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P E O P L E IN THE NESTS

The United Negro College Fund hosted its first'Yesterday for Tomorrow -A Celebrationfor Black History''reception in February at the Pyramid Club in Philadelphia. AttorneyRhonda Hill Wilson served as the vice chairwoman for the event along with its honorarychairman, U.S. Rep. Robert A. Brady. Pictured, from left, are Williain Harris, HiII Wilsonand Danielle Scott.

Association of Legal Administratorswill host an educational lunch sessiontit led "Empowering Firms with Electronic

Matter File" at noon March 26 at the UnionLeague, 140 S. Broad St., Philadelphia.

The event is free for ALA members and$35 for nonmembers. To RSVP, e-mailDBurkhardt @ larssonlaw.com.

An American Civil Liberties UnionCLE seminar, "The State SecretsPrivilege: Torts, Torture and the Roleof the Judiciary," will be held from 3:30to 4:30 p.m. April 3 at Blank Rome'sMarvin Comisky Conference Center atOne Logan Square, 18th and Cherrystreets, Philadelphia.

This CLE will discuss U.S. v. Reynolds,in which the U.S. Suoreme Court firstrecognized the states secrets privilege,as well as litigation that sought to reopenthe case 50 years after the fact; the gov-ernment's recent invocation of Reynoldsin civil Cases to defeat claims based onalleged governmental wrongdoing; andjudicial and legislative responses to theexecutive branch's increased reliance onthe state secrets doctrine.

Registration begins at 3 p.m. Cost is$25 for lawyers seeking one substantiveCLE credit. For more information, contactSteve Gotzler at sgotzler@aclupa.org.

Bruce Bellingham is this year's recipientof the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyersfor the Arts Volunteer of the Year awardfrom the Arts & Business ,'Cguncil

of Greater Philadelphia. This year'sawards will be presented May 15 at thePennsylvania Convention Center.

Bellingham has volunteered for morethan 20 mostly music-related clients in-cluding the Philadelphia Clef Club and arecord label.

Since June 2007, Bellingham has givenmore than $35,000 in total pro bono assis-tance to artists through the council.

Joshua D. Snyderhas been promotedto partner at Boni &Zack,

His practice fo-cuses on complexlitigation, with anemphasis on repre-senting plaintiffs inantitrust, consumerprotection, copy-right, ERISA and securities class actions.Among other matters, Snyder is involvedin the firm's representation of the AuthorsGuild and the Author Sub-Class in therecent settlement in The Authors Guild v.Google Inc.

Four attorneys have become partners alO'Brien & Ryan.

The attorneys are Anthony DeMichele,Carolyn Dillon, Amanda O'Dea andMichael Pitt. .

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The Philadelphia chapter of the