Mr. Zeiger is a partner at the Philadelphia firm of Levin & Zeiger LLP. Mr. Zeiger handles criminal and civil rights matters. He serves as a Council Member on the Pennsylvania Bar Association Criminal Justice Section. Mr. Zeiger has handled thousands of criminal cases including many appeals. He has argued before the Pennsylvania Superior Court, Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2013, Mr. Zeiger was published in the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights. 18 TEX. J. C.L. & C.R. 181-A Change to Relation Back. Mr. Zeiger received his JD from Temple University, his MBA from Temple University, and his BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis.

Robert A. Graci, former Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge and retired Chief Counsel to the Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania, brings more than 40 years of diverse judicial and legal experience to Saxton & Stump’s clients. He is Chair of the firm’s Attorney and Judicial Ethics and Discipline practice. He also serves in the firm’s Appellate and Post-trial Advocacy and Investigations and Criminal Defense and Internal Investigations groups. Judge Graci also serves as a Mediator and Arbitrator for the firm’s partner organization, Optimal Dispute Resolutions. Between his experience as an appellate judge, his service as Chief Counsel to the Judicial Conduct Board and his work for the Attorney General’s Office, Judge Graci has seen some of the most complex issues. As Chief Counsel to the Judicial Conduct Board of Pennsylvania, Judge Graci was Chief Legal Adviser to the Board and was responsible for supervision of the Board’s staff, the conduct of its investigations, and the Board’s prosecutions before the Court of Judicial Discipline. Judge Graci served on the Superior Court from 2002 to 2004 before becoming a Member in the Harrisburg office of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, focusing his practice on appeals, white collar criminal defense, general litigation, regulatory and administrative law and governmental relations. Drawing on his many years as an appellate litigator and judge, he chaired the firm’s Appellate Practice Group, further refining his brief-writing and appellate advocacy skills. Prior to his appointment to the bench in 2002, Judge Graci was the Assistant Executive Deputy Attorney General for Law and Appeals of the Criminal Law Division of the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. As a Deputy Attorney General for almost 18 years, he briefed and argued cases in each of the state and federal appellate courts in Pennsylvania, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Graci has lectured for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges, the Minor Judiciary Education Board, Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute, Delaware State Bar Association and other forums. He has authored several articles and CLE course materials and has been recognized for his accomplishments by the PBA.

Mr. Asteak has been a member of the Northampton County Bar for 50 years and had been an Assistant Public Defender for over 25 years. A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College (1971) and Dickinson School of Law (1974), he is the founder of Asteak Law Offices, a firm focusing on litigation with offices in Easton and Nazareth. Past-President of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, he has formerly served as President of the Northampton County Bar Association, Public Defender Association of Pennsylvania, and Lehigh Valley Legal Services. He has served on the Board of Directors of North Penn Legal Services, as a member of the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission Task Force on Wrongful Convictions and the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission Advisory Committee on Services to Indigent Criminal Defendants. He is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Pennsylvania Bar Association, and Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America. He currently serves as Solicitor for five municipalities and two regional Councils of Government, and frequently lectures at the state and national level on litigation related topics for such organizations as the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National Association of Sentencing Advocates, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association Defender Advocacy Institute at the University of Dayton Law School, Office of Federal Defender Services, and was the Founding Project Director and Lecturer for the Pennsylvania Public Defender Association Annual Appellate Skills Program and Trial Skills Programs sponsored by the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency at Dickinson School of Law, highly regarded and innovative programs teaching strategies and techniques for the defense bar in the 21st Century. For many years, he has served on the course planning committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Annual Criminal Law Symposium and has served as a member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Capital Case Standards Committee. Mr. Asteak has appeared as a legal analyst on criminal law topics on Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Court TV, on NPR Talk of the Nation and on talk radio stations throughout the country and has been named by Philadelphia Magazine as one of Pennsylvania’s “Super Lawyers” in criminal defense. He has received Martindale-Hubbell’s rating of “AV” and is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. In 2003, he was honored by the Pennsylvania Public Defender Association with the “Gideon Award” for outstanding service as a Public Defender. For more information see www.asteak.com.

Marian Grace Braccia is the Director of the LL.M. in Trial Advocacy and a Practice Professor of Law at Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she brings particular expertise in courtroom technology, e-discovery issues, evidence, and trial skills. Prior to joining the full-time faculty, Professor Braccia taught Introduction to Trial Advocacy and an experiential course in criminal prosecution for several years as an adjunct at Temple Law School, and she served as a coach for Temple’s National Trial Team. Professor Braccia is an accomplished litigator, having served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office from 2006 to 2018 as a trial attorney in Major Trials and the Family Violence and Sexual Assault Unit. Braccia was appointed to a supervisory position in the District Attorney’s Charging Unit in 2012, and in 2014 launched Philadelphia’s Domestic Violence Diversion Program. In August 2017, she assumed added responsibilities as Director of Information Technology for the DA’s Office. Professor Braccia teaches Evidence to Temple’s JD students. She presents frequently on gender bias in the courtroom, particularly as it impacts transgender and gender-diverse people and cisgender women. Braccia also teaches lawyers in Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, and Peru the fundamentals of American trial advocacy through Temple’s Chilean pre-LL.M. program. She also teaches Evidence Law to Chinese legal professionals as part of the Temple-Tsinghua LL.M. degree program.

Mr. Fairlie is the Managing Partner of Fairlie & Lippy, P.C. in North Wales, Montgomery County. Previously, he was a Montgomery County Assistant District Attorney, where he served on the Major Crimes and Narcotics Teams. He has chaired the Montgomery Bar Association’s Criminal Defense Committee since 2001. He is also a member of the Montgomery County Bar Association’s Judiciary Committee, Bench/Bar Committee and Managing Partners’ Committee, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and an associate member of the Philadelphia and Bucks County Bar Associations. Mr. Fairlie has presented numerous seminars on various criminal law topics for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and the Montgomery and Bucks County Bar Associations over the last decade. He has been recognized by ALM as a Top 100 SuperLawyer for the State of Pennsylvania. Mr. Fairlie is a holder of Martindale-Hubbell’s prestigious AV rating and was recognized as one of The National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Attorneys and the National Advocacy for DUI Defense Top 100 Driving Under the Influence Attorneys. He has received many other awards and his qualifications are more fully presented at www.fairlielaw.net.

Mr. Wilson is a founding partner at the Philadelphia law firm of Wilson & Wilson. He heads his firm’s litigation department. Mr. Wilson served on the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Board of Governors and was a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Judicial Review Commission. He also served as chair-person of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section and on the executive board of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute-Philadelphia Bar Education Center. He is an active member of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and is a founder, and past president of the Concerned Black Lawyers Association, which provided pro bono legal advice to the Philadelphia community for over eight years. Mr. Wilson has been a moderator, course planner and speaker for various CLE courses including, but not limited to, Juvenile Practice and Procedures, The Nuts and Bolts of Criminal Practice in Philadelphia, How to Defend a Drug Case in Philadelphia County and Civil Consequences of Criminal Proceedings. He has taught as an adjunct professor of law at the Widener University School of Law. Mr. Wilson and his law partner/wife Sharon Wilson, Esquire, wrote a newspaper advice column entitled, “The Law and You,” for the Philadelphia Tribune. Mr. Wilson now frequently appears on Philadelphia Fox 29 television as a legal contributor to their newscasts on both civil and criminal matters. He received his juris doctorate from Temple University School of Law and graduated from Brown University with a B.A. honors degree in Urban Studies.