Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller has announced that Michele Sacks Fenkel and Rebecca Santoro Melley have been elected Shareholders of the firm and Jacqueline R. Dungee has been elected Of Counsel. All three attorneys practice in the firm’s Philadelphia office.
Fenkel focuses her practice on corporate and securities matters. She counsels public and private companies, entrepreneurs and executives on a variety of matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and partnership matters, capital raising, commercial contracts, intellectual property and employment matters. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and earned her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to law school, Fenkel was an investment banking analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York.
Melley is a litigator with experience in both federal and state courts. She has been active with cases involving intellectual property law, insurance coverage and bad faith actions, real estate law, and general commercial litigation matters, and she also has been involved in pro bono representations including as co-counsel with the ACLU in Whitewood v. Wolf, which overturned Pennsylvania’s ban on marriage for same-sex couples, and as co-counsel with Juvenile Law Center in a federal civil suit arising out of the Luzerne County “kids-for-cash” scandal. Melley is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, summa cum laude, where she was an articles editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. She earned her undergraduate degree from Brown University. Before joining Hangley Aronchick, she clerked for the Honorable William H. Yohn Jr., of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Dungee focuses her litigation practice on sophisticated insurance coverage and bad faith actions under many different types of insurance policies, including directors’ and officers’ liability, errors and omissions, and commercial general liability policies. She also has counseled clients regarding, and litigated cases arising out of, business contract disputes, employment issues, and product liability and personal injury claims. Dungee earned her law degree from Temple University School of Law, and her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Cabrini College.
