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Meet The Faculty
Mark Harley Esq.
Mr. Harley is a partner at Fox Rothschild LLP and has represented individuals and businesses throughout the country in all areas of immigration law for more than a decade. A former Congressional aide whose focus was constituent service, he knows how to work with the U.S. Government to solve complex immigration issues. Prior to joining Fox Rothschild, Mr. Harley was a name partner at a boutique immigration law firm in Pittsburgh. He was also previously a law clerk for the late T. Modibo Ocran, Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and professor of law at the University of Akron, Ohio. Active in community issues, he has trained pro bono lawyers to represent foreign nationals, volunteered to provide pro bono advice as part of the City of Pittsburgh’s Citizenship Day efforts & Served as a juror for high school mock trial competitions. Mr. Harley has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star in immigration law (2012-2013). He received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Geneva College in 2001, and a J.D. from University of Akron School of Law in 2004.
Roman Petyk Esq.
Mr. Petyk, a child of World War II refuges, was born and raised in Philadelphia where he graduated from Central High School (227) and earned his B.A. degree in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1986, he earned a JD from Northeastern University Law School in Boston. Following 8 years in private practice, Mr. Petyk joined the Office of the General Counsel at the University of Pennsylvania where for 27 years he served as Associate General Counsel and was UPenn’s transactional attorney responsible for major commercial contracts, particularly in regard to real estate, construction and energy matters. Mr. Petyk is a founding member of the Higher Education Real Estate Lawyers organization (HEREL). From 2003 through 2017, he chaired the HEREL Steering Committee and served as convener for HEREL’s annual conferences, including the organization’s inaugural conference at UPenn in 2003, and then again in 2014 and 2017. Mr. Petyk is heavily engaged with the region’s Ukrainian-American community. Since 2014 he has been Board Chair at Ukrainian Selfreliance Federal Credit Union (“UKRFCU”) a 12,000 member, $415,000,000 institution with 5 branches in the region. He also chairs the Ukrainian Community Foundation of Philadelphia (UCFP) – a charity established and largely funded by the Credit Union. UKRFCU and UCFP share a dual vision of enabling its members to achieve financial security while also supporting the institutions that promote the social cohesion of the local Ukrainian-American Community. Mr. Petyk actively promotes his community’s political engagement through political fundraising and direct advocacy in Washington, DC and locally.
Theodore J. Murphy Esq.
Mr. Murphy has been involved with Immigration matters since 1993. He is a member of AILA and the Chester County, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. He was an adjunct professor at The Beasley School of Law, Temple University. He is a frequent lecturer on immigration matters. Ted has been on the faculty at the National AILA Conference, several state-wide CLE presentations as a faculty member for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and many CLE presentations with the Philadelphia AILA Chapter. He conducts multiple CLE presentations regularly in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Ted is an active member and Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Immigration Committee and Chair of the Chester County Bar Association Immigration Section. Mr. Murphy began his legal career as a solo attorney, winning a number of notable matters before joining the former INS as a trial attorney at the detention facility in York, Pennsylvania. He served with the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security from May 1997 until October 2007. During this time, he worked as an assistant Chief Counsel, advisor to the Joint Terrorism Task Force in Philadelphia, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney at U.S. Attorney Office in Philadelphia, and as a member of the ICE National Security Law Division in Washington, D.C. Mr. Murphy is a former paratrooper who served in the 82nd Airborne Division.