Tucker Arensberg, P.C. Attorney Appointed Chair of the PA Joint State Government Commission's Advisory Committee to Research Kilbuck Township Landslide

                                                      

PITTSBURGH - The law firm of Tucker Arensberg, P.C. announced that William Campbell Ries was appointed Chair of the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission's Advisory Committee to advise on the Kilbuck Township Landslide.

The Advisory Committee was authorized by House Resolution 897 of 2006 to conduct an in-depth investigation into the landslide in Kilbuck Township, Allegheny County, including a thorough review of the applicable State and local permit and approval processes. The Committee will then compile a report on the findings and recommendations, and submit the report to the House of Representatives.

A Shareholder and member of the Board of Directors of Tucker Arensberg, P.C., Mr. Ries serves as Co-Chair of the Firm's Financial Institutions Law Group and Chairs the Firm's Investment Management and Fiduciary Services Practice Group. A frequent speaker and lecturer, Mr. Ries serves as an adjunct professor of law at Duquesne University School of Law. He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission Advisory Committee on Decedent's Estates and Trust Law which recommends legislation to the Pennsylvania Legislature.

Active in local government, Mr. Ries was recently nominated for a fourth term as a Councilman for the Town of McCandless, where he serves as Chairman of the Public Safety Committee and Vice-Chairman of the Finance Committee. Mr. Ries serves on the Circles Board of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and as a member of the McCandless Industrial Development Authority and Three Rivers One Future Regional Association. The Ries family is the proud owner of a greyhound named Minnie and are very active in the Going Home Greyhound civic organization.

Tucker Arensberg is a 60-attorney law firm headquartered in Pittsburgh with an office in Harrisburg. The firm concentrates in general business law practice, banking, insolvency and creditors' rights, estates and trusts, health care, litigation, technology and intellectual property, environmental, labor and employment, real estate, workers' compensation and school and municipal law. For more information on the firm, please visit www.tuckerlaw.com.

 

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