Prof. Epstein is Director of Advocacy Programs at Temple Beasley School of Law (Philadelphia). He teaches and writes in the areas of trial advocacy, appellate advocacy, evidence, and criminal law. He has concentrated on issues involving forensic science, the death penalty, eyewitness evidence, and advocacy. Professor Epstein has argued repeatedly in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and has authored or co-authored numerous amicus briefs for that Court.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Pamela A. Carlos was appointed to the bench on November 12, 2021. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Franklin and Marshall College (1986) and her Juris Doctor from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law (1989). Prior to her appointment, Judge Carlos served as lead trial counsel in hundreds of civil litigation matters in the Pennsylvania state and federal courts as a Member of Bennett, Bricklin and Saltzburg, LLC. Judge Carlos joined the firm in 1993 and became a Member in 1998. In 2009, Judge Carlos was elected to serve on the firm’s Executive Committee, a five-person committee responsible for the management of all firm operations and departments including finance, technology and human resources. Judge Carlos served in this capacity until her retirement from the firm in 2021. In addition, Judge Carlos was Chair of the Special Investigative Unit practice group from 1997 to 2004 and Chair of the Bad Faith and Insurance Coverage practice group from 2004 through 2021. Judge Carlos also served as former Chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee. During her service Bennett Bricklin continued to grow in the area of diverse employment. By 2019, PA Law’s Annual Report on the State of the Profession survey of the largest 100 law firms in Pennsylvania listed Bennett Bricklin as 41st in size and 2nd in percentage of female attorneys. Upon graduation from law school, Judge Carlos began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney for the Office of the District Attorney of Philadelphia from 1989 through 1993. While there she served in the Municipal Court, Motions and Major Jury divisions, trying numerous matters to verdict.

Ms. White is currently Ethics Counsel to the Pennsylvania Bar Association. As Ethics Counsel, Ms. White responds to Ethics Hotline inquiries from PBA members who have questions concerning the impact of the provisions of the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct upon their own prospective conduct. Ms. White also assists the PBA’s Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee, which issues written ethics opinions and reviews and recommends proposals for changes to the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct. She also serves as the Associate Editor of the Pennsylvania Ethics Handbook, a useful guide to the professional responsibility obligations of practicing Pennsylvania lawyers. In addition to staffing the Ethics Committee, Ms. White is the staff liaison to the PBA Civility in the Profession Committee. Prior to joining the PBA, Ms. White served as Assistant Counsel for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission, practiced for several years in the private sector, and was a staff attorney in the solicitor’s office for a local municipality. Ms. White received her B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College and her J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law.

Ms. Coatsworth is a partner at Margolis Edelstein. She has litigated hundreds of motor vehicle, dealer fraud and lemon law cases from both the plaintiff and defense sides. Additionally, she concentrates her practice in the defense of professionals such as realtors, home inspectors, accountants and physicians. She also has extensive experience with premises liability and product liability and has handled employment and construction work and several fraternity cases. Ms. Coatsworth has defended dozens of car dealerships and real estate sales people for claims of breach of contract and fraud and violations of various fraud-related statutes such as the Unfair Trade Practices Act, the Magnuson Moss Warranty Improvement Act, the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Lemon Laws, the New Vehicle Damage Disclosure Act, the Automotive Industry Trade Practices Act, the Real Estate Sellers Disclosure Law and the Real Estate Licensing and Registration Act. Additionally, Ms. Coatsworth specializes in representing Greek letter organizations in all manner of claims including dram shop, hazing, and personal injury. She was selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Stars from 2011 through 2018 and Super Lawyers in 2021-2023. Ms. Coatsworth currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association as Chancellor, having previously served as Vice Chancellor, Assistant Treasurer, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Parliamentarian and Elected Member. Additionally, Ms. Coatsworth is a member of the Judicial Evaluation and Selection Committee. She is a past co-chair of the Women in the Profession Committee, and she is also very active with the State Civil Litigation Section. She previously served on the Executive Committee of the Young Lawyers Division of that organization for six years and held the positions of Secretary and Vice Chair of the Division. She also sits as a Trustee of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and a Board Member for Philadelphia VIP. She serves on the Leadership Council of Community Legal Services. Ms. Coatsworth is also a member of the Advisory Board of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts. In the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Ms. Coatsworth is the Immediate Past Zone One Governor, and she sits on the Executive Counsel of the Civil Litigation Section as a Past Chair and the Women in the Profession Commission’s Executive Council as Co-Chair on the Nominating Committee. She previously served as co-chair of the PBA Women in the Profession Commission and chaired several of its committees including Annual Meeting, Fall Retreat and Awards Committee. She is also a Past Chancellor of the Louis D. Brandeis Law Society.

