The Philadelphia law firm of Kleinbard LLC is pleased to announce that the Firm has been ranked in the 2017 U.S. – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list regionally. This is the seventh consecutive year that U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers have published the “Best Law Firms” rankings.

Firms included in the 2017 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.

Receiving a tier designation reflects the high level of respect a firm has earned among other leading lawyers and clients in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism and their integrity.

Kleinbard LLC received the following rankings in the 2017 U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms”:

Metropolitan Tier 1

Philadelphia Corporate Law

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Kleinbard LLC is proud to announce that partner, Eric Pritchard, is an attorney finalist who will be honored at the SmartCEO Centers of Influence Awards. The Centers of Influence Awards program honors the leadership, innovation, impact and success of the Philadelphia region’s most enterprising accountants, attorneys, bankers and wealth managers. This year’s finalists average more than 25 years of experience in their professions and work for firms that employ nearly 400,000 individuals.

The Philadelphia Centers of Influence Awards ceremony will take place on October 27, 2016, at the Union Trust in Philadelphia.

Eric is a partner in Kleinbard’s Government Relations and Business and Finance Departments and Co-Chairs the firm’s Electronic Security Alarm Group. Pritchard’s blended experience as a litigator, lobbyist and transactional lawyer affords him a unique perspective on risk allocation and related transactional issues.

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The Philadelphia law firm of Kleinbard LLC is proud to announce that the Firm was selected as one of the 2016 Best Places to Work by the Philadelphia Business Journal. The Philadelphia Business Journal publishes this list annually working with Quantum Workplace to identify the “very best places to work in our region.”

“We are very proud of this honor and our team of employees” said managing partners, Bob Bodzin, Howard Davis and David Hyman. “We manage our firm on the principal that team work and support of our employees fosters a productive and rewarding work environment which redounds to the benefit of our clients.” “What is particularly important to us is that our recognition in the list of 2016 Best Places to Work was achieved solely by our employees’ answers and feedback in the survey process.” “It is a true reflection of who we are as a firm.”

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Kleinbard partner, Zach Glaser, will serve as a faculty member at the PBI’s program entitled “A Day on Employment Law” on Thursday, September 15, 2016 at the CLE Conference Center in Philadelphia. Glaser and local plaintiff’s attorney, Ari Karpf of Karpf, Karpf & Cerutti, P.C., will be discussing common evidentiary issues at Employment Law trials.

Glaser is a partner in Kleinbard’s Litigation Department, Practice Leader of the Intellectual Property Group and a member of the Employment Group. He concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, intellectual property and employment litigation and business counseling.

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Kleinbard congratulates Howard J. Davis, a managing partner of the Philadelphia law firm, on his selection for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America in the area of Corporate Law in the publication’s 2017 edition.

Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. For the 2017 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, 7.3 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in almost 55,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor.

Davis, Chair of Kleinbard’s Business and Finance Department, represents clients in a broad range of transactions and acts as outside general counsel to numerous middle market and start-up companies. During his more than 30 years of experience, he has been involved in more than 300 such transactions ranging from small seed capital investments to billion dollar dispositions.

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Kleinbard LLC litigation partner, Matthew Haverstick, will serve as a panelist at the College Athletes’ Rights & Empowerment (CARE) Conference: Visioning a New Paradigm of College Sport hosted by Drexel University’s Department of Sport Management from March 24-26 2016. The conference is designed to examine the rights of college athletes more closely and whether those rights are protected. Haverstick’s program will take place on Saturday, March 26, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at Drexel’s Gerri C. LeBow Hall and will cover college athletes, the NCAA and due process.

Haverstick and his team recently represented Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman in successfully suing the NCAA to revoke the NCAA's "Consent Decree" and all accompanying punishments on Penn State University, and in defending the constitutionality of a state law directing the NCAA's unprecedented $60 million fine of Penn State to fund child abuse programs in Pennsylvania.

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Eric Schreiner, a partner in Kleinbard LLC’s Litigation Department and Practice Leader of the Firm’s Employment Group, was recently appointed to serve on the Philadelphia Leadership Council of the American Red Cross.

Members of the Philadelphia Leadership Council are executive volunteers who serve as stewards of American Red Cross’ mission and vision by offering support of the Eastern PA region locally in Philadelphia County. This is largely accomplished by serving on the committee for an annual fundraising event, participating in a variety of awareness activities, and by serving the Region and the Red Cross’ team of volunteers that respond to disasters in Philadelphia County.

Schreiner concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, employment law, and insurance coverage.

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Kleinbard litigation attorneys, Mark Seiberling and Joshua Voss, will present a CLE program entitled: Pennsylvania’s Right-to-Know Law and Third Party Records: How Private Records Become Public on April 19, 2016 at 5:30 p.m. The seminar will be presented by Drexel's Thomas R. Kline School of Law Alumni Network and will take place at 3320 Market Street, Room 140.

This CLE will guide attorneys through the Right-to-Know Law from the perspective of how it applies to records of private, third parties. It will demonstrate the basic process of the RTKL, how the RTKL implicates third party records, the appeals process for third parties, areas of concern for third parties, and provide tips and suggestions for third parties who wish to keep their private records private when dealing with public agencies.

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Kleinbard partner, Mary Beth H. Gray, was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of Emerge Pennsylvania. Founded in 2015, Emerge Pennsylvania is a new political leadership training program for Democratic women in Pennsylvania. Its mission is to identify, train, and inspire Democratic women to pursue public office at the local, state and national levels. Emerge Pennsylvania is part of Emerge America, a national network currently working in fourteen states.

Gray is a partner in Kleinbard LLC’s Business and Finance Department. She practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions (representing sellers and buyers), corporate finance, corporate governance, corporate restructuring, and executive compensation. Her practice has a special focus on business succession, including the sale of businesses to employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and other transactions involving ESOPs. Gray was named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in the area of Mergers & Acquisitions in 2014 and 2015.

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The Philadelphia law firm of Kleinbard LLC is pleased to announce that the Firm has been ranked in the 2016 U.S. - Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" list regionally. This is the sixth consecutive year that U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers have published the "Best Law Firms" rankings.

Kleinbard LLC received the following rankings in the 2016 U.S. News – Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms":

Metropolitan Tier 1
Philadelphia Corporate Law

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