Recipient: President's Freshman Award; Marketing Award; James S. Bowman Memorial Award. Winner, Theodore I. Flowers Writing Competition, Pennsylvania Defense Institute, 1991. Member, Woolsack Honor Society. Member, Dickinson Law Review. Speaker: Pennsylvania Bar Institute Seminar, "Bad Faith Update" (Philadelphia, July 2009), Pennsylvania Bar Institute Seminar, "Bad Faith Update" (Philadelphia, April 2005); Lackawanna County Bench-Bar Seminar, "Civil Litigation Update," (Scranton, November 2003); Pennsylvania Bar Institute Seminar, "Civil Practice in Lackawanna County" (Scranton, April 2002); Pennsylvania Bar Institute Seminar, "Auto Law & New Evidence Rules" (Scranton, December 1998); Pennsylvania Bar Institute Seminar, "Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence" (Scranton & Bethlehem, August 1998); Lenahan & Dempsey Seminar, "Hazards of Bad Faith" (May 2003); Lenahan & Dempsey Employment Law Seminar, "Employment at Will in Pennsylvania" (1996, 1997); Lenahan & Dempsey Workers Compensation/Employment Law Seminar, "Sexual Harassment: Are You At Risk." Articles: Author, Practical Tips in a Post-Koken Era: A Plaintiff's Perspective; "Co-Author, "Bad Faith Update" (Pennsylvania Bar Institute, April 2005); Co-Author, "Plaintiff Perspective on Trying the Bad Faith Case (Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, April 2005); Co-Author, "First Party Property Losses and Bad Faith" (Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, April 2004); Author, "2003 Civil Litigation Update" (Lackawanna County Bench-Bar, November 2003); Co-Author, "How to Present Your Bad Faith Case: Liability, Damages from the Plaintiff's Perspective (Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, June 2003); Author, "Civil Practice in Lackawanna County" (Pennsylvania Bar Institute, April 2002); Author, "New Obligations of Third Party Insurance Carriers in Cases in which Payments were made by Medicare," Counterpoint.