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Ronald L. Greenblatt, the managing partner of Greenblatt, Pierce, Funt & Flores, LLC., is one of the most respected and sought after attorneys in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Mr. Greenblatt has successfully litigated over 1,000 criminal trials on charges ranging from homicide, homicide by vehicle, sexual assault, serious drug offenses, fraud and other white collar crimes, Internet crimes, DUI, DWI, driving under the influence, including those involving the insanity defense. After years of experience, Mr. Greenblatt knows the criminal justice system from the inside-out–including the judges, prosecutors, police and investigators associated with his cases. He regularly lectures to his fellow attorneys and judges on both trial technique and changes in the law. Attorneys throughout the region refer their clients to him with confidence–due to both his outstanding track record and his tireless work ethic.. Since the age of 20, Mr. Greenblatt has sought to protect the rights of men and women. In 1981, he became one of the youngest union shop stewards in U.S. history when he was elected union shop steward for New Jersey Restaurant Local 54 (now Local 33). In this position, he fought grievances brought against his fellow union members and filed grievances on behalf of union members. Upon his graduation from law school, Mr. Greenblatt joined the Philadelphia Public Defenders Office. There, he handled the defense and trials of hundreds of accused men and women and was one of only two lawyers appointed to the prestigious Special Defense Unit (SDU). While in this unit, he received specialized training in forensics, including accident reconstruction, DNA and fingerprint training, ballistic training, and training in the use of forensic psychiatry and psychology in the defense of criminal cases–all of which he relies on today to build his cases. This is focused training that very few other lawyers have. He has also received training in media relations in connection with successfully trying some of the area’s highest profile cases.. In addition to managing his criminal practice, Mr. Greenblatt co-manages the firm’s extensive civil rights practice with Patricia Pierce. They have handled claims of police misconduct that have resulted in wrongful arrest, prosecution, and incarceration as well as traumatic injury of their clients. Mr. Greenblatt and Ms. Pierce have successfully represented GPEFF’s clients in state and federal court actions that have resulted in recoveries of millions of dollars. Additionally, Mr. Greenblatt works with Ms. Pierce on her class action and large employment discrimination cases.. Today, after 25 years of practice, Mr. Greenblatt is one of the leaders of the criminal defense bar in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey and he is highly engaged in service to the profession. He is the immediate past chairperson of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and still serves on its Executive Committee. He is a founding member and Master of the Philadelphia Inn of Criminal Court, where he is on the Executive Committee, Planning Committee and serves as Secretary of the Inn. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Defender Association of Philadelphia Alumni Association and an active member of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, the Philadelphia Bar Association and the Camden County Bar Association.. He has been given the prestigious AV rating by the Martindale-Hubbel ratings service. This rating means that he is one of the preeminent lawyers in his field as determined by lawyers and judges in the criminal law field. He has also been named to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers List. However, probably even more telling about his expertise, Mr. Greenblatt is regularly asked to lecture to judges as well as to other criminal defense lawyers, new prosecutors and even Rutgers and Temple law students on adult and juvenile criminal law subjects. A graduate of Rutgers University School of Law, Mr. Greenblatt also received his B.A. from Rutger’s University where he majored in Economics and minored in Accounting.