Marie Milie Jones is a founding partner of JonesPassodelis, PLLC, a boutique litigation and counseling firm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She counsels business and public entity clients in risk management principles, manages litigation and tries cases in federal and state court in the employment and civil rights fields as well as in the higher education space. She also handles commercial disputes for individual and business clients. Ms. Jones is a graduate of Duquesne University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and its School of Law. Ms. Jones is a member of the Allegheny County Academy of Trial Lawyers, past President of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute, a member of DRI, The Voice of the Defense Bar, the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel and the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys and is a Vice-Chair of the Federal Practice Committee of the PA Bar Association. She was selected as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer from 2004-2017, 2019-2023 (including a feature article in 2005 and 2010 Top 50 Women Pennsylvania Super Lawyer). Ms. Jones is active in multiple community enterprises and serves as an Independent Director for the publicly traded investment management firm of Federated Hermes, Inc. She served on the Board of Directors for Duquesne University, including 8 years as Chair (2009-2017), and remains an Emeritus member. She holds the Lady Commander rank in The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and serves on the board of the Campaign for the Church Alive, Inc. for the Diocese of Pittsburgh. She previously served as a member of the Board of Regents for St. Vincent Seminary. Ms. Jones has received numerous awards and recognition, including an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from Duquesne University, the Greensburg Central Catholic Distinguished Centurion Achievement Award, the Allegheny County Bar Association Professionalism Award, the papal Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice Award, the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh Manifesting the Kingdom Award, the Duquesne University Law Alumni Meritorious Service Award, the Duquesne University School of Law Women of Distinction Award, the St. Thomas More Award, the Susan B. Anthony Award, being named an Oakland Catholic Leading Lady, and the Friend of County Government by the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, and induction into the Century Club of Distinguished Alumni of Duquesne University.

Jeremy is an experienced commercial litigator who, for more than a decade, has focused on energy, with an emphasis on oil and gas litigation. His extensive experience in the shale and hydraulic fracturing arena spans the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and includes work in administrative proceedings and state and federal trial and appellate courts. Also licensed in Ohio and West Virginia, Jeremy has represented industry clients in those jurisdictions as well. He represents E&P operators in the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays and frequently speaks at energy-related CLEs and industry trade group meetings. Jeremy’s work on behalf of the industry includes being part of the team that obtained a first-in-the-nation decision that hydraulic fracturing was not abnormally dangerous, defending against lease invalidity claims, royalty and failure to develop claims, litigation matters alleging contamination, health effects, and nuisance from drilling operations, and class actions and mass plaintiff actions. Additionally, Jeremy has pursued injunctive actions, enforced access rights, rights-of-ways, and easements, prosecuted trespass actions against activists, and counseled clients on their obligations relative to government agencies and regulations, including zoning. In addition to his work on behalf of the industry, Jeremy represents clients in general commercial disputes in state and federal courts in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. He also represents individuals and charitable organizations pro bono, including representing plaintiffs in civil rights litigation in federal court. Jeremy previously served as a law clerk in the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio and the Franklin County (Ohio) Municipal Court. Jeremy is a frequent author on industry-related topics.

Mr. McDonough is a 1983 graduate, cum laude, of the University of Scranton and a 1986 graduate of the Dickinson School of Law. Upon graduation from law school, he entered the private practice of law with the firm of Dougherty, Leventhal & Price, a regional litigation law firm. He has been a partner with the firm since 1993. Over the years, Mr. McDonough has concentrated his practice in the areas of personal injury litigation; he has also represented governmental entities and officials in federal civil rights and employment lawsuits throughout Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania. Mr. McDonough has appeared in front of both the Equal Opportunity Commission and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission in a wide variety of employment discrimination cases. Mr. McDonough represents parties in many of the state trial courts in Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania and has also served as counsel in many cases in all three federal district courts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Mr. McDonough currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Mr. McDonough has lectured on the rights of injured victims in civil litigation for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and has also appeared as a speaker for various associations on civil rights, municipal and employment law throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has been a contributing author to a number of publications and programs sponsored by the National Business Institute. Mr. McDonough is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Lackawanna County Bar Association and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates and is board-certified in civil trial advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.

