Siana Law is proud to welcome Rachel M. Sorokin to our legal team. Ms. Sorokin is a native of Bucks County and currently resides in, West Chester, PA. She is a graduate of Widener University Delaware School of Law and James Madison University, where she earned a BA in Philosophy and Religion with a Minor…
The importance of having an employee social media policy was at the forefront in a recent Commonwealth Court decision. In Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education v. PASSHE Officers Association, the Court was asked to decide whether the lack of such a policy would prevent an employer (Kutztown University) from terminating a campus patrol officer…
Siana Law congratulates Partners, Eric Brown and Michael Crotty, for being selected as top-rated lawyers by Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, this year. Well done, Eric and Mike! Get to know these outstanding members of our team.
Siana Law is proud to welcome James B. Halligan III to our team of Associate Attorneys. Mr. Halligan is a native of Havertown and currently resides in Upper Providence, PA. He is a graduate of Penn State University and Widener University School of Law. Mr. Halligan also completed a Master of Law (LLM) in Cyber…
Pennsylvania ranks 49th in the country in funding its state institutions of higher learning and 48th in affordability. In an effort to improve these statistics, Governor Shapiro has recently proposed a 15% funding increase for Pennsylvania’s state institutions of higher learning, including all fifteen (15) of the state’s community colleges. The interesting component of this…
The Education Clause of our Commonwealth’s Constitution imposes a requirement which, given current economic climate consisting of inflation and increase in wages, any school official would call onerous. Under the Education Clause, the Commonwealth must “provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public education to serve the needs of…
Siana Law is proud to welcome Demetrios S. Mikelis, Esquire to our team of Associate Attorneys. Demetrios (James) S. Mikelis is a native of New Jersey and currently resides in Bryn Mawr, PA. Mr. Mikelis is a graduate of Villanova University and Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law. Mr. Mikelis comes from a long…
In November 2019, Governor Wolf signed into legislation the ninth exception to governmental immunity, titled the Sexual Abuse exception, which imposes liability on local agencies for the following sexual crimes against victims under age 18: trafficking individuals, sexual involuntary servitude, rape, statutory sexual assaults, involuntary deviate sexual assault, institutional sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault, and…
The firm is proud to congratulate Partner, Andrew M. Rongaus, for his well deserved achievement as a 2022 Vista Leadership Megastar. The article, featured on the VISTA Today website, describes this recently launched initiative as a collaboration with the Chester County Council, Boy Scouts of America, “For years, the Chester County Council hosted its Distinguished…
Where a public body essentially acts as a pass-through of funds used on a construction project, the “economic reality” of the transaction is that the work is not “public work” under the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act. In Ursinus College v. Prevailing Wage Appeals Bd., Ursinus challenged a Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Appeals Board’s decision that a…