TIMONEY KNOX WELCOMES ADDITIONAL NEW ASSOCIATE
Thomas A. Boulden has joined the Firm as an associate. He has extensive experience in Orphans' Court litigation, focusing in the areas of will contests, trust and surcharge litigation, representing both trustees and beneficiaries. Mr. Boulden also has experience in incapacitated persons litigations and guardianships. In addition to litigation, Mr. Boulden assists and counsels clients in estate planning and interpreting estate planning documents.
TIMONEY KNOX EXPANDS PRACTICE IN LANCASTER COUNTY BY MERGER WITH WALMER LAW OFFICES
In July 2007, the Fort Washington law firm Timoney Knox, LLP merged with Walmer Law Offices LLC of Lancaster.
Timoney Knox senior partner Richard L. Caplan and Mark F. Walmer will be working at the firm's Lancaster office at 132 E. ChestnutSt., according to managing partner George Riter.
Caplan, a veteran litigator with strong ties and contacts in Lancaster County, had opened a branch office on Embassy Drive for Timoney Knox in November of 2006. That first step into Lancaster County led to the July 1 merger, Riter said. "When Richard Caplan opened our office in Lancaster," Riter said, "he started to identify sole practitioners and small firms that would help us grow our office and our specialty of complex litigation. He identified Mark, who has a terrific reputation with a specialty in criminal defense and some transactional work.
"We see Mark continuing to maintain a good, high quality criminal defense practice, including white-collar crime, as well as complex civil litigation." Riter said. Lancaster, Riter said, is a growing county with growing corporations and an increasing need for complex litigation support. The firm has some clients in the area already. "The demographics fit into our general practice approach," he said. "But our goal is not to distinguish between Lancaster and Fort Washington. For our clients' sake, it should not even be an issue," Riter said.
TIMONEY KNOX WELCOMES:
Joseph T. Thiroway, who has joined the firm as a partner. Joe's practice is focused in personal injury, commercial litigation and business and employment law. Joe was in private practice before joining Timoney Knox.
Edward T. Egan, who has joined the firm as ‘of counsel.' Ed's practice is focused in business, wills and estates, insurance and negligence litigation. Prior to joining Timoney Knox, Ed was practicing in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where he was in-house counsel for a firm specializing in property, casualty, surety and professional liability insurance.
Kate Harper Receives 2006 Citizen of the Year Award
Kate Harper was honored as the recipient of Lower Gwynedd Township's2006 Citizen of the Year Award at its 10th Annual Volunteer Appreciate Banquet Thursday, November 16, 2006.
June, 2006
George M. Riter, a partner in the Estate, Tax and Corporate group of Timoney Knox, LLP,has beennamed by Philadelphia Magazine as one of Pennsylvania's SUPER LAWYERS. He was chosen as one of the State's top estate planning and probate attorneys.
Mr. Riter has lectured on succession planning for business owners, limited liability companies, trusts and real estate trusts. He helps families plan for the futures of family members with disabilities and the recovery of damages form personal injury litigation.
Ambler Gazette , January 4, 2006
Thomas J. Timoney, a partner who has been with the firm for 55 years, received the MONTCO Chamber of Commerce's 33rd Outstanding Citizen Award at recent ceremonies at Presidential Caterers in Norristown.
Timoney, the father of nine, has been a director of the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association since 1957. He is a founding member of the Rotary Club of Springfield, has served on the board of trustees of the Artman Home in Ambler and, for many years, was solicitor for Lower Gwynedd Township and the Springfield School District.
He is a member of the Montgomery and Pennsylvania bar associations, a member of the Orphans' Court Rules Committee, and past president of the Montgomery County Estate Planning Council.
John P. Knox, Of Counsel at Timoney Knox, was honored for 50 years of service to the Montgomery Bar Association at the association's annual dinner held recently at the Philadelphia Country Club in Gladwyne.
Knox, who joined the firm in 1961, was a partner for 30 years. He is a past president of the Montgomery Bar Association and chaired its Senior Lawyers Committee. He is a member of the American and Pennsylvania bar associations and represented the PBA on a legislative task force of the Pennsylvania Legislature revising the Pennsylvania Municipalities Code. He chaired the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Section on Revisions to Pennsylvania, and served on the Montgomery County Legal Aid Board and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Legal Aid Task Force for Consolidation of Services and Financing.
In addition to serving as chairman of the Upper Dublin Township Zoning HearingBoard and the Upper Dublin Township Public Library Board of Directors, Knox is an active member of Habitat for Humanity International. He has participated in numerous construction projects, both locally and around the country; and frequently speaks to community groups and organizations about the program.
Lawyers at Timoney Knox, LLP successfully argue matter before PA Supreme Court
Two lawyers at Timoney Knox, LLP in Fort Washington successfully argued a matter before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently that could have resulted in substantial increases in costs for businesses in the Commonwealth.
In a decision Sept. 28, the court reversed a Commonwealth Court ruling involving 1996 amendments to the Pennsylvania Act relating to the calculation of an injured worker's average weekly wage, the basis upon which compensation benefits are determined.
Representing the Dana Corporation, an automotive parts and components manufacturer headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, Timoney Knox partner argued that the lower court misinterpreted the language and intent of the amendments, resulting in benefit awards considerably higher than the Legislature intended.
The matter focused on workers who, although continuously employed during a one-year period prior to the date of injury, were laid off or not earning wages for numerous weeks in that year. Reno and Crisci maintained that the intent of the Legislature was to view injured workers' earning histories over the course of a year to give a realistic estimate of their wages, not to focus on projected earnings at the time of their injuries. The latter, they argued, would result in an artificially high wage and benefit rate not representative of the workers' yearly gross incomes.
The matter affects employers inareas such as construction and manufacturing where workers are paid hourly and work availability is cyclical. If the Supreme Court had upheld the lower court's ruling, costs for these employers would have increased substantially, the lawyers maintained. "We believe the decision is a reaffirmation of the Legislature's purpose and intent when it amended the Act in 1996 to lower the cost of doing business in the Commonwealth," said Reno, who, before joining the firm in 1989, was regional counsel for the Pennsylvania Bureau. "The Supreme Court issued a thoughtful and well-reasoned decision which reviewed the legislative intent and balanced it with the humanitarian goals of the Workers Compensation Act."
