Capehart Scatchard Shareholder, Denise L. Sanders was recently named by South Jersey Biz magazine as a “Woman to Watch” in 2017. Ms. Sanders is one of 20 women selected to the list, which identifies female leaders in philanthropy, finance, marketing, health care and beyond who are making their mark in their respective fields.
Ms. Sanders, a resident of Marlton, focuses her practice in the areas of healthcare regulatory compliance and privacy and security. Her extensive experience representing physicians and healthcare providers includes advising on self-referral laws, anti-kickback, licensure, scope of practice, collaborative arrangements, and HIPAA privacy, security and data breach issues. Her representative healthcare clients include individual and group practices, ambulatory surgery providers, ambulatory care facilities, urgent care and home care providers, as well as health care service vendors. She also counsels public entities and businesses of all types regarding compliance with federal and state legal requirements related to data breach, identity theft, cybersecurity, and ecommerce.
Capehart Scatchard Shareholder, Thomas D. Begley III, spoke on February 23, 2017 at the “Dementia and Its Impact on Clients, Attorneys and Judges” seminar sponsored by the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education. The seminar was held at the Doubletree Guest Suites in Mount Laurel.
Mr. Begley’s presentation was entitled, “Legal Strategies for Financing Long Term Care.” During his presentation, Mr. Begley addressed the types and costs of long term care, the manner in which care is financed, core planning methods and concepts, income and gift tax considerations, and the role of the courts in planning.
A resident of Moorestown, Mr. Begley is the Chair of the Trusts and Estates Group at Capehart Scatchard. He is routinely recognized as one of the top lawyers in New Jersey by a variety of publications including Super Lawyers, SJ Magazine and South Jersey Magazine. He is a Certified Elder Law Attorney as recognized by the National Elder Law Foundation.
Christopher J. Hoare, Esq., co-chair of Capehart Scatchard’s Transportation Department, has been invited to speak at the March 6, 2017 meeting of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel in Phoenix, AZ. His topic: Amtrak’s 2015 Passenger Train Derailment in Philadelphia and Mulit District Litigation. Mr. Hoare focuses his practice on defending railroads.
See the link below regarding an interview Vincent Cieslik gave regarding the upcoming March of Dimes – March for Babies Walk to be held on April 30, 2017 at Saint Xavier University.
Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that CFO and Firm Administrator, Howard P. Vogel, CPA MBA was recently named a 2017 Top CFO by South Jersey Biz Magazine.
South Jersey Biz annually compiles the Top CFO list based on the contributions made by the individuals to the business world and the local community. To view the January 2017 issue of the magazine, featuring Mr. Vogel, click HERE.
Mr. Vogel, a Marlboro resident, has been with the firm since 2015 and is a graduate of the City University of New York – Queens College. He received his MBA from St John’s University in New York. Mr. Vogel is a member of the New Jersey Association of Legal Administrators and New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Capehart Scatchard Family Law Shareholder, Amy C. Goldstein, Esq. was recently interviewed on Good Day Philadelphia Weekend on Fox 29. During the interview, Ms. Goldstein offered her perspective on why divorce rates spike during the month of January. To view the full interview, featuring Ms. Goldstein, click HERE.
Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that a new Shareholder, Cameron R. Morgan, Esq., has joined the School Law Department in its Mt. Laurel office.
A resident of Haddon Heights, New Jersey, Mr. Morgan focuses his practice in the areas of school law, special education, and labor and employment. He has represented public school districts for many years in all aspects of their legal needs, handling a variety of matters ranging from school law matters such as teacher tenure/seniority issues, reductions-in-force, budget disputes, or student discipline, to collective negotiations with teachers’ unions, unfair labor practice charges, in-depth scope of negotiations issues, and other labor/employment matters, to special education disputes involving students with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Asperger’s Syndrome, dyslexia, behavioral issues, and myriad other special needs. Cameron R. Morgan has a diverse range of litigation experience, handling cases on behalf of New Jersey school districts in a variety of courts and administrative forums. He is a frequent speaker and lecturer on matters pertaining to school law, including topics on special education, labor negotiations, personnel and leave matters, student discipline issues, and harassment, intimidation, and bullying.
Mr. Morgan received his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law – Camden and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Richmond. He began his legal career as a law clerk to the Hon. Joseph F. Lisa, P.J.A.D., a presiding judge of the Superior Court, Appellate Division.
Mr. Morgan is an Officer in the New Jersey Association of School Attorneys, the currently serving as a Trustee for the South-Central Region. He is a member of the Burlington County Bar Association and New Jersey School Boards Association, and is admitted to practice in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.
