GLUCKWALRATH - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Attorney
- Associate in the Corporate Department
Alex Kaczynski is an Associate in the Corporate Department. He counsels public and private companies on all matters related to corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and other general transactional matters.
Alex developed an interest in corporate and transactional law while serving as a student attorney in Villanova's Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic where he helped a locally owned small business in developing base contracts for their business and organize ownership and management in a way that allowed them to take advantage of certain government programs and contracts.
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Officer
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Associate in Dilworth Paxson 's Corporate and Business
- Dilworth Adds Corporate & Estate Attorney
Andrea is an Associate in Dilworth Paxson's Corporate and Business and Real Estate groups, representing clients in all types of transactional matters in the Philadelphia office.
Andrew Leven has developed an extensive knowledge of the white-collar law enforcement and regulatory landscape through his experience as a federal prosecutor, outside general counsel to a hospital system, and criminal defense attorney.
He has also served as the Worldwide Healthcare Compliance Director at the Cordis Corporation, an 8,000-employee medical device company then owned by Johnson & Johnson. At Cordis, Leven routinely participated in business decisions with the senior management team, trained all marketing and sales components, led sensitive internal investigations, and spearheaded the implementation of HCC policies that were later instrumental in negating qui tam civil lawsuits and government investigations.
During his extensive tenure as a federal prosecutor, Leven specialized in economic and healthcare fraud prosecutions. He used his experience in the healthcare industry to help develop a nuanced prosecution decision tree for the off-label use of medical devices and drugs, and fashioned a novel legal theory that was successfully deployed in the largest physician bribery prosecution in the United States.
Leven also conducted numerous insurance, bank, mortgage, wire, tax, and mail fraud grand jury investigations, acquired extensive trial experience, and served as the criminal tax intake prosecutor for the District of New Jersey.
As a defense attorney he secured non-prosecution decisions for executives under investigation in the healthcare, insurance, and financial sectors from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. In a civil money penalty/disciplinary inquiry, Leven also persuaded financial regulators that a corporate executive acted inadvertently when providing materially incorrect information to them under oath and should not be sanctioned, penalized, or otherwise disciplined.
While outside general counsel to a hospital system, Leven identified, developed, and helped execute a successful initiative to release some $100 million federal funds. He also conducted sensitive internal investigations, managed outside counsel, and fully participated in a wide range of operational/strategic issues as part of the senior leadership team.
In his practice, Leven uses these diverse real-world experiences and deep skill sets to seek favorable results for healthcare, corporate, insurance, and financial sector clients facing potential fraud-based criminal or civil challenges as defendants, plaintiffs, witnesses, and victims.
Leven attended Syracuse University's College of Law, where he graduated first in his class as the Valedictorian and served on the Law Review as the Editor of the Annual Survey of New York Law. He is admitted to practice in state and federal court in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Dilworth Paxson Partner
Anne Aaronson's practice focuses on business litigation, including bankruptcy and reorganization, out-of-court workouts, contract and corporate governance disputes, and providing true sale and non-consolidation opinions to clients involved in certain financial transactions. Anne also represents tax lien holders in connection with the enforcement of municipal tax liens, including through the sheriff's sale of the affected properties.
Ben Spang is a skilled and experienced litigation and trial attorney with a diverse background. He focuses his practice in the areas of commercial, construction and financial services litigation and represents his clients in state and federal courts as well as a variety of other forums.
Ben handles a wide range of construction matters spanning the spectrum of public, commercial and residential. He has experience litigating all types of claims associated with construction projects including design errors, construction defects, delay claims, lien enforcement and defense, as well as insurance coverage litigation. His experience and ability to develop practical and cost efficient solutions allows him to counsel clients and identify potential problems before they arise and also to quickly and successfully resolve issues that may occur. He has represented clients from the inception of projects and contract formation, managing claims and disputes during projects and resolving disputes through arbitration, litigation and trial.
