Mr. Todd retired from United States Steel Corporation in 2007 as Vice President-Law and Environmental Affairs. Prior to joining U. S. Steel in 1976, he was on active duty with the U.S. Army (JAGC) and retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel in 1996. He was a member of the Supreme Court Disciplinary from 2008 to 2014 and served as co-chair. Mr. Todd received his B.S. from Ohio State University in 1967, his J.D. from Valparaiso University School of Law in 1970, and his LL.M. from University of Virginia Law School in 1976.

Richard A.J. Prebil, Esq., is Supervising Attorney of the Veterans Advocacy Project at Legal Aid of Southeastern PA, which he helped establish in mid‐2020. The unit provides representation, advice, and outreach to veterans, specifically those who are unhoused, at risk of becoming unhoused, income insecure, and those living with disabilities. Richard primarily practices in the areas of VA benefits, discharge upgrades, and social security. Through collaborations with other legal and social service agencies, Richard has helped to grow the Veterans Unit at LASP to serve veterans in twenty counties throughout Pennsylvania. As a result of the growth of the Unit, as of August 2025, LASP has been able to assist in obtaining over $5 million in back benefits for veterans and their families, and over $106 million dollars in increased estimated lifetime income. As a result of his advocacy work within the veteran community, Richard was invited to join and serves on U.S. Representative Madeline Dean’s Veterans Advisory Panel. When he joined LASP in 2019, Richard, based in the Chester, Delaware County, office, represented individuals in landlord/tenant, subsidized housing, child custody, public benefits, and unemployment compensation matters. Prior to joining Legal Aid, Richard was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at a non-profit in Philadelphia where he represented veterans, current military personnel, and their families, in the areas of veterans benefits, discharge upgrades, and Chapter 7 bankruptcies, in PA, NJ, and DE. During law school, he worked with many veteran and legal service organizations from Minneapolis to Chicago to Philadelphia. He received his bachelors degree from the University of Illinois Springfield and graduated from the Villanova University Charles Widger Law School (where he was awarded the Dorothy Day Award for Pro Bono Service, the Philadelphia Bar Association’s 2017 Eve Biskind Klothen Award for Pro Bono Service to the Community, and the American Bar Association Commission on Homelessness and Poverty’s 2015 John J. Curtin, Jr. Justice Fund Legal Fellowship). In addition to his role at Legal Aid, Richard is an adjunct professor at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, teaching a course he created entitled, “Representing Veterans in Administrative Practice: A Substantive & Practical Introduction to Veterans Law.” Richard has spoken, and written, nationally, on the areas of access to justice (especially in administrative agencies), the impact and importance of legal services for those who are unhoused or living at or below the poverty level, trauma and trauma-informed advocacy, and best practices for impactful partnerships. He received the Delaware County Bar Association’s Illumination Award in 2024, the PA Legal Aid Network’s Emerging Excellence in Advocacy Award in 2025, and was recognized by the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2025 for his work advocating for veterans. Richard is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is an accredited attorney with the US Department of Veterans Affairs. He is also licensed to practice before the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the US Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

The Honorable Lisa M. Grayson is currently the Register of Wills and Clerk of the Orphans’ Court for Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.  She recently retired after serving in the United States Air Force and Pennsylvania Air National Guard as a Judge Advocate General (JAG) attaining the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.  Prior to taking office in 2014, Ms. Grayson was a staff attorney for the United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania, concentrating on death penalty and pro se cases. Prior to working for the Court, Ms. Grayson was in private practice, handling diverse matters in civil, criminal, and orphans’ court matters focusing on wills & probate, real estate, family, dependency, municipal, and mental health law.  Ms. Grayson is an active member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, currently the co-chair of the Military and Veterans Affairs committee and Cumberland County Bar Association, currently serving as a director of the board.  Ms. Grayson is a graduate of the Dickinson School of Law and Pennsylvania State University. 

Mr. Payne is a partner in the litigation department at White and Williams, LLP, in Philadelphia. He is also the immediate past chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee, chair of the Pro Bono Committee and co-chair of the Partners’ Compensation Committee. He primarily focuses his practice in the areas of insurance defense, bad faith, extra-contractual damages, disability and coverage matters. Mr. Payne is a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, selected as one of the Best Lawyers in America by Best Lawyers, and an AV Preeminent peer-rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell. He has over 35 years of experience representing insurance carriers and insureds in first- and third-party litigation matters. Mr. Payne has successfully defended wrongful death, extra-contractual damages, product liability, asbestos, toxic tort, environmental, mass tort, commercial auto, construction, insurance coverage, disability, ERISA and general liability cases. Prior to joining White and Williams, LLP, he managed an inhouse litigation office for a major insurance carrier. Mr. Payne is licensed to practice before all state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and Maryland, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He has written and lectured on bad faith, extra-contractual damages, civil litigation and uninsured and underinsured motorist issues. Mr. Payne is a past Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, a past Zone 1 Governor and Minority-At-Large Governor of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, past president of the Board of the Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network (PLAN), past president of the Conference of County Bar Leaders, past president of the Board of the Bethesda Project, a member of the Board of Directors of the Homeless Advocacy Project, a past co-president of the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group (PDLG) and a past president of the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel (PADC). He was recognized by the Legal Intelligencer as an “Unsung Hero” for his dedication and service to the pro bono community. Mr. Payne is the recipient of The Honorable William F. Hall Award, the Huey R. Burkett Service Award, the Multicultural Leadership Award, and most recently named Defense Attorney of the Year by the Pennsylvania Defense Institute. He was also named as one of the “Top 60 African American Attorneys in Philadelphia” by the Philadelphia Tribune. Mr. Payne has been selected to City & State Pennsylvania’s 2022 Law Power 100 (39) and City & States Philadelphia’s Power 100 (91) lists. He serves as a Judge Pro Tem for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. Mr. Payne received his B.A., cum laude, from Washington and Lee University and his J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he served as the president of the Student Bar Association.