Cocolamus Lawyers

Francis J. Lafferty, IV, earned his law degree in 1999 from Widener University School of Law and received his undergraduate degree from University of South Carolina in 1990. Prior to establishing Norfleet and Lafferty in 2011; Mr. Lafferty was a partner with Metzger, Wickersham, Knauss and Erb, P.C, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. As a Plaintiff's Personal Injury Attorney, Mr. Lafferty has successfully handled cases for his clients against those responsible for causing their injuries. Mr. Lafferty's practice emphasizes representing persons injured by others in motorcycle, automobile and trucking accidents. Mr. Lafferty has handled Wrongful Death cases and complex cases involving...

Shawn is a partner with Mooney Law and one of the members of the Mooney Capital Region Criminal Defense team. He has substantial experience in all facets of criminal law practice, and is not afraid to fight zealously on behalf of his clients. While most attorneys shy away from litigation, he embraces it and in doing so has established himself as one of the most well respected criminal defense attorneys in the region and does not hesitate to represent clients with serious criminal charges, including felonies.

Prior to joining Mooney Law, Shawn worked as a solo practitioner in State College,...

Attorney Wilson's practice is primarily devoted to personal injury and malpractice litigation, social security disability, civil litigation, commercial litigation, business law, insurance coverage, D.U.I. defense, eminent domain, real estate, divorce, family law, estate planning and elder care matters. Attorney Wilson is admitted to practice law in the courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the United States District Court of the Middle District of Pennsylvania. He has argued before the Pennsylvania Superior Court and the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar...

Eric grew up in Maryland then attended college at Gettysburg. He went on to graduate from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

Nearly two decades of experience as in-house counsel, litigation attorney, fraud investigator and law enforcement officer with certification in public law and policy, providing the assets necessary for the successful legal analysis and execution of operational procedures in legislation, compliance, fraud investigation, contractual agreements, and litigation of client needs in resolving various matters. Successful as team leader over various projects. Holds a proven record of achieving the highest cost/benefit results in the representation of government agencies, providing counsel to Flag Officers and SESs through oral advice in meetings and written memoranda with detailed analyses and recommended solutions. Has an intimate...

Experience, skill, commitment. High quality legal representation at an affordable price.

Attorney Justin P. Miller’s clients benefit from his extensive experience and knowledge gained from representing hundreds of clients as a public defender and working as a judicial law clerk. He has made hundreds of court appearances, including nearly daily appearances while working in the busy Centre County Public Defender Office. He has successfully negotiated complete dismissals of serious cases and other resolutions that protect his clients’ liberty and dignity.

Tracy L. Updike practices bankruptcy law, with an emphasis on both debtor and creditor rights, which she believes gives her well-rounded perspective, and an advantage over her opposition. She is highly active within the legal community, shaping the future of the law as practiced, as a member of the Court's Advisory Committee, Local Bankruptcy Rules Committee Chair, and annual lecturer at the Middle District Bankruptcy Bar Association Conference and Pennsylvania Bar Institute Bankruptcy Institute.

David A. Ody has practiced in the Courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for 37 years, including 30 years in Huntingdon County. Since entering private practice, David has concentrated his work in the areas of Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice, Real Estate, Divorce, Estate Planning, and Probate. David has represented clients throughout the United States and in the U.S. Virgin Islands. He has successfully litigated hundreds of cases, including cases against insurance companies, major corporations, and the government. He is admitted in all courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Middle District of...

Jan Matthew Tamanini concentrates her practice on business and nonprofit transactions, PA government procurement consultation and contract litigation, administrative law practice, and basic estate planning and estate administration. Her professional mission is to help individuals, small businesses, and nonprofit groups meet their legal needs through the use of sound planning and straightforward, easy-to-understand legal documents.

Areas of Practice
After focusing on appeals and post-conviction remedies for years, Attorney Clarkson found that the best way to save someone from ineffective assistance of counsel is to be effective trial counsel. Switching now to focus more heavily on trials, she fights for your rights and makes sure every angle is utilized to get you the best possible outcome.

