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September 25, 2007
For more information contact:
Allysn Hurley
Director of Marketing and Business Development
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC
ahurley@eckertseamans.com
Eckert Seamans Adds Attorneys in Pittsburgh Office
The national law firm of Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott, LLC today
announced that attorneys Jennifer L. Caviness, Erin L.
Pearson, and Matthew J. Whipple have joined the firm
as Associates.
Jennifer L. Caviness joins as an Associate in the
firm’s Business Division. She concentrates her practice in tax and
employee benefits. Ms. Caviness earned her masters of law in taxation from
Northwestern Law
School in 2007.
She earned her law degree from Tulane
Law School
in 2006, where she was a member of the Tulane
Maritime Law Journal. She earned her bachelor’s degree from
Columbia
University. Ms.
Caviness is admitted to practice in New Jersey
and before the U.S. District Court for the Western
District of Pennsylvania.
Erin L. Pearson joins as an Associate in the
Business Division. She focuses her practice on general corporate issues
and real estate. Ms. Pearson earned her law degree, summa cum laude, Order
of the Coif, from the Washington and Lee University School of Law in 2007, where
she was a member of Law Review. She was also a Burks Scholar and taught
research and legal citations to first year law students. She earned her
undergraduate degree in Journalism and Political Science from
Seton Hill
University in 2004,
where she ranked first in her class, received Second Place Keystone Press Award
in the Editorial Division and received a journalism scholarship from the
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh.
Matthew J. Whipple is an Associate in the
Litigation Division. He focuses his practice on general commercial
litigation issues. Mr. Whipple earned his law degree from the William and
Mary School of Law in 2007, where he was a member of the Editorial Board for the
Law Review, earned honors in Legal Skills, and was a graduate research
fellow. He earned his undergraduate degree from the
University of
Pennsylvania in 2004, where he
graduated summa cum laude, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, and
was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar.
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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