A graduate of Dickinson College and the Georgetown University Law Center, Mr. Creme is a partner with the firm of Nikolaus & Hohenadel LLP. A major component of the firm’s practice is in the area of municipal, zoning, land use and real estate development law. Mr. Creme leads the firm’s Municipal and Land Use Law Practice Group, which represents developers of residential, commercial and industrial properties in Lancaster and the surrounding counties in Pennsylvania. He is the solicitor for several municipalities and other municipal entities and frequently acts as special counsel to municipalities in Central Pennsylvania for zoning and land use issues. Mr. Creme is a member of the American, Pennsylvania, Lancaster and Berks County Bar Associations. He is a past President of the Lancaster Bar Association and Past Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. In June 2009, Mr. Creme was elected Vice President of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and served as its 117th President in 2011-2012. He served as a member of the Act 47 Task Force of the Pennsylvania General Assembly’s Local Government Commission, which has been charged with recommending revisions to the Municipalities Financial Recovery Act of 1987. Mr. Creme is actively involved in southcentral Pennsylvania non-profit organizations, has served as Board Chair of the American Red Cross of the Susquehanna Valley, the Lancaster County Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Resurrection Catholic School and Lancaster Catholic High School, and served on the boards of other community organizations. He frequently lectures on the topics of zoning, land use, municipal and administrative law.

Bernadette McKeon Hohenadel is a partner with the firm in the Lancaster office. She concentrates her practice with the Land Use Law Practice Group but also devotes time to municipal law and real estate, including litigation. Bernadette is a graduate of Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts and Villanova University School of Law. She served as law clerk to the Hon. John P. Fullam of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Honorable Michael A. Georgelis of the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas. She holds membership in the bar of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania and the Courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She also is a member of the Pennsylvania and Lancaster Bar Associations. Bernadette served on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Bar Association as Zone 3 Governor. Within the Pennsylvania Bar Association, she is a member of the Editorial Committee, Real Estate, Probate, and Municipal Law Sections, and serves on the Executive Council of the Women in the Profession Committee. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation and serves on the Finance, Grants, and Scholarship Committees of the Foundation. Bernadette is actively involved in the activities of the Lancaster Bar Association, having served as President in 2010, as a member of the Board of Directors for a number of years, as Chair of the Law Review Committee and as chair and a member of the Real Estate Section, the Municipal Zoning and Environmental Law Section and the Women in the Profession Committee. Bernadette has presented many seminars at the LBA relating to real estate and municipal law issues as well as on other topics. She also serves a member of the Board of Directors of the Lancaster Law Foundation and chairs the Community Grant Committee of the Foundation. Involved in many community activities, Bernadette is vice-president and sits on the Board of the Coalition for Smart Growth in Lancaster, and serves as a Vice President and member of the Board of Directors of Elizabethtown Area Education Foundation and its Educational Grant Committee. Over the years, she has been a member of and volunteered with many professional, community and school organizations.

Victoria is an attorney at Nikolaus & Hohenadel, LLP. Victoria works at the Lancaster Office where she primarily practices in Municipal and Land Use Group. Victoria also serves as appointed counsel for Alleged Incapacitated Persons in guardianship hearings upon request from the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas. During law school, Victoria worked for a firm where she helped disabled individuals qualify for SSI and SSDI benefits. Victoria also participated in the Veteran’s Law Clinic while attending law school where she helped disabled veterans receive disability benefits. Victoria remains dedicated to assisting disabled individuals and continues to represent individuals in front of the Social Security Administration. Victoria grew up in Central Florida and received her undergraduate degree in elementary education from the University of Central Florida in 2015. After teaching for one year, Victoria attended law school at Widener University’s Delaware Law School where she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Pro Bono distinction in 2020. During her second semester of law school, Victoria graded on to the Widener Law Review as a Staff Editor and later served as a Research Editor. During her final year of law school, she was awarded one of five prestigious Wolcott Fellowships where she clerked for a Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court. Prior to joining the law firm, Victoria served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Honorable Judge Michael Arrington in the Family Court of the State of Delaware.

Mrs. Masano is Managing Partner of Masano Bradley and has been a member of the firm since 1981. Her practice emphasizes commercial and real estate matters, including acquisitions, banking, corporate formation and operation and creditor rights, and estate planning. She enjoys counselling business clients on succession planning, in particular family businesses. Mrs. Masano specializes in all aspects of municipal law and land use planning, having represented municipalities, municipal authorities and developers. For 29 years, she was Assistant Berks County Solicitor, assigned to the Berks County Planning Commission and Agricultural Land Preservation Board. She was the first woman to serve as Berks County Solicitor in 1998. A native of Wisconsin, Mrs. Masano earned a B.A. in Government and International Relations in 1978 and a J.D. in 1981, both from the University of Notre Dame. During her second year of law school, she attended the Notre Dame London Law Centre, London, England. Mrs. Masano is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and Berks County Bar Association where she served as Chair of the Municipal Law Section in 1995, Director from 1987 to 1989 and as the first woman president in 1998. She has previously been a course planner and speaker at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Municipal Law Colloquium, and a speaker at its Land Use Institute. She is a former Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Commission and PBA’s Insurance Fund and Trust Fund Board of Trustees, is a member of the PBA’s House of Delegates, and Women in the Profession Committee, is a past president of the Law Foundation of Berks County and chairs the Berks County Bar Association Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Committee. In 2011, U.S. Senator Pat Toomey appointed Mrs. Masano to the Judicial Nomination Advisory Panel for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to review and recommend nominees for federal judgeships. Active in civic affairs, she is Chair of the Board of the Foundation for the Reading Public Museum and Chair of Penn State Health St. Joseph.