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Zarwin Attorneys Selected as Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

June 1, 2011

We are pleased and proud to announce that once again several attorneys from the law firm of Zarwin, Baum, DeVito, Kaplan, Schaer & Toddy, P.C. have been selected as Super Lawyers and Rising Stars in the “Annual Guide to the Top Attorneys in Pennsylvania” in the June issue of Philadelphia Magazine. This year seven Zarwin, Baum attorneys have been selected as 2011 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and two as 2011 Rising Stars.

Super Lawyers

Gary DeVito
Kenneth Fleisher
Mark Freed
Alan Herman
Mitchell Kaplan
Theodore Schaer
Joseph Toddy

Rising Stars

Joseph Bonfig
Ryan Harmon

Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® is a comprehensive, good-faith and detailed attempt to produce a list of lawyers that have attained high peer recognition, meet ethical standards, and have demonstrated some degree of achievement in their field.Only the top five percent of Pennsylvania lawyers and the top 2.5 percent of Pennsylvania’s up-and-coming lawyers appear on the Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists.

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