Background

David Mandel is the firm’s managing partner and chairman of its Real Estate department. His practice is focused on the areas of Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions, Leasing and Finance, Commercial Transactions and Corporate law.

His real estate practice includes representation of national and regional retail tenants, as well as national, regional and local shopping center owners and developers. He also represents landlords and tenants in office and industrial leasing matters, borrowers and lenders in commercial loan transactions, buyers and sellers of commercial properties and apartment complexes and developers of both traditional and condominium type residential communities and shopping centers.

Mr. Mandel has also recently acted as local counsel for a Pension fund in connection with their acquisition of a portfolio of nine shopping centers. In addition to his real estate representation, he represents non real estate business clients in corporate and transactional matters, advising them on a wide variety of issues including business formations, employment agreements, shareholder and partnership agreements, corporate reorganizations and mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Mandel has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Education

• Villanova University, B.S. in Economics, cum laude, 1974
• Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1977

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Professional Affiliations

• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Philadelphia Bar Association
• International Council of Shopping Centers

Awards

• Pennsylvania Super Lawyer® 2004 – 2015
• Recipient, Villanova University Economics Department Adam Smith Award, 1974

Presentations and Publications

• Mr. Mandel has taught several seminars at conferences for the International Council of Shopping Centers, of which he is a member, including “The Duty to Mitigate Damages–Does it Exist?”, “Common Area Maintenance–What’s Hot, What’s Not”, and “A Half Baked Idea?–Issues Arising from the Purchase, Sale and Financing of a Shopping Center Under Construction”
• Mr. Mandel has also lectured at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Real Estate

Contact

David S. Mandel, Esquire
Astor Weiss Kaplan & Mandel, LLP
The Bellevue
200 South Broad Street, Suite 600
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215.790.0100
215.790.0509 (fax)
dmandel@astorweiss.com

Background

Dina Ronsayro is a partner in the firm, with her practice focused on the areas of Family law, Personal Injury Litigation, Commercial and Civil Litigation, Landlord-Tenant law, and non-profit organization formation (including obtaining federal tax exempt status).

Ms. Ronsayro began working for the firm as a law clerk while attending law school. While attending Temple University, Ms. Ronsayro was a member of the Political and Civil Rights Law Review and a participant in the Advanced Trial Advocacy Program.

As a mother of young children, Ms. Ronsayro is sensitive to the needs of young families and the unique issues they face.

Education

• Hamilton College, B.A., 1996
• Temple University School of Law, J.D., 1999

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey
• U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• U.S.District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
• U. S. District Court for New Jersey
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey
• The United States Tax Court

Professional Affiliations

• Former Chair (2016) of the Philadelphia Bar Association Family Law Section
• Philadelphia Bar Association; Co-chair – Support and Alimony Committee, Family Law Section
• Philadelphia Bar Association; Member of the Executive Committee, Family Law Section
• Philadelphia Bar Association; Former member of the Board of Governors
• Philadelphia Bar Association; Former member of the Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention
• Volunteer Arbitrator for the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas

Community Involvement

• Active member of the region’s Filipino community and has provided all types of legal services to that community
• Ms. Ronsayro was the attorney of record for Congregation B’nai Tikvah-Beth Israel located in Gloucester County, N.J.
• Ms. Ronsayro had served as the Vice President of Congregation B’nai Tikvah-Beth Israel located in Gloucester County, N.J. as well as its board.

Awards

• Hamilton College, Levitt Scholar
• Ms. Ronsayro received numerous awards while at Temple University Law School for participation and oral advocacy.
• Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star® 2008, 2010-2012 (Note: There was no Rising Star Publication in 2009)
• Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® 2013-2017

Presentations and Publications

• Ms. Ronsayro has spoken at the Philadelphia Bench Bar Presentation on issues of Support in Family Law.
• She has further spoken at various Bar Association Family Law Section meetings on issues of Support in Family Law

Contact

Dina S. Ronsayro, Esquire
Astor Weiss Kaplan & Mandel, LLP
The Bellevue
200 South Broad Street, Suite 600
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215.893.4966
215.790.0509 (fax)
dronsayro@astorweiss.com

Background

Stephen Green is Of Counsel to the Firm. His practice is focused in the areas of business, real estate, tax and estate planning, administration, and litigation. Among other representations, he has taken companies public and has helped neighborhood family business be sold. He has handled large commercial real estate transactions as well as home purchases. He administers estates of all sizes and has litigated large estate matters. He prepares simple Wills and sophisticated estate plans.

