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Practice Areas: Partner; Chair, Commercial Litigation Practice Group; leader, Media and Communications Practice. Handles class action and commercial litigation matters; media and communications practice focuses on First Amendment, defamation and other media-related areas. Represents newspapers and radio and television broadcasters. Defends the rights of reporters and editors in libel and privacy cases. Handled hundreds of First Amendment matters, including jury trials representing the media.

Professional Memberships: President, Board of Trustees, Philadelphia Bar Foundation; Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers.

Personal: JD 1977 University of Virginia School of Law; AB, magna cum laude, 1974 Mount Holyoke College. Phi Beta Kappa.