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June 8, 2022 – We are pleased to announce that 18 of our attorneys were recognized on the Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars® list for 2022.
Each year, the research team at Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters rating service and publication, selects outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas through a rigorous, multi‐phase process that includes:
Candidates are evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement, including verdicts and settlements; honors and awards; special licenses and certifications; pro bono and community service efforts; and scholarly lectures and writings.
The ultimate objective of Super Lawyers is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse list of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource for other practitioners and consumers searching for legal counsel.
Approximately 5% of the Pennsylvania Bar received the distinction.
MacElree Harvey attorneys who were named to the 2022 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list are:
The 2022 Pennsylvania Rising Stars list recognizes attorneys who are 40 years old or younger or who have been practicing law for 10 years or less. Approximately 2.5% of the Pennsylvania Bar received the distinction.
MacElree Harvey attorneys who were named to the 2022 Pennsylvania Rising Stars list are:
In addition, Tim Rayne has been included by Super Lawyers as a 2022 Top 100 Attorneys in Pennsylvania. The Top 100 list is based on those attorneys who obtained the highest points totals in the 2022 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers multi-phase nomination, research, and review process.
“While ultimately we care more about providing quality representation and value to clients,” said CEO Michelle Foster, “…it’s always nice to have our attorneys recognized for excellence by their peers. The honor reflects the high level of respect our attorneys have earned in the legal community for their legal ability, professionalism and integrity.”
Learn more about our selected Super Lawyers®:
Top Rated Criminal Defense Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2021 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 1993
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, Criminal Defense: White Collar
Top Rated Land Use & Zoning Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2013 – 2022
Selected to Rising Stars: 2008, 2010 – 2012
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 2001
Practice Areas: Land Use/Zoning, Business/Corporate, Real Estate: Business
Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in Kennett Square, PA
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2009 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 1995
Practice Areas: Personal Injury – General: Plaintiff
Top Rated Estate Planning & Probate Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2020 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 1991
Practice Areas: Estate Planning & Probate, Tax: Consumer, Business/Corporate
Top Rated Family Law Attorney in Centerville, DE
Selected to Rising Stars: 2021 – 2022
Licensed in Delaware Since: 2013
Practice Areas: Family Law
Top Rated Business Litigation Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2015 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 1990
Practice Areas: Business Litigation, Estate & Trust Litigation, General Litigation
Top Rated Business & Corporate Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2008, 2012 – 2022
Selected to Rising Stars: 2005
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 1990
Practice Areas: Business/Corporate, Real Estate: Business, Tax: Business
Top Rated Criminal Defense Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Rising Stars: 2018 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 2014
Practice Areas: Criminal Defense, Criminal Defense: DUI/DWI, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Administrative Law, Appellate
Top Rated Business Litigation Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Rising Stars: 2018 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 2016
Practice Areas: Business Litigation
Top Rated General Litigation Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2010 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 1963
Practice Areas: General Litigation
Top Rated Business Litigation Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Rising Stars: 2015 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 2013
Practice Areas: Business Litigation, Construction Litigation: Business, Civil Litigation: Plaintiff, Construction Litigation: Consumer
Top Rated Land Use & Zoning Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2022
Selected to Rising Stars: 2013 – 2015, 2017 – 2020
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 2008
Practice Areas: Land Use/Zoning, Business Litigation, Construction Litigation: Business, Real Estate: Business
Top Rated Business Litigation Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 1980
Practice Areas: Business Litigation
Top Rated Land Use & Zoning Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Rising Stars: 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 2014
Practice Areas: Land Use/Zoning
Top Rated Family Law Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2010 – 2012, 2014 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 1991
Practice Areas: Family Law
Top Rated Business & Corporate Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Rising Stars: 2017 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 2010
Practice Areas: Business/Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Litigation
Top Rated Estate Planning & Probate Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2005 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 1976
Practice Areas: Estate Planning & Probate, Business/Corporate, Estate & Trust Litigation
Top Rated Civil Litigation Attorney in West Chester, PA
Selected to Rising Stars: 2018, 2020 – 2022
Licensed in Pennsylvania Since: 2010
Practice Areas: Civil Litigation: Defense, Civil Litigation: Plaintiff
We are pleased to announce that 14 of our attorneys were recognized on the Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars list in 2021.
Each year, the research team at Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters rating service and publication, selects outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas through a rigorous, multi‐phase process that includes:
Candidates are evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement, including verdicts and settlements; honors and awards; special licenses and certifications; pro bono and community service efforts; and scholarly lectures and writings.
The ultimate objective of Super Lawyers is to create a credible, comprehensive and diverse list of outstanding attorneys that can be used as a resource for other practitioners and consumers searching for legal counsel.
Approximately five percent of the Pennsylvania Bar received the distinction.