In his financial services practice, Ben has a wealth of experience litigating disputes and claims arising under Articles 3 and 4 of the Uniform Commercial Code, the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, Regulations E and Z, credit card payment processing and other payment systems disputes. He assists clients with commercial loan workouts and commercial foreclosure actions. His clients include both local and national banks as well as other lending institutions. Ben's experience along with his knowledge of financial regulations and statutes allow him to effectively counsel and work with his clients to achieve excellent results.
Ben also has substantial experience counseling business owners in shareholder, partner and member disputes for both large and closely held business entities. He has litigated claims involving minority shareholder oppression, disassociation of members, business dissolutions, shareholder derivative actions and compulsory buyouts of ownership interests. His experience with the laws governing these disputes enables him to effectively craft cost-efficient solutions when practical, or if not practical, fully litigate the dispute for the benefit of his clients.
In addition to his specialized experience, Ben has handled litigation for clients in a variety of other industries including employment litigation, class actions, eminent domain proceedings, commercial landlord-tenant issues, condominium and homeowner association disputes, business collections, and general litigation. His counsel and experience are invaluable to the clients he represents. Ben is strategic and reliable. In each representation, he tailors his approach to the case to ensure each client is receiving the most efficient services but also ensuring that the client's specific goals are achieved.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Ben served as an officer in the United States Army with the 10th Mountain Division as well as an Assistant Professor of Military Science with the Army Reserve Officer's Training Corps. Several years after becoming an attorney, Ben re-entered the military and is currently serving as a Judge Advocate in the Army Reserve.
Carmen Y. Rivera concentrates her practice in labor and employment, municipal court matters, and complex civil litigation.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Co - Chair of the Plaintiffs' Rights Practice Group
Catherine is a Co-Chair of the Plaintiffs' Rights Practice Group, practicing for over 25 years in the areas of consumer, corporate, and securities class action and derivative litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery and federal courts around the country. A seasoned litigator, Catherine prosecuted high-profile class actions and corporate governance litigations, recouping hundreds of millions of dollars for victims and securing better practices across different industries.
Christie Callahan Comerford concentrates her practice in commercial and complex civil litigation including defamation, fraud, breach of contract, securities, and intellectual property. She also has extensive experience addressing criminal issues arising in complex civil litigation and coordination with criminal defense counsel. She has represented a diverse group of clients including large and small businesses and individuals in proceedings before various federal and state trial and appellate courts.
Christina Strong focuses her practice on healthcare law and the general corporate representation of non-profits. Ms. Strong has provided counsel on such diverse issues of regulatory compliance as HIPAA, Fraud and Abuse, Human Subjects Research and Intellectual Property. She is particularly committed to serving in an outside General Counsel role, which allows her to focus on a small number of clients in great depth.
Her work in healthcare law and policy involves representing numerous non-profit and provider organizations, as well as trade groups, medical societies, and individual providers and practices. Ms. Strong has particular expertise in the areas of organ and tissue donation for transplant, education, and research, and has been closely involved in state and national law and policy development concerning authorization for and allocation of organs and tissues, neurologic death, donation after circulatory death and medical examiner law development, as well as end -of life issues. In 2006, she received the "Executive Director's Award" of the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations for her work in national healthcare policy development. Ms. Strong served as the Chair of the American Association of Tissue Banks "Consent and Authorization Task Force", presiding over the successful two-year project to update accreditation standards in accordance with national and international legal and ethical precepts. Most recently, she co-wrote the Editorial for the British Medical Journal on the Nuffield Bioethics Council's report on anatomic gifts.
A frequent speaker on legal and policy topics, Ms. Strong endeavors to stimulate civil discussion on topics at the intersection of law, health care and bioethics. She served as a member of the New Jersey Bar Association's End of Life Task Force, and was appointed to the Board of New Jersey Health Decisions, a non-profit organization involved in end-of-life decisions policy. She also taught "Patient-Centered Health Law" at Rutgers University School of Law-Newark, as an Adjunct Professor in Health Law.
Education
J.D. Cum Laude, Villanova School of Law, 2022
B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Economics and Labor Studies, Rutgers University, 2019
Job Titles:
- Director of Human Resources