Attorney Clarkson will still handle appeals, post-conviction remedies, and mental health expungements.

Attorney Clarkson will continue to make sure the law is complied with and uphold constitutional rights so our citizenry does not lose them.

She handles everything from summary speeding tickets to murder.

Philosophy
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Tom Wilken is the former managing partner of the Workers' Compensation Section of Morgan and Wilken, P.C. He continues in his area of expertise in workers' compensation with Ira H. Weinstock, P.C. Mr. Wilken is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and earned his Juris Doctor at Duquesne University School of Law. He is a former past President and Vice President of the Dauphin County Workers' Compensation Section 1999-2001. He is also a frequent speaker for the Department of Labor & Industry on topics pertinent to injured workers. He maintains active membership in...

Attorney Scipione, the founder of Nittany Group, LLC, focuses on contract law, business planning, real estate, and matters concerning oil and gas. He has been a distinguished speaker on various oil and gas panels, serves as a consultant on historical land records at Bucknell University, and has been teaching an oil & gas land title course at Penn State University since the spring of 2013. With extensive experience representing both the oil & gas industry and landowners, he has adeptly handled negotiations involving sales, purchases, leases, and pipeline right-of-way agreements. Mr. Scipione has a proven track record in successfully litigating...

John M. Hyams received his BA degree from West Virginia University in 1998 and earned his Juris Doctor degree from Widener University School of Law in 2001. John’s areas of practice include Bankruptcy, Debtor and Creditor, Business Law, and Real Estate Law. John Hyams is admitted to the Bar before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court for the Middle District, U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania. John is a member of the Middle District Bankruptcy Bar Association and serves on the Court Liaison and Nominating Committees. John...

Rob has been certified as a workers’ compensation specialist and he is rated a SuperLawyer. He only accepts Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability cases.

Rob personally witnessed on the job injuries while working his way through law school as a member of the Teamsters Union. He worked with injured workers’ mistreated by the system. He has legally represented injured workers since 1997. For years he practiced law in Harrisburg with the former director of the PA Bureau of Workers’ Compensation and with a former Workers’ Compensation Judge.

He returned to his hometown, Pottsville, in 2006 after the birth...

Specializing in commercial real estate transactions and development.

I focus on helping my clients resolve family disputes privately and respectfully without having the court system impose outcomes on them. I believe that most people are best capable of making decisions for themselves and their families. I also act as a mediator, helping parties reach agreements without going to court. I want my clients to be fully informed of all their options for handling family disputes so they can make informed decisions. I also prepare prenuptial agreements, cohabitation agreements and estate plans.

Larry A. Weisberg was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and raised in Harrisburg. He is a graduate of Susquehanna Township High School and earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he participated in the school’s Naval ROTC program. Following his military tour, Mr. Weisberg’s career path focused within the insurance industry where he attained positions of increasing responsibility, including President of Volvo’s North American insurance operations. While working full time within the insurance industry, Mr. Weisberg also earned his Juris Doctorate from Widener University School of Law, graduating summa cum laude as class valedictorian. Mr....

Tim Brennan was raised in the coal region working in his family’s well known mom and pop restaurant. He began his legal career in the Lehigh Valley as a Bethlehem and Northampton County Solicitor. He currently lives in Doylestown and, in addition to his legal work, serves as a member of the Doylestown Borough Council.

Mr. Brennan graduated from Ursinus College in 2000, receiving his Bachelor of Arts with a double major in English and Politics and a double minor in International Relations and American Studies. During this period he served two United States Congressional Internships with Congressman Joe Hoeffel and...

Attorney Jason Imler is a managing partner and manages the firm’s Marketing Operations. He was admitted to practice by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2001 and by the Maryland Court of Appeals in 2016. Attorney Imler has also been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, and the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Attorney Imler graduated from Penn State University Dickinson School of Law in 2001. He holds his Bachelor of Arts Degree from West Chester University (1998) where he majored in Political Science...

