Galfand Berger News

Galfand Berger LLP is proud to announce that six of its attorneys have been named to the 2022 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists. Debra Jensen is Galfand Berger’s Managing Partner. She focuses her practice on medical malpractice, products liability, and personal injury matters. In 1999, Debra became one of three women who were top managing attorneys at law firms in Philadelphia. She represents both individuals and families who have suffered catastrophic losses. Debra has been selected multiple times to the Pennsylvania[…]

Breast Cancer Support Services of Berks County is a non-profit organization that provides hope, information, and emotional support to every person affected by breast cancer. On Thursday, April 28th, the organization presented its “Cancer Knows No Party” event. The Olivet Boys and Girls Club of Reading and Berks County hosted the event. As a staunch supporter of providing hope, information, and emotional support to individuals affected by breast cancer, our firm is proud to participate as a co-sponsor for this[…]

The National Association of Distinguished Counsel, or the NADC, recently named three Senior Partners at our firm as some of the top practicing attorneys in the nation. The NADC selected Debra Jensen, Richard Jurewicz, and Michael Malvey as recipients of its prestigious “Nation’s Top Attorneys” award for 2022. The Counsel names fewer than 1% of attorneys as recipients of the award, which is reserved exclusively for practitioners who demonstrate the highest ideals of the legal profession. The Selection Process The[…]

This April 20th, the Berks County Bar Association (BCBA) hosted its annual Bench-Bar Conference. The conference offered three sessions: Criminal Law, Family Law, and Civil Law. Our firm is proud to announce that Senior Partner Gabriela Raful presented a plenary session for all participants to attend. The primary focus of Gabriela’s continuing legal education (CLE) course was to teach law firms how to effectively connect with Spanish-speaking clients through incorporating practices that promote cultural competency and diversity. Gabby presented the[…]

The AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations) first established Workers’ Memorial Day in 1970, the same year that the Occupational Safety and Health Act went into effect. Philaposh, a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization that advocates for the rights of injured workers, provides training and technical assistance to unions and workers on a variety of safety and health topics and fights for the creation of stronger laws to protect workers and their rights, is hosting its 33rd annual[…]