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FRANCIS X. CROWLEY is a partner in the Philadelphia and Media offices of the law firm of Blank Rome LLP, where he is a member of the Commercial Litigation Practice Group. For the past 27 years Mr. Crowley's practice has concentrated in many areas of civil litigation before federal and state courts, including commercial litigation, class action defense, complex litigation, county government law, municipal law, False Claims Act, insurance coverage disputes, RICO, environmental litigation, injunction actions, appellate practice, alternative dispute resolution, commercial loan work-outs and forclosures, construction and real estate litigation. He has represented numerous governmental bodies in eminent domain and de facto taking cases. He has previously lectured on Federal Civil Trial Practice, Problem Areas in Real Estate Transactions, Third Party Insurance Coverage and E-Discovery to legal professionals. Mr. Crowley is admitted to practice before the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania, the District of of New Jersey and the District of Colorado, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. He received his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, his M.A. degree and his J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Crowley is a member of various bar associations. PATRICIA W. HOLDEN is an attorney with the law firm of Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy, P.C. where she practices in the areas of insurance coverage and insurance bad faith. She is a member of the firm's insurance defense group, as well as the Burlington County Bar, Camden County Bar (member, special civic part and personal injury), the Philadelphia Bar, New Jersey State Bar Association and the Counsel on Litigation Management. Ms. Holden has had an experienced and varied insurance defense litigation practice. She has had substantial experience in automobile claims, product liability claims, premises liability claims, medical professional liability claims as well as toxic tort claims, first party benefit claims and subrogation. Ms. Holden earned her B.S. degree from Mount St. Mary's College, with honors, Dean's list Beta Beta Beta and her J.D. degree from Rutgers University, Dean's list, Moot Court. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and before U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd and 3rd Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. District Court, District of Eastern Pennsylvania. MARK S. KARDOS is the principal in the law offices of Kardos & Goch, where he practices in the areas of personal injury and medical malpractice. Mr. Kardos has litigated several medical malpractice cases to a verdict, some of which have been noted in the Pennsylvania Jury Reporter and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers The Verdict. The parties in more than 1,400 cases involving UM and UIM law have chosen him as arbitration chairman. Mr. Kardos is a former instructor of business and real estate law at Temple University. He earned his B.S. degree from Millersville University and his J.D. degree from the University of Baltimore Law School. Mr. Kardos is a member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. DEREK R. LAYSER is a shareholder and co-founder of Layser & Freiwald, P.C., where he has an active trial practice in the areas of medical malpractice, product liability and catastrophic loss litigation throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He is a frequent speaker on a variety of issues, including trial practice techniques and civil practice matters. His peers have recognized Mr. Layser with an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, he is listed in the Bar Register of Pre-eminent Lawyers and is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for medical malpractice litigation by Philadelphia Magazine for the 6th consecutive year. Mr. Layser is an active member of the American, Pennsylvania, New Jersey State and Philadelphia bar associations as well as The American Association for Justice, the New Jersey Association for Justice, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. He received his J.D. degree, cum laude, from the Delaware Law School of Widener University. LEAH SNYDER BATCHIS is an attorney with Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP, where she is a member of the firm's litigation services department, health practice law group, and appellate practice group. In her health care practice, Ms. Snyder Batchis counsels a variety of health care clients, from hospitals to long term care facilities on regulatory compliance and dispute resolution. She has investigated hospital charity care policies;, non-profit tax exemption; and Medicare and Medicaid funding issues; and negotiated an affliation agreement between two Pennsylvania hospital system. In her appellate practice, Ms. Snyder Batchis has prepared a Petition for Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court and handled a large and complex appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She has also handled a variety of business litigation matters, including the successful defense of an attorney and his law firm in a legal malpractice action and obtaining summary judgment for a leading manufacturer of adhesive products.
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