Capehart Scatchard is pleased to announce that six attorneys were admitted as new shareholders to the 140 year old law firm. The new shareholders at Capehart Scatchard are:
Jessica M. Anderson – Litigation Department
Charles F. Holmgren – Litigation Department
Nicholas A. Dibble – Workers’ Compensation Department
Scott J. Endlein – Workers’ Compensation Department
Ashley T. Mollenthiel Fiore– Workers’ Compensation Department
Daniel P. Robinson – Workers’ Compensation Department
In addition, one existing Capehart Scatchard shareholder was elevated to a level just below full equity shareholder. That shareholder is:
Carl Kosola / Photojournalist Betsy Ramos, a shareholder at Capehart Scatchard law firm in Mount Laurel, stands with a room full of toy donations at her office that will be given to local children Thursday.
By Crissa Shoemaker DeBree, writer for Burlington County Times, Dec 21, 2016
Hundreds of children who otherwise wouldn’t have anything under their Christmas trees will have a merry holiday this year, thanks to a group of adults they have never met.
Stuffed animals, board games and toys of every shape and size recently left the offices of Radwell International in Willingboro last week, destined for children being served by a variety of groups in Burlington County.
Each toy was donated by an employee of the industrial equipment maker as an entry fee to its annual holiday party.
Across the region, individual donors and companies like Radwell are opening their hearts — and wallets — to support those in need during the holiday season. And this time of year is critical. Some nonprofit organizations can see up to 40 percent of their annual donations come in during the last six weeks of the year.
“The last weeks (are) like a big Black Friday,” said Eileen Heisman, president and CEO of the National Philanthropic Trust, a nationwide public charity that works with high net-worth donors. “It’s this whole ritual that Americans have done for decades. When they decide to give is often around the holiday season:’
Americans as a whole are tremendously generous. Last year, they donated an estimated $373.25 billion, according to the Giving USA 2016 report, a 4.1 percent increase over 2014 and the second record year in a row. Donations from individuals reached $264.58 billion, while corporate giving grew 3.9 percent to $18.45 billion. Foundations contributed $58.46 billion, and charitable bequests accounted for $31.76 billion.
The majority of donations in 2015 went to religious institutions, at $119.3 billion. Other top donation categories were education, human services and foundations.
A 2007 study by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University found that respondents reported giving about 24 percent of their annual total between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.
“I think it is because we do naturally kind of take stock at this time of year,” said Jim Cawley, a former Pennsylvania lieutenant governor who now serves as CEO of the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. “Whatever holiday it is that you choose to celebrate, or not to celebrate, there is a societal reflection on where we are, what’s transpired over the previous year, and getting ready for the next year. It’s that point that people reaffirm their decision to be generous, and to give, either of their time or their treasure or their talent.”
Give for your health
Giving back doesn’t just benefit the organizations that receive donations. Some believe it can actually be good for your health.
“Some people get so focused on reciprocal gains and calculations and tit for tat, that they lose sight of the fact that giving is the significant alternative to getting caught up in a downward vortex of rumination and hostility,” said Stephen G. Post, an author, public speaker, and professor at Stony Brook University in New York. “Those destructive emotions are terrible. When people just focus their minds on what they can do to help others, it turns off a lot of the neurological circuits that are associated with hostility, bitterness and so forth.”
If left unchecked, Post said, those negative emotions have been shown to lead to cardiovascular disease and other serious physical health problems.
Post has been studying the effects of charitable giving since the 1990s, under the mentorship of noted businessman and philanthropist Sir John Templeton, founder of the John Templeton Foundation outside Philadelphia.
“He really felt that giving oftentimes benefits the giver just as much, if not in some sense more, than those who receive,” Post said. “He thought we were generous for the sake of helping others, and he was very sincere about that, but he also wrote eloquently about how people who are generous tend to be ‘radiant.’ They tend to be joyful.”
A 2010 survey by United Healthcare and Volunteer Match seemed to support that. Two-thirds of respondents who reported volunteering in 2009 said it made them feel physically healthier. Three-quarters reported lower stress levels, improved emotional health, and better recovery “from loss and disappointment.” Volunteers said they had less trouble sleeping, less anxiety, better friendships, and a sense of control over chronic health conditions.
“One only needs to consider the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol,’ to see the effects of giving,” Post said.
