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Message From the Managing Partner
Over the past year, Hill Wallack LLP has experienced a surge of growth as we joined forces with
different practice groups led by Pennsylvania practitioners who identify with our goals.
Joanne Rathgeber & Associates joined our firm in January when we opened an office in
Doylestown, PA. Joanne is a partner in the firm and member of the Employment &
Labor Law Practice Group. Supporting Joanne are Virginia L. Hardwick and Tiffinie C.
Benfer, who joined the firm as associates in the Litigation Division and Employment &
Labor Law Practice Group focusing on employment and commercial litigation.
L. Stephen Pastor, a partner in the firm and a resident of Pennsylvania, is also working out of the Doylestown
office. Mr. Pastor has been with the firm for over 20 years and provides legal services to developers,
financial institutions and other entities involved with real estate development and finance.
In July, Sullivan & Sullivan, one of Bucks County’s noted firms serving business and commercial clients,
joined our firm as Hill Wallack LLP opened an office in Langhorne, PA. Francis J. Sullivan continues his
practice with us as partner-in-charge of the firm’s Business & Commercial Law Practice Group. Rosemary A.
Sullivan, a partner in the firm’s Trusts & Estates Practice Group, will continue to work out of the Langhorne
office concentrating her practice in the areas of estate administration, elder law, orphans court litigation
and commercial litigation. We also welcomed Jeffrey G. DiAmico and Denise M. Bowman, who joined the firm as
associates in the Business & Commercial Law Practice Group.
We open this issue with Frank Sullivan’s analysis of the impact of business divorce in his
article “When Small Business Owners Divorce”. Rosemary Sullivan examines the right of survivorship
in “Fore-Warned is Fore-Armed”, while Steve Pastor discusses New Jersey’s Real Estate Sales Full
Disclosure Act in his article “Registration Required When Targeting New Jersey Residents for Sales of Out of State Homes.”
Joanne Rathgeber alerts us to employer liability in the workplace in her article “Who’s in Charge Here?...”;
while Jeff DiAmico brings us up-to-date on consumer protection for telephone solicitation via facsimile in his article
“Fax Blasts – Don’t Fax Me I’ll Fax You!!!” Virginia Hardwick discusses sexual discrimination in her article
“Protection Against Discrimination Because of Sexual Orientation: Pennsylvania’s Scattered Approach”, while Tiffinie
Benfer explains claims of employer retaliation in her article “Recent Court Decisions Expand Definition of Retaliation.”
As with every issue of the Quarterly, Hill Wallack LLP strives to address topics of interest to our readers and to
provide informative articles on those subjects. We encourage you to contact the authors with any questions relating to the
articles contained in this issue or with suggestions on future topics of interest.
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