MacElree Harvey attorneys who were named to the 2021 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list are:
In addition, Tim Rayne has been included by Super Lawyers as a 2021 Top 100 Attorneys in Pennsylvania. The Top 100 list is based on those attorneys who obtained the highest points totals in the 2021 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers multi-phase nomination, research, and review process.
The 2021 Pennsylvania Rising Stars list recognizes attorneys who are 40 years old or younger or who have been practicing law for 10 years or less. Approximately two and a half percent of the Pennsylvania Bar received the distinction.
MacElree Harvey attorneys who were named to the 2021 Pennsylvania Rising Stars list are:
We are pleased to announce that Caroline Donato has earned her LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from Temple University’s Beasley School of Law. Caroline has graduated with Honors from this program.
Caroline joined the Firm’s Business Department in 2014, then transitioned into Criminal Defense. Since then Caroline has been named a Main Line Top Lawyer for the last five years, Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2018 and 2019, Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry’s Women Influencing Business Rising Star of the Year in 2019, Chair of the Next Generation Committee of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (“PACDL”) since 2018, and an active member of PACDL’s CLE committee since 2018.
The Temple LL.M. in Trial Advocacy was the first program of its kind in the country. U.S. News & World Report has ranked this program among the top three trial advocacy programs in the country for more than twenty years.
MacElree Harvey, Ltd is pleased to announce the election and promotion of Caroline G. Donato, Lindsay A. Dunn, and Tiffany M. Shrenk to Partner.
Caroline G. Donato joined MacElree Harvey as an attorney in the Business Department in August 2014 following a clerkship with a criminal defense firm in Wilmington and after graduating from law school. During and prior to law school, she clerked for criminal defense firms in Delaware and Pennsylvania, the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Delaware, and the Chester County District Attorney’s Office. Within a year at the firm she transitioned to Criminal Defense after starting the Corporate Compliance, Investigations, and Criminal Defense practice group with Peter Kratsa. Since then, Caroline has been named a Main Line Top Lawyer for the last five years, Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2018 and 2019, Chester County Chamber of Business and Industry’s Women Influencing Business Rising Star of the Year in 2019, Chair of the New Lawyers Committee of the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (“PACDL”) since 2018, and an active member of PACDL’s CLE committee since 2018. She was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States in December 2019.
Lindsay A. Dunn joined MacElree Harvey in the Land Use Department in November of 2015, bringing with her nearly a decade of land use, real estate, zoning and municipal litigation experience. Previous to MacElree Harvey, she practiced in another local firm where she represented a diverse clientele in the Courts of Common Pleas of Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties. In addition to having served municipal clients, Lindsay has considerable experience representing contractors, businesses, and individuals. Prior to that, she clerked for Judge Nagle at the Chester County Court of Common Pleas, working on complex civil litigation issues of land use and zoning appeals. Since joining MacElree Harvey, Lindsay was named a 10 Best in Client Satisfaction in Real Estate Law for 2018 and 2019 by the American Institute of Legal Counsel, Super Lawyer Rising Star in 2018 and 2019, and a Main Line Top Lawyer since 2017.
Tiffany M. Shrenk joined MacElree Harvey in August 2016 after a nearly six-year tenure at another firm in Wilmington. With extensive experience in personal injury and civil litigation, Tiffany is licensed to practice in both Pennsylvania and Delaware. Her experience extends to trust and estate litigation, real estate litigation, as well as contractual disputes and consumer fraud. Since joining MacElree Harvey, Tiffany has focused her practice on Personal Injury and is based primarily in the Delaware office. She was named Main Line Today Top Lawyer in 2019 and Top 10 Attorney in 2018 by the National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys (“NAOPIA”), which Academy recognizes the top personal injury attorneys in the nation. In addition to the Personal Injury practice, Tiffany serves as volunteer attorney guardian ad litem for the Office of the Child Advocate, a state agency charged with safeguarding the welfare of Delaware’s children, where Tiffany provides legal representation for the dependent, neglected, and abused children in the foster care system.
In Episode 6, Caroline G. Donato and Peter E. Kratsa discuss how to hire a lawyer. Don’t forget to subscribe, rate, and review “Subject to Cross” on iTunes, Spotify, and Google, and email your questions for upcoming episodes at [email protected]
“Subject to Cross” is a podcast on criminal law hosted by attorneys, Caroline G. Donato, and Peter E. Kratsa, both from the law firm, MacElree Harvey, Ltd. in West Chester.
Criminal defense practitioners work to ensure a fair process and outcome for all individuals. Our state and federal constitutional rights encourage fairness. In this country, we all have the same rights. If the system fails for one, it fails for all. As criminal defense lawyers, we fight to make the system work; to make it fair. That’s why what we do matters.
Our mission with this podcast is to put you, the listeners, on the ground floor of that process so that we, and you, can help make it better.
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