Sudhir R. Patel, with Fanelli, Evans & Pate, P.C., has distinguished himself both inside and outside courtrooms across Pennsylvania. He is one of a handful of trial lawyers who have secured multiple million dollar-plus civil verdicts and settlements. Sud’s accomplishments as a skilled trial lawyer are highlighted by several million-dollar verdicts in Schuylkill and Berks County medical malpractice cases. He has also successfully litigated numerous construction cases to verdict. Beyond trial verdicts, year-after-year, he has secured numerous settlements for injured victims in car crash, truck crash, medical malpractice and nursing home neglect cases. His successes as a civil trial lawyer have earned him memberships in the national Million Dollar and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Outside the courtroom, Sud has served as the President of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ), a statewide organization made up of nearly 2,000 trial lawyers who focus on representing injured victims. He has been a long-time member of the PAJ’s Board of Governors and Executive Committee, and is currently a Trustee for LAWPAC, PAJ’s political action committee. Sud has been the only lawyer from Schuylkill County to serve a President of PAJ. He has also lectured numerous times at continuing education seminars for PAJ and other trial lawyer organizations. Sud has been a long-standing member of the American Association for Justice and has also moderated continuing education programs for AAJ and been a featured speaker at AAJ’s annual summer conference in Denver, Colorado. Local to Schuylkill County, Sud has served as the President of the Schuylkill County Bar Association, along with being a Board of Directors member. He has organized annual coat drives and canned food drives for the Schuylkill County Bar Association. Over a decade ago, he helped start the Schuylkill County Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution program, through which dozens of civil cases have been resolved expeditiously and in a most cost- effective manner through mediation and arbitration. For close to a decade now, Sud has also served as a mediator for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. In his role as a Mediator for the Federal Court system, Sud has successfully helped resolve numerous civil cases for litigants throughout eastern and central Pennsylvania. Sud has been selected privately as a mediator, through which he has resolved several cases in excess of $1 million dollars and has quickly gained the trust and respect of trial lawyers representing injured victims as well as insurance companies. Sud has served as the Solicitor/Lawyer for the Blue Mountain School District, the Schuylkill County Municipal Authority, the Schuylkill County Controller’s Office, and several other boroughs and municipalities. He has also been hired as special counsel by several local school districts, especially in the area of construction litigation. He has been a frequent lecturer at numerous school districts throughout Schuylkill County, where his lectures have focused on issues ranging from teenage distracted driving to effective public speaking and the dangers of social media misuse. Year-after-year, his charitable generosity individually and through the Firm benefits numerous police departments, volunteer fire fighter organizations, numerous youth sports teams/leagues, and a wide array of charitable causes and organizations. Sud has been instrumental in the growth of Fanelli, Evans & Patel, which now runs offices in Schuylkill, Northumberland and Berks Counties.

Mr. Marzzacco is the sole owner of Marzzacco Niven & Associates, in Harrisburg. The firm provides representation in Personal Injury, Workers’ Compensation, Social Security Disability, Employment Discrimination and Civil Rights matters throughout Pennsylvania. Mr. Marzzacco’s practice is concentrated in automobile, motorcycle and trucking case litigation, including Wrongful Death and Survival actions. He also represents persons seriously injured or killed in premises liability cases, work accidents, dangerous or defective product cases and civil rights matters. Mr. Marzzacco was rated by his peers as “The Best Lawyers in America” from 2017 to present and named in “Super Lawyers” every year since 2017 as well. He has lectured at Continuing Legal Education seminars for PBI, PAJ and others, presenting on various topics and has written on a variety of personal injury law, automobile law and automobile insurance issues for the Legal Intelligencer and other publications. Marzzacco is a member of several Trial Lawyers’ groups, including the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ), where he currently serves on the Middle District Board of Governors; the American Association for Justice (AAJ), as a member of the Trucking Litigation Group; and the Dauphin and Cumberland County Bar Associations, having served on the Board of Directors in Dauphin County from 2019-2020 and currently serving as the CLE Board Chairperson. Mr. Marzzacco has taught trial advocacy at Widener University School of Law’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP) from 2001 to present and has coached trial teams for Widener University’s Mock Trial program as well. Marzzacco also served on the law school’s Dean’s Advisory Committee from 2021 to 2023.

