• Family Law - including divorce, custody, support, prenuptial agreement and co-habitation agreements
• Zoning, Planning and Land Use – Concentrate on obtaining and defending municipal and outside agency approvals such as DEP and PennDOT.
• Real Estate Assessment Appeals
• Eminent Domain
• Real estate litigation including partition actions and easement related litigation

• Pennsylvania, 1977
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1981
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1981

• Franklin & Marshall College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1974
• Cornell University, J.D., 1977

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

• Member Lehigh County Bar Association (President, Family Law Section 1992-1993)
• Pennsylvania Bar Association

• Member of Upper Saucon Township Zoning Hearing Board 1983-1992
• Board Member, Haven House

• Named Pennsylvania Super Lawyer by Law and Politics, 2005-2006
• 2007 Lehigh County Bar Association Community Service Award

• In re: Shook, 315 Pa.Super. 625, 463 A.2d 28 (1983)
• Oeler by Gross Oeler, 594 A.2d 649 (1991)
• McAuliffe vs. McAuliffe, 418 Pa. Super 39, 618 A.2d 20 (1992)
• Town & Country Management Corp. v. Zoning Hearing Bd. of Borough of Emmaus, 671 A.2d 790 (Pa.Cmwlth. 1996)
• Mack Trucks, Inc. v. Lehigh County Bd. of Assessment Appeals, 692 A.2d 661 (Pa.Cmwlth. 1997)
• Penn’s Grant Associates v. Northampton County Bd. of Assessment Appeals, 733 A.2d 23, (1999)
• Blue Mountain Preservation Association and Appalachian Trail Conference vs. Eldred Township and Alpine Rose Resorts, 867 A.2d 692 (Pa.Cmmwlth. 2005)
• Blue Mountain Preservation Association, Inc. v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Protection and Alpine Rose Resorts, EHB Docket No. 2005-077-K
• Hornstein v. Lynn Tp. Sewer Authority, 586 Pa. 508, 895 A.2d 544 (Pa., 2006)
• Geryville Materials, Inc. v. Lower Milford Tp. Zoning Hearing Bd., 8 A.3d 347 (Pa.,Apr 14, 2010)