January Newsletter

The Associated Press highlighted a key case win by the Pennsylvania Department of State, represented by Hangley Aronchick’s election team, in a long-running dispute involving voting machine access and certification in Fulton County, Pennsylvania.

In a 6-1 ruling, an en banc panel of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court affirmed the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s authority to issue directives protecting voting equipment security and held that Pennsylvania’s Election Code empowers the Department of State to prohibit counties from using voting machines that have been compromised by unauthorized third-party access. Read more about the case here.

HASPS shareholder Matthew Hamermesh spoke with Law360 about his representation of the City of Chester in an ongoing litigation stemming from Chester’s bankruptcy in 2022.

In 2023, Matt and his team secured a ruling from a federal bankruptcy court that Chester was not required to remit gambling-tax revenue to Pennsylvania’s Delaware County as a result of the City's Chapter 9 proceedings. In a filing late last year, Delaware County appealed that decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Matt, who leads the firm’s representation of Chester along with associate Jackson Teague, expressed confidence that the Third Circuit would uphold the bankruptcy court’s well-reasoned decision. Read the full article here.

Insights from the Family Law Blog

We recently welcomed Rebecca Levin to Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller as a shareholder in our family law practice. Rebecca joins the firm with 14 years of experience and a strong background in parental rights, particularly for the LGBTQ+ community.

In her first family law blog post, she delves into crucial aspects of LGBTQ+ families' rights and how they can be safeguarded in an evolving political landscape.

From estate planning to confirmatory adoptions to family building with assisted reproduction, LGBTQ+ parents in Pennsylvania must take proactive steps to secure legal protections for their families. In 2025, understanding these protections is more critical than ever. Read her full blog post here.

Tom Brown has been elected Of Counsel. Tom represents insurers, technology companies, transportation firms, and individual professionals across a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters. His work spans the full spectrum of a dispute, from early-stage case assessment and planning through post-trial and appellate briefing. Read more here.

Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller announced that Jason Levine has been elected to its Board of Directors.

Jason is a commercial litigator with a focus on, and extensive experience with, disputes among and between co-venturers, shareholders, partners, and other principals.?Jason has been actively involved with the business of the firm since he joined it ten years ago.?He chairs the firm’s Business Development and Marketing Committee and has co-chaired the Lateral Shareholder Hiring and Strategic Planning Committees.

Re-elected to two-year terms on the Board are Bonnie Hoffman, a litigator with a growing and diverse commercial practice that includes a focus on education law and insurance coverage; Ronald Schiller, who is the Chair of the firm and who also heads the firm’s Insurance Coverage Group; and David Pudlin, a tax and estate planning specialist who has served as the firm’s President and CEO since its founding.

Continuing to serve on the Board are incumbents Mark Aronchick, John Summers, Cheryl Young, and David Scolnic.

Shareholder Steven Miano spoke with Bloomberg Law about how a spate of executive actions, including an expected federal hiring freeze and the declaration of a national energy emergency, could impact environmental regulations and enforcement. Read more here.

In Our Community

Congratulations to shareholder Bo Ebby, the president of the Breakthrough Challenge, on closing out 2024 by raising another $300,000 that will directly fund breakthrough cancer research!

The Breakthrough Challenge, through an annual charity bike ride and run, raises critical funds for cancer research at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center Clinical Research. To date, the Breakthrough has raised more than $2.85 million in total cancer research funding.

Hangley Aronchick is proud to sponsor the Breakthrough Challenge and the Abramson Cancer Center's critical work.