Real Estate Professional

DANA PIRONE CAROSELLA

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

STEVENS & LEE, P.C., (offices in King of Prussia, Philadelphia, and Princeton, NJ)

(OF COUNSEL) July 2005 to present

• Responsible for all phases of litigation including representing professionals in law firm and health care entity break-ups, defending mortgage loan servicing companies against claims arising out of mortgage foreclosure actions and quiet title actions, prosecuting and defending contract disputes, defending aviation manufacturers in product liability claims

• Represent utility company in over 300 complex administrative litigation matters, compliance matters, licensing, and/or consumer complaint matters before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

• Represent electric generation suppliers in Pennsylvania Retail Market Investigation

• Serve as lead counsel in implementing defense strategy and primary client contact in attorney disciplinary proceedings in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and in complex regulatory compliance matters from initial pleadings through appellate representation, including implementing compliance procedures for law firms and bar admission candidates subject to character and fitness hearings

• Serve as lead counsel in implementing defense strategy and negotiating resolution of charges brought against licensed professionals by the Pennsylvania Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs

JAMES C. SCHWARTZMAN & ASSOCIATES, P.C., Philadelphia, PA

(ASSOCIATE) September 1995 to July 2005 (merged with Stevens & Lee, P.C.)

• Served as lead counsel in implementing defense strategy and primary client contact in attorney disciplinary proceedings in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in complex regulatory compliance matters from initial pleadings through appellate representation, including implementing compliance procedures for law firms and bar admission candidates subject to character and fitness hearings

• Defended judges before the Judicial Conduct Board in Pennsylvania

• Wrote opinions with respect to the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct

• Responsible for all phases of litigation and negotiations in defending law firms in law firm break-ups, represented plaintiffs in personal injury, real estate, Orphans’ Court, and collection matters

• Responsible for daily oversight of New Jersey practice

AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PARALEGAL STUDIES, INC., Blue Bell, PA

(INSTRUCTOR) (1993-1996)

• Prepared and presented lecture materials in civil litigation, legal research and writing, office management, and professional responsibility; assisted in recruiting students.

ASSIGNED COUNSEL, INC., Valley Forge, PA

(CONTRACT ATTORNEY) (1993-1996)

• Represented major defense supplier in litigation matters

• DOLCHIN, SLOTKIN & TODD, P.C., Philadelphia, PA

(ASSOCIATE) September 1990 to April 1993 (left due to birth of twins)

• Represented clients in all phases of litigation matters including employment disputes, real estate transactions, leasehold interests, collection, construction, injunctive relief, personal injury and product liability in Pennsylvania and New Jersey including administrative proceedings, arbitrations, and trials in state and federal courts

• Responsible for drafting all pleadings, motions, discovery, pretrial documents, settlement documents, real estate documents, briefs, memoranda, employment contracts; prosecuted and defended over 100 depositions

• Responsible for daily oversight of New Jersey law practice

HONORABLE JOHN B. MARIANO, Camden, NJ

(JUDICIAL LAW CLERK AND MEDIATOR) August 1989 to August 1990

• Researched civil and criminal law issues, drafted memoranda, reviewed and recommended dispositions of over 1200 hundred criminal and civil motions, reviewed municipal court appeals, prepared jury charges, and mediated over 100 civil disputes

INTERNSHIPS

• Honorable Robert H. Rodríguez, D.NJ (1990-1992)

• Office of the Camden County Prosecutor (1991)

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts Degree cum laude, English Literature and Honors Program, business minor, Villanova University, 1986

Juris Doctor Degree, Temple University School of Law, 1989

BAR ADMISSIONS

• United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New Jersey

PUBLICATIONS AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

• “What to Do When You Receive that OMG letter from the Disciplinary Board,” Course planner, author and speaker for PBI, December 2011 and April 2012

• “A Double Standard for Lawyers?,” author, Pennsylvania Law Weekly, March 30, 2009

• “Trouble Without Borders,” Pennsylvania Law Weekly, author, December 29, 2008

• “Ethics Update,” PBI 14th Annual Auto Law Update, Course planner, author, and speaker, October 2007

• “New Trends in Mitigation Evidence,” Presenter at Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board’s Annual Training Session, Hershey, PA, September 21, 2006

• “Legal Ethics in Pennsylvania,” Lorimar, Course planner, author, and speaker, Philadelphia, PA, October 14, 2005

• “Dangerous Disciplinary Dilemmas,” Personal Injury Potpourri, DRI Seminar, Course planner, author, and speaker, Philadelphia, PA, April 2005

• Pennsylvania Jury Verdict, May 1996-Defense verdict in defamation case brought by plaintiff-attorney against physician for making alleged defamatory remarks during an Independent Medical Examination.

OTHER

• AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell, April 2011 AV rated-female energy attorney in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Completed NARUC Rate School in November 2011, Certified Mediator in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Delaware County Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Association, Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, Pennsylvania Bar Association, American Bar Association, Energy Bar Association

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