Education

• Lafayette College, A.B., Phi Beta Kappa
• Columbia University Law School, J.D.
• New York University Law School, LLM in Taxation

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
• The United States Tax Court

Professional Affiliations

• Former chair of Philadelphia Bar Association Fee Disputes Committee
• Lecturer in Continuing Legal Education seminars
• Former member of the Boards of the Support Center for Child Advocates, the Philadelphia Association for Retarded Citizens, and the Friends

Neighborhood Guild

• Former President of the Associated Alumni of Central High School, Philadelphia
• Lecturer on business law at two area colleges

Presentations and Publications

• Guardianship in Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Bar Institute Article
• “Activism and the Tax Status of Exempt Organizations”, Pennsylvania Bar Quarterly Article
• “Understanding Estate Planning and Wills” authored by Stephen H. Green
• “Willmaking”, article in the the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Contact

Stephen H. Green, Esquire
Astor Weiss Kaplan & Mandel, LLP
The Bellevue
200 South Broad Street, Suite 600
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215.790.0100
215.790.0509 (fax)
sgreen@astorweiss.com

Background

Alan Molod, Of Counsel, practiced for 35 years at WolfBlock LLP (formerly Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen) where he was a senior partner in that firm’s Corporate Department.

Alan focuses on business transactions, and has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, business reorganization and complex transaction structuring. This involves considerable familiarity with corporation law and LLC law. As a long time active member of the Title 15/Business Associations Committee of the Section on Business Law of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Alan has had a hand in drafting the statutes governing the organization and operation of corporations, partnerships, LLCs, LLPs and other business entities, and is the author and editor of the widely used three volume Pennsylvania Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual, Data Trace Publishing Company (1999), for which he prepares annual supplements. Accordingly, Alan does a considerable amount of work with limited liability companies, from simple start-ups to complex economic arrangements. He also handles shareholder agreements for corporate clients and member agreements for LLC clients. Alan has extensive experience in federal securities law.

In the Philadelphia Bar Association Alan has served on the executive committee of the Business Law Section and as chairman of its Corporate Law Committee and has served on the Steering Committee of the Association’s Committee on Securities Regulation. In the Pennsylvania Bar Association, in addition to his membership on the Title 15/Business Associations Committee of the Section on Business Law, he serves on the Section on Business Law’s LLC Standard Forms Project Task Force. In the American Bar Association he has served on many committees and was the President and then Chairman of the Board of the Fellows of the Young Lawyers of the American Bar Association.

Education

• Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, B.S. in Economics, Honor Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma; Beta Alpha Psi; John Marshall Society
• Yale University Law School, LL.B, Editor, Yale Law Journal
• London School of Economics
• New York University Law School, LL.M in Comparative Law
• University of Paris Law School

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania

Professional Affiliations

• Philadelphia Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• American Bar Association

Community Involvements

• Serves on the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
• Served as Secretary, Treasurer and Vice President of the Jewish Federation
• Served as Chairman of the Jewish Federation’s Committee on Allocations and Planning, as Chairman of its Finance Committee and as Chairman of its Committee on National and Overseas Services
• Served as a Vice Chairman of the Jewish Federation’s Allied Jewish Appeal Campaign
• Served as Chairman of the FAJA Passage to Freedom Campaign
• Chaired the Jewish Federation’s population study (1998)
• Served as a trustee and President of Hillel of Greater Philadelphia
• Served as a Board member and a Vice President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Jewish Committee
• Serves as a member of the Permanent Board of Governors of the Golden Slipper Club & Charities
• Served on the Boards of Directors of Congregation Adath Jeshurun, the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia, the YM/YWHA, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Philadelphia and its Soviet Jewry Council, the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center and the Anne Frank Institute of Philadelphia
• Served as a member of the Board of Delegates of the Council of Jewish Federations and was Chairman of its Large City Budgeting Conference
• Served as a member of the Board and as a Vice President of HIAS, Inc.
• Served on the Board of CLAL-The National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership
• Served as Chairman of the Board of the North American Jewish Students Appeal
• Served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Publication Society of America
• Served on the National Young Leadership Cabinet of the United Jewish Appeal

Awards

• Recipient of the W. Edward Sell Business Lawyer Award presented by the Pennsylvania Bar Association Business Law Section for his extraordinary contribution to the practice of business law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 2018
• Golden Slipper Club & Charities Gold Medallion Award 2000.
• Jewish Federation’s Young Leadership Award 1972.

