery job. He manages
property, real estate, litigation,
a technology summit for an office of more than 300
risk management and
researchers and engineers staff and is responsible for
contractual issues.
of different business units defending City Council, city
to provide legal training, departments, the mayor, and
promote collaboration the city’s row offices.
and opportunities for new
developments.
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CONGRATULATES
OUR PARTNERS
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Chair, Business Reorganization Chair, Trademark, Copyright, Partner, Employment, Labor,
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MARTIN ROBERT JOHN

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included Hitachi, GlaxoSmithKline, a much-publicized trademark case
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and its various brands: Urban Outfitters,
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Anthropologie, Free People, BHLDN,
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Court in SCA Hygiene Products v. First and that constitutional rights to free speech
Terrain, and Vetri Family restaurants. He
Quality Baby Products, a case relating to permit an Asian-American rock band to call
provides the Philadelphia-based company
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infringement of a patent on adult diapers. itself, The Slants. Archer had represented
with counseling for enforcing and
After hearing Black’s oral argument in the band for six years when the U.S. Patent
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defending the company brands, and handles

November 2016 on behalf of client SCA and Trademark Office refused to grant
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oppositions and cancellation actions

Hygiene, a Swedish company with its U.S. the trademark application because of the
throughout the world. He has also served as
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headquarters based in Philadelphia, the disparagement clause of the Lanham Act

primary counsel on all intellectual property
U.S. Supreme Court sided with SCA in (also known as the Trademark Act of 1946),
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matters for New Jersey-based furniture

a 7-1 decision on March 21 and reversed which prohibits registration of trademarks
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maker Foremost Groups and served as

a 6-5 en banc decision of the Federal that “may disparage ... persons, living
lead intellectual property counsel in the
Circuit. Black has also succeeded in a or dead, institutions, beliefs or national
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firm’s representation of Connecticut-based

number of IP trials for pharmaceuticals symbols.” In January, Connell argued the
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manufacturer Legrand North America in

manufacturers. On behalf of Endo, Black case in front of the Supreme Court, with
numerous acquisitions in the past two years
also prevailed in a one-week trial in July the appeal considered by many as one of
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2016 against Amneal and Teva in the the most important matters before the
Architectural Lighting, Milestone AV
District of Delaware with respect to a Court this term, as well as one of the most
Technologies, and Luxul Wireless) covering
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patent that Endo has exclusively licensed significant First Amendment cases in many
technologies related to architectural
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from Mallinckrodt. years. On June 19, the Court handed down

lighting, lighting systems, intelligent power
a unanimous 8-0 favorable decision that
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distribution units, racks, display and TV

could affect legal activity surrounding the
mounts and projection systems.
name of the Washington Redskins.
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elaware-based Hutz cemented his reputation in the IP litigation bar while
serving as lead counsel in the successful enforcement of Pfizer’s patents
covering the drug Lipitor and his practice is still strong after five decades.

HUTZ This year, he and a team of Reed Smith lawyers won a $1.5 million award for
German chemical company Evonik Degussa GmbH in its patent infringement
case against competitor Materia Inc. The two-week jury trial ended several years
REED SMITH of contentious litigation. Last year, he successfully argued a case for Nintendo Co.
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY against a patent infringement claim by Motion Games at the Court of Appeals for
LAW CENTER (1963) the Federal Circuit. The court issued its opinion less than a week after arguments.
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ERIC STEVEN NICOLE

KRAEUTLER MASLOWSKI MCLAUGHLIN
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MORGAN LEWIS & AKIN GUMP STRAUS DUANE MORRIS

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BOCKIUS HAUER & FELD RUTGERS SCHOOL OF LAW (2001)

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entertainment and advertising practice

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throughout the life sciences industry, daughter of the founders of the popular
property practice that has grown to 200
particularly in the burgeoning fields Philadelphia pizza restaurant Tacconelli’s
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professionals, Kraeutler notched successful

of antibody and biologic therapeutics, Pizzeria, Vincent and Barbara Tacconelli, who
outcomes for such high-profile clients as Tyco
Maslowski recently played a critical role in are battling over the rights to the trademark
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International, Independence Blue Cross, Ford,

