KENNETH E. AARON is a partner with the law firm of Weir & Partners LLP in Philadelphia and Wilmington. He served as a member of the Lower Merion Township Zoning Hearing Board for 18 years, as well as having served on the Planning Commission in Lower Merion Township and Haverford Township. Mr. Aaron has handled numerous zoning and land development matters in Philadelphia and in other suburban communities for owners and community groups. The Legal Intelligencer has published a number of his articles on zoning matters. In addition to zoning and land development, Mr. Aaron’s law practice involves bankruptcy and creditors’ rights law on a national platform with a focus on real estate, partnership, environmental issues and insurance brokerage. He has represented major secured lenders and financing institutions in substantial bankruptcy matters with regard to condominiums, hotels, office buildings and retail and manufacturing establishments. He was a trustee of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation. Mr. Aaron earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and his J.D. degree from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Pennsylvania and Delaware State bar associations, as well as The Florida Bar and the State Bar of Georgia.

BARBARA ANISKO is a principal with Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein PC, where she is a member of the Commercial Litigation and Land Use and Zoning departments. She has significant lead counsel experience in matters involving commercial disputes; real estate transaction disputes; land development disputes; land use and zoning disputes; eminent domain and condemnation claims; constitutional property rights claims; and claims against state, county and municipal governments and agencies. Ms. Anisko represents corporations, partnerships and individuals in litigation matters in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other states. She acts as counsel to various businesses and entities. Ms. Anisko is a frequent speaker on various topics, including property rights and land use, as well as real estate law. She is a member of the American, Pennsylvania, Montgomery County, and Philadelphia bar associations. Ms. Anisko earned her B.A. degree, cum laude, from St. Joseph's University; and her J.D. degree, cum laude, from Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law.

EDMUND J. CAMPBELL is an attorney with the firm of Silverang & Donohoe, LLC, where he focuses his practice on all facets of real estate land development, including municipal law, zoning, subdivision, environmental and other government agency permitting, government finance, and entitlements. Mr. Campbell also has broad experience in the areas of civil, construction and commercial litigation. Prior to joining Silverang & Donohoe, LLC, he served for 6 years as vice president and assistant general counsel of O'Neill Properties Group, LP, where he specialized in municipal law, zoning, real estate development, land use, government finance, government entitlements and civil litigation. Mr. Campbell is a member of the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and American bar associations, as well as the Upper Merion Environmental Advisory Council. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Scranton and his J.D. degree from Villanova University School of Law.

PETER S. FRIEDMAN is a founding shareholder of the law firm Friedman, Schuman, Applebaum, Nemeroff & McCaffery, P.C. Mr. Friedman concentrates his practice on real estate law, and land use and zoning, as well as corporate and business law. In more than 30 years of practice, he has represented a wide variety of clients, including real estate developers, landlords, national retailers, governmental departments and religious institutions in connection with a variety of real estate transactions and commercial development projects. Mr. Friedman also has significant expertise in the area of retail leasing, including the acquisition, sale and leasing of retail and mixed-use properties. In this arena, he represented landlords in the negotiation of leases and of operation and easement agreements with some of the nation's largest "big box" retailers such as Lowes, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority and Old Navy. Mr. Friedman also is very experienced in handling matters before zoning hearing boards, as well as securing municipal permits and approvals for a wide variety of development projects, including land development and subdivision approvals. In the corporate and business law practice, he counsels individuals and corporations in connection with a wide variety of business contracts. Currently, Mr. Friedman serves as solicitor to the Montgomery Department of Housing and Community Development and the Montgomery County Development Corporation. He has previously lectured for National Business Institute and has co-chaired a CLE course conducted by the Montgomery County Bar Association titled "Retail Leasing � From Mom and Pop to Big Box," He also has chaired breakfast roundtable discussions at several ICSC Law Conferences.

JAMES J. GREENFIELD has practiced law since 1982 in the fields of real estate – including zoning and land use – and business litigation. He has operated his own law firm in Radnor since 1996. Mr. Greenfield has served on the Planning Commissions and Environmental Advisory Councils of both Lower Merion and Radnor Townships, and he is a former member of the Board of Trustees of The Shipley School. A former journalist, Mr. Greenfield was the co-author of Between the Lines, the autobiography of the late baseball pitcher Steve Howe. Mr. Greenfield is a graduate of Villanova University and the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Cincinnati Law Review.

MICHAEL J. SAVONA is a shareholder in the law firm of Friedman, Schuman, Applebaum, Nemeroff & McCaffery, P.C., where his primary areas of concentration are in municipal, land use, zoning and government law. He also is an experienced trial and appellate attorney. Over the past 14 years, Mr. Savona has served as solicitor to numerous municipalities and government agencies across the state of Pennsylvania. His past clients include nine different townships, boroughs, cities, and zoning hearing boards in southwestern Pennsylvania, where he practiced for ten years before relocating to Philadelphia to join Friedman Schuman in 2006. Since that time, Mr. Savona has served as counsel to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, as well as solicitor to Middletown Township, Lower Southampton Township, Warminster Township, Conshohocken Borough and the Borough of Hatboro. He also represents a consortium of Bucks County tax collectors, and has litigated cases on behalf of tax collectors throughout Pennsylvania, seeking to protect their right to collect taxes on behalf of the citizens who elect them to fulfill this function. Mr. Savona's efforts on behalf of tax collectors and their constituents has taken the issue to the halls of the State Supreme Court. He is a respected authority on the Municipalities Planning Code and the local land development process, and has guided his municipal clients in their efforts to promote redevelopment, to foster �green� development initiatives, and to streamline the development review process in order to make his municipal clients an attractive place for new business to locate, develop, and prosper. In 2009, at the direction of the Township Board of Supervisors, Mr. Savona spearheaded the effort to rewrite the entire zoning and subdivision codes of Warminster Township, Bucks County, which resulted in a ten-fold increase in the number of development applications filed in the Township, even in the midst of a recession which stagnated development in all of the communities bordering the Township. As an appellate attorney, he has represented parties in ground-breaking cases before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, as well as the Pennsylvania Superior and Commonwealth Courts, which made new law in the Commonwealth in areas as diverse as criminal law, marital property, tax collection and zoning and land development. Mr. Savona has lectured regarding the management of land development applications, zoning for economic redevelopment and the need to reinforce the system of real estate tax collection within the Commonwealth before the Montgomery County Bar Association, the Bucks County Zoning Officers' Association, and the Pennsylvania State Tax Collectors' Association. Mr. Savona is a past Executive Committee member of the Washington County Bar Association, and is an active member of the Montgomery and Bucks County bar associations, as well as the Pennsylvania State Association of Township Solicitors and the Pennsylvania Borough Solicitors Association.