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Unravels the 2020 PA Election Challenges.” Mark Aronchick, a shareholder of the Hangley, Aronchick, Segal, Pudlin, Schiller law firm, represented several county election boards named as defendants in a lawsuit filed by former President Donald J. Trump, which sought to stop the certification of Pennsylvania’s vote in the November 3, 2020 election. With this program, live at the DCBA, he recounted litigating against Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, which captured the nation’s attention. A past Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Mark was a member of Mayor William J. Green’s administration and was appointed as one of the youngest City Solicitors in the history of Philadelphia. He has lectured on trial advocacy, litigation techniques, and professional ethics. He serves on the Board of the Defender Association of Philadelphia as well as on the boards of several other civic and community organizations.

The Delaware County Bar Association proudly hosted our most recent judges added to the Eastern District bench. The federal judges presented a CLE entitled Policies, Ethics and Discipline in the Eastern District which was followed by a special Admission’s Ceremony. Moderator: The Honorable

Judge (2017-2022) Kevin F. Kelly. The Honorable Juan R. Sanchez, Chief Judge of the Eastern District, introduced Federal Judges: Joshua Wolson, John Younge, Karen Marston, John Gallagher, and Magistrate Judges Scott Reid and Pam Carlos. The Honorable Mark Kearney commented on the Court’s community outreach initiatives. Chief Judge Sanchez presided over the Admissions Ceremony welcoming new admittees from Delaware County.

Featured speaker Tom Kline, of the Kline & Specter law firm in Philadelphia, has had an exemplary legal career representing clients who have suffered severe injuries or the loss of a loved one in some of the largest litigation in the United States. He has been honored for 19 consecutive years, 2004-2022, as the No. 1 attorney in Pennsylvania by the independent rating service Super Lawyers, an accomplishment unmatched by any lawyer across the nation.

In 2020, he received the “Best of the Bar” achievement award presented by the Philadelphia Business Journal. In 2014, he announced a $50 million gift to Drexel University’s law school which now bears his name and in 2017, he made a $7.5 million gift to his alma mater, Duquesne University School of Law, to create the Thomas R. Kline Center for Judicial Education. This month, he has pledged an additional $50 million to the law school, which will now be renamed the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.

Mr. Kline has worked tirelessly over the past five years to bring justice to the Piazza family whose beloved son Timothy Piazza died as a result of catastrophic injuries suffered during a hazing ritual involving excessive forced alcohol consumption. Attendees heard how Mr. Kline navigated social host liability defenses and discovery issues in the federal court civil litigation, while remaining a steadfast advocate for the Piazza family in the unresolved criminal proceedings. Attendees also learned how the settlement with The Penn State University effectuated positive change for Greek Life on campus and how his efforts resulting in a strengthening of Pennsylvania’s anti-hazing law.