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GAWTHROP GREENWOOD attorney ROBERT C. JEFFERSON, IV has been named to the Board of Trustees for People’s Light. One of the largest professional theatres in Pennsylvania, People’s Light is a not-for-profit theatre located in Malvern that forges cultural and civic connections throughout the region. GAWTHROP GREENWOOD attorney and partner STACEY L. FULLER has been named Vice President of the Board of Directors for the West Chester Area Education Foundation. The Foundation is an independent, non-profit organization with a mission to supplement creative, meaningful, real-world experiences for students in the West Chester Area School District. The law firm of BUCKLEY, BRION, MCGUIRE & MORRIS LLP is pleased to announce that WARREN E. KAMPF has joined the firm as a partner. Mr. Kampf is an accomplished attorney with twentyfive years of litigation experience, and more than twenty years of local and state government experience. He has handled a wide variety of litigation matters during his career, conducted dozens of jury trials, hundreds of bench trials, and many appellate arguments, mediations and arbitrations. Mr. Kampf also has significant state and local government experience, having served as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for eight years, a township supervisor for eight years and as chief lobbyist for Pennsylvania’s largest healthcare trade association. Mr. Kampf is a graduate of Yale University and Emory University School of Law. Mr. Kampf will focus his practice on Commercial Litigation, Appellate Litigation, Healthcare, Constitutional Law, Administrative and Regulatory Law, Election and Lobbying Law. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, and also the federal courts of the Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania.

MACELREE HARVEY TO MERGE WITH ROVITO LAW We are pleased to announce that the Chester County based law firm, Rovito Law, will join our firm effective December 30, 2021. With the upcoming merger we welcome Attorney Michael Rovito. Michael has experience in the areas of custody, support, alimony, property division, and divorce, and will be part of our West Chester office. Founding Partner of Rovito Law and winner of November 2021 election, Attorney Alita Rovito, will be sworn in as Judge on the Chester County Court of Common Pleas in January 2022. Alita Rovito was a Chester County Family Court Master for 15 years before founding Rovito Law. She also served as a mediator, arbitrator and court appointed parent coordinator. Prior to joining Rovito Law, Michael attended and graduated from the Widener University School of Law located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, which is now known as Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Michael’s prior experience also includes clerking for the Office of a County Solicitor, and as a summer clerk to a Judge sitting on the Court of Common Pleas. He recently assumed the position of Co-Chair of the CCBA (Chester County Bar Association) Family Law Section.

LAMB MCERLANE ANNOUNCES SECOND MERGER

IN TWO YEARS Lamb McErlane, a premier regional law firm based in West Chester, and McMichael, Heiney & Sebastian (MHS), a wellestablished law firm in Oxford, have agreed to merge. The merger, which took effect at the start of the new year, brings together Lamb McErlane’s 42 attorneys with MHS’s two attorneys in Oxford. The combined firm will operate under the name of Lamb McErlane and will have 44 attorneys with offices in West Chester, Philadelphia, Newtown Square, and Oxford. Lamb McErlane has been an industry leader in the region for more than 50 years. The merger expands Lamb McErlane’s footprint, as well as the firm’s Business, Municipal and Zoning, Real Estate, and Trusts and Estates practices. Winifred “Winnie” Moran Sebastian will join Lamb McErlane as a Partner and Sam McMichael as Of Counsel in the Oxford location. MHS approached Lamb McErlane after working with several Lamb McErlane attorneys and recognizing how the two firms shared a similar culture and vision. “We’re very excited to accomplish yet another strategic merger. Sam and Winnie have a longstanding successful practice, especially in the municipal field, and we’re happy to now have them under the Lamb McErlane umbrella,” remarked Joel L. Frank, Chairman and Managing Partner of Lamb McErlane. “The addition of this office gives us an immediate presence in the important southern part of Chester County and affords us the opportunity to provide our wide array of services to those companies and individuals located there.” Lamb McErlane has built a reputation on delivering the highest caliber of legal service in an environment focused on personal attention and results. Bringing the sophistication and experience equated with large, metropolitan firms, Lamb McErlane’s highly efficient, goal-oriented, and focused approach produces results that clients deserve.

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