Mr. Rieders is a partner in the Williamsport law firm of Rieders, Travis, Humphrey, Waters & Dohrmann. He graduated in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Coat of Arms Society and Academic Scholarships from New York University and received his Juris Doctor from Georgetown University in 1973. In Washington D. C. he worked for the Maritime Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce and for defense counsel Henry Rothblatt in the celebrated Watergate case. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Malcolm Muir, United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania. ...

Jim was born in Binghamton, New York, but has lived in Cumberland County since age 3. He graduated from Trinity High School in 1973 and studied in the pre-law program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania for two years. After earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities from Penn State University in 1977, Jim joined the work force at various large corporations, including ITT, Hershey Chocolate Company and Mellon Bank, working in the credit, collection and finance fields. While employed at Harsco Corporation,...

Attorney Nicholas G. Platt, a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Attorney Platt earned a Bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice, with a minor in Computer Forensics, from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in 2012. After graduating from Bloomsburg University, Attorney Platt began working for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Human Services as an Income Maintenance Caseworker in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. In 2015, Attorney Platt enrolled in law school at Widener University Commonwealth Law School as an Evening Division student and continued serving Pennsylvania's most vulnerable citizens with the Department of Human Services' Office of Medical Assistance Programs.

During law school, Attorney Platt continued his...

Steven Trialonas focuses his practice on criminal defense and select civil litigation matters. He represents clients in state and federal criminal cases, irrespective of the severity of the offenses; all criminal allegations are serious when levied against an individual and will be treated as such. Steven has represented medical doctors, nurses, and other licensed professionals in the investigation phase with success to avoid charges being filed, as well as after charging or indictment to trial. Steven has handled numerous cases at both the state and federal level in both Pennsylvania and New York. Most recently in a high profile case,...

Julian Allatt is a dedicated criminal defense attorney and partner at Rehmeyer & Allatt, a law firm in State College, PA. He is experienced in representing clients charged with minor summary offenses, DUI and minor drug possession cases, to violent felonies including armed robbery, burglary, aggravated assault, attempted murder and related offenses. Additionally, Julian has extensive experience representing clients charged with the possession and distribution of controlled substances in prosecutions commenced by county district attorney’s offices as well as the Attorney General of Pennsylvania. He is a highly experienced and respected courtroom advocate who prides himself in his ability...

Mark Wendaur serves as counsel in the firm’s Business Law & Transactions practice group. Mark maintains a broad corporate and transactional practice focusing on mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements, corporate governance, venture capital transactions, and corporate restructurings. He also represents clients in commercial real estate and energy matters, including transactions, financing, land use, and zoning issues. Mark represents clients of all sizes, including individuals, closely held companies, investor groups, publicly traded companies, and government entities. He regularly provides strategic business counseling to these clients to help them achieve their goals and business objectives. Prior to joining Offit Kurman, Mark owned and operated...

After more than two decades of service with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Attorney Rish returned to private practice uniquely positioned to represent professionals with licensing and disciplinary issues involving the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs. As legal counsel to the Board of Medicine, the Board of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Board of Funeral Directors in addition to other boards, Attorney Rish advised Board Staff and Board Members on licensing, disciplinary, reinstatement, regulatory and other issues on a daily basis. His experience with the Commonwealth includes service as the Chief Counsel to the Office of Inspector General from 2007 to...

Bob represents privately-held businesses and their owners in a wide variety of practice areas including Business Law and Real Estate Law, and assists business clients with Mergers & Acquisitions. Bob May was born in 1964 and educated at the Pennsylvania State University, earning his bachelor's degree with honors from the Schreyer Honors College in 1986. He was an associate computer systems analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York City from 1986-89. He earned his law degree from (the Pennsylvania State University) Dickinson School of Law in 1992, graduating cum laude in the top 10 percent of his class,...