Honors and Awards:

• AV Rating – Martindale-Hubbell
• Influential Philadelphia Area Lawyers – Philadelphia Magazine – Nov. 2009
• Community Association Institute’s Robert H. Wise President’s Award (2004)
• Pennsylvania Super Lawyers – 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Adjunct Faculty member at Villanova Law School, 2010 to present.
• Serves as an expert witness on community association matters brought before Pennsylvania’s courts and its General Assembly.
• Regularly participates in the drafting of key legislation governing common interest ownership communities in Pennsylvania.
• Chester County Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Association for Justice
• American Association for Justice
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• College of Community Association Lawyers – Inducted, October, 2000; Nominating Committee, 2007 to 2010; Amicus Curiae Committee, 2010 to present
• Community Associations Institute – Past President, Pennsylvania and Delaware Valley Chapter; Past Chairman and Current Vice Chairman, CAI’s Pennsylvania Legislative Action Committee

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Publications include: Setting the Standard of Care in Premises Liability Cases, published in CAI’s Journal of Community Association Law.
• Course planner and frequent lecturer for CAI, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, National Business Institute, National Constitution Center, management and insurance companies and other organizations.  Representative programs include: “Assessing the Law of Assessments in Condominium and Homeowner Associations,” “From the Developer to the Association: Tackling the Transition in the Community Association,” “How the Uniform Planned Community Act Really Works,” “Dealing with Condominium and Homeowner Associations in a Down Economy,” and “Legally Green: Reconciling Restrictive Covenants with Eco-Friendly Practices in the Community Association.”

Verdicts and Settlements:

• Klein Real Estate v. Ridings at Brookside Condominium, 67 Pa. D.&C. 4th 384 (Lehigh Co. 2004) (a condominium association’s publication to its members is not defamatory since the association has a “conditional privilege” to communicate with its members).
• Mayflower Square Condominium Association v. KMALM, Inc., 724 A.2d 389 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1999) (requiring unit owner to pay assessments under governing documents and general principles of property law).
• Wrenfield Homeowners Association, Inc. v. DeYoung, 600 A.2d 960 (Pa. Super. 1991) (attorneys' fees are fully recoverable as "costs of collection" against a delinquent owner);
• SIGNIFICANT DECISIONS:

Educational Background:

• Temple University School of Law, J.D. (1980)
• Cornell University, B.A. (1976)