Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin is pleased to announce that three of its attorneys have recently been named to the 2018 Top Attorneys List by Suburban Life Magazine. Jonathan Samel was named for Business Law; Bernadette Kearney was named for Real Estate and Land Use and Zoning; and Doug Zeiders was named for Family Law. The magazine “asked its readers for their perspective regarding the legal minds they rely on to help in matters ranging from adoptions to divorces, from business disputes to catastrophic injuries, and just about everything in between.”

Jonathan Samel chairs the Business/Tax, Estates & Trusts and Elder Law Departments of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin. For more than 30 years, he has successfully combined his practical experience in business law, estates, real estate law and financing matters with a detailed technical knowledge of tax law to assist clients around the Delaware Valley. His practice focuses on structuring and implementing business transactions and tax planning for closely held businesses and individuals. His work includes assisting clients with all legal and tax aspects of the formation and operation of various business entities, including proprietorships, partnerships, corporations, limited liability companies and joint venture and he regularly negotiates and structures the purchase and sale of businesses, including asset sales, stock sales, corporate reorganizations, and other similar arrangements.Jon has substantial experience in the area of estate and gift taxation and in drafting wills, trusts and other agreements which are designed to preserve wealth and minimize taxes. He is also the chair of the Firm’s Automobile Dealership Group which assists automobile dealers with the acquisition and sale of dealerships, franchise litigation, succession planning, real estate law, environmental issues, employee relations and other regulatory issues affecting automobile dealers. Jon is a member and past chairman of the Corporation, Banking and Business Law Committee of the Montgomery Bar Association. He is also a member of the Probate, Estates and Trusts Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and of the Montgomery County Estate Planning Council. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Delaware Valley Family Business Center. Jon received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester (B.A. 1974), and his law and Master’s degree in Tax Law from Temple University (J.D. 1978, LL.M. 1990).

Bernadette Kearney is a Principal of the firm. She has practiced real estate law for over seventeen years and is a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Zoning Department. Her areas of concentration include municipal, real estate, zoning and bankruptcy law matters. Bernadette has represented clients before municipalities, zoning hearing boards, the Bankruptcy Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Court of Common Pleas, and the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. She has also acted as solicitor to townships, zoning hearing boards and Uniform Construction Code Appeals Boards. Her clients include commercial and residential clients in land acquisitions and financings and lenders who finance commercial and residential developments. Bernadette was selected as a 2016 Top Attorney by Philadelphia Life Magazine in the area of Land Use & Zoning Law and Real Estate Law. She was named to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers List for Land Use/Zoning for the years 2014-2018. No more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by Super Lawyers each year. Prior to joining the firm, Bernadette served as a law clerk for The Honorable Emanuel A. Bertin of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. While attending Temple University School of Law in the evening, Bernadette worked full time for the Clerk’s Office of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania as a Case Administrator for Chief Bankruptcy Judge David A. Scholl. Bernadette is an active member of the Montgomery Bar Association (MBA), currently serving as the Vice Chair of the Real Estate Committee. She is also a past member of the Board of Directors of the MBA and past Chair of the Young Lawyer Section of the MBA. In addition, Bernadette is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Bernadette received her undergraduate degree from Temple University (B.A. 1990) in Journalism, summa cum laude, and her law degree, cum laude, from Temple’s School of Law in 1997.

Douglas I Zeiders chairs the Litigation Department of Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin and has been a member of the Department since originally joining the firm in August 1983. While Doug has a broad background in civil litigation, including personal injury and commercial litigation, Doug has concentrated his practice for many years in the area of domestic law including, but not limited to, divorce, division of property, custody and support. Given changes that have recently occurred in the practice of domestic law, which make practice in that area of law much more like other forms of civil litigation, Doug’s extensive civil litigation background gives him a significant advantage over practitioners with experience only in the area of domestic law. Doug is an active member of the Montgomery Bar Association’s Family Law Committee and has served as a special Master in Divorce for the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas. While Doug’s practice is located primarily in Montgomery County and Bucks County, he has handled domestic cases throughout the entire suburban Philadelphia area as well as in Lehigh County and Northampton County. A graduate of Dickinson College (B.A., 1980), Doug earned his law degree from Temple University School of Law (J.D., 1983).

Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin, Maxwell & Lupin is one of the leading law firms in Eastern Pennsylvania providing legal counsel to businesses, municipalities and individuals in such areas as business law, litigation, real estate matters, municipal law, trusts and estates, family law, criminal law and personal injury matters. The firm’s singular focus is on achieving the best possible result for its clients. For more information, please go to www.hrmml.com.