Patricia V. Pierce is a partner in the Philadelphia based law firm of Greenblatt Pierce Funt & Flores, LLC (GPFF). Ms. Pierce heads the Employment Law Practice at the firm and serves as a principal in the firm’s Corporate Investigations practice. Ms. Pierce has represented individuals and groups of workers who have suffered employment discrimination and workplace harassment litigating individual and class action employment lawsuits, as well as employee benefits cases in state and federal courts in California, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Tennessee, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Her practice includes multi-party wage and hour matters and Consumer Fraud litigation. Ms. Pierce frequently provides advice to executives in negotiating employment contracts and in managing sensitive trade secret and restrictive covenant/non-compete issues.. In addition, Ms. Pierce is regularly engaged by individuals, small businesses and nonprofit corporations to provide advice and counsel in litigation avoidance and the defense of all types of employment actions, including the defense of federal and state discrimination claims, whistleblower and wrongful discharge matters, and contract disputes. In her role as counselor, Ms. Pierce advises corporate clients on a host of personnel related matters including workplace policies and procedures, performance management best practices, including discipline and termination policies and decisions, and the conduct and content of supervisory training.. In addition to building on-going relationships with individual and corporate clients, Ms. Pierce has been sought out by colleagues to conduct independent in-house investigations of claims of discrimination as well as corporate malfeasance and fraud. Recently, Ms. Pierce has been engaged by insurance companies and law firms to provide expert advice and testimony on claims of attorney malpractice employment/EEO best practices, and has served as a neutral mediator.. Throughout her forty year career, Ms. Pierce has tried hundreds of matters to verdict, including jury and bench trials and has been successful in handling every kind of employment litigation matter including age, gender, hostile work environment, race, national origin and religious discrimination matters as well as claims brought by whistleblowers under state and federal laws.. In addition to managing her individual and class employment litigation practice, Ms. Pierce has teamed with GPFF’s managing partner, Ron Greenblatt, to co-manage the firm’s extensive civil rights practice handling claims of police misconduct that have resulted in wrongful arrest, prosecution and incarceration as well has traumatic injury. Since joining GPFF in 2011, Ms. Pierce and Mr. Greenblatt have successfully represented GPFF’s clients in state and federal court actions that have resulted in recoveries of millions of dollars.. Ms. Pierce has been admitted as a Fellow of the prestigious American Bar Association’s College of Labor & Employment attorneys. Ms. Pierce was honored by her alma mater, Rutgers School of Law-Camden’s Black Law Students Association with the “Champions for Social Justice and Equality Award. Ms. Pierce has been listed each year among the Best Lawyers of America since 1995. In 2013 Best Lawyers named Ms. Pierce its “Attorney of the Year” in the practice area of Employment-Individuals. Ms. Pierce has consistently been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer since 2004 and has repeatedly been named one of Pennsylvania’s Top 50 Women Lawyers. She has also earned the preeminent AV rating from Martindale-Hubell for both her legal ability and ethical standards. Ms. Pierce has lectured extensively on issues of attorney ethics and has served as a Senior Disciplinary Committee Member for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.. Ms. Pierce is a frequent author and lecturer for the ABA-ALI Continuing Legal Education Program; the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the National Employment Lawyers Association where she served on NELA’s 2011-2012 Convention Committees and continues to act as a moderator and presenter. Ms. Pierce was a Visiting Professor of Law at Santa Clara University in the mid-1990s where she founded an Employment Law Clinic and taught Evidence. In Philadelphia, Ms. Pierce has served as an Adjunct Professor at Temple’s Beasley School of Law and taught law students in Temple’s Introduction to Trial Advocacy and Advanced Trial Advocacy programs as well as practitioners in Temple’s prestigious LLM Trial Advocacy program. Ms. Pierce also taught Employment Law Practice and Procedure at Rutgers School of Law, her alma mater and taught trial advocacy for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, which named her as a distinguished faculty member. Ms. Pierce has published a law review article which analyzed the pedagogical experience of an innovative clinical program she spearheaded : The Santa Clara Experiment: A New Fee-Generating Model for Clinical Legal Education, with Ridolfi, 3 CLINICAL LAW REVIEW 439-470 (1997). Ms. Pierce earned her bachelor’s degree from Rutgers, with High Honors and Distinction in Political Science and a juris doctor from Rutgers School of Law with High Honors where she was a 1974 Rutgers Community Scholar.

