Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller has announced that Maureen S. Lawrence and Jason A. Levine have been elected shareholders of the firm and Robert A. Wiygul has been elected Of Counsel. All three attorneys practice in the firm’s Philadelphia office.
Maureen Lawrence is an attorney in the Litigation Department and focuses her practice on antitrust and other complex commercial litigation matters. She has extensive federal court experience in jurisdictions throughout the United States, in both district and appellate courts. She is also active in pro bono matters, including working with the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, and is an engaged member of her community, serving as Vice President of the Board of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Philadelphia County.
Maureen earned her law degree, cum laude, from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Catholic University Law Review, and her undergraduate degree from Marquette University.
Jason Levine practices in the Litigation Department and has diverse experience in commercial disputes, internal and government investigations, and regulatory enforcement actions. He represents financial services institutions, real estate companies, government entities, retailers, and other businesses and individuals in high-stakes disputes involving fraud, corruption, tax issues, insurance coverage, restrictive covenants, partner and shareholder disputes, and business torts. He maintains an active pro bono practice and serves on the Regional Board of the Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Associates Board of City Year Philadelphia
Jason is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as Comments Editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He received a BA in economics, summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Robert Wiygul focuses his practice on appellate litigation, commercial litigation, environmental litigation, and complex insurance coverage litigation, providing counseling and representation to his clients at every stage of the litigation process in both federal and state courts, from pre-complaint investigation to discovery to trial to appeal. He has particularly deep experience with and knowledge of appeals, having prosecuted and defended numerous appeals in both state and federal courts, and having served as a law clerk for two years for the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica, then Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Robert is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was the Co-Editor-in-Chief and the Book Reviews Editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. He holds a C.Phil. from the University of California – Berkeley, earned his Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in England, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Williams College, where he also earned Highest Honors in History and Honors in Philosophy.
