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MBA Welcomes New Board Members Meet the 2013 Additions to our Board of Directors Edward J. DiDonato. Partner at Fox
Rothschild LLP in Blue Bell. Over 35 year’s experience in Bankruptcy and business law, business reorganizations, creditors rights and representation of trustees; served on the Third Circuit Judicial Merit Selection Committees for both Bankruptcy and Magistrate Judges for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; a frequent guest lecturer for Montgomery and Philadelphia Bar Associations; a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for 2005 -2013 ; rated by his peers as AV; a graduate of Villanova University and Widener University School of Law; he was voted Man of the Year by the Italian American Press Club, a member of the Board of Directors of the Justinian Society and Co-Chair of the MBA 2013 Bankruptcy/Creditors and Debtors Rights Committee. Stewart J. Greenleaf, Jr. is a
shareholder in the law firm of Elliott Greenleaf & Siedzikowski, P.C. in Blue Bell. Mr. Greenleaf concentrates his practice in a wide-range of commercial litigation matters, as well as appeals to Pennsylvania’s appellate courts. Mr. Greenleaf is a 2004 graduate of American University’s Washington College of Law where he served as president of the American University chapter of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies from 2002 to 2003, and received a B.A. from the University of
Maryland. Following law school, Mr. Greenleaf served a judicial clerkship with President Judge Emeritus Stephen J. McEwen, Jr. of the Pennsylvania Superior Court. From 2008 through 2012, he was named a Pennsylvania SuperLawyers “Rising Star.” Mr. Greenleaf is active in the community both within and outside of the legal profession. In addition to serving on the Montgomery Bar Association’s Board of Directors and as President of the Association’s Trial Lawyer’s Section, he represents child victims of abuse with the Montgomery Child Advocacy Program. Outside of the legal profession, Mr. Greenleaf serves as a member of the Upper Moreland Parks and Recreation Advisory Commission. Mr. Greenleaf has also served as a hearing committee member for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Board and as a Trustee of the Upper Moreland Free Public Library. In November 2011, Mr. Greenleaf was elected as Controller for Montgomery County, PA. In that role, he oversees the county’s $400 million in annual expenditures, as well as the county’s $440 million pension fund. Mr. Greenleaf is a member of the Bars of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the State of New Jersey, the United States District Courts of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Western District of Pennsylvania
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and the District of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Greenleaf’s professional relationships include the Pennsylvania and Montgomery Bar Associations and the Pennsylvania Association of County Controllers. Mark F. Himsworth has been han-
dling commercial litigation matters for over 20 years. A member of the Litigation Department at Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin, a considerable amount of his practice is related to business disputes, including cases involving covenants not to compete, interference with contractual relations, unfair competition, misappropriation of trade secrets, commercial defamation, and partnership and shareholder disputes which include cases involving minority oppression and squeeze outs. In addition, he handles a wide spectrum of construction disputes, including construction defect claims, mechanic’s lien claims, unfair trade practice and consumer protection law claims, municipal bid litigation, and payment and performance bond claims. He also represents residential and commercial brokers in broker malpractice cases and in commission disputes and individuals and companies in various real estate disputes, including quiet title actions, partition actions,