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  • National Association of Bar President’s GOOD Guys Award (2022) 
  • Achieved Senior Fellow status in Litigation Counsel of America (LCA) (2021)

    • LCA is an honorary society of top trial lawyers that accepts less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers

  • Appointed to the Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor’s Diversity Advisory Panel (2020)
  • Recognized by peers as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Pennsylvania (2016-Present)
  • Recognized by peers as one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Philadelphia (2016 – Present)
  • Recognized by peers as one of the Top 50 Women Super Lawyers in Pennsylvania (2012-Present)
  • Appointed as a Fellow in the LCA (2014)
  • LCA Peter Pearlman Service Award (2019)
  • LCA Distinguished Speaker Award (2019)
  • Admitted into the Hall of Fame of the Temple University League for Entrepreneurial Women (2018)
  • National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) Yolanda Coly Advocacy Award (2017)
  • Appointed a Judge Pro Tempore of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Commerce Court Case Management Program (since 2016)
    • Less than 130 lawyers in the Commonwealth have received this prestigious appointment
  • One of only six people shortlisted for the Chambers Diversity Gender Diversity Lawyer of the Year (2016)
  • Temple Law Alumni Association Women’s Champion Award (2015)
  • Interviewed by INSIGHT Into Diversity in its “Law Firm Diversity Professionals Roundtable” (2015)
  • Interviewed by Ms. JD in its national blog, “A Firm Of Their Own” (Dec., 2014)
  • Appointed by the Board of Directors of the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) to Co-Chair of NAMWOLF Advocacy and in the role, co-leading national advocacy efforts for minority and women-owned law firms (since 2014)
  • One of only three people appointed by the President of the American Bar Association (ABA) to the ABA’s distinguished Task Force on Gender Equity (more commonly known as the Gender Equity Task Force) (2014)
  • Appointed member of the Executive Council of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession (WIP) and Co-Chair of WIP’s Diversity Committee (since 2014)
  • Profiled by Profiles in Diversity Journal among its “Women Worth Watching” (Sept./Oct., 2014 issue)
  • Featured in Law360’s Female Powerbrokers series (2014)
  • One of the few outside counsel invited to the Women, Influence & Power in Law Conference (2014)
  • Selected a Top-Rated Lawyer in Labor & Employment by American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell™ (2013)
  • Unanimously appointed President of the Temple Law Alumni Association (TLAA) in June 2011, the 4th female elected to the post in TLAA’s nearly 100-year history (served 2012-2013)
  • Appointed an American Bar Association Diversity Fellow (one of four in the country) (2013)
  • Profiled  by the  American Bar  Association in a  Spotlight piece (201 3)
  • Appointed  to  membership in The Forum of Executive  Women, an organization of  the most influential women  in the Greater Philadelphia reg ion (Forum  member since 2013)
    • Serves on the Forum’s Women in Executive Leadership and Governance Committee and on the Forum’s Mentoring Committee (since 2013)
  • Appointed to the Philadelphia Bar Association Women’s Initiatives in Law Firms Task Force (2013)
  • Appointed by two Chancellors to the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Investigative Division of the Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention, to lead teams investigating those seeking to become judges (served from 2009-2019)
  • Appointed by the Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association Co-Chair of its Law Practice Management Committee (2010)
  • Temple Law Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award (2009)
  • Spoke on public television on “Pennsylvania Appellate Practice” at the request of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania (2004)

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