
Position: Of Counsel
Practice Areas:
- Business & Finance
- Business Succession Planning
- Commercial Transactions
- Corporate Law
- Mergers & Acquisitions
Contact
Address: Cross Creek Pointe, 1065 Highway 315, Suite 200
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
PH: 570-826-5694
FX: 570-821-4714
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Assistant’s Name: Barbara C. Olsen
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Education
Wilkes University (B.S., Business Administration, 1957)
Dickinson School of Law (L.L.B., with honors, 1960)
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania
Honors
Selected to Pennsylvania Super Lawyers (2005)
Who’s Who in Finance & Industry (Current)
Who’s Who in American Law (Current)
Who’s Who in the World (Current)
United Hebrew Institute — Shofar Award (2000)
National Society of Fundraising Executives — Outstanding Volunteer Fund Raiser (1993)
B’nai B’rith — Community Service Award (1994)
Northeast Pa. Council of the Boy Scouts of America — Distinguished Citizen Award (1998)
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce — Distinguished Pennsylvania Award
Wilkes University Ancestral Colonels — Lifetime Achievement Award (2009)
Wilkes University — John Wilkes Society’s Eugene S. Farley Memorial Achievement Award (2009)
AV® Peer Review Rating by Martindale Hubbell — This rating attests to a lawyer’s legal ability and professional ethics, and reflects the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and Judiciary. The AV® rating is a testament to the fact that a lawyer’s peers rank him at the highest level of professional excellence for those practicing law for more than 10 years.
Professional Community Activities
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Luzerne County Bar Association (Wilkes-Barre Law & Library Association)
- American Bar Association — Sections on Corporate, Banking & Business
- Commonwealth Telephone Enterprises, Inc. — Former Director and Compensation Committee Chair (through 2007)
- Wachovia Bank, National Association – Northeastern Pennsylvania Regional Board Member (through 2006)
- RCN Corporation — Director and Compensation Committee Chair (through 2004)
- First Fidelity Bancorporation — Director (through 1996)
- Merchants Bancorp — Director (through 1991:
- Wyoming National Bank — Director (through 1988)
- Jewelcor, Inc. — Director (through 1988)
- Greun Marketing Corporation — Director (through 1988)
- Geisinger Northeastern Advisory Council — Director and Chairman
- Wilkes University — Board of Trustees (Past Chairman and currently Trustee Emeritus)
- Wyoming Valley Retirement Community, Inc. — Past Director and Chairman
- Institute for Public Policy & Economic Development (a consortium of Wilkes University and Northeast Regional Colleges & University) — Director and Member of the Executive Committee
- Jewish Community Center — Director, Trustee and Past Chairman
- United Hebrew Institute — Director, Trustee and Past Chairman
- Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry — Director and Past Chairman
- Greater Wilkes-Barre Partnership, Inc. — Director and Past Chairman;
- Greater Wilkes-Barre Industrial Fund — Past President
- Committee for Economic Growth — Director and Past Chairman
- Congregation Ohav Zedek — Director and Past Chairman
- B’nai B’rith S.J. Strauss Lodge — Trustee and Past President
- Jewish Federation of Greater Wilkes-Barre — Director and Past President
- United Jewish Appeal — Past Chairman (1978 & 1992)
- United Way of Wyoming Valley — Past Chairman (1983)
- Wilkes-Barre City Transition Committee — Chairman (2004)
- Osterhout Library — Campaign Chairman (1998)