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Philadelphia firms embrace Penn Law @ Work

November 20, 2015

Penn Law alumni at Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller and Blank Rome have contributed to the Law School for more than 20 years.
Penn Law alumni at Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller and Blank Rome have contributed to the Law School for more than 20 years.
Philadelphia law firms Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller and Blank Rome have managed to achieve a 100 percent participation rate in the Penn Law @ Work program for more than 20 years in a row.

Two Philadelphia law firms — Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller and Blank Rome — have managed to achieve a 100 percent participation rate in the Penn Law @ Work program for more than 20 years in a row. Every Penn Law alumnus and alumna has contributed to annual giving for more than two decades running. 

Firm president and CEO David Pudlin L’74 heads the Law Firm Program at Hangley. Every year he reaches out to the firm’s Penn Law alumni, now numbering a dozen or so.

“I’ve never actually had any difficulty getting any Penn Law alumnus to give,” says Pudlin.

He served as national co-chair of annual giving with his wife Helen Pomerantz Pudlin CW’70, GED’71, L’74, a member of the Penn Law Board of Overseers whom he met in law school. In addition, his daughter Julia graduated from Penn Law in 2010.

Kipp Cohen L’94, a partner at Blank Rome in Philadelphia, was recruited by the late Fred Blume L’66, former managing partner and CEO of the firm, to get involved with the Law Firm Program. Now, Cohen has recruited partner Shlomo Troodler L’04 and associate Andy Cohen L’09 to help out and position themselves for future leadership of the program.

Cohen says it is important to make it easy for busy lawyers to respond by providing them with all the information they need, including the link to the Penn Law @ Work Program — https://www.law.upenn.edu/alumni/support/atwork/.

“Penn Law’s right in our backyard,” said Cohen, who is also a member of the Law Alumni Society Board of Managers. “If we’re not going to support our law school, who is?”

“We recruit heavily at Penn Law, and it’s in our interest to make sure the Law School has the funds it needs to continue to produce very qualified and excellent future lawyers,” added Cohen. “If you have the wherewithal to give back to the community, the Law School should be at the top of your list, because it’s where you came from and it’s why you are where you are.”

For information on how to participate, contact Nicole Ford, assistant director of Annual Giving, at nicford@law.upenn.edu.