Melinda C. Ghilardi is an attorney at Munley Law personal injury attorneys. Prior to joining the firm, she was the First Assistant Federal Public Defender, an Assistant Federal Public Defender as well as an Attorney/Investigator for the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania for 33 years until retirement in February 2019. She began her legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Lackawanna County. Melinda is Chair of the House of Delegates Committee on Credentials and Admissions, a Co-Vice Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Federal Practice Committee and serves on the Executive Councils of the Civil Litigation Section and the Commission on Women in the Profession. She is also on the Board of Directors of the PA Bar Foundation. She served on the PBA Board of Governors as both the Woman Governor and Unit County Governor. In that capacity, she was also a member of the PBA Nominating Committee. Melinda has also held the following positions in PBA Committees: Co-Chair of the Commission on Women in the Profession, Chair of the Diversity Team, Co-Vice Chair of the DEI Team, and Co-Chair of the Bar Leadership Institute. She is also a long-time member of the PBA House of Delegates. Melinda has been recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer from 2022 to the present as well as in Best Lawyers in America for 2024. In 2005, she received the Lynette Norton Award presented by the PBA’s Commission on Women in the Profession. That same year, she received the inaugural Athena Award presented by the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce. In 2016, Melinda received the Robert J. Munley Distinguished Service Award from Lackawanna Pro Bono, Inc. Melinda is a member of the American Association for Justice, Pennsylvania Association for Justice, and the Melvin Belli Society. She is the Treasurer of the Association of Women Lawyers of Lackawanna County. She has also served as Secretary of the National Association of Federal Defenders and is a past President of the Lackawanna Bar Association. In her community, Melinda is a member of the Board of Directors of the Circle 200 Forum for Senior Level Executive Women and the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV). She also serves on the Legal Committee of the Barbara J. Hart Justice Center. The University of Scranton honored Melinda by establishing an Ignatian Scholarship in her name and, in 2000, presented her with the Frank J. O’Hara Distinguished Alumni Award for outstanding achievement in the field of law. She is a current member of the Board of Visitors of the University’s Panuska College of Professional Studies. She is a 1976 graduate of Scranton Preparatory School and a 1980 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Scranton. In 1983, she was awarded a juris doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Luis Felipe Restrepo was born in Medellin, Colombia, was raised in Northern Virginia, and took the oath of United States citizenship on September 7, 1993. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and Tulane Law School and worked as a Defender in Philadelphia in both the local and federal courts before entering private practice in 1993. He was a partner in the firm of Krasner & Restrepo until June of 2006, when he was sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has been an adjunct professor at Temple University James E. Beasley Law School since 1993 and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1997 to 2009, where he was appointed the Irving R. Segal Lecturer in advocacy. His varied publications have appeared in The Legal Intelligencer, The National Law Journal, and the ABA’s Criminal Justice magazine. President Barack Obama nominated Judge Restrepo to be a United States District Court Judge in November of 2012. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 17, 2013, and received his commission on June 19, 2013. In November of 2014 President Obama nominated Judge Restrepo to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, he was confirmed by the Senate on January 11, 2016, and received his commission on January 13, 2016. Judge Restrepo was nominated by President Trump, and more recently, by President Biden to serve on the United States Sentencing Commission. He was confirmed as a Vice-Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission in August of 2022. In 1995 Judge Restrepo received the New American/New Freedom Committee Award from the Balch Institute in Philadelphia “in appreciation for outstanding service to the greater Philadelphia community and the nation.” In 2000, he was awarded the Cesare Beccaria Award by the Criminal Law Section of the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Justinian Society for his commitment to criminal justice issues and teaching services. In 2004, he received the Gideon Award presented by Temple Law School for demonstrating a commitment to ensuring that competent counsel are afforded to the indigent. In 2010 he was awarded “La Justicia” award by the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania and the Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.
Distinguished Jurist Award by the Philadelphia Bar Association in recognition for his efforts with the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s federal prisoner Re-Entry Program. In 2014 he was presented with the “Campeones de la Justicia” award by the Latino Law Students Association of Rutgers Law School. Judge Restrepo was recognized by Stetson Law School with the Cornerstone Award in 2017 in recognition for his contribution to protecting the right to a trial by jury and teaching trial advocacy. Al Dia newspaper recognized his public service with the 2018 Hispanic Heritage Award and in 2019 the NACDL presented him with the Champion of Justice Recognition Award. In 2022 Judge Restrepo was inducted into the Tulane Law School Hall of Fame. Judge Restrepo is a past President of the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania. He has served on numerous boards including the Make a Wish Foundation for Philadelphia and Susquehanna Valley, the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention, the Board of Directors of the Defender Association of Philadelphia where he served as Federal Trustee and Secretary of the Board and the Russell Byers Charter School.

