Former Gov. Tom Wolf staffer Rob Ghormoz has joined Harrisburg-based law firm Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney as principal in its Government Relations Group. 

The Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) returned more than $3.5 million in earned wages to Pennsylvania workers in 2021 after investigating more than 4,000 complaints of alleged labor law violations. 

When pundits typically refer to “entrepreneurs,” they’re not talking about Alesha and Chevelle, two wonderfully creative and industrious Caribbean immigrants who came to Pennsylvania with their mother and became citizens.   

Barley Snyder managing partner Jeff Lobach has agreed to continue his leadership role into its fifth term, making him the longest-serving managing partner in the firm’s history. 

More than 70 Geisinger Health System employees filed a class-action suit against Danville-based Geisinger Medical Center and its affiliated hospitals and clinics, claiming its COVID-19 testing requirements for employees exempt from getting the vaccine force them to choose between their religion and their jobs. 

Law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick and CPA firm Boyer & Ritter launched a new company as part of a joint venture that the two firms say will provide comprehensive services for companies looking to buy or sell auto dealerships. 

A Dauphin County restaurant owner faces $2.6 million in fines and up to 90 years in prison after allegedly defrauding the federal government out of $237,500 in loans from the Small Business Administration.

Asha Banks founded her online greeting and holiday card store, CheerNotes, last year after feeling frustrated by a lack of representation when buying greeting cards for friends and family.

Harrisburg law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick will be offering pro bono legal services to five black-owned or controlled businesses.

“These laws will pay a critical role in helping our hospital families feel protected from violence in their workplaces,” said Andy Carter, president and CEO of the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.

A 50-state coalition filed its third lawsuit in an ongoing antitrust investigation into potential collusion among manufacturers of generic topical drugs.

Jennifer Kline, 54, started her law career in 1992, representing employers and insurance companies in workers’ compensation claims. She later joined Katherman, Briggs and Greenberg LLP and began representing employees in those cases.

Citing Cumberland County’s growing population, a York-based personal injury law firm opened an office in the West Shore.

Tawny Mummah, 50, is the former chief counsel of the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP) and has joined Post and Schell, PC’s health care practice group as principal.

Sarah Williams, 55, recently joined Penn State Dickinson Law as assistant professor of law, and will be teaching federal securities regulation, financial statement fundamentals, professional responsibility and property.