James A. Funt is a founding partner at Greenblatt, Pierce, Funt & Flores, specializing in blue collar and white collar criminal defense, civil rights, and plaintiff’s side employment discrimination matters.. Mr. Funt is currently the 2015 Co-Chair of the Criminal Justice Section(CJS) of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He also serves on the Philadelphia Bar Association Board of Governors as well as the Association’s Commission of Judicial Selection and Retention. He has successfully tried thousands of criminal cases before judges and juries in state and federal courts in New Jersey and Pennsylvania ranging from complex homicides to kidnappings, aggravated assaults, robberies, sexual assaults, state and federal drug cases, and white collar crimes including sexual-cyber-crimes. His practice includes adult and Juvenile matters. He often handles high profile matters and understands how to delicately and deftly handle the press in the best interest of his clients. His clients have included police officers, fire fighters, attorneys, doctors, sports figures as well other professionals. Mr. Funt has also tried numerous civil rights cases alleging claims of excessive force and wrongful arrest, and has successfully represented clients in first amendment issues and employment discrimination cases such as age, race, gender, whistle blowing and sexual orientation claims.. Contacts in the Hispanic Community. Although an accomplished and fearless litigator in the courtroom for all of his clients, Mr. Funt takes particular pride in always fighting for the “little guy”. He began advocating for workers’ rights while living in Mexico in the early 1990’s where he spearheaded a variety of humanitarian, environmental and development projects. That experience left an indelible mark on him. Fluent in Spanish, he has developed a large Hispanic clientele in the tri-state region representing people from Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala, The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, and Panama and is sensitive to the challenges that the Latino population often face in the United States.. Criminal, Civil Rights, Employment Expertise & Union Representation. Mr. Funt has a distinguished and diversified background as a complex civil and criminal trial attorney. After returning from Mexico, he began his legal career in 1994 as a trial lawyer with the Defender Association of Philadelphia where he represented indigent defendants in hundreds of serious criminal cases. While there he was selected to investigate and track cases involving allegations of police abuse and corruption and was involved in exposing the civil liberty abuses by the 39th district police.. In 1997 Mr. Funt was recruited to join the law firm of Willig, Williams, and Davidson, the area’s premier labor and employment firm where he represented unions and individual plaintiffs on complex labor and employment cases. There he represented individuals in grievances and arbitrations on job related issues, assisted the Erie and Philadelphia Fire Fighters with their Interest Arbitration and contract negotiations, and secured large monetary awards on behalf of individuals in State and Federal Court whose civil liberties had been violated. From 2000-2002 Mr. Funt served as in-house counsel for the firm’s numerous Union clients advocating on behalf of individual Union members accused of criminal conduct.. In 2002 Mr. Funt partnered with Ronald Greenblatt, Esquire launching Greenblatt & Funt, (the precursor to GPFF); a dynamic criminal defense firm dedicated to the zealous representation of working class families. He continues to maintain strong ties with the union movement representing the Philadelphia Fire Fighters, Bakery Workers, Probation Officers, Steel & Rubber Workers, Teamsters, Postal Workers, Teachers, Septa workers, Food and Commercial Workers Painters, Glaziers and Roofers to name a few throughout the tri-state region. He won a four million dollar jury verdict with fellow partner Patricia Pierce, Esquire against the University of Pennsylvania representing a special needs dentist in a wrongful discharge contract claim.. High Publicity Cases and the Media. From 2002-the present, Mr. Funt has been involved in some of the area’s most highly publicized cases and is keenly aware of the value and hazards of press cases. He understands that often it is just as important to defend a client’s reputation in the court of public opinion as well as the courtroom, and will use every tool at his disposal to ensure that his clients receive fair treatment throughout their ordeal. As such, he is often sought out by the media to address current events and constitutional matters such as the recent 50th anniversary of Gideon vs. Wainwright the verdict in the Travon Martin case, the Superior Court reversal of the Monsignor Lynn Child abuse matter as well as recent Supreme court rulings and their applicability to citizens in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.. Difficult Cases. Mr. Funt does not shy away from the difficult or unpopular case. He understands acutely that there are always two sides to every story and that it is his duty and obligation to fully represent his client so the complete truth can be revealed. This is particularly true in sexual assault and homicide cases where the media often convicts an individual at the moment he or she is arrested. Because the consequences for sexual assault convictions are so severe and draconian with the advent of SORNA (the federal equivalent of Megan’s Law) more often than not these matters must be fully litigated and brought before a jury. Juries are where Mr. Funt shines. No one investigates cases as thoroughly as he does and no has been more successful in arguing his clients’ innocence.

I have extensive experience in all matters related to estate planning, probate, and elder law, and related issues such as real estate litigation and guardianships. I have worked at a senior citizen's law center, was awarded a Presidential internship, and have worked in large law firms and as a solo legal practitioner. I use this experience and education to assist clients prepare for their future and the future of their families. At the Law Office of Adam S. Bernick, we provide personal attention and high quality legal representation.

I handle every case personally.. I have a record of success defending against charges from murder to simple drug possession in state and federal court.. Let me fight for you.. Lauren A. Wimmer, Philadelphia criminal defense attorney, is a former Judicial Clerk in. the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Trial Division - Homicide. Years of. experience working in the legal system have allowed her to understand the tactics. police and prosecutors use and how to take their cases apart. Ms. Wimmer is a. relentless advocate for every client of Wimmer Criminal Defense and has a record of. success defending against all levels of criminal charges.. Ms. Wimmer is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She is an. active member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Association of Criminal. Defense Lawyers, and the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey.. Ms. Wimmer is a graduate of Rutgers University School of Law - Camden. She was the. Managing Articles Editor of the Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy, as well as the. 2014 recipient of the National Association of Women Lawyers Award, presented to the. student who, through academic achievement, motivation, tenacity, and drive, shows. promise to contribute to the advancement of women in the legal community and in. society.

I am a seasoned criminal defense and commercial litigation attorney with vast experience in defending both individuals and companies facing criminal investigations and indictments. I have been involved in more than 100 criminal investigations in Pennsylvania and 20 trials in courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.For white collar clients, I handle bail, change of plea hearings, motions and sentencing hearings in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. When federal or state government investigates a business or individual client, I defend those clients against any possible litigation that results from investigations.. In the last 20 years, I represented corporate and individual clients in numerous governmental investigations that largely resulted in no-prosecution decisions by the DOJ. During this time, I have tried more than 20 lengthy and complex federal jury trials where more often than not, the jury trials resulted in total or partial not-guilty verdicts in the criminal cases and have always resulted in defense verdicts following the antitrust civil trials.

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Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.

Experienced L attorney serving clients in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.