Judge Krause was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in July of 2014. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude, and graduated from Stanford Law School with distinction. After clerking for the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court, Judge Krause served for five years as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. Before assuming the bench, Judge Krause was a partner at a multi-national law firm in Philadelphia where she specialized in white collar criminal defense and government investigations and was a frequent author and speaker on topics pertaining to constitutional and criminal law. She has served in the past as a lecturer at Stanford and Columbia Law Schools and is now an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In addition to her work as a member of the American Law Institute, Judge Krause serves on the Boards of Trustees of the American Inns of Court and the National Constitution Center. Her article, “Lawyer Wellbeing as a Crisis of the Profession,” published in the South Carolina Law Review, Volume 71: 203, was the winner of the 2019 American Inns of Court Warren E. Burger Prize.

Judge Fisher was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate in December 2003. Prior to becoming a judge, he served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania having been elected in 1996 and re-elected in 2000. Judge Fisher argued major cases in state and federal appellate courts and in March 1998, he successfully argued before the United States Supreme Court a precedent-setting case ensuring that paroled criminals meet the conditions of their release. Before his election as Attorney General, Judge Fisher was in the Pennsylvania General Assembly, serving six years in the State House and 16 years in the State Senate. He began his legal career as an Assistant DA in Pittsburgh following his graduation from Georgetown University and its Law Center where he was honored in 2023 as the recipient of The William Gaston Award for service and leadership. He continued to practice law during his career in the General Assembly and was a shareholder or partner in various firms, including Houston Harbaugh. Judge Fisher chaired the Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction of the U.S. Judicial Conference and chairs the PA Bar Association’s Federal Practice Committee. In 2017 Judge Fisher assumed Senior Status on the 3rd Circuit and was named as the Initial Distinguished Jurist in Residence at Pitt Law where he continues to teach Federal Appellate Advocacy and Federal Courts.

Ms. Conrad is a partner in the Commercial Litigation Department and Chair of the Higher Education Practice Group with White and Williams LLP, resident in Center Valley. She practices in the area of employment law and litigation with a focus on representing businesses, educational institutions and non-profit organizations in all aspects of workplace disputes. In addition to representing management in employee relations matters, Ms. Conrad’s practice includes the defense of federal and state discrimination claims, wrongful discharge claims, whistleblower claims, employment contract matters and restrictive covenant cases. Ms. Conrad’s practice includes representing colleges and universities in employment and education law matters with an emphasis on tenure related disputes and student discipline proceedings. Ms. Conrad also conducts investigations related to compliance, personnel and misconduct. Ms. Conrad received her B.A., magna cum laude, from Lycoming College and her M.Ed., summa cum laude, from The Pennsylvania State University and her J.D., cum laude, from Temple University School of Law. Ms. Conrad has been selected in a survey of her peers as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer and in The Best Lawyers of America. She has received the Athena Award from the Chamber of Commerce, and the Take the Lead Award from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania and has been named by Lehigh Valley Business as a Woman of Influence. In May 2019, Ms. Conrad received the Anne X. Alpern Award from the PBA WIP and in 2022 and 2023, was named on the Lehigh Valley Business Power List in Law. Ms. Conrad is President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and a Past President of the Lehigh County Bar Association. Ms. Conrad is a Past Woman Governor on the PBA Board of Governors and a Past Chair of the PBA DEI Team. She is a Past Chair of the PBA Labor and Employment Law Section and a Past Chair of the PBA Commission on Women in the Legal Profession. Ms. Conrad currently serves as a Vice-Chair of the PBA Federal Practice Committee and serves on the PBA Civil Litigation Section Council and Labor Employment Section Council. Ms. Conrad is a member of the National Association of College and University Attorneys. Ms. Conrad is a certified Level 2 Civil Rights Investigator, and Title IX Hearing Officer.