“He’s very bitter,” Post said. “He’s ruminating. He can’t forgive this gal who he wanted to marry who stiffed him. He’s lived this ugly, nasty life. And then, he is slowly awakened to the value of being a giver. The light slowly turns on for him. He’s discovered what I call the ‘giver’s glow: When he’s last seen in that book, he’s like a young adolescent, bouncing around a London street helping everybody in sight. All his bitterness, hostility and hatred, all his emptiness, is gone. And it’s a new Scrooge.”
Helping the bottom line
Philanthropy is important for corporate health as well.
“Business ethics used to be this dreadful, boring, horrible stuff about just merely do no harm,” Post said. ”Now, if you look at the great corporations, there’s a tremendous emphasis on encouraging employees (to volunteer or donate). They all understand that if they can create a climate of generosity, of concern about all people, they know that this is great for the world around them, great for their employees, great for their morale, and ultimately great for the success of their companies:’
Radwell’s charity doesn’t stop with toys during the holiday. In fact, the walls of the company’s new global headquarters in Willingboro are lined with dozens of large cardboard replicas of checks the company has awarded to various organizations over the years. Beyond the corporate donations are contributions, of both time and money, from Radwell’s nearly 1,000 employees.
“I can tell you, there’s not a time when there’s not a collection here,” said Brian Radwell, CEO of the company founded by his father, Jerry, in the 1970s.
Several years ago, the company founded ROCK (Radwell Operation of Caring and Kindness), which operates in each of Radwell’s nine sites in the United States, Europe and Canada, and provides volunteers and donations for local organizations.
“It’s been part of our building and history from day one,” Radwell said. “Were not trying to generate revenue dollars by donating. We’re building an atmosphere in the company where it’s known, and everyone is doing it as a group. It’s not just myself giving back. Giving back money and things like that is easy. But to build something where a bunch of people drive toward goals builds a tight-knit family of people at Radwell. It shows them it’s not all about money for us:’
Recently, employees at the Mount Laurel law firm Parker McCay donned jeans for the day in exchange for donating money to the Burlington County Civil Air Patrol. But the recipient of the donation drive quickly changed to the family of retired Cinnaminson Detective Sgt. Francis X. Rooney, an Evesham resident who died of a heart attack earlier this month while delivering packages for UPS. One of Rooney’s six children is involved in the organization.
“It was very emotional,’ said Margie McLaughlin, the firm’s chief human resources officer. People were peeling off $50, $60, $70. They were pulling their pennies out of their handbags to support that. When a company supports their employees in doing things like that, it creates a greater sense of dedication to the employer. You feel good your company gave you an opportunity to do something like that.”
McLaughlin said the firm takes its philanthropic duty seriously. This holiday season, it has collected food for the Food Bank of South Jersey and toys for local children. But its philanthropy doesn’t stop there.
“It’s important for businesses who operate in an area to realize they don’t operate in vacuum,” she said. “If they want to be supported by the local community for their business, they need to be an active partner. You take up space. You pull resources from an area. You ought to be a part of that community that you work in.”
Fellow law firm Capehart Scatchard takes a similar approach, managing shareholder Mary Ellen Rose said.
“We have over 170 employees that all come from the local area,” Rose said. “We consider it both a privilege and an obligation to serve our community.”
Employees at the Mount Laurel firm are required to participate with a local nonprofit group of their choosing, either through volunteerism and donations. The company also makes its own contributions to various groups.
“We’re in the service industry,” Rose said. “It’s important when you make money from the local areas that you give back, too.” While the holidays are critical for nonprofits, leaders say the generosity does not stop there.
“The good news is, we live in a caring community that understands that giving is needed 365 days a year,” Cawley said. “The bad news is, the needs are 365 days a year as well.”
Capehart Scatchard Shareholder, Lora V. Northen, Esq. recently spoke on “Hot Issues in Workers’ Compensation Across the Country” at the 25th Annual National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference & Expo. The Conference was held at the Ernest N. Memorial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA.
Currently serving a two-year term as President of the National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network, Ms. Northen participated in a discussion on the hot topics throughout the country in workers’ compensation, including recent case law.
In addition to her responsibilities as Co-Chair of the Workers’ Compensation Department, Ms. Northen, a Pennsauken resident, focuses her practice in the representation of employers, self-insured companies, and insurance carriers. Certified as a trial attorney by the Supreme Court of New Jersey in Workers’ Compensation Law, Ms. Northen is a member of the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Burlington County and Camden County Bar Associations. Ms. Northen is also a Fellow of the College of Workers’ Compensation Attorneys for the American Bar Association. She is a frequent speaker on workers’ compensation issues before a myriad of trade organizations.
