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September 19, 2006
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Allegheny County Bar Foundation Fellows Program Will Award Honorary Membership in the Name of Eckert Seamans’ Edward G. O’Connor
The national law firm Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott, LLC today announced
that The Allegheny County Bar Foundation (ACBA) Fellows Program will award an
honorary, annual fellows membership in the name of Eckert Seamans’ Special
Counsel Edward G. O’Connor.
The fellows program recognizes attorneys who have shown a commitment to
excellence in charitable, community, professional and public service
activities. Under the program, each Fellow pledges $1,000 which goes
towards building the program’s Foundation Endowment and awarding grants to civil
legal services organizations.
“In naming an honorary membership annually after Mr. O’Connor, the program
recognizes his many contributions to the community and the profession, including
most recently, his involvement with the program’s ‘Building Bridges to the
Future Endowment Campaign,’” said Mark Edwards,
the ACBA’s Director of Administration & Development.
Mr. O'Connor currently serves as a Trustee of the Allegheny County Bar
Foundation. He is a past member of the Board of Governors of the Academy
of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, the House of Delegates of the Pennsylvania
Bar Association and the Board of Governors of the Allegheny County Bar
Association. He has also been a member of the Advisory Committee on
Appellate Court Rules of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1986-1992),
and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Civil Procedural Rules Committee
(1998-2004).
Active in academic and community affairs, Mr. O'Connor served on the Hampton
Township Planning Commission from 1984-1990, serving as Chair from 1986-1988,
and received the Distinguished Service Award from
Hampton
Township. He
currently is serving on the Hampton Township Zoning Hearing Board and is a
current Chair of that Board. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus by
Duquesne University School of Law, received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from
both the Duquesne Law Review and Duquesne Law Alumni Association, was inducted
into the Century Club of Distinguished Alumnus and received the McAnulty Service
Award from Duquesne
University.
Mr. O’Connor graduated with his bachelor’s degree from
Duquesne
University, and he
earned his law degree from the Duquesne University School of Law, where he
graduated first in his class and was the editor-in-chief of the Law Review.
He resides in
HamptonTownship,
a suburb of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
About Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC (www.eckertseamans.com), a national law firm with nine offices throughout the eastern United States, provides a full range of legal services nationwide to businesses of all sizes, institutions, municipalities, colleges and universities, government agencies and individuals. Its practice areas encompass litigation, including mass tort and products liability litigation, corporate and business law, intellectual property law, labor and employment relations, aviation & aerospace law, bankruptcy and creditors’ rights, employee benefits, environmental law, construction law, municipal finance, real estate, and tax and estate law. Eckert Seamans has offices in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, and Southpointe, Pennsylvania; Wilmington, Delaware; Morgantown, West Virginia; Boston, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C. and White Plains, New York.
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