People in the News—Oct. 28, 2021—Cummins Law, Cozen O’Connor

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Daniel E. Cummins of the Clarks Summit insurance defense law firm of Cummins Law presented a continuing legal education course titled “Back to School With Tort Talk: A Civil Litigation Update.”

The course, which provides a review of important decisions handed down over the past year as summarized on his Tort Talk Blog, was presented via Zoom to the Lackawanna Bar Association, the Luzerne County Bar Association and the Wayne County Bar Association.

Cummins is also set to present the program virtually for the Pennsylvania Defense Institute (non-members are invited as well) Saturday.

In addition to working as a civil litigator, Cummins also provides mediation services through Cummins Mediation.

Elected and Appointed

Cozen O’Connor announced that Kathy Jaffari was invited to join the advisory board of the Drexel University Center for Corporate Governance.

The CCG advisory board is an invitation-only group of C-level, corporate directors and governance experts that meets quarterly for an interchange of ideas designed to keep its members current and proactive in leading their boards and meeting their fiduciary obligations as board members.

The board’s engagement involves discussing the results of current research to enable them to stay in front of timely issues, challenge conventional wisdom, think strategically about issues confronting the board, and exchange ideas with their peer group of leaders in the area.

As a corporate governance and securities attorney and chair of the firm’s corporate governance and securities group, Jaffari devotes her practice to advising boards of directors and executive management teams and handling complex securities transactions for businesses in a variety of industries, including life sciences, energy, technology and fintech.

With more than 25 years’ experience representing public and private companies, Jaffari serves as outside corporate counsel and advises on the corporate and securities law aspects of a range of matters.

She also has experience in compliance matters and mergers and acquisitions, including ongoing business counseling.

Jaffari also assists nonprofit corporations with respect to all aspects of corporate governance matters.

She writes and lectures in the areas of corporate governance, including stakeholder issues such as sustainability and diversity, fiduciary duty matters, securities law compliance, and entity formations and transformations.

Jaffari advocates for diversity, equity and inclusion and volunteers for children, immigrants and communities in need, serving as president of the Support Center for Child Advocates and leading and serving on the board of directors of many local and national nonprofits.

She also served as chair of the board of governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association and is currently running for vice chancellor of the association so that she may continue her call to public service by representing the voices of the association members and supporting advancements in our profession and our legal and judicial systems.

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The American Bar Association recently presented Barley Snyder partner Joseph R. Falcon III with his leadership recognition award for his work with its intellectual property law section.

The ABA-IPL section bestowed the recognition on 10 of its members, including Falcon, for its 2020-21 year.

Falcon served as the chair of the patent division’s patent legislation committee during that time.

Section leadership noted Falcon’s leadership work with projects such as: leading a report and resolution on unallocated US Patent and Trademark Office funding that was passed by council and went on to the ABA House of Delegates; assisting the design rights committee with a report and resolution concerning the Counterfeit Goods and Seizure Act of 2019, which was also approved by the council and went on to the HOD; and working on a letter to the Biden administration concerning IP issues members of the section wished to highlight to the new administration.

Falcon is a partner in Barley Snyder’s intellectual property practice group and is a registered US Patent and Trademark Office patent attorney.

He recently was appointed to the Newtown Township trails and greenways committee in Delaware County.

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