Galfand Berger News

We are proud to announce that firm Partner Bradley Smith was recently certified as a life member of both the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. Membership into the Forums is highly coveted; fewer than 1% of lawyers in the United States are members. The Million Dollar Advocates Forum (which includes the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum) is one of the most prestigious groups of trial lawyers in the country. Founded in 1993, the organization now has[…]

Galfand Berger LLP has long been a committed sponsor of the United Labor Council (ULC) of Reading and Berks County, which has worked since 1960 to support union members throughout Pennsylvania. Galfand Berger LLP has a 75-year history of supporting and protecting both union members’ and individual workers’ rights to safe and reasonable working conditions and fair wages. We are dedicated advocates for workers in all industries and are committed to securing full and just compensation for workers suffering injustices and[…]

Galfand Berger LLP helped sponsor the Esperanza Immigration Legal Services (EILS) 4th Annual Celebrating Hope for Immigrants fundraising event in the Gran Salon at the Esperanza Arts Center in Philadelphia on Thursday, May 30, 2024. Senior Partner Michael Malvey, Esq. serves as President of the EILS Board of Directors. EILS, the leading non-profit immigration legal service provider in North Philadelphia, is dedicated to helping Hispanic immigrants achieve green cards, citizenship, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals “Dreamer” status, and asylum services.[…]

Galfand Berger LLP sponsored the Opportunity House’s Wine, Women & Shoes (WW&S) annual fundraiser on Thursday, June 6, at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Reading, Pennsylvania. WW&S brings together philanthropic women throughout the surrounding areas to enjoy an evening of dining, bidding, shopping, and wine tasting in support of Opportunity House and its mission. Senior Partner Gabriela Raful, Esq. served as a judge for the evening’s event. Reading’s Opportunity House shelter has provided food, housing, security, stability, safety, and community[…]

Partner Michael McGurrin, Esq. recently presented at the 23rd Annual Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Conference, hosted by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry’s Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, at the Hershey Convention Center. Michael’s session focused on the proper and effective administration of Workers’ Compensation claims relative to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), the Unemployment Compensation Law, and privacy concerns. Participants learned about the interaction of Workers’[…]

  Galfand Berger LLP is honored to announce that eight of the firm’s attorneys have been selected to the 2024 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars lists: Debra Jensen, Richard Jurewicz, Michael Malvey, Gabriela Raful, Bradley Smith, Farhan Ali, Brooke Elmi, and Norman Weinstein. Managing Partner Debra A. Jensen, Esq. is a top-rated personal injury lawyer. She represents clients severely injured due to medical malpractice, workplace accidents, defective products, and more. In 1999, her fellow partners chose Debra as Managing Partner,[…]

We are thrilled to announce that our firm has been selected as a Best Law Firm of 2024 by the Best Lawyers of America publication. Every year, Best Lawyers, the only peer review guide to the legal profession in the country, releases a list of the top lawyers and top law firms nationwide. To be selected, a firm must first undergo a rigorous selection process. Best Lawyers relies entirely on peer review to ensure a “meaningful and substantive evaluation on[…]

Each year, our firm kicks off the holiday season by donating to 93.3 WMMR’s Camp Out for Hunger campaign, the largest single location food drive in the world. Our firm is proud to announce that we donated 906 pounds of food to individuals in our community – and for the second year in a row, we successfully broke our in-person donation record! For the 26th year, Philabundance (a local non-profit food bank that assists individuals facing food insecurity in Southeastern[…]

Our firm is proud to announce that Senior Partner Rick Jurewicz has been inducted into the Best Lawyers of America – Pennsylvania 2023. First published in 1983, Best Lawyers puts together a list of the premier legal talent across the country through a tried-and-true peer review process each year. To be included as one of the Best Lawyers of America, recipients must first undergo a five-part, rigorous selection process. The methodology is as follows: Nomination submission – Lawyers can be[…]

On July 19, 2023, 37 people from 15 countries became U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the Berks County courthouse. Gabriela G. Raful, Senior Partner at Galfand Berger, had the opportunity to speak at the memorable event. Gabby expressed her special interest in each of the new citizen’s remarkable journeys, having taken a similar one herself. Gabby immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic in 2005, and became a U.S. citizen a decade ago. She is the[…]