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GEORGE W. BROSEMAN is a principal of the firm Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein, P.C., and is a member of the firm's land use, zoning and development department. He concentrates in the areas of zoning, land use and real estate. Mr. Broseman has handled numerous land use cases for a wide array of clients, including developers, landowners, educational institutions, religious institutions, hospitals and businesses. He earned his J.D. degree from the School of Law at Villanova University, where he was a member of the Law Review and he earned his B.S. degree, with honors, from Susquehanna University. Mr. Broseman is a member of the Urban Land Institute, National Trust for Historic Preservation and the Chester County Historical Society. He is on the board of directors of the Riverbend Environmental Education Center. Mr. Broseman is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the American and Pennsylvania bar associations. JAMES S. ETTELSON is a partner with the law firm of Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP, in Philadelphia. He practices in the areas of corporate law, business law, real estate law, land use and zoning. Mr. Ettelson has represented a number of major commercial and residential developers and has been involved in a diverse range of real estate litigation. He has lectured on topics related to zoning and land use law, real estate transactions and condominium/planned community law. Mr. Ettelson is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and before the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; the U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit; and the Supreme Court of the United States. He earned his B.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University and his J.D. degree from Temple University. Mr. Ettelson is a member of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and American bar associations. He also has served more than four years as a member of his township's Planning Commission and was elected to three full terms as a Lower Merion Township Commissioner and subsequently served as board president. PETER S. FRIEDMAN is a founding shareholder of the law firm Friedman, Schuman, Applebaum, Nemeroff & McCaffery, P.C. Mr. Friedman concentrates his practice on real estate law and land use and zoning, as well as corporate and business law. In more than 30 years of practice, he has represented a wide variety of clients, including real estate developers, landlords, national retailers, governmental departments and religious institutions in connection with a variety of real estate transactions and commercial development projects. Mr. Friedman also has significant expertise in the area of retail leasing, including the acquisition, sale and leasing of retail and mixed-use properties. In this arena, he represented landlords in the negotiation of leases and of operation and easement agreements with some of the nation's largest "big box" retailers such as Lowes, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority and Old Navy. Mr. Friedman also is very experienced in handling matters before zoning hearing boards, as well as securing municipal permits and approvals for a wide variety of development projects, including land development and subdivision approvals. In the corporate and business law practice, he counsels individuals and corporations in connection with a wide variety of business contracts. Currently, Mr. Friedman serves as solicitor to the Montgomery Department of Housing and Community Development and the Montgomery County Development Corporation. He has previously lectured for National Business Institute and has co-chaired a CLE course conducted by the Montgomery County Bar Association titled "Retail Leasing - From Mom and Pop to Big Box." He also has chaired breakfast roundtable discussions at several ICSC Law Conferences. MICHAEL MATTIONI is a shareholder with Mattioni, Ltd., where he concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate, land use and corporate law. Mr. Mattioni advises and counsels his clients in all aspects of the acquisition and development of real estate. He has appeared before boards and commissions in applications for zoning and land use approvals in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties of Pennsylvania. Mr. Mattioni is a frequent lecturer on his areas of expertise and contributes monthly to the publication The Fallser. He recently obtained several variances and other governmental approvals necessary for the conversion of a former industrial building into a 320 residential unit building. Mr. Mattioni is the vice-chair of the Old City District, a business improvement district in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia that works to keep the streets of Old City clean and safe. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Justinian Society and is a member of the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia bar associations. Mr. Mattioni earned his B.A. degree from Villanova University, his J.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and his LL.M. degree from Temple University School of Law. MICHAEL J. SAVONA is a shareholder in the law firm of Friedman, Schuman, Applebaum, Nemeroff & McCaffery, P.C., where his primary areas of concentration are in municipal, land use, zoning and government law. He also is an experienced trial and appellate attorney. Over the past 14 years, Mr. Savona has served as solicitor to numerous municipalities and government agencies across the state of Pennsylvania. His past clients include nine different townships, boroughs, cities, and zoning hearing boards in southwestern Pennsylvania, where he practiced for ten years before relocating to Philadelphia to join Friedman Schuman in 2006. Since that time, Mr. Savona has served as counsel to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, as well as solicitor to Middletown Township, Lower Southampton Township, Warminster Township, Conshohocken Borough and the Borough of Hatboro. He also represents a consortium of Bucks County tax collectors, and has litigated cases on behalf of tax collectors throughout Pennsylvania, seeking to protect their right to collect taxes on behalf of the citizens who elect them to fulfill this function. Mr. Savona's efforts on behalf of tax collectors and their constituents has taken the issue to the halls of the State Supreme Court. He is a respected authority on the Municipalities Planning Code and the local land development process, and has guided his municipal clients in their efforts to promote redevelopment, to foster "green" development initiatives, and to streamline the development review process in order to make his municipal clients an attractive place for new business to locate, develop, and prosper. In 2009, at the direction of the Township Board of Supervisors, Mr. Savona spearheaded the effort to rewrite the entire zoning and subdivision codes of Warminster Township, Bucks County, which resulted in a ten-fold increase in the number of development applications filed in the Township, even in the midst of a recession which stagnated development in all of the communities bordering the Township. As an appellate attorney, he has represented parties in ground-breaking cases before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, as well as the Pennsylvania Superior and Commonwealth Courts, which made new law in the Commonwealth in areas as diverse as criminal law, marital property, tax collection and zoning and land development. Mr. Savona has lectured regarding the management of land development applications, zoning for economic redevelopment and the need to reinforce the system of real estate tax collection within the Commonwealth before the Montgomery County Bar Association, the Bucks County Zoning Officers' Association, and the Pennsylvania State Tax Collectors' Association. Mr. Savona is a past Executive Committee member of the Washington County Bar Association, and is an active member of the Montgomery and Bucks County bar associations, as well as the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Solicitors and the Pennsylvania Borough Solicitors Association. DAWN M. TANCREDI is an attorney with Mattioni, Ltd., where her areas of practice are real estate and business law. Ms. Tancredi earned her B.A. degree from St. Joseph's University and her J.D. degree from Temple University. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and before the U.S. District Court, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Supreme Court. Ms. Tancredi is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
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