COMMUNITY SERVICE / CHARITABLE / TEACHING ACTIVITIES OF FELDMAN SHEPHERD LAWYERS

A Gift of Service from Staff to Partners at Feldman Shepherd Law Firm

In recognition of the plight of those less fortunate, each year during the holiday season the staff of Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP donates time, funds and/or needed items to a local charitable organization in honor of the firm’s partners and their efforts to build better lives for others.

The Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House was the 2009 recipient of our staff’s efforts, receiving more than $500 in monetary donations and a bevy of items collected as part of a Holiday Wish List Drive organized by Kathleen Aretz. The wish list items included gift cards, cameras, batteries, infant care items, electronics and toys. The Ronald McDonald House provides a “home away from home” to families with critically ill children receiving treatment at Philadelphia hospitals. In recognition of these generous donations, two bricks reflecting the firm name were placed in the Ronald McDonald House courtyard in January 2010. 

In 2008, the staff participated in the Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia’s “Adopt-a-Family” program, which helps nearly 200 Philadelphia-area families in need each year. Through “Adopt-a-Family,” staff members, organized by Aretz, generously donated thousands of dollars in goods and gifts, including numerous retail, grocery and restaurant gift cards, a host of household items and appliances, clothing, personal toiletries, sporting tickets, electronics, toys and other requested items specifically selected for each of the recipient family’s seven members. The family members were a 29-year-old single mother who had been diagnosed with HIV, her children, who suffered from health problems requiring hospitalization and her siblings, who had been left with her by her drug-addicted mother. It was a privilege for staff members to provide this family with a real holiday. 

Pictured from left to right: Phyllis Feinberg, Dee Kunkle, Mary O'Donnell Green, Kathy Aretz, Marisol Ferguson, Wanda Brown, Chrissy Agster, Carrie Hill, Patty McDonnell, Cheryl Herling, Renee Seneteri, and Pam Fake.

Alan Feldman (center-below) participates in Philadelphia Bar Association 5K (Photo by Jeff Lyons)

Virtually all of the Feldman Shepherd personal injury lawyers provide pro bono legal services to those who are unable to afford to hire an attorney. The Feldman Shepherd law firm is also a proud supporter of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s “Raising the Bar” campaign, which helps to fund the more than 30 public interest law organizations that serve Philadelphia’s neediest citizens. “Raising the Bar” was started by Alan Feldman during his year as Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association in 2006. Both lawyers and administrative staff alike share in the desire to support our community. Here are just a few examples of how our team gives back to the community.

Carol Nelson Shepherd
Member of the Board of Directors of the Homeless Advocacy Project; formerly on the Board of the Women’s Law Project

Ezra Wohlgelernter
Member of the Board of Directors of the Senior Law Center

Daniel S. Weinstock
Teaches the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program at Widener University School of Law annually. Adjunct Professor at the James E. Beasley School of Law (Temple), where he teaches trial advocacy to L.L.M. students.

Mark W. Tanner
Member of the Board of Directors of the Support Center for Child Advocates. Active volunteer lawyer for the organization

Alan M. Feldman
Member of the Board of Directors of Community Legal Services. Active volunteer lawyer for Philadelphia VIP (Volunteers for the Indigent Program)

Peter M. Newman
Member of the Board of Directors of Philadelphia VIP

Gilbert J. Marquez
Member of the Board of Directors of Philadelphia VIP