Associate
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Joanne concentrates her practice in the areas of Business Law, Business Transactions, Contracts, Banking and Finance and Consumer Product Safety. She has represented a variety of financial institutions, privately held businesses, physician practices, and nonprofit entities in a wide range of business transactions including stock and asset acquisitions, affiliations, financing and loan restructuring, software license agreements, nondisclosure agreements, employment contracts and leasing transactions.

Additionally, she has experience in real estate and health care transactions, physician practice acquisitions, corporate law, contracts, commercial and public finance transactions, as well as the formation and structuring of new business entities including corporations, limited liability companies, and partnerships. She regularly counsels clients on legal developemnts in the area of Consumer Product Safety.

Joanne coordinates the publication of the Firm’s quarterly Business Law Advisor, lectures on various business law topics, and has published articles on topics such as the Consumer Product Safety Information Act, Software Licensing and Business Law.  She currently serves on the Boards of the Bucks County Symphony Society and the Bucks County Children's Museum and is an active volunteer with Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, where she has been a leader/advisor since 2000.

Bar Admissions:

Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Education:

Temple University School of Law, cum laude, 1990
St. Joseph’s University, B.S., cum laude, 1983

Professional Memberships:

American Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Association, Bucks County Bar Association (Co-founder and Past Co-Chair of its Business Law Section, Chair of its Women Lawyers Division)
B2B Professional Business Alliance

Published Works, Editorial & Presentation Experience

Seminars:
Buying and Selling a Business
Legal Issues and Your Business
Recent Changes in the Pennsylvania Realty Transfer Tax Regulations
 
Articles:
Software License Agreements – Beware of Hidden Code
Lead and Testing Under the CPSIA: What Toymakers Need to Know About Testing, Tracking and Content Limits
Are We Having Fun Yet? The Consumer Product Safety Information Act- A Year In Review
Managing Your Bank Relationship - What To Do If You See Trouble Ahead

Civic Associations:

Board Member, the Bucks County Symphony Society
Board Member, Bucks County Children's Museum
Member, Heritage Conservancy Business Membership Committee
Volunteer Leader/Advisor, Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania
Member, the B2B Professional Business Alliance