Ms. McConnell is an Partner at Summers, McDonnell, Hudock, Guthrie & Rauch, PC. She specializes in complex litigation, with a focus on UM/UIM coverage, transportation defense, premises liability, construction and products liability. Ms. McConnell has tried multiple jury cases to verdict throughout Central Pennsylvania. She has also appeared before the Pennsylvania appellate courts. Ms. McConnell earned her law degree from the Penn State Dickinson School of Law in 2011 and her B.A. from Drexel University in 2008.

Ms. Winokur is Professional Responsibility Counsel at Cozen O’Connor.  She advises clients on risk management, ethics, and professional responsibility issues arising within their law firms and practices. Deborah also works with stakeholders within the firm to advise on ethical aspects of pending matters and to assure adherence to ethical standards and compliance with firm policies. In addition, she advises firm management on lateral recruitment and integration. Deborah handles pro bono representations, including representing clients through the Support Center for Child Advocates, Defender Association of Philadelphia, Campaign for Working Families Tax Clinic, Volunteers for the Indigent Program and Homeless Advocacy Project. She is a lecturer in law and teaches a course in Professional Responsibility and Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Deborah earned her bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania and her law degree from Columbia University School of Law. She is Co-chair of the Professional Responsibility Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association and serves on the Philadelphia Bar Association Professional Guidance Committee. She also serves on the Pennsylvania Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Pennsylvania Bar Association Professional Liability Committee, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Civility in the Professional Committee.

Mr. Dilsheimer is a partner and trial attorney at Stampone O’Brien Dilsheimer Law in Cheltenham. Before that, he practiced most recently with Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky.  Mr. Dilsheimer has vast experience handling complex, catastrophic injury cases in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, as well as other locations around the country. He concentrates his practice on major, catastrophic injury litigation. He has worked on the settlement and trial of several multi-million dollar cases and has a wide range of experience in cases involving traumatic brain injury, defective products, construction accidents, FELA, premises liability, medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, subrogation matters, and commercial litigation.  Mr. Dilsheimer’s successful verdict in a Monroe County, PA jury trial was reported by The National Law Journal as one of the “Top PA Verdicts of 2010” in the January 2010 edition of Verdict Search National. The trial involved a head-on automobile accident. He graduated magna cum laude from the Temple University Beasley School of Law in 1992.  Mr. Dilsheimer was Managing Editor of the Temple Law Review.  He graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1988. Mr. Dilsheimer does pro-bono work for the Gift of Life, which coordinates organ donation and transplantation in the tri-state area.

Tim’s practice includes all aspects of civil litigation, including personal injury and commercial/business lawsuits. Tim has experience litigating cases in Pennsylvania state and federal courts. As a result of his successes, Tim has been named to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star list. This distinction is given to lawyers under 40 and to no more than 2.5% of lawyers in the state. Tim is active in the Montgomery and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. He has been a member of the Montgomery Bar Association’s Leadership Academy and the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Bar Leadership Institute. He is Co-Chair of the Montgomery Bar Association’s Pro Bono, Access to Justice, and Community Service Committee. He also serves as Education Liaison to the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Civil Litigation Section. In recognition of his public service, Tim was awarded the Montgomery Bar Association’s 2022 Henry Stuckert Miller Public Service Award. Tim graduated from Temple University Law School in 2010, where he was in the top twenty-five percent of his class and served as a staff editor on the Temple Journal of Science, Technology, and Environmental Law. While in law school, Tim interned for Judges Abramson and Carrafiello in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, volunteered at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, and spent a semester as an intern with the Claims Unit of the Philadelphia Law Department. As an undergraduate, Tim studied double bass performance at Temple University, where he graduated summa cum laude. When Tim is not practicing law, he likes to listen to music, spend time with his family, and study the Korean language. He serves on the board of directors for the Cheltenham Center for the Arts and on the Whitpain Township Shade Tree Commission.