The Honorable Karoline Mehalchick is a United States District Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. She was appointed by President Joseph Biden and confirmed by the Senate on January 31, 2024. Prior to her appointment as a District Judge, she served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania for over ten years, having been appointed to that position in July 2013. She also served as Chief Magistrate Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania from January 2020 until the time of her appointment as a District Judge. Prior to entering on duty with the court in 2013, Judge Mehalchick was in private practice, where she represented a broad range of clients in both state and federal trial and appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court. She is a graduate of the Schreyer Honors College of the Pennsylvania State University (B.S. Geosciences), and the Tulane University School of Law. After graduation, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Trish Corbett, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County. Judge Mehalchick was also an adjunct professor at Marywood University from 2003 until 2012. Judge Mehalchick presides over the Scranton location of the Court-Assisted Re-Entry Program (CARE Court), coordinates the Court’s summer intern program, and sits on the Court’s Prisoner Litigation Settlement Program Committee, a program which she helped establish in early 2015. Judge Mehalchick is a member of the Workplace Conduct Committee of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She has previously served as a member of the Judicial Conference Codes of Conduct Committee, and on the Magistrate Judges Advisory Group of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Judge Mehalchick is an active member of the Federal Bar Association, currently serving as National Treasurer and is the nominee for President-Elect of the Association. She is the immediate past Chair of the Judiciary Division and is a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Judge Mehalchick previously served as an FBA Third Circuit Vice President for five years, on the national Board of Directors for three years, as a judicial profiles editor for The Federal Lawyer, and is a past president of the Middle District of Pennsylvania Chapter. Judge Mehalchick is also active in the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession and is a past president of the Younger Lawyers Division of the Lackawanna Bar Association. In addition to her work with the court and with the Federal Bar Association, Judge Mehalchick participates in weekly Scholar Exchanges through the National Constitution Center, leading middle and high school students in discussions about constitutional issues and civil discourse. Outside of the legal community, Judge Mehalchick is Vice President of Production for the Ballet Theatre of Scranton.

Judge Goldberg was appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on October 31, 2008. He had previously served on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas. Judge Goldberg’s career as a practicing attorney started at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office where he worked in both the trial and appellate divisions. He later joined the law firm of Cozen O’Connor, where his practice focused on commercial litigation. Judge Goldberg was eventually promoted to senior partner, and also served as the manager of Cozen’s Arson and Fraud Unit. Judge Goldberg returned to the public sector in 1997, serving as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where he handled mostly white collar crime cases, both before the District Court and the United Stated Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Goldberg is a graduate of Temple Law School (1986) where he was a member of Temple’s first trial team. He presently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Temple Law teaching federal law and civil/criminal advanced trial advocacy. Judge Goldberg has handled over one hundred patent cases as a visiting judge in the District of Delaware.

Mr. Goldner is a principal at Friedman Schuman, a business law firm in Fort Washington, Montgomery County, PA. He represents both employers and employees in contract, employment discrimination, noncompete, non-disclosure and trade secret disputes from before the filing of claims through and including trial, verdict and appeal. He prepares employment contracts, human resources policies and procedures for employers as well as offering training to employers and even fellow lawyers on employment claim avoidance. He has prepared and interpreted restrictive covenants and other professional contracts both on behalf of those businesses seeking to secure their assets and for employees looking to make career changes and enforces and defends these contracts in state and Federal courts. Mr. Goldner has been President of the Eastern Pennsylvania Affiliate of the National Employment Lawyers Association. He is a Past Chair of the Labor & Employment Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and current Co-Chair of the Employment & Labor Law Committee of the Montgomery Bar Association. He is a past Director of the Montgomery Bar Association and has also served on that association’s Executive Committee. He has been Chair of the Solo & Small Firm and the Labor & Employment Law Sections of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and continues to serve on the governing council of each. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company and serves on its Executive, Investment, and Governance Committees. He is the immediate past Chair of the Human Relations Commission of Lower Merion Township the enabling ordinance and regulations for which he helped to draft, and he also serves on the Montgomery County Advisory Council to the PHRC, and is the facilitator for the Tri-State Human Relations Coalition, an organization of local and state HRC’s from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Mr. Goldner also has written professional and technology pieces which have been published in national and regional publications and he has appeared for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, American Bar Association, NBI, and many county bar and other trade and professional associations speaking on employment, electronic discovery, litigation and other technology topics. He holds an LL.M in Trial Advocacy from Temple University School of Law, a J.D. from Boston University and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. When not practicing law, Mr. Goldner plays oboe with the Lansdowne Symphony and Roxborough Orchestras, or goes stargazing with the Delaware Valley Amateur Astronomers, of which organization he is a past president. He also occasionally blogs on employment law matters at http://www.humanracehorses.com.