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one of the largest settlements in patent case at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as
BlackBerry, Olympus, and the University of
history. In January, he led an Akin Gump well as in federal court in Philadelphia. The
Pennsylvania, which he has represented for
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team that successfully represented Bristol- Tacconellis’ daughter, Dina, opened Mercer
the last several years in high-profile cases
Myers Squibb Co., Ono Pharmaceutical Co. Café at the Navy Yard last year and began
involving cancer immunotherapy. In 2016,
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Ltd. and Japanese immunologist Dr. Tasuku selling “Tacconelli’s” pizza, which led brothers
he successfully defended Blackberry Corp. in
Honjo in the U.S. portion of a worldwide Vincent Jr. and John — both of who operate
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a patent infringement suit over smartphone

patent litigation against Merck & Co. The Tacconelli’s locations and claim to be the
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location services technology. Additionally, he

case involved assertions from BMS and rightful owners of the Tacconelli’s trademark
helped secure the dismissal of all claims in a
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Ono that Merck’s sale of the drug Keytruda — to seek royalty payments. McLaughlin has
patent infringement case against Ford Motor Co.,
infringed the companies’ patents relating filed claims and counterclaims on behalf
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in which the automaker was accused of infringing

to the use of their PD-1 antibody Opdivo of Dina in a case that highlights common
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on a patented fuel injection technology. This year,

(nivolumab) to treat cancer. The case resulted trademark ownership issues within families
Kraeutler served as lead counsel for the American
in a global patent license agreement that and the resulting court battles and internal
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Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) in a

settled all infringement claims involving family feuds. She is also representing plaintiff
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copyright and trademark infringement case

Merck’s cancer immunotherapy method and Express Homebuyers USA in a lawsuit that
against Public Resource, which was posting
Merck agreed to an initial payment of $625 seeks declaratory judgment of genericness
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million and royalties on its Keytruda product of the widely used phrase “We Buy Houses”
the internet in formats that allowed anyone to
through 2026. In another recent matter, for real estate goods/services. For almost 15
obtain them for free. In February, a federal judge
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Maslowski was successful in obtaining a years, Express Homebuyers has been using
granted ASTM’s motion for summary judgment
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complete victory for New Jersey-based the phrase “We Buy Houses” to describe its
in its entirety and permanently enjoined Public
Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon services — buying houses. But a marketing
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Endo-Surgery in a five-day arbitration company is claiming dates of first use and
The decision helped preserve the business models
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long dispute. An arbitrator found in favor of
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manuals for the industrial world.

MARILOU WATSON
FOX ROTHSCHILD
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF LAW (1994)

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a former chair of its diversity committee. She has also been a registered pharmacist since 1991. Recent
accomplishments include assisting a global specialty chemical company, which she declined to name
because of client confidentiality, in its integration of over 2,000 employees worldwide this year from a merged
company by developing platform employment agreements incorporating confidentiality and intellectual property
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intellectual property assets of an Asia-based corporation.
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approvals for the

county’s tower sites.
He represented Carlino
Development Group
the 14-acre mixed- in the negotiation of
use master-planned letters of intent and
innovation community, leases for shopping
estimated to cost $3.5 centers with national
billion over a 15- to 20- retail tenants in
year period. One of the Concord and Chadds

ROBERT
bills will rezone three Ford in Delaware

DARWIN parcels for a total of 2.7

acres from industrial to
County, including
Wegmans Market.

BEAUVAIS commercial mixed use.

GUNDLACH JR. He represented
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zoning overlay allowing Development Group
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DEVITO KAPLAN TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
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Council approved two zoning bills converting its parking lot contract with Motorola Solutions for a new high-rise mixed-use
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as part of the 10-year Hotel under construction
revitalization plan for the at 1441 Chestnut St., and
Sharswood/Blumberg the soon to be started
neighborhood, including construction of apartments
restoration of the Ridge at 150 Monument Ave.
Avenue commercial in Lower Merion. Other
corridor. He also ongoing developments
represented developers of a include a variety of luxury
19-story, mixed-use project high-rise condominiums in
at Broad and Fairmount Center City, a new hospital
to be anchored by a in University City, and

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apartment building with
322 units in Center City,
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apartment buildings
throughout the city.

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