Mr. Silberblatt is a partner with the Pittsburgh law firm of Silberblatt Mermelstein, P.C. He received his B.A., cum laude, from Allegheny College in 1977 and his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1980 where he served on the Law Review. He is Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Civil Trial Advocate. Mr. Silberblatt concentrates his practice in civil litigation with a particular emphasis on lawyers’ professional liability matters. He served as the 128th President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association from 2022-2023.  He has served two terms on the Board of Governors of the Allegheny County Bar Association, and he is a Fellow of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, having also served on its Board of Governors. Mr. Silberblatt has served as Chair of both the Civil Litigation Section of the Allegheny County Bar Association and the Civil Litigation Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and as a Director of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation. He was the PBA Zone 12 Governor from 2015 to 2018 and is a member of the PBA House of Delegates and represents the PBA on the American Bar Association House of Delegates. He is the Immediate Past Chair of the PBA Lawyers Professional Liability Committee, an appointed member of the PBA Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee, and a current member of council of the PBA Minority Bar Committee.  He served a six-year term as a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board, and he is a Hearing Committee Member for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.  He was appointed by the Supreme Court and currently serves on the Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Fairness. Most recently, he was appointed by the President of the ABA to its Taskforce to Combat Antisemitism.  He received PBA Special Achievement Awards in 2000 for his work in planning the PBA Civil Litigation Section’s Retreat and in 2004 for his work in planning and presenting malpractice avoidance programs for the Professional Liability Committee.  Jay was awarded the PBA President’s Award in 2002 for his efforts with Senate Bill 406 and Rule 1023.1 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure, in 2020 for his work on the PBA Covid-19 Task Force, and in 2023 for his work on the PBA’s Search and Transition Committee.  A third generation Pennsylvania lawyer, he is the author of numerous legal articles that have appeared in The Barrister, The Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, The Pennsylvania Law Weekly, The Pennsylvania Lawyer, The Pittsburgh Legal Journal, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, The Advocate, and Trial. Mr. Silberblatt has lectured for the Allegheny County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, and Minnesota Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company

Jonathan M. Huerta is a partner with the KingSpry Law Firm in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Concentrating his practice in the areas of litigation and education law, Huerta is chair of the firm’s Tax Assessment Appeals Group. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Middle and Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He is an active member of the Northampton County and the Pennsylvania Bar Associations. He recently completed a two year term as Zone 2 Governor for the PBA and is a member of the Minority Committee as well as co-chair of the Membership Development Subcommittee. Huerta is a member of the Board of Governors of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, serves on the board of the Cancer Support Community of the Lehigh Valley and is a frequent volunteer with the pro-bono legal clinic at the Bradbury Sullivan LGBT Community Center. Before joining KingSpry, Huerta was a law clerk for the Honorable Judge Emil Giordano at the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County and was an extern with the Honorable Renee Cohn Jubelirer at the Commonwealth Court. He earned his Juris Doctorate from Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin.

Judge Goldberg was appointed to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on October 31, 2008. He had previously served on the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas. Judge Goldberg’s career as a practicing attorney started at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office where he worked in both the trial and appellate divisions. He later joined the law firm of Cozen O’Connor, where his practice focused on commercial litigation. Judge Goldberg was eventually promoted to senior partner, and also served as the manager of Cozen’s Arson and Fraud Unit. Judge Goldberg returned to the public sector in 1997, serving as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania where he handled mostly white collar crime cases, both before the District Court and the United Stated Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Judge Goldberg is a graduate of Temple Law School (1986) where he was a member of Temple’s first trial team. He presently serves as an Adjunct Professor at Temple Law teaching federal law and civil/criminal advanced trial advocacy. Judge Goldberg has handled over one hundred patent cases as a visiting judge in the District of Delaware.