Judge Kenney is a United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He previously served as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Delaware County. He is a graduate of Villanova University and Temple Law School. From 2003–2018, he was on the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas bench. There he presided over cases in the family, criminal, civil, and orphans’ sections. Judge Kenney also served a five-year term as the President Judge. He received his federal judicial commission in October of 2018.

Professor Laura E. Little serves as the James G. Schmidt Chair in Law. She specializes in federal courts, conflict of laws, and constitutional law. She teaches, lectures, and consults internationally on these subjects and is routinely engaged for training judges as well as for speeches at academic and judicial conferences. She is the author of numerous books and articles, including a sole-authored casebook, Conflict of Laws (2d ed. Aspen Wolters Kluwer 2018), two treatises: Federal Courts and First Amendment, both in Aspen Wolter Kluwer Publishing’s Examples and Explanations series, and Guilty Pleasures: Law and Comedy in America (Oxford 2019). Among her many awards for teaching and scholarship are several law school awards, a University-wide Lindback award, and Temple’s highest award for teaching, the University Great Teacher Award. The American Law Institute appointed Professor Little in 2014 to serve as Associate Reporter, Restatement (Third) of Conflict of Laws. Before entering academia, Professor Little practiced law in Philadelphia, litigating commercial cases and representing the print media in First Amendment cases. Prior to her law practice, Professor Little served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States (October Term 1986) and Judge James Hunter III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (1985-1986). Professor Little has several times taught in Temple’s programs in Tokyo, Japan and Rome, Italy. She has served as a visiting professor at University of Sydney (Australia), and University College of Cork (Ireland). She has also lectured frequently throughout China. Professor Little’s scholarship has strong interdisciplinary character, integrating law, social science, and humanities. She has travelled internationally lecturing on law and humor and has written several studies on how legal doctrines regulate various forms of comedy.

Andrew M. Milz is a trial lawyer at Flitter Milz, PC with offices in suburban Philadelphia, Scranton, and Cherry Hill, NJ (www.consumerslaw.com). Andy represents ordinary folks victimized by consumer finance fraud, inaccurate credit reporting, wrongful repossessions, and civil rights abuses in individual and class action matters. He has been chief counsel in over two dozen trials in state and federal courts, including civil jury trials in nearly every federal court in the Third Circuit; his four punitive damage awards in consumer protection cases are the most in the Pennsylvania federal courts (per Lex Machina). Andy has been certified as class counsel in no less than three dozen class actions, and has been appellate counsel in numerous cases of first impression in state and federal appeals courts. Andy is a contributing author to Carter, et al., Pennsylvania Consumer Law (Bisel Pub. Co., Supp. 2023) and treatises published by National Consumer Law Center (“NCLC”) including Carter, Milz, et al. Repossessions (NCLC 2021), the definitive treatise on the subject. He lectures nationally on consumer and class action law, and is an active member of the National Association of Consumer Advocates (“NACA”) and the Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, WY. Andy has been recognized in Super Lawyers magazine for eleven straight years. In 2022, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia awarded Andy and his firm an Equal Justice Award recognizing their excellence in consumer protection law and history of assistance given to low-income consumers. Andy is a cum laude graduate of King’s College (BA), the University of Scranton (MA), and Temple University’s Beasley School of Law (JD). He teaches Consumer Law and Litigation at Temple Law School in Philadelphia.