Presentations and Publications

• Author, Erie, Bernhardt, and Section 2 of the United States Arbitration Act: A Farrago of Rights, Remedies, and a Right to a Remedy, 69 Yale L.J. 847 (1960).
• Author, chapter on Forms and Paperwork in The Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Company (1987); Second Edition (1994).
• Contributor to Pennsylvania Corporate Practice and Forms: The Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen Manual, Data Trace Publishing Company (1998).
• Editor and Author, Pennsylvania Limited Liability Company Forms and Practice Manual, Data Trace Publishing Company (1999).
• Frequent Continuing Legal Education Lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute on mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and The Pennsylvania Limited Liability Company Act

Contact

Alan H. Molod, Esquire
Astor Weiss Kaplan & Mandel, LLP
The Bellevue
200 South Broad Street, Suite 600
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215.790.0100
215.790.0509 (fax)
amolod@astorweiss.com

Background

Commercial and IP Attorney

Mr. Mullineaux is a partner and has practiced commercial law and Intellectual Property law for over 30 years. He leads the firm’s IP practice, including patent, trademark and copyright  litigation and obtaining federal trademarks and copyrights.

Mr. Mullineaux is a business attorney and a trial attorney. He had 17 years’ experience with a Philadelphia Am Law 100 firm.

Mr. Mullineaux provides advice and guidance on patents, trademarks, and copyrights and commercial matters and provides commercial contracts, license agreements, including software licensing, restriction of use agreements, confidentiality agreements, sale of business agreements and other IP and commercial documents. He has acted as “outsourced in-house counsel.”

Mr. Mullineaux’s litigation and trial attorney experience provides a strong basis to prepare IP and commercial documents that provide solid protection of clients’ rights, interests and options.

Litigator and Trial Lawyer in Commercial and IP cases

Mr. Mullineaux successfully takes cases, jury trials and arbitrations to final verdict and has won multi-million dollar verdicts in business cases. Mr. Mullineaux is one of the few attorneys to win a jury verdict in an IP case. Mr. Mullineaux litigates before the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.

Litigated cases involving breach of contract, patent, trademark, copyright, real estate, covenants not to compete, confidentiality agreements, fraudulent conveyances,  business torts, claims against directors and officers, securities, business torts, confession of judgment, real estate development disputes, mortgage foreclosure, construction defects and employment termination. He masterminds all phases of federal and state cases with comprehensive knowledge of commercial, contract and IP law.

Lead counsel in patent infringement cases involving one patent against AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and others in eight states and supervised and managed local counsel in all cases.

Mr. Mullineaux is admitted to the courts of the Supreme Court of the United States, United States Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and all Pennsylvania state courts. He has litigated cases in many federal courts around the United States.

Mr. Mullineaux has resolved many cases with use of mediation and alternative dispute resolution.

Mr. Mullineaux has international arbitration experience before the International Chamber of Commerce International Court of Arbitration.

Education

• Shippensburg Univeristy, B.S.B.A. Finance, Summa Cum Laude, 1981
• University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D., Summa Cum Laude, 1984

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• Supreme Court of the United States
• U. S. District Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U. S. District Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
• U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
• U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
• U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
• U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
• U. S. District Court for New Jersey

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association; Co-chair Philadelphia Intellectual Roundtable Presentations which hosts and directs six seminars a year
• Montgomery County Bar Association; intellectual property committee
• Chester County Bar Association Chairman of Lawyer Referral Committee (1998-2003)
• Philadelphia Entrepreneurs’ Forum; Member and and former Board of Director member (1998-2005)

Contact

W. Mark Mullineaux, Esquire
Astor Weiss Kaplan & Mandel, LLP
The Bellevue
200 South Broad Street, Suite 600
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215.790.0100
215.790.0509 (fax)
mmullineaux@astorweiss.com