Amy Coco is a shareholder in the Pittsburgh firm of DiBella Weinheimer. For 30 years, she has focused her practice on Professional Responsibility. She represents lawyers, judges and law students; including in civil litigation matters, ethics, professional licensure and professional responsibility representation and counseling; risk management and law practice management counseling. She is the President Elect for the Allegheny County Bar Association and served six years as a Governor on the ACBA Board. She is the current chair of the ACBA’s Nominating Committee. She is a past Chair of the ACBA’s By-Law’s Committee for many years and was a past Chair of and is currently a Duty Officer for the ACBA’s Professional Ethics Committee. She also served on Council for the Solo and Small Firm Section and chaired subcommittees for Women in the Law Division. From May 2021 to May 2024, she served as the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Woman At Large Governor and from 2022 to 2024 she was Chair of the PBA’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion Team. She is Vice Chair of the PBA’s Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee. She is the Director of Pitt Law School’s Incubator program helping lawyers set up solo practices. She is also a Washington County and Philadelphia County Bar Association member and a member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. She frequently lectures and writes on issues related to lawyer’s professional liability, DEI and lawyer’s ethical responsibility and licensure matters. Ms. Coco is named in The Best Lawyers in America® for Professional Responsibility and Ethics. Ms. Coco has been named as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer annually since 2018 and was named a Top 50 Lawyer in Pittsburgh in 2022. She received her law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, magna cum laude, in 1994 and her B.A. in Journalism from Indiana University Bloomington, IN in 1989.

Ms. Coatsworth is a partner at Margolis Edelstein. She has litigated hundreds of motor vehicle, dealer fraud and lemon law cases from both the plaintiff and defense sides. Additionally, she concentrates her practice in the defense of professionals such as realtors, home inspectors, accountants and physicians. She also has extensive experience with premises liability and product liability and has handled employment and construction work and several fraternity cases. Ms. Coatsworth has defended dozens of car dealerships and real estate sales people for claims of breach of contract and fraud and violations of various fraud-related statutes such as the Unfair Trade Practices Act, the Magnuson Moss Warranty Improvement Act, the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Lemon Laws, the New Vehicle Damage Disclosure Act, the Automotive Industry Trade Practices Act, the Real Estate Sellers Disclosure Law and the Real Estate Licensing and Registration Act. Additionally, Ms. Coatsworth specializes in representing Greek letter organizations in all manner of claims including dram shop, hazing, and personal injury. She was selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Stars from 2011 through 2018 and Super Lawyers in 2021-2024. Ms. Coatsworth currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association as Immediate Past Chancellor, having previously served as Chancellor, Chancellor-Elect, Vice Chancellor, Assistant Treasurer, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Parliamentarian and Elected Member. Additionally, she is a past co-chair of the Women in the Profession Committee, and she is also very active with the State Civil Litigation Section, Women’s Rights Committee, LGBTQ Rights Committee and the Real Property Section. She previously served on the Executive Committee of the Young Lawyers Division of that organization for six years and held the positions of Secretary and Vice Chair of the Division. She also served as a Trustee of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation and a Board Member for Philadelphia VIP. She serves on the Leadership Council of Community Legal Services and the Advisory Board for Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts. In the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Ms. Coatsworth is the Immediate Past Zone One Governor, and she sits on the Executive Counsel of the Civil Litigation Section as a Past Chair and the Women in the Profession Commission’s Executive Council as Co-Chair on the Nominating Committee. She previously served as co-chair of the PBA Women in the Profession Commission and chaired several of its committees including Annual Meeting, Fall Retreat and Awards Committee. She is also a Past Chancellor of the Louis D. Brandeis Law Society, and she serves on several committees of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania including the Community Outreach Committee and the Jury Diversity Task Force.