Rachel Rebouché is the Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law and the Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law. Prior to her appointment as Dean, she was the Associate Dean for Research, a position she held from 2017 to 2021. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Temple’s Center for Public Health Law Research. Dean Rebouché is a leading scholar in reproductive health law and family law. She is an author of Governance Feminism: An Introduction and an editor of Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. She is also the editor of Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten, published by Cambridge University Press, and an author of the sixth edition of the casebook, Family Law. In addition, she will join the fifth edition of the casebook, Contracts: Law in Action and recently co-edited a collection of essays for Law & Contemporary Problems on the pandemic’s effects on contract law. Dean Rebouché has served as a co-investigator on two grant-funded research projects related to reproductive health, one housed at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and another funded by the World Health Organization. Her recent research also includes articles in law reviews and in peer-reviewed journals on abortion law, relational contracts, gestational surrogacy, prenatal genetic testing and genetic counseling, collaborative divorce, parental involvement laws, and international reproductive rights. Dean Rebouché received a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an LL.M. from Queen’s University, Belfast, and a B.A. from Trinity University. Prior to law school, she worked as a researcher for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. After law school, Dean Rebouché clerked for Justice Kate O’Regan on the Constitutional Court of South Africa and practiced law in Washington, D.C., where she served as an associate director of adolescent health programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families (formerly, the Women’s Legal Defense Fund) and as a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Women’s Law Center.

Thomas I. Vanaskie retired from the Federal Judiciary after nearly 25 years of service on both the trial and appellate court levels. In 2020, after serving as a special master, arbitrator, and mediator with JAMS, he joined the law firm of Stevens & Lee. In his Of Counsel capacity, Judge Vanaskie heads the firm’s neutral services and appellate practice groups. In the Spring of 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, he was appointed by the President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association to Chair a joint Task Force on the Continuity of Delivery of Legal Services. He was sworn in as a Circuit Judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on April, 28, 2010, after serving more than 16 years as a District Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He became the District’s Chief Judge on September 1, 1999 and completed his seven-year term as Chief Judge on August 31, 2006. In June of 2016, he was appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States to serve on the Space and Facilities Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States, the policy-making body for the United States Courts. From 2001 through 2008, he served on the Judicial Conference Information Technology Committee. Judge Vanaskie was appointed Chair of the Judicial Conference Information Technology Committee by the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist in 2005. He also was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 2003 to 2005, serving as Chair of the Conference of the District Judge Representatives to the Judicial Conference in 2005. He was a member of the Third Circuit Judicial Council and co-chaired its Information Technology Committee and Re-Entry Court Committee. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Judges Association. Judge Vanaskie graduated from Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1975, with a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Magna Cum Laude. Judge Vanaskie attended the Dickinson School of Law, receiving his Juris Doctor Degree, Cum Laude, in 1978. He was a member of the Dickinson Law Review Editorial Staff, a member of the School’s Appellate Moot Court Board, and a member of the International Law Moot Court Team. Upon graduating from law school, Judge Vanaskie served as a law clerk to then Chief Judge William J. Nealon of the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He has lectured extensively at judicial and continuing legal education programs and has been an adjunct professor of law at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law since 2007, teaching a course on Electronic Evidence.

Judge Wolson was nominated to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in May 2018. He was renominated in May 2019, was confirmed by the Senate on May 2, 2019, and received his commission on May 28, 2019. Judge Wolson earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. After graduating from law school, he served as a law clerk for Hon. Jan E. DuBois of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He then maintained a commercial litigation practice, including antitrust, RICO, intellectual property, class action, First Amendment, and commercial contract disputes, first as an associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., and then as a partner with Dilworth Paxson in Philadelphia.

Aimee L. Kumer is Associate General Counsel at Main Line Health, a not-for-profit health system serving the communities in and around Philadelphia. As Associate General Counsel, Ms. Kumer is responsible for advising her clients on labor and employment matters and other areas of legal and compliance risk affecting the health system, as well as managing employment and commercial litigation matters. Prior to joining Main Line Health, Ms. Kumer practiced at Elliott Greenleaf, P.C. and Duane Morris, LLP, focusing on complex commercial litigation, in particular representing hospitals and health systems, payors, and providers in a variety of commercial and labor and employment matters. She also completed a clerkship with the Hon. Joel H. Slomsky in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Ms. Kumer received her J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law, and her undergraduate degrees from The Pennsylvania State University as a Schreyer Honors Scholar. Ms. Kumer is active in the Montgomery Bar Association, where she currently serves as the co-chair of